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News Within five years its the customers that could be whipping up the latest gadgets from their living room chairs, according to a report by analysts the Economist Intelligence Unit. Apple's style gurus should watch their backs because the killer... [11 Jul 2008]
Bridging Broadcast and Broadband
White Paper IP is used when bandwidth intensive services such as TV and VoD carried into the living room in IP frames. Today most television signals are carried over satelite, cable and terrestrial networks. Emerging rapidly is a fourth method of direct-to... [03 Jul 2008]
Broadband Codecs
White Paper In fact, the PC monitor is not as suitable for viewing as the TV monitor because of its location (the home office, instead of the living room), because it cannot accommodate a viewing audience larger than two, and because it is not as ubiquitous... [03 Jul 2008]
WebMark 2001 White Paper
White Paper Consumers have the opportunity to travel around the world from their living room. Internet access has rapidly become one of the most common uses for a personal computer. Corporations communicate using the Internet. [03 Jul 2008]
Femtocell market hotting up
News Femtocells - aka mobile base stations which piggyback off DSL to boost mobile reception indoors - could have inched a little closer to the consumer's living room. At least that's the hope of the Femto Forum, an industry association of operators... [21 May 2008]
Microsoft: Walls will become computers of the future
News When I say everywhere, I mean the individual's office, the home, the living room. Speaking to a crowd of CEOs, Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman, showed off prototype technology he said will allow home and office walls to become computers. [15 May 2008]
iPlayer loses its Virgin-ity
News Soon to depart BBC director of future media and technology, Ashley Highfield, said the corporation always envisaged iPlayer in the living room. The BBC iPlayer is now available on Virgin Media's cable service, further expanding the availability of... [30 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08
Round-Up Secondly, it's probably being done to annoy the living hell out of Microsoft. HP UK's managing director Stephen Gill has claimed that many large organisations are currently devoting around 70 to 75 per cent of their IT budget to managing their... [11 Apr 2008]
IT skills 'vital for UK's future'
News We need IT skills, as we are going to earn our living from our brains," he said. In the 24-hour, global economy, the front and back room may not be in the same part of the world, or even in the same time zone. [29 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Of global warming and pirates
Comment Our room was on the sixteenth floor and getting an elevator always seemed to be a big deal. For the last week my wife and I have been living in and working from a 22-story hotel in Barcelona. Written on BA2487 flying from Barcelona to London, and... [26 Jul 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.06.07
Round-Up Forest rangers in the region have turned to technology in their quest to capture stray leopards which are finding their way into villages and making a nuisance of themselves (presumably not by sitting in a prominent position in the living room and... [08 Jun 2007]
IPTV for beginners
Comment Yet between central office and broadband network to set-top and living room lurk quality issues. Though everyone's making big predictions for IPTV's uptake, the services are still a long way off. Howard Greenfield outlines the forces which will... [04 Jun 2007]
Editor's Blog: Define this
Comment Laptops often have better screens than a living room TV and if you were pushing content around using a Slingbox, for example, I'd go for a laptop over a mobile phone screen any time I could. But usually in the name of marketing, though sometimes... [23 May 2007]
Freecycle Diaries: Want my tatty sofa?
Comment So, from living room obscurity to small screen fame - it just goes to show what can be achieved with an internet connection and a bit of goodwill. Much of our furniture here has been from Freecyclers like yourself, we're living proof of how other... [10 Apr 2007]
Photos: The ideal home of the future
Photo As well as the giant show-homes - such as the ones above (which have a sustainable living theme this year) - there's plenty to interest gadget fans. For one customer the company has already installed a £19,000 home entertainment kit which includes... [09 Mar 2007]
