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Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity ¦ Video Cheat Sheet: Data Breaches ¦ Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain ¦ India's high-tech...

Tags: iphone, blackberry, femtocell, vista

[01 May 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity

Comment First drafted on flight BA633 from Athens to London and finished on BA093 to Toronto a week later. Dispatched via a free wi-fi service. Before 9/11, I regularly travelled the planet with a full toolkit as well as other objects that are now...

Tags: travel, airports, security

[29 Apr 2008]

Indian techies snubbing US jobs in favour of home

News Read the latest missive from tech guru and silicon.com columnist, Peter Cochrane, as he blogs from around the world. Indian tech graduates are increasingly turning their back on western countries in favour of finding work at home.

Tags: it, india, outsourcing

[29 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket ¦ Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Athens and roam ¦ Video: CIO Agenda 2008 ¦ ZX...

Tags: mac, zx spectrum, rfid

[24 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Athens and roam

Video In his latest video blog, Peter Cochrane reports from the centre of Athens. Despite the city's standing as the cradle of democracy, he finds little freedom when it comes to public-access wi-fi. Still, at least the children seem to have devised one...

Tags: wi-fi, laptops, mobile, fi

[21 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive ¦ FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat ¦ Peter...

Tags: file-sharers, home office, women

[17 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays

Comment Written while flying from London to Greece on BA632 and dispatched from a free wi-fi service in Athens. Just over a year ago I undertook the complete renovation of an old house. It is now largely complete and, of course, bristles with technology: a...

Tags: operating systems, software, design

[16 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food

Comment Written at London's Heathrow airport after a confused journey through the newly opened Terminal 5. Copy dispatched via a free wi-fi hotel service in Athens. If I could be God for a day there are many things I would put right for humanity and planet...

Tags: pilots, design, testing, t5

[14 Apr 2008]

Tech profit warnings rise as market confidence falls

News Read the latest missive from tech guru and silicon.com columnist, Peter Cochrane, as he blogs from around the world. Profit warnings among software and IT services companies are on the increase as market conditions force customers to tighten their...

Tags: profits, ernst & young

[14 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... T5 chaos, mobile maladies, and laptop losses…

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Photos: High-tech Bangalore ¦ The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel ¦ Photos: Road testing wi-fi at 320kmph ¦ Peter Cochrane...

Tags: laptop, t5, heathrow, mobile

[03 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for the truth

Comment Written at home on a wet evening and dispatched to silicon.com via personal LAN. Over the past few years I must have seen a dozen new search engines claiming to be the answer to a maiden's prayer. Each has been based on single, or combined...

Tags: artificial intelligence, search, web 2.0

[31 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... green carrots, cloud nine chats, open source ponderings …

Comment ¦ Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Multitasking mastery ¦ Heathrow Terminal 5 opens its doors ¦ Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine With the Easter weekend now a distant memory and...

Tags: green it, flight, mobile, open source

[27 Mar 2008]

Android laid bare, dressing for success, grown up social networking...

News Peter Cochrane's Blog: Protestors clueless on wireless health risks iPhone on the Edge 'disappoints' Apple co-founder Even the spectre of a mobile phone mast outside your bedroom window is nothing to fear according to silicon.com's columnist Peter...

Tags: android, outsourcing, india, linkedin

[27 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation

Comment Written on JetBlue 0038 flying from JFK to Rochester NY, and dispatched via a free hotel wi-fi service. When I was a child there was no television. Radio was strictly LW, MW and SW. My oldest children can remember black-and-white TV but there were...

Tags: television, revenue, radio, broadcast

[26 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars

Comment Written on flight VS003 from London to New York and dispatched via a free JetBlue wi-fi service at JFK airport. There are many theories about how one technology or brand wins the global market over another.

Tags: formats, blu-ray, dvd, storage

[17 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Multitasking mastery

Video In his latest video blog, Peter Cochrane reports from New York's JFK airport. From his vantage point at a bagel stand he spots a fellow traveller who turns out to be one of the world's finest exponents of mobile multitasking.

Tags: mobile, blackberry, multitasking, wireless

[17 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Protestors clueless on wireless health risks

Comment Written in the bar of a London hotel and dispatched via a free wi-fi service from Canary Wharf in the capital's docklands. Scare stories about mobile phones cooking our brains come and go as regularly as the seasons.

Tags: health risks, wi-fi, wimax, wireless

[04 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Tech history repeats itself

Comment More from Peter Cochrane: Written in the bar of a hotel in Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia and despatched via a free wi-fi service in the lobby. This morning I was talking to an industry leader in the USA about recruiting young people and he grumbled...

Tags: social networking, recruitment, skills, email

[25 Feb 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Tax crash, mobile driving, eBay feedback, Vista woes…

Comment ¦ Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Wi-fi field tests ¦ Microsoft changes M&A strategy with Yahoo! What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the...

Tags: hmrc, ebay, vista, driving

[07 Feb 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Locked in at the bank

Comment Written in a coffee shop at Wickham Market, Suffolk, and dispatched via a free wi-fi service in Woodbridge a day later. Go back 40 years and you would find telecoms providers slow to respond to customer and market demands.

Tags: mobile, banks, wi-fi, bank

[07 Feb 2008]

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