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Peter Cochrane's Blog: 3G Reality bytes
Comment Continually promising to deliver what the limits of physics say can't be done is no way for an industry to operate. For sure you can't run roughshod over the laws of physics, and to get anything like the... [14 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Digital TV too annoying to watch?
Comment Some are natural and unavoidable within the system-design specification and the laws of physics, but for sure, many are down to poor software and ill-conceived architectures that will be with us for a very long time. [11 Aug 2009]
Android development kit goes native
News Android engineer David Turner wrote in a blog post that the NDK, which is an adjunct to the standard Android software development kit (SDK), could be used for writing higher-performing applications, but also had its... [26 Jun 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: There is no magic tech
Comment For those of you with an engineering or physics background, it is worth looking at the resemblance to an entropy calculation. Compiled in my office over a nice warm coffee while snowed in with roads that are mostly black... [16 Feb 2009]
Mobile broadband: You get more data for less lucre
News Writing in a recent blog post, he says: "There is a mismatch. While it can be tweaked and optimised, with more spectrum and Mimo [X] and improved coding and other tricks, the laws of physics start to... [04 Dec 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wave of innovation
Comment Today we see a new component in the equation of progress and it is the collapse of the artificial silos of physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics. Written on a train from Bristol to London and dispatched to... [18 Nov 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Tech to the rescue
Comment Personally I am watching developments in new materials, biotech, artificial intelligence, artificial life, distributed computing and man machine interfaces with great interest, not to mention the many developments in robotics,... [29 Oct 2008]
Inbox: Data breaches, tech wages, ePassport woes
Comment Peter Cochrane's Blog: Bordering on stupidity What's wrong with training a physics/history/media studies graduate? At the end of last week the Home Office announced its latest blunder concerning the... [28 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless jelly
Comment For those interested in physics, I think this is a phenomenon we could lay at the feet of Heisenberg. You know how it is: you're in a coffee shop working online and using the free wi-fi service. There are five bars of... [13 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Protestors clueless on wireless health risks
Comment The detailed physics is also interesting. If they understood the basic physics involved they would be asking for more towers and not fewer. Scare stories about mobile phones cooking our brains come and... [04 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No risk, no progress
Comment Now fast forward to today: our children are denied freedom and adventure and an exciting education just because there is too much risk in the old hands-on mode of getting to know the physics and chemistry of the real world. [03 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Qubits Rule?
Comment Any form of deep quantum physics and computing explanation is tough to communicate and I'm not going to try here. Written at Dallas Fort Worth Airport while stranded in the lounge by high winds and a dust storm that has... [01 Mar 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is there nothing new in IT?
Comment Don't get me wrong, for sure the invention and innovation at the core physics, technology and engineering level of ICT are as dramatic and exciting as ever. Most significantly, ICT is contributing hugely to just about... [20 Nov 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Viagra for the brain
Comment There would be no physics, chemistry, biology - there would be just science. Despatched to silicon.com via an intermediate station-based wi-fi service. Here we are at the start of the 21st century, generating more... [20 Jun 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Lab on a laptop
Comment Start to finish the whole process took 30 minutes including some detailed discussion on the physics of guitar strings, neck and body structures. Written at the Dayton, Ohio airport and dispatched to silicon.com via free... [08 Dec 2005]
