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RSS society blogPeter Cochrane's Blog: Linking up with Barack Obama?
Comment We have seen industry and society transformed by technology with government generally out on a limb at the back of the pack. If politicians start to use online social networking in the same way as the rest of... [05 Oct 2009]
Evan Williams
AS Profile Williams is not just a one-trick pony either: he was co-founder of Pyra Labs, the company that created the blog publishing service Blogger - bought by Google in 2003. Yet another dubbed it "a truly disruptive... [29 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.08.09
Round-Up Given the chance they would probably have taken screengrabs of the blue rectangles on their smartphones, uploaded them to the web, blogged about them then spent a few minutes re-tweeting the blog URL on Twitter while... [28 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Who accepts my social networking invites?
Comment The implications for industry and society, however, aren't obvious, and I have no demographic relating to age, occupation or other factors. Compiled at my home early one morning when I just couldn't sleep, and dispatched... [05 Aug 2009]
BT, Intel, Sun team up over identity
News The challenges around identity go beyond just technology," wrote Matthew Gardiner, a CA senior principal involved in the initiative, in a blog post on Wednesday. The project brings together more than 40 member... [19 Jun 2009]
Peter Birley
CIO Profile He also writes his own blog and is a regular speaker at IT events. He is a fellow of the Institution of Analyst and Programmers, and a fellow and Chartered IT Professional with the British Computer Society. [03 Jun 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Why are we so wasteful?
Comment The rule of process over common sense now seems to be the established norm everywhere and at all levels of society. Compiled on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched to silicon.com via 3G during the same journey [28 May 2009]
Wolfram Alpha: The Google rival that aims to dig deeper
News Ola Rosling, product manager at Google, said of the service in a blog post: "We just launched a new search feature that makes it easy to find and compare public data. In a talk at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet... [29 Apr 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Imprudent exposure
Comment To gain an appreciation of what society was up against I was shown a limited set of images that were so awful that, like any horror, they seem to have been burned into my memory with a branding iron. Compiled in my hotel... [13 Jan 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: New Year wishes
Comment The net result is a 'change all the light bulbs and recycle everything society' based on very poor assumptions generated by questionable computer models and various well-meaning (or not? Compiled in my hotel room in... [05 Jan 2009]
UK crime fighters grapple with iPhone wipe threat
News The head of the Serious Fraud Office digital forensics unit Keith Foggon cautioned that the ability to remotely wipe the iPhone and other smart phones used by enterprises could be exploited by lawbreakers.iPhone take two: All the... [02 Sep 2008]
Dear silicon.com... dirty computers, lie detectors, T5 tech, mobile ASBOs
Comment ¦ The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group ¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die.¦ Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action That clearly has a price (in pounds) but the alternative price -... [15 May 2008]
New president takes the reins at Socitm
News Writing on the Socitm president's blog on Thursday, Steel said: "I also feel honoured to now be president of such a well-respected organisation that has achieved so much in its history, and optimistic about our future. [29 Apr 2008]
Local gov't CIOs to set national agenda
News Check out the Editor's Blog for the silicon.com chief's take on the hot tech issues of the moment. The Local Government CIO Council met for the first time on 1 April after being set up by local government IT group the... [02 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation
Comment Changes in society brought about by technology always invoke challenges. The trick is to make change work for society and not against it. Radio was strictly LW, MW and SW. My oldest children can remember... [26 Mar 2008]
