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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Energy shortages loom

Comment Between 10 and 20 years ago designers and architects made assumptions about the use of office space and people's working practices. Those estimates were translated into energy densities in the design of air conditioning and the square metre space...

Tags: data centres, green, energy, power

[16 May 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]

Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML

News In a blog posting this week, Alex Brown, leader of the ISO group in charge of maintaining the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, revealed Microsoft Office 2007 documents do not meet the latest specifications of the ISO OOXML draft standard.

Tags: microsoft, office, word, ooxml

[21 Apr 2008]

Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards

News Red Hat's desktop team said in a blog report: "We have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future. The company's decision to stay away from the consumer desktop is less about Microsoft's...

Tags: linux, red hat, microsoft, eye

[21 Apr 2008]

Blogging With Word 2007

whitepaper All they need is the necessary server space and the right software to post the blog content online. A blog (short for weblog) gives individuals the power of publishing without relying on media outlet channels or traditional print publications.

Tags: business management

[11 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for the truth

Comment And in each case the operational attributes have been in some way advantageous for some niche application or information space, but nothing could be held in overall superiority. Written at home on a wet evening and dispatched to silicon.com via...

Tags: artificial intelligence, search, web 2.0

[31 Mar 2008]

Web 2.0 'imperative' for business

News To drive more traffic to their corporate sites, vendors can create forums for online users to chat or blog about a product, or provide an editorial space for people to discuss topical subjects on the web.

Tags: oracle, social networking, web 2.0, facilitate

[27 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars

Comment They also occupy more physical space than any of us can really afford. There are many theories about how one technology or brand wins the global market over another. But I have a sneaking suspicion that it often largely comes down to fashion.

Tags: formats, blu-ray, dvd, storage

[17 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Aerial bombardment

Comment And while superficially the problem might appear to be a simple competition for space, it is of course far more complex. The competition for antenna space on our laptops and mobile devices is getting critical.

Tags: wireless, wi-fi, mobility, antenna

[07 Jan 2008]

The End of Year Weekly Round-Up: 21.12.07

Round-Up Is Jobs still writing his Fake Steve blog? A space we currently occupy quite happily with Windows Mobile. Our competitors seem to be pretty focused on mobile devices space. Redmond, Seattle. A screen saver of a roaring log fire flickers on a huge...

Tags: hmrc, 2007, ballmer, iphone

[21 Dec 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Christmas wish list

Comment Only giant corporations could afford the 100T computers that consumed kilowatts of power and acres of floor space. Every year of my life seems to have been challenging for one reason or another. But I have always been able to stay ahead of the game...

Tags: artificial intelligence, christmas, applications, play

[20 Dec 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Tech blast-off

Video In his latest video blog, Peter Cochrane reports from Florida where he has been visiting Nasa's Merritt Island space centre. The media may be hung up on non-stick frying pans but Nasa's contribution to technology is massive and goes far beyond its...

Tags: research, space, r&d, technology

[01 Nov 2007]

Blog standard

AS Analysis In case you've been living on Mars for the past couple of years, a blog - or weblog as they were called back in the day - is a regularly updated online journal, on the subject of pretty much anything.

[12 Oct 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: No risk, no progress

Comment Fast forward a decade or two at a time and: no trains, trucks, cars or planes, no telecoms, no space exploration, no computers or IT, no modern medicines, no idea about evolution, the cosmos or much else, and yet more millions would have died as a...

Tags: safety, cochrane, risk

[03 Oct 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Unfair fallout

Comment In the West each individual is exposed to about 350 millirems per year on average, from a variety of sources including high-speed particles from outer space and our natural environment. Written at a hotel on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, and...

Tags: energy, nuclear

[20 Sep 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Robots with guns

Comment But soon World War Two, the invention of the transistor, the space race and the arrival of the microprocessor quickly made it all very real. Written at a quiet café on the outskirts of Cambridge, UK and dispatched to silicon.com via a corporate WLAN

Tags: science fiction, military tech, robots

[07 Aug 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 13.07.07

Round-Up Her website - complete with blog, of course - offers everything from a book on interpreting dreams to tarot card reading. She added: "I still do spells and potions the traditional way but the blog keeps me closer to potential clients and can be...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[13 Jul 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Social networking

Cheat Sheet Users typically build an individual profile - which might consist of photos, contact details, a blog or favourite links - and make 'friends' with other users with whom they are linked in some way. Social networking is the business of engaging and...

Tags: myspace, facebook, social networking

[15 Jun 2007]

Editor's Blog: Define this

Comment They are both important players in the broad tech space and may even feel they can define markets and product types. But usually in the name of marketing, though sometimes out of confusion or for cultural reasons, they vary too much.

Tags: mobile tv, rim, blackberry

[23 May 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: NGNs - real or imaginary?

Comment A cable space that originally accommodated a few tens of calls could now deal with millions. Written on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi service in London on the same day

Tags: ngn

[02 May 2007]

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