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2010
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Apple's iPad - I'm buying one - 03-02-2010
Will the iPad succeed like the iPhone? The jury's out - but I want to play with one
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is technology really so bad for us? - 19-01-2010
That bygone, pre-tech golden era when "life was better" never existed
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: New media beats old when it comes to the weather - 14-01-2010
Anywhere, anytime reporting is the wave of the future
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Creativity stunted by network slowdowns - 04-01-2010
Most people just don't understand how to balance bandwidth and productivity
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Newspapers have 10 years left - 11-01-2010
They can evolve or they can die out
2009
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Lessons from the Eurostar Channel Tunnel fiasco - 22-12-2009
Hardware design does matter - doesn't it?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Climate change more about belief than science - 15-12-2009
I only hope we haven't done too much damage to real efforts to save the planet
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Whitehall piracy plans - what a waste of time - 11-12-2009
Where have they been for the past 10 years?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can I become faster and smarter? - 30-11-2009
We could all use a little more help from our machines
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: How the telcos could save themselves - 23-11-2009
Doomed network operators could thrive with a bit of innovation
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Facebook saves teen from prison - 16-11-2009
Another unexpected impact of social networking
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Uneconomics - 29-10-2009
We must move away from short-termism to prevent next economic crisis
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: United breaks guitars? - 14-10-2009
Customer service has changed forever
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Linking up with Barack Obama? - 05-10-2009
Social networks make us all much closer than we ever thought
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: The turntable spins on - 24-09-2009
The music industry should stop fighting a war that it can't win and start thinking about new business models
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: 3G Reality bytes - 14-09-2009
Promising to deliver what physics says can't be done is no way for an industry to operate
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Software - keep it short and sweet - 07-09-2009
Less bloated software means greater productivity for all
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can tech end bloody wars? - 28-08-2009
How military conflicts could turn into a child's game of tag
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Digital TV too annoying to watch? - 11-08-2009
IP poised to overtake current TV and radio options
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Who accepts my social networking invites? - 05-08-2009
North America more eager to network than the Far East
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Singapore's fibre paradox - 30-07-2009
Unlike in the UK, the Singaporean government gets broadband but users don't
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Three clicks away from eight million people - 23-07-2009
The power of social networking
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Open info for all? - 20-07-2009
Government stonewalling citizens
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Tales of all-in-one woe - 13-07-2009
Blame the designers, not the IT guys
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Iran, tweets and e-democracy - 29-06-2009
Tech-savvy triumph
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Baker's dozen - a lesson for broadband - 11-06-2009
3 for the price of 12? Anyone?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: We have plenty of radio spectrum - 09-06-2009
What's everyone worried about?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Why are we so wasteful? - 28-05-2009
Common sense has left the building
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Squeeze more speed out of your broadband - 20-05-2009
It's easier than you think
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Become a bandwidth scavenger - 06-05-2009
Here's how
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Uncommon mode failure - 29-04-2009
Getting online: Fifth time lucky
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: The cloud cometh - 02-04-2009
Whether you like it or not
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Set your content free - 30-03-2009
Good for business
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: RIP Newspapers - 23-03-2009
Time for a news paradigm shift
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Beware the new phishers - 01-03-2009
Who's looking over your shoulder?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Want to beat the economy? - 27-02-2009
How eating our own dog food can help
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Face-off with a hotel TV - 23-02-2009
Could anything be more complex?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Digital Britain? Not quite - 19-02-2009
Carter report falls short in so many ways
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: There is no magic tech - 16-02-2009
No product can defy the laws of maths and physics
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Why DRM is dead - 27-01-2009
You can't control creativity
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Imprudent exposure - 13-01-2009
Naughty pics present long-term risks
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: New Year wishes - 05-01-2009
Simple ways to avoid the cataclysms inflicting our societies
2008
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: New password theory - 22-12-2008
Just what are you trying to protect?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: How to delete sensitive data - 15-12-2008
Get out your hammer
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Presentation SNAFUs - 25-11-2008
The gremlins attack when we least expect it
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wave of innovation - 18-11-2008
Advancements are just around the corner
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Synthetic people - 11-11-2008
Soon you won't know man from machine
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Tech to the rescue - 29-10-2008
Hard times spark creativity
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: How tech can solve the banking crisis - 20-10-2008
Bring on a machine-based economy
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Hearing Morse Code? - 14-10-2008
You're not going mad
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Screen time - 29-09-2008
Will the smaller screen take over - just as the PC eclipsed TV?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Government gaffe - 25-09-2008
Misunderstanding IT... again
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Social networking power - 22-09-2008
A force for profound change...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Social Why your broadband's so slow - 03-09-2008
Don't be so quick to blame the ISP
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Science friction - 28-08-2008
Why do we feel so threatened by machines?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Bordering on stupidity - 21-08-2008
Are electronic passports up to the job?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: New niche for 3G? - 05-08-2008
ADSL costs could drive 3G uptake...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Autosync, at last - 22-07-2008
Now we just need it to meld with remote control...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Out of range? - 15-07-2008
Simple fixes for getting online
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Quality by design - 09-07-2008
Why do picky people settle for poor design at work?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is convergence a fiction? - 02-07-2008
Or could it finally be happening...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Security scare - 18-06-2008
How could I have been so stupid?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless jelly - 13-06-2008
Now where did that signal wobble off to?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Healthy mobility - 10-06-2008
Can mobile devices point the way forward?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Warped perceptions - 28-05-2008
Real threats ignored, risks hyped up...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Energy shortages loom - 16-05-2008
Will firms have to generate their own power?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die... - 14-05-2008
Tech costs fall but just how much cheaper can it all get?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity - 29-04-2008
How good are the systems at our international airports?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays - 16-04-2008
Why does all new technology involve a four-second wait?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food - 14-04-2008
How do so many designers get it so badly wrong?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for the truth - 31-03-2008
How can you believe what you read online?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation - 26-03-2008
Hard times ahead for broadcasters?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars - 17-03-2008
Blu-ray vs HD DVD - is it really game over?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Protestors clueless on wireless health risks - 04-03-2008
Please build more base station masts near our schools...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Tech history repeats itself - 25-02-2008
Facebook phobia is a carbon copy of what happened to email
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Locked in at the bank - 07-02-2008
Why is it so hard to move accounts?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Mobile users break free - 05-02-2008
Unlocked devices on the rise, is it any surprise?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Getting thinner fast - 28-01-2008
Wi-fi speeds up shift to thinner clients...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Trying to explain - 14-01-2008
...a website that does a better job of things than I can
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Aerial bombardment - 07-01-2008
Our laptops and mobiles have become a battleground for competing antennas...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Resolutions for 2008 - 03-01-2008
I must create more people time - and even some time just for me...
2007
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Christmas wish list - 20-12-2007
Dear Santa, I need help of a new kind...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless jammers galore - 12-12-2007
The dark side is always waiting to thwart our efforts...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Net education - 06-12-2007
Advanced learning is not the sole preserve of the wealthy nations...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Changing tech values - 22-11-2007
Vital technologies seem to come and go faster and faster...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Blind security - 12-11-2007
Focus and automate to lift detection rates...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Generation X - 29-10-2007
The process of passing on tech skills is changing profoundly...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: The last CD - 25-10-2007
Storage is growing faster than any other commodity...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Animated statistics - 12-10-2007
Make sense of the data mountains...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: No risk, no progress - 03-10-2007
We're being hamstrung by health and safety tsars
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Unfair fallout - 20-09-2007
Why is nuclear radiation such a bogie man?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Social networks - 18-09-2007
Force for good or bad?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Don't mess with mobile users - 07-09-2007
Give them what they want - or watch them go elsewhere...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Media wars - 31-08-2007
The old empire vs the brave new web world...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Damn metrics - 28-08-2007
They lie...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Know-nothing managers - 20-08-2007
Why are they so common?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Robots with guns - 07-08-2007
The greatest tools of mankind have been turned into weapons
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: How I boosted my mobile signal - 18-07-2007
From 'five bars' to none
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Moving office - 11-07-2007
Surprises always crop up in the most unlikely places
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can I find you? - 21-06-2007
You might be surprised...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Are we destined to repeat history? - 13-06-2007
A case of old world vs new?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: How we'll beat road pricing - 12-06-2007
Jammers will proliferate and destroy GPS maps
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wi-fi radiation scare - 29-05-2007
Some people are still trying to prove negatives...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Toilet talk - 24-05-2007
Some people never switch off
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: When will the net become intelligent? - 22-05-2007
It's only a matter of time - and it's our only hope
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: The power of analogy - or not - 09-05-2007
Just how should we frame complex situations, arguments and solutions?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: NGNs - real or imaginary? - 02-05-2007
Not toys for the boys but about massively improving everything in ICT
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: My changing TV habits - 30-04-2007
IPTV - it's the future...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is web 2.0 doomed to fail? - 23-04-2007
A case of 'whoops we did it again'?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Heathrow's iris scan failure - 18-04-2007
The sad thing is it could work
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Security twitch - 11-04-2007
Where's my mobile? Laptop? PDA?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Where are all the young professionals? - 29-03-2007
Are we heading for a new Renaissance?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: VoIP reality check - 26-03-2007
It's here to stay - but there's still progress to be made
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: No locks? - 15-03-2007
We must be forced to use security
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Qubits Rule? - 01-03-2007
Against all the odds, and with a lot yet to learn, the first quantum computer is born!
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Close encounters of the mobile kind - 27-02-2007
Getting an earful from the sex ranch
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Report from spam hell - 19-02-2007
The junk just keeps on coming...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Recycling is rubbish - 23-01-2007
Just another misguided fashion we have drifted into...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wi-fi really is everywhere - 10-01-2007
It's far more pervasive than the mobile phone network
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Getting lost with GPS - 02-01-2007
The technology works but not all the users do
2006
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: My Christmas wish list - 20-12-2006
A few things that would make a big differences
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: A piglet, a sausage and a grinder - 13-12-2006
How analogies both save us - and fail us
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: A crack in the wi-fi stupidity dam? - 05-12-2006
European hotels and coffee shops are starting to offer free wi-fi
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: My productivity has peaked - 27-11-2006
What could help me get more done now?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is there nothing new in IT? - 20-11-2006
Innovation has moved elsewhere - for now
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Digital divide? What digital divide? - 14-11-2006
People who don't use computers are doing so by their own choice
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Conference freebies - 27-10-2006
How long before laptops and PCs are in the goody bags?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: What are the risks? - 16-10-2006
People are getting worse and worse at making decisions
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Finding wi-fi in the unlikeliest of places - 12-10-2006
Greetings from Turkey
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Poking CIOs with a stick - 02-10-2006
How I riled up the IT chiefs at silicon.com's CIO Forum
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport security frustrations - 14-09-2006
Technology could really shorten those queues...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: No more copper - fibre rules - 07-09-2006
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: High-speed Korea - 06-09-2006
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: A 4G future - 05-09-2006 What will it look like?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for wi-fi in Norwich - 30-08-2006
Not much luck despite the newly launched municipal network
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Flight frustrations - 22-08-2006
Are toothpaste bombs really a big threat?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: School's out - so watch out - 21-08-2006
Online nasties proliferate...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Yes, China is different - 07-08-2006
But keep it in perspective...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: China's education in transition - 19-07-2006
History's repeating itself - again
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: China's a zero sum gain - 18-07-2006
My real worry is not losing jobs to the East per se
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: China, 23 years on - 17-07-2006
What a difference...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Good-bye CDs - 14-07-2006
So what's next?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: SMEs rule the world - 10-07-2006
The combined impact of small business is huge
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Fat cat telcos are killing the net - 07-07-2006
I feel as though we are standing on the edge of a very dangerous precipice...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: No email, no banking - 03-07-2006
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Scam repeats - 22-06-2006
There's nothing new under the sun...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Viagra for the brain - 20-06-2006
Are 'smart' drugs any good to us?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Man vs machine - who's smarter? - 19-06-2006
Ask me again in five years...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Telecoms - get creative - 12-06-2006
Don't go backwards just because your service is now a commodity
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Education on the fly - 24-05-2006
Has academia lost its usefulness?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Press and wait - 18-05-2006
Have we forgotten about user-friendly design?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Freedom - 15-05-2006
Technology can keep free speech alive
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: My guide to finding wi-fi - 10-05-2006
If I can do it, you can do it...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: The GDP threat - 05-05-2006
A vibrant 21st century economy needs 1,000Mbps
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: More wireless equals more wires - 04-05-2006
Let me explain...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Metrics overload - 02-05-2006
It's time to stop measuring and start doing...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Security and 'toilet paper' - 28-04-2006
It's amazing what you can find in a waste bin...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Travel pains - 24-04-2006
Some advice for the airlines...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: A Crash-Free Life? - 20-04-2006
It's almost time to tempt Murphy's Law...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wi-fi Activism - 29-03-2006
If enough of us whinge and complain, maybe we can get free wi-fi
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Remember When Flying Was Fun? - 27-03-2006
And airport security was reasonably convenient?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Smart But Not Corporate - 17-03-2006
I knew it would happen sometime but like most things these days it has arrived early...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Snooping on a BlackBerry Fool - 06-03-2006
I try to be good but sometimes technology puts temptation my way...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Jammers Not Listeners - 28-02-2006
Think wireless denial of service...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: NDAs are worthless - 22-02-2006
Start-ups and entrepreneurs may want them but VCs won't sign
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Start-up failures - 08-02-2006
The question isn't why they fail so often, more by what miracle any survive!
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: The MP3 Wars, part 2 - 27-01-2006
Loaded iPods create headaches - and opportunities - for record labels and Hollywood
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Kids Today - 20-01-2006
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Parking Fiasco - 10-01-2006
Why I'm choosing to stay in the virtual world, more and more
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Goodbye VHS - 03-01-2006
Of course I could programme that damn clock if I really wanted to...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Heavyweight Delete - 03-01-2006
To protect my data, I resort to a cold chisel and hammer...
2005
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Online Shopping Spree - 16-12-2005
I never though e-tailing would take over in just a decade...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Lab On A Laptop - 08-12-2005
I can now do in 30 minutes what used to take days...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: RFID and Flight Security - 01-12-2005
What more could we be doing?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: GPS Changes Everything - 28-11-2005
I remember buying a car when the heater was optional and a radio wasn't even on the list...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Hardware Hackers Are Back - 16-11-2005
Next up: A Formula 1-style device market...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: How many keystrokes does it take to buy coffee? - 09-11-2005
We should never tolerate dumb design or dumb systems!
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: 3G disappointments - 04-11-2005
It is really dangerous to over promise and under deliver... again!
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: No More Dial-Up? - 19-10-2005
Wi-Fi and LAN access seem now to be almost universally available...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: The UK's A Broadband Leader. Really? - 17-10-2005
It's all in the definition...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: The Search For Spectrum - 10-10-2005
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Travelling ultra-light - 27-09-2005
I dream of a 'no bag' future...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Information the way it should be - 12-09-2005
Open, helpful and low-cost...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wi-Fi in the USA - 09-09-2005
Written from Woods Hole, Massachusetts via free Wi-Fi
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Goodbye TV? - 09-09-2005
Written in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, via free Wi-Fi
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Back me up - 01-09-2005
Turns out power connectors are a significant risk!
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: My digital camera feature request - 30-08-2005
How about noting the location a photo was shot?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: School's out - 22-08-2005
Will today's graduates be a force for change in corporate IT?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: I'm toast - 11-08-2005
Whatever happened to the KIS principle?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Borrowing Wi-Fi is not a crime - 01-08-2005
It's free, ubiquitous and magnetic all over the western US...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: The Power of Wi-Fi - 28-07-2005
It's free, ubiquitous and magnetic all over the western US...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Start-ups And Gold Miners - 20-07-2005
Written from Estes Park, Colorado, on a very thin dial-up pipe
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Are we heading towards a new dark age? - 14-07-2005
I wouldn't bet on it...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: 7/7 Shows We Need More Networks - 08-07-2005
Call them terrorists if you feel terrorised, else call them murderers...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Hollywood's Real Threat - 07-07-2005
Are media pirates really the ones hurting the movie and record industries?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Thank Goodness Hardware Doesn't Last Forever - 01-07-2005
Because it keeps getting better...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: How I fought off a DoS attack - 30-06-2005
Why do people keep probing my machine?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Thanks for the memory - 24-06-2005
Remember when 20MB cost $20,000?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless access - the US v Europe - 13-06-2005
Lessons from across the pond...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: My run-in with the IT 'SS' - 09-06-2005
Why do IT departments do the things they do?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Don't Hold Your Breath For 3G - 02-06-2005
Will the mobile industry ever learn? Customers call the shots, not industry or government...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Continual Reorganisation - 26-05-2005
Will management churn bring progress to a halt?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Accelerating Society - 13-05-2005
What will IT systems do for us in the future?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Customer needs, part 2 - 29-04-2005
Everything breaks - including business models!
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Customer needs... - 22-04-2005
What did we learn on the canals?
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Abrupt Change - 20-04-2005
The US has figured out there's an energy crisis...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Am I Uncool? - 13-04-2005
Reflections after 100 columns and 59 years...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Formula For Project Failure - 17-03-2005
First, be unclear about what you want. Second, form a committee...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Valley Lessons - 31-03-2005
The decline of Western technology?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Can education be saved? - 10-03-2005
Education is getting worse and worse in the West, particularly for scientific and technical fields such as IT...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: VoIP Wins - 17-02-2005
And it's going to hurt...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The Large And Small Of IT - 03-02-2005
Are we heading for DIY?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Why Does Technology Fail? - 21-01-2005
It's the machines' fault... and ours
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Life As A Tech-Nomad - 06-01-2005
Some tips on surviving an existence on the road...
2004
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Looking Back From 2020 - 16-12-2004
And the winners are...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Why Do We Still Travel? - 02-12-2004
Shouldn't we just videoconference and telecommute?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The State Of Broadband - 18-11-2004
As viewed from the trenches...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Mobile Folly - 4-11-2004
Phone sex at the airport...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: A Sea Of Bits - 20-10-2004
How will we manage our overflowing hard drives?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: God For A Day - 07-10-2004
If you had 24 hours, what would you do?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Quantum Wells And Problem Solving - 23-09-2004
They're related - really...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: VoIP Spam - It's Coming - 09-09-2004
Will spam kill this promising technology just as it takes off?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Six Degrees And Super Nodes - 26-08-2004
Are we even more closely connected than we thought?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Mobile Myth Busting - 12-08-2004
Ever wonder if your mobile phone is really killing your brain cells? Or why you can't use it in hospitals and on airplanes?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Upside-Down Security - 01-07-2004
Turn everything on its head...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Free Net Access For All - 17-06-2004
I get online wherever I go - without dial-up
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The Ever-Evolving Virus - 20-05-2004
Our best defense: Build a 'killer bot'
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Are IT Departments Doomed? - 06-05-2004
'Tech-nomads' just don't need them...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Hype and Skype - 21-04-2004
...and how telephony is changing forever
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Superhighway? What Superhighway? - 08-04-2004
Why have we lost the impetus while certain countries have forged ahead?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Outsourcing And Offshoring - 25-03-2004
"Just as IT created these new jobs we have to look to new industries to create the next wave. And this is the hard bit."
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Fractal Stupidity - 11-03-2004
Transport... health care... the environment - are we missing the obvious?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: All The World In Your Shirt Pocket - 26-02-2004
All the music and movies ever made stored in one pocket-sized device....
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Analogue or Digital? - 12-02-2004
"We simply cannot define what is alive and what is intelligent."
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Blind Purchases - 28-01-2004
Why is so much procurement so ineffectual?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Business Transformation - 14-01-2004
Why the new economy trumps the old economy every time (or at least almost every time)
2003
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: A Christmas wish list - 17-12-2003
Now Santa, take a deep breath and get your techie hat on
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: MP3 Shoplifting - 03-12-2003
Criminal activity or the kick in the proverbial an industry needs?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Holistic Security - 26-11-2003
We have the ability to be far more subtle and capable...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Wi-Fi Versus Soap And Towels - 13-11-2003
Why providers simply need to clean up their acts if they're to survive...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Net Antibodies - 30-10-2003
Given the size, speed and interconnectivity of the net, viral and worm infections now spread far faster and wider than any other human infection generated from a single sneeze...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Logistics On The Move - 16-10-2003
Back after a break...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Crash, Crash, Crash - 25-09-2003
On a collision course with technology...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Mobile Guesses - 17-09-2003
Here's what the future of mobile communications will look like...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: 24 hours in 2020 - 11-09-2003
How will we be living our lives, to what extent will we be thanking - or blaming - technology?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The Ups And Downs Of Power - 03-09-2003
"The societal machine has been finely honed to be very efficient but as a result it is now becoming very brittle."
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Six Degrees And Supernodes - 21-08-2003
How interconnected are we? Perhaps even more so than cliché leads us to believe...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Death By A Million Tracks - 14-08-2003
Sure all current file-swappers can be sued - it will only take 2,739 years
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Grey Goo - 07-08-2003
The next big panic?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Network Power - 31-07-2003
From concentrated skill to distributed ignorance?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Medical Records - 24-07-2003
Poor management of data in healthcare - and so many opportunities being lost
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Trusting People And Self-Organisation - 17-07-2003
Do you prefer control or do you put your faith in autonomy, emergent behaviour and self-determination?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: My Life Bits - 10-07-2003
We live on a timeline and pass through space but our life bits need not.
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Nature And Engineering - 03-07-2003
How far have silicon life forms come, compared to our own carbon-based selves?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: DIY v DIFM Networks - 26-06-2003
And the winner is...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Wi-Fi On The Fly - 19-06-2003
Wi-Fi is wireless but not normally 'on-the-move' mobile - expect that to change
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Not So Wonderful Spam - 12-06-2003
Doubling every 18 months - just like Moore's Law
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: All-Seeing Technology - 04-06-2003
How many times have you been on candid camera today?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The Right Technology For The Right Job - 28-05-2003
Want to send me a business plan? Make sure it's not based on this technology...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Porn Or No Porn? - 22-05-2003
Don't demonise the net - let it work for us
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Circuit Or Packet, Clean Or Dirty? - 14-05-2003
..networks and the internet, that is. Did you know the dilemma facing telcos worldwide?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: You Wear It Well - 08-05-2003
The clothing of the future...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Web Realities - 01-05-2003
Who does what online, and why?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Short-Termism Of The Worst Kind - 24-04-2003
Have we suddenly lost 60 IQ points?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Intelligent Machines - 17-04-2003
What's the big problem - technology or human interaction with technology?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Forget 'Think Different' - Think 'Non-Linear'... - 09-04-2003
Let's start applying 'deep thought' to some everyday problems...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The Cyborgs Are Here - 02-04-2003
And they're nothing like the Borg in Star Trek. In fact, Peter would be happy to be one...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Conference turnaround - 26-03-2003
Presentation is everything, as they say - and here's why...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Another Management Gaffe - 19-03-2003
The only people who might profit from snooping, in the broad sense, are the lawyers.
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Reliability and downtime - 12-03-2003
Five ISPs and he still ends up cursing his computer like the rest of us.
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The invisible revolution Distributed Us versus centralised Them. And the winner is... - 05-03-2003
Technology is morphing previously rigid power relationships all around the world. And that's no bad thing.
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Salesmanship - or lack thereof - 26-02-2003
Watching technologists sell their ideas to customers is like an evening at a Moscow State open-air strip club in January.
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Insecure Thinking - 12-02-2003
Are We The Weakest Link?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Shopping Protocol - 05-02-2003
There are better ways to shop...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: No Market Savvy - 30-01-2003
Boom bust, boom bust
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Save everything - but don't be tidy! - 23-01-2003
Filed data or big uni-heap - what's your preference?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Wireless Everything - 16-01-2003
Like moving from two people having a conversation in a quiet room to a cocktail party where everyone is talking at once?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The Oil Crisis of 2003 - 09-01-2003
The biggest challenge for us this year?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Christmas Shopping 2002 - 02-01-2003
How was xmas online for you?
2002
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Science And Belief - 19-12-2002
Let's not create a house of cards standing on a foundation of sand.
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Technology Fatigue - 12-12-2002
Have we hit 'Moores Wall'?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Crippling the WWW - 05-12-2002
Advocating an Internet police force?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: G Force - 28-11-2002
Ruggedisation - in a (horribly made up) word
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Cochrane's Law - 21-11-2002
Too many cooks... do what exactly?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Software Licensing - Time To Get Angry - 14-11-2002
Licensed? Incensed, more like.
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Summits, models and machines - 07-11-2002
"The truth is none of us have a clue what the key threat to humanity really is."
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: How many mobile phones do you need? - 31-10-2002
"We are witnessing a divergence on a par with the Cambrian explosion of life itself some 500 million years ago."
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Who goes there? - 24-10-2002
Chip implant time
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Education that doesn't fit - 17-10-2002
Chaos coffee...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Who'd be a copyright lawyer? Not me... - 10-10-2002
Imagine, just a few years from now, being able to store every film and song ever released on a single device. Now imagine content companies can't come around to embracing that. I'm shedding a tear...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Scales of grey - 03-10-2002
All very basic but oh so effective...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Uncontrollable bits -26-09-2002
"Anything to declare, sir?"
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Your communications - compromised - 18-09-2002
All very basic but oh so effective...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Chips in everything - Including me - 05-09-2002
A future of electronic tags and intelligence in everything...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Stupidity on an industrial scale - 29-08-2002
Some of the most greedy, desperate and stupid people... I ever met are employed in the entertainment sector...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Screen tests - 21-08-2002
Computer, show me that spreadsheet...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The blue sack - 15-08-2002
Network-based storage sounds like a boring business issue. Peter Cochrane takes a very personal look backwards and forwards and proves otherwise...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Exponential growth - so misunderstood - 08-08-2002
Yet our leaders are always talking about it...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The 3G chasm - deeper than we thought - 01-08-2002
Have we seen the worst?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: ButterflyWings.com - 25-07-2002
A butterfly flaps its wings and a dot-com goes bust?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Being a squirrel - 18-07-2002
There's gold in them there hard drives...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: here am I coming from? - 11-07-2002
A personal primer from Peter...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Don't make life harder than it already is - 11-07-2002
A lesson for everyone - especially debt-laden telcos...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: It's our brains that lack bandwidth - 04-07-2002
You've been told...
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