Category Archives: Computers
Targeted Broadband and Digital TV News
This is a reminder for many of you, and that is that this blog maintains an aggregate news feed of hand picked content that is pertinent to the Broadband and Digital TV industries, paying quite a bit of attention towards consumer devices such as STBs and other video/information devices. You can access this information off [...]
Electronic Content Guides coming next
The entertainment world has become a complex place compared to 20+ years ago. Back then the UK had 4 channels and the biggest challenge was in ensuring that you had an in house distribution feed for those terrestrial analogue channels, that you had remote control capability and that on at least one TV you had [...]
CES – Broadband and Digital Technology
CES is happening in Las Vegas right now and a great many new announcements for products and services are being made. It is really worthwhile to keep up with what is going on there. Now we are not ‘doin the bloggin thing’ and blogging the show but you will notice that the News Headlines feed [...]
IBC2008 Oh the humanity of technology
Well it all went wrong, and I have lost the ability to blog. My nice little EEEPC decided to suffer a boot failure, which has required me to take an entirely different tack with my reporting from IBC2008. I will instead now collect my thoughts and information together after the event and post then about [...]
IBC2008 D-Day approaches
As mentioned earlier, I am travelling to IBC2008 in Amsterdam. My thoughts earlier were about IPTV breaking big time this year, and I think that is a given. The interesting thing will be whether this will be in the connected home sense. What I mean by this, is a full in-home/out-of-home multi-vendor, standards based ecology [...]
EeePC and the Consultant Follow up
I posted about looking to the newer Atom based machines to solve the last couple of problems I had with my EeePC. I could not wait however, falling foul of finding a review on EeeUser.com for the new 6600mAh batteries available from Cameron Sino, available for a very reasonable price from Clove Technology. I snapped [...]
EeePC for the Consultant – Long Term Usage
My trusty EeePC has been going now for six months, and how has it faired. Well, it has proven to be pretty good except in three areas… all of which are not killers for the product. It must be said that I refer to the 701 unit with its 7 inch 800×480 screen, rather than [...]
IT Services, IT Security, the User and the Future
I have worked in many organisations over the years, and have experienced how they have provided IT services and dealt with the subject of security – basically as many different ways to do it as there are grains of sand on a beach. One thing though is that most are on the same beach – [...]
XO getting some success
It seems the OLPC project has started to get some success, but it is not clear whether this is due to the use of Windows over the Open Source equivalent. This is the one piece of information missing from the BBC News report. Certainly the use of XP makes the device much broader in interest. [...]
OLPC and Windows XP: If you cannot beat them, join them
The news that Negroponte’s OLPC has finally delivered on Windows XP should give the product a boost although I have my doubts about the performance that can be expected on such a low powered machine. After all, the EeePC offers a faster processor with more RAM and more storage as well and it suffers a [...]