Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Tuesday 20/7/2004 We're in the middle of reconfiguring our network connectivity here at ZDNet Towers, switching to a fab 100Mbps fibre that will propel our thoughts and words onto the Internet faster than we can type them (we type at roughly 50...
[July 23, 2004, 18:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Wednesday 19/10/2005 The generation game is much loved by marketers. Pepsi, the drink of the next generation. Star Trek:TNG. G phones. Ah yes, the phones. I don't remember anyone calling GSM phones 2G, although they were: 3G makes sense, and by the...
[October 24, 2005, 13:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog An unorthodox diary this week, due mostly to me not being around for most of it. So take it as read that all the events below happened, just not necessarily in a stately order of days. Before Christmas, an unfortunate accident with a cup of tea and...
[January 27, 2006, 16:50]
N-triguing wireless results
Blog Wireless networking kit based on the draft 802.11n specification has been available for a while, and we've now performed some throughput tests on a range of products built around different chipsets. This is important, because until the standard is...
[November 20, 2006, 15:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Tuesday 30/5/2006 Project complete - at least, the first cut - I prepare to pack up my impedimenta and head for home. And I'm ready to get reconnected. During my stay, there's been a lot of discussion with my hosts about broadband.
[June 2, 2006, 18:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Thursday 2/3/2006 Tada! says BT. Look! DSL Max! Vrrooooom! We can make DSL go as fast as 8Mbps! Rupert thinks about this. How does that differ from the DSL you put into my flat in 1998 during the trials?
[March 3, 2006, 17:00]
Slow Broadband Dampens Business Edge
Blog On September 18th, 2007, the Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP (the then Minister of State for Competitiveness), said: ‘Before too long, the wider economy is going to need high speed broadband. The high speed broadband networks being deployed elsewhere for...
[September 26, 2008, 14:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Wednesday 25/02/2004 The irresistible rise of the wireless network is getting faster, in all sorts of ways. Sales of the 54Mbps 802.11g standard is likely to outpace 802.11b's slowpoke 10Mbps for the first time this year, says a report , while...
[February 27, 2004, 16:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Wednesday 27/4/2005 Congratulations to Airbus, which has created literally high technology by launching the mammoth A380 into the skies above Toulouse. Times have changed since test pilots strapped themselves in for the first flight with nothing...
[April 29, 2005, 20:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 22/02/2002 It's nearly time for the Intel Developers Forum. This mega-event takes place in San Francisco all next week, and Intel -- lovely company, salt of the earth -- is taking me over to cover the gathering of the propellorhead clans.
[February 22, 2002, 15:18]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Fresh from my orgy of nerdiness last week, when I found and downloaded emulators for Edsac, the Ferranti Pegasus, the Oric Atmos, the Altair, and other bits of antediluvian technology, I go sniffing around after ancient chips.
[September 20, 1997, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Thursday 3/1/2002 Macworld is coming, and so are the rumours. One particularly pretty one is that there'll be a PDA: there's a video online, and it looks nice. Then there's the super-big, super-pretty LCD monitor, and -- of course -- the flat-panel...
[January 8, 2002, 8:26]
