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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 9/1/2004 More proof that Citizen-Consumer will soon be the only occupation permitted by law, as Cisco unveils its first DVD player. Oh, OK, it's Linksys -- now Cisco -- and the DVD player bit is backed up by lots of wireless networking...
[January 9, 2004, 15:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 27/10/2004 Primed by an exciting story in Spectrum, the online newsletter of the IEEE, I'm off sniffing out stories about odd power sources. The Spectrum piece is about the rather science-fictional idea of making self-powered chips by...
[October 1, 2004, 18:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Tuesday 14/9/2004 It's not often that radio technology has a direct effect on national politics. Today is different. Yet more talks in Northern Ireland are due, and Sinn Fein decides to underline Albion's perfidy by showing off a bugging device...
[September 17, 2004, 17:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Tuesday 8/06/2004 And so to Citrix iForum 2004, in sunny Edinburgh. Actually, it's not sunny at all - my hopes of catching Venus in transit are dashed by being in the only part of the Kingdom locked beneath a cold, grey sea fog.
[June 11, 2004, 19:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 28/7/2004 How are we this morning? Fresh and full of vim, ready for the week ahead? A little fragile, perhaps, following a rather overexciting weekend. You're probably not as fragile as the US Justice Department's foreign lobbyists' database.
[July 2, 2004, 18:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 16/1/2004 Friday morning post: the usual PR bumf, an incomprehensible pension statement that seems to suggest my retirement fund is being carefully managed until there's nothing left, and an invitation to Farm Animal And Livestock Technology...
[January 16, 2004, 16:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Wednesday 30/7/2004 A small but talented team is out at the Microsoft Tech Ed Europe 2004 show in Amsterdam, with Editor Matt Loney and Intern Supreme Ingrid Marson following the plot. You might expect a huge event in Amsterdam, stuffed full of...
[July 2, 2004, 18:50]
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Blog Tuesday 6/4/2004 Whisper it quietly. Microsoft Bob is back! You may not recall this thrilling product from 1995 -- for some reason, it's never mentioned on Bill's CV -- but it is of such historical importance that it deserves better.
[April 8, 2004, 17:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Thursday 13/5/2004 You probably won't remember this, but we are now almost exactly halfway through the Year of the Itanium. This was announced by Paul Otellini, Intel's president and chief operating officer, at the Fall 2003 Developer Forum, when...
[May 14, 2004, 19:00]
Microsoft submits server tech documentation to EU
Blog Microsoft has finally turned over technical documetation to the EC that may let non-Microsoft work-group servers achieve interoperability with Windows servers. The EC is not amused that it has taken Microsoft so long to comply with its 2004 anti...
[November 23, 2006, 16:14]
Statistical spin of the day
Blog So we get a press release today from the Met, entitled: "Mobile phone crime in Capital falls significantly - Latest from New Scotland Yard". Interesting stuff, right? Perhaps an indicator of some kind of new-found handset equality between the rich...
[November 7, 2006, 11:49]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Tuesday 2/11/2004 You may remember that last week, I took a pop at Podcasting, the latest technology enabler that will let people throughout the world discover they're no good at broadcasting just like they did with Shoutcast.
[November 5, 2004, 17:03]
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Blog Wednesday 24/03/2004 Oi! Microsoft! Nooooo! I wasn't going to mention the company this week, but it's committed a terrible sin. I'm not talking about Super Mario and the EU; I'm not talking about supporting SCO.
[March 26, 2004, 16:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 13/12/2004 It's the last week of term, and a certain levity infests the air. I try to find something sensible to say about Intel's roadmap, and fail. Likewise, attempts to cogently analyse the business implications of Nortel's VoIP strategy...
[December 17, 2004, 18:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Tuesday 14/12/2004 Few people doubt that at some point in the indefinite future, all information will be digitised. But the process of converting the uncounted millions of existing books has always seemed so slow, expensive and laborious that it...
[December 17, 2004, 18:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Wednesday 15/12/2004 You may have noticed the stories about malware-infected fake Christmas cards arriving in people's emails. Naughty, naughty. Anything that encourages people to click on links connected to unsolicited mail is wrong: if you don't...
[December 17, 2004, 18:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Thursday 16/12/2004 There is none so glum in the run-up to Christmas than the enterprise software marketing manager. Nobody -- but nobody -- is thinking in terms of strategic investments in scaleable data management solutions: not the CIO, who is...
[December 17, 2004, 18:05]
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Blog Friday 17/12/2004 Buy land", the old saying used to go. They're not making any more. Leaving aside pedantic responses about Holland, this used to be true. But now, the news comes that an online gamer has just paid nearly £14,000 on a virtual island...
[December 17, 2004, 18:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 6/12/2004 I'm working on a story about quantum cryptography - an abstruse field which is going through rapid and exciting developments. The results so far aren't going to revolutionise the world -- it's promising useful results for very high...
[December 10, 2004, 16:40]
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Blog Tuesday 7/12/2004 OK, listen up. It's meme time. I could be perpetuating a viral marketing campaign, but I doubt it: the show in question seems to be doing insanely well without the need of any such thing and it is, after all, a Broadway musical.
[December 10, 2004, 16:40]
