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Quotes of the year: From Steve Jobs' impact to why architects are the Britneys of IT

...injury, my last pair of clean socks was sodden" - silicon.com columnist Peter Cochrane having a really bad technology day "We deal with words, not... Read more

19 December, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

From the iPad to ID cards: 2010's quotes of the year

...movie Minority Report, and most likely have smarts that are AI-based" - Peter Cochrane, silicon.com columnist, sketching what an Apple tablet might be capable... Read more

23 December, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

The Weekly Round-Up: Antique mobiles, robot librarians and the iPhone 5

Look back at the mobile phones of yore, forward to the iPhone 5 and further to the future library... Read more

3 June, 2011 by The Round-Up

Top UK tech twitterers: CIOs, academics, analysts, politicos, bloggers

...Chance Tuesday & Venturing Unlimited Graham Cluley @gcluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos Peter Cochrane @PeterCochrane, futurist and writer Iain Gray @iain_gray, CEO of the... Read more

14 April, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

The Weekly Round-Up: Digital distractions, fed up with Facebook and WFH

Email makes staff rude, social networks bore us silly and silicon.com work from home… Read more

20 May, 2011 by The Round-Up

The Weekly Round-Up: Romance 2.0, guileful gamers and today's hard hardware

What do smartphones, online dating agencies and oven-ready joints have in common? Read more

18 March, 2011 by The Round-Up

Steve Wozniak, dual-core smartphones and cloud

...year, in CIO priorities: What must we do better in 2011?. Meanwhile, Peter Cochrane discussed the three technology areas he predicts will make the headlines... Read more

1 February, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

The Weekly Round-Up: When the cat's away, the mice go on Facebook

When the boss is on holiday, it's not just them getting a break from work Read more

3 September, 2010 by The Round-Up

BT to sell broadband-multiplying software to ISPs

...of one line would still leave at least one other line intact. Peter Cochrane, formerly head of BT Research, is a non-executive director of... Read more

6 December, 2007 by David Meyer

Expert predicts 3G collapse

...wireless technologies, with disparaging comments from British Telecommunications' former chief technologist Professor Peter Cochrane and BT (quote: BT) itself admitting the outlook for 3G profits... Read more

27 March, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

Technophiles show Luddite streak

Prominent scientists ask: Is technology really good for us? Read more

9 October, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained

...mobile world but are mobile surfers getting a raw deal from 3G? Peter Cochrane examined the disparity between what the industry promised and what 3G... Read more

6 October, 2009 by Jo Best

Motorists hit back on road pricing

Best of Reader Comments: They're jammin' Since silicon.com columnist Peter Cochrane discussed how motorists might try and beat road pricing plans in... Read more

18 June, 2007 by Gemma Simpson

ASP99: BT's Peter Cochrane sees info-chaos

...a well-received keynote at ASP99 Thursday morning, BT's Chief Technologist, Peter Cochrane OBE, outlined a vision of the future in which 95 percent... Read more

30 September, 1999 by Eugene Lacey

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The cyborgs are here

...of health conditions are prompting ever more sci-fi-like solutions - and Peter Cochrane believes it won't be long before the boundaries between carbon... Read more

2 April, 2003 by silicon.com staff

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