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Dialogue Box 2.4: How the Asus Eee stole our hearts
Articles Dialogue Box peers into the future — and the present's pretty good too, with Asus's new £200 laptop.
[October 30, 2007, 11:16]
Dialogue Box - That Tricky Second Episode
Blog Comment I love the Axis - like a technology version of Top Gear's Cool Wall - does that make Rupert the 'Jeremy Clarkson' and Charles the 'Richard Hammond' of technology ? A startling achievement, a mix between Tomorrow's World and Blue Peter.
[June 7, 2007, 9:51]
Dialogue Box 7.4: The expanding digital universe
Video Rupert and Charles make some extrapolations and come to a startling conclusion. How much data will be created and stored in 50 years' time? In association with IBM Smart decision: An Information Agenda by IBM
[October 9, 2009, 14:39]
Dialogue Box 7.4: The expanding digital universe
Articles Rupert and Charles make some extrapolations and come to a startling conclusion. How much data will be created and stored in 50 years' time? In association with IBM Smart decision: An Information Agenda by IBM
[October 9, 2009, 14:44]
Dialogue Box 7.3: Data, data, everywhere
Articles Rupert and Charles talk petabytes, exabytes and zettabytes. How big is the 'digital universe', and where does all that data come from? In association with IBM Smart decision: An Information Agenda by IBM
[October 2, 2009, 12:04]
Dialogue Box 7.2: From Ramac to SSD
Articles Charles and Rupert outline the development of hard-disk and solid-state storage from the 1950s to the present day. In association with IBM Smart decision: An Information Agenda by IBM Visit IBM to find out more.
[September 25, 2009, 12:38]
Dialogue Box 7.1: How information changed the world
Articles Charles and Rupert look at the three data explosions that shaped history, and set the scene for today's IT revolution. In association with IBM Smart decision: An Information Agenda by IBM Visit IBM to find out more.
[September 18, 2009, 18:14]
Dialogue Box 7.3: Data, data, everywhere
Video Rupert and Charles talk petabytes, exabytes and zettabytes. How big is the 'digital universe', and where does all that data come from? In association with IBM Smart decision: An Information Agenda by IBM
[October 2, 2009, 11:57]
Dialogue Box 7.2: From Ramac to SSD
Video Charles and Rupert outline the development of hard-disk and solid-state storage from the 1950s to the present day. In association with IBM Smart decision: An Information Agenda by IBM Visit IBM to find out more
[September 25, 2009, 12:22]
Dialogue Box 7.1: How information changed the world
Video Charles and Rupert look at the three data explosions that shaped history, and set the scene for today's IT revolution. In association with IBM Smart decision: An Information Agenda by IBM Visit IBM to find out more
[September 18, 2009, 10:52]
Dialogue Box 6.8: Top tech trumps
Video Rupert and Charles discuss the contenders over a game of (special) cards. What are likely to be the most important tech stories over the next few months?
[June 12, 2009, 12:31]
Dialogue Box 6.7: Testing solid-state disks
Video Rupert and Charles outline the solid state of play. SSDs are now available with capacities of up to 256GB, but prices remain high enough compared to conventional hard disks to make them uneconomic in the datacentre for the foreseeable future.
[June 5, 2009, 15:42]
Dialogue Box 6.6: A first look at Moblin
Video Rupert and Charles take the beta for a spin and compare it to Ubuntu's netbook remix. Those seeking to run Linux on their netbook have a new option: Moblin.
[May 29, 2009, 17:08]
Dialogue Box 6.2: The interplanetary internet
Video Rupert and Charles explain, with the help of a kebab. Technologies designed to communicate with spacecraft should help to build a more robust internet back on earth.
[May 1, 2009, 12:02]
Dialogue Box 6.1: Satellites, the sun and IT
Video Rupert and Charles ponder the implications for Earth-bound IT managers. There's a lot of hardware orbiting our planet, generating ever-increasing amounts of space debris. Further afield, the sun is currently in a quiet phase, but is unlikely to...
[April 23, 2009, 14:45]
Dialogue Box 5.4: Touchscreens feel our pain
Video Rupert and Charles examine four contenders using the 'SwearMark' test Apple's competitors are trying to sprinkle some iPhone magic on their smartphones, with frankly mixed results.
[December 12, 2008, 16:18]
Dialogue Box 7.6: Inside the ultimate desktop PC
Articles Rupert and Charles poke and prod one of the most powerful consumer PCs around, and draw some lessons for enterprise IT. Who says desktops are dull?
[November 9, 2009, 12:36]
Dialogue Box 7.5: Showtime for storage
Articles Rupert and Charles head to Olympia to find out what's hot at Storage Expo. Computers of all kinds, from client to cloud, need access to stored data.
[October 30, 2009, 16:14]
Dialogue Box: Lifting technology's skirt
Articles Probably not, but then hopefully you're slightly more sensible than Rupert Goodwins and Charles McLellan, the presenters of ZDNet UK's weekly magazine show Dialogue Box. Slipping slyly behind the back of the latest industry headlines, while...
[October 15, 2007, 11:30]
Dialogue Box 5.3: Solid-state disk torture test
Video Last year Dialogue Box showed that radiation could affect data-transfer rates on solid-state disks (SSDs). Rupert and Charles don the lead-lined lab coats. How does the latest generation of products stand up to a similar zapping?
[December 5, 2008, 11:40]
