Home network devices: friend or foe?
Home network devices: friend or foe? Our home maybe our castle, but just how safe are we with our home network devices spying on us? This week’s BBCs Panorama – Hacked: Smart Home Secrets – discussed the risk many...
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Are our domestic IoT devices as just ‘devices’?
Are our domestic IoT devices as just ‘devices’? Are we taking home automation IoT seriously? By Steve Smith When Rob and I founded Astro a significant element of our work involved building voice and telemetry systems for the offshore...
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What can we do to help our healthcare professionals?
What can we do to help our healthcare professionals? Healthcare professionals need more effective use of IT and so do their customers. I rarely watch TV but by chance I walked in part way through a very interesting ITV...
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A super connected city below a city
A Super Connected City below a City The Kingsway Tunnels A few years ago, I had the great good fortune to visit the Kingsway Tunnels. I recently learned that they are unlikely to be opened again for visitors so...
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Somewhere under the sea
Somewhere under the sea The real threat of access to our undersea cables Following on from my recent blog about the first Victorian Transatlantic telecommunications cables our MD brought two articles to my attention which struck a chord with...
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Whether Sailing the High Seas or the Economic Ocean, don’t lose sight of your goals
Whether Sailing the High Seas or the Economic Ocean, don’t lose sight of your goals Boulogne or Bust, at sea with the Astro team My elder daughter is a big Knight Rider fan. She has watched every episode of...
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Expensive Fuses, Lightning Bolts and… a Ghost? Call for Disaster Recovery
Expensive Fuses, Lightning Bolts and… a Ghost? Call for Disaster Recovery Disaster Recovery! What’s that got to do with a ghost? Most of us have experienced a long dark night with the unexpected noise. Footsteps on the stairs. A...
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Now that’s what I call bandwidth!
Now that’s what I call bandwidth! Transatlantic cable bandwidth: from 250 bits per hour to 160 terabits per second in 160 years Earlier this month Microsoft and Facebook completed the installation of a transatlantic cable stretching from Virginia, to...
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The Third Duck from the Sun
The Third Duck from the Sun It’s the Sun Jim, but not as we know it… Many of us have been enjoying our fair and rare share of the sun in many parts of the UK recently. As with...
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Is this the end of autonomous vehicles?
Is this the end of autonomous vehicles? Who should we blame if an autonomous vehicle causes injury or loss of human life? By Steve Smith I have had a keen interest in driverless or autonomous vehicles for some time....
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