Dialogue Box: Lifting technology's skirt

Dialogue Box 4.5: The Axis of Consumerisation

Remember the Axis of Awesome? Dialogue Box reckons that, if a product is both cool and useful, and satisfies four simple criteria, you're likely to find it appearing at work, by stealth [05 Aug 2008]

Dialogue Box 4.4: Dual-band 802.11n shoot-out

Which 802.11n frequency band goes fastest and furthest — 5GHz or 2.4GHz? Dialogue Box fires up its new router and takes a laptop on a wireless walkabout [29 Jul 2008]

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Dialogue Box 4.3: Does the iPhone 3G mean business?

Dialogue Box hooks up its shiny new iPhone 3G to Exchange Server, and has an 'email-off' with a keyboard-equipped Windows Mobile smartphone. Rupert also finds a characteristic way to demonstrate the iPhone's motion sensor [22 Jul 2008]

Dialogue Box 4.2: Atom power hits the desktop

Intel's Atom is out on the streets, promising a new era in low-power computing. But is it more spin than win? [15 Jul 2008]

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Dialogue Box 4.1: A unique peek at a bright LED future

Last year, we wanted it. This year, we've got it. In the first of a brand new series of Dialogue Box, Charles and Rupert throw light on a revolutionary new LED technology that gives you more than just a glow [08 Jul 2008]

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Dialogue Box 3.10: Memory lane

There are a number of runners and riders in the next-generation memory stakes; Dialogue Box has the inside track, plus highlights from series 3 [13 May 2008]

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Dialogue Box 3.9: JCB phone torture test

Dialogue Box deconstructs Sonim's JCB-branded phone, first in the studio and then by running it over with a truck [07 May 2008]

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Dialogue Box 3.8: Fake finger fools fingerprint reader

Moulding plastic, jelly, milk and tea are all the ingredients Dialogue Box needed to get past one biometric security device [28 Apr 2008]

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Dialogue Box 3.7: Place your bets on IBM's Racetrack

Can IBM's Racetrack memory unseat the current flash and hard disk favourites? Dialogue Box marks your card, with help from the 'could-o-meter' [22 Apr 2008]

Dialogue Box 3.6: IDF debrief

What do the Atom processor, MIDs, a bio-sensing chip, fuel cells, Shanghai's traffic and a revolution in photography have in common? Answer: Intel's recent Development Forum [14 Apr 2008]

Dialogue Box 3.5: Return of the Axis of Awesome

Rupert and Charles debate the coolness and usefulness of a range of mobile technology, including a military-grade mini-notebook and a pocket Etch-A-Sketch [08 Apr 2008]

Dialogue Box 3.4: Are black websites really greener?

If you want to be green, you should give your website a black background. True or false? Dialogue Box investigates [31 Mar 2008]

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Dialogue Box 3.3: Barbados or bust

Dialogue Box's Rupert Goodwins is on his own in the studio this week, as Charles McLellan jets off to the West Indies — or does he? [26 Mar 2008]

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Dialogue Box 3.2: Why the wait for solid state?

Dialogue Box finds out what's driving hard-disk replacements [18 Mar 2008]

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Dialogue Box 3.1: Another fine Mesh...

To kick off series 3, Dialogue Box examines three low-power laptops and takes the OLPC XO into the field on a secret mission [11 Mar 2008]

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Dialogue Box 2.10: A Christmas news roundup

Dialogue Box takes a whistlestop tour of the top tech news stories of 2007, and looks ahead to what the major headlines might be in 2008 [24 Dec 2007]

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Dialogue Box 2.9: Here is the wireless weather forecast

Dialogue Box gets the lowdown on 802.11n Wi-Fi in a London hotel, and brings you the nationwide outlook for 3G coverage [10 Dec 2007]

Dialogue Box 2.8: Asus Eee — the sequel

Dialogue Box brings you the latest on one of the products of the year. And then takes it to pieces [03 Dec 2007]

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Dialogue Box 2.7: Making an omelette with Penryn

Dialogue Box cooks up a culinary analogy to explain what actually goes on inside a processor [20 Nov 2007]

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Dialogue Box 2.6: Celebrating 60 years of transistors

Dialogue Box marks the launch of Intel's Penryn processors by examining the history of the transistor, with the help of a kiwi fruit [14 Nov 2007]

Dialogue Box 2.5: Who's king of the OS jungle?

Dialogue Box hacks its way through the IT jungle, pitting Ubuntu's Gutsy Gibbon, Apple's Leopard and Microsoft's Vista against each other in a bid to reveal the alpha OS [05 Nov 2007]

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Dialogue Box 2.4: How the Asus Eee stole our hearts

Dialogue Box peers into the future — and the present's pretty good too, with Asus's new £200 laptop [30 Oct 2007]

Dialogue Box 2.3: Smartphones and cool laptops under scrutiny

Dialogue Box goes on the prowl at the Symbian Smartphone Show, and finds the only full-spec laptop light enough to use as a yo-yo [22 Oct 2007]

Dialogue Box 2.2: Wireless networking hits the buffers

Dialogue Box's resident buffers check how much of 802.11n's hype is reality — and how much just irradiated hot air [15 Oct 2007]

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Dialogue Box 2.1: Inside a blade server

Dialogue Box returns for a new series, and steps inside a blade server — with a little help from the magic screwdriver of shrinkage [09 Oct 2007]

Dialogue Box 10: The best of Series One

Dialogue Box introduces an unsuspecting online world to the Axis of Awesome, radiation, a potato, lightbulbs, sore thumbs, supercomputers, speech recognition, thin clients and UMPCs [31 Jul 2007]

Dialogue Box 9: Putting the 'Um...' in UMPC

The first ultra-mobile PCs got roundly ridiculed for, well, everything. Now the second generation is out on the street — and in the Dialogue Box studio [23 Jul 2007]

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Dialogue Box 8: Thin client, fat chance

You're here but your data is there. Dialogue Box takes a look at PC remote control and its cousin, the thin client, upon which the Axis of Awesome passes judgement [16 Jul 2007]

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Dialogue Box 7: Giving Vista a fair hearing

If computers are so smart, how come they don't understand a word we say? That's perhaps unfair — but, as Dialogue Box found out, even the state-of-the-art speech recognition in Windows Vista has its problems [09 Jul 2007]

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Dialogue Box 6: Attack of the 20ft blade server

If small computers are powerful, how mighty are the big ones? Dialogue Box looks at the ups and downs of cramming supercomputer power into a desk-sized box [29 Jun 2007]

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Dialogue Box 5: The ultramobile laptop face-off

Dialogue Box gives Sony's ultramobile Vaio VGN-UX1XN the Axis of Awesome treatment, and a usability test results in sore thumbs [25 Jun 2007]

Dialogue Box 4: Projecting projector costs

Inside a modern projector, you can find the latest million-mirror nanotechnology — and a light bulb. Guess which costs more [15 Jun 2007]

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Dialogue Box 3: Wi-Fi and hot potatoes

Dialogue Box goes wireless this week, with the Axis of Awesome testing the Wi-Fi-enabled touch-driven smartphone from HTC and a demonstration of the real perils wireless can bring to the office [08 Jun 2007]

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