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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

Published: 05 Aug 2008 15:53 BST

Tags: Box, Criteria, Mini-notebook, Vista

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

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 more

Dialogue Box 4.2: Atom power hits the desktop

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? more

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

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 more

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

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 more

Dialogue Box 4.5: The Axis of Consumerisation

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 more

Dialogue Box 4.6: The reality behind virtualisation

Dialogue Box 4.6: The reality behind virtualisation

Virtualisation promises something for virtually nothing. Dialogue Box finds that isn't necessarily so more

Dialogue Box 4.7: Transcontinental laptop challenge

Dialogue Box 4.7: Transcontinental laptop challenge

Rupert lands in San Francisco with a non-booting laptop, which Charles tries to fix remotely from London. Then a colleague from down under calls in with a 'crook' notebook. Can Charles banish the blue screen of death? more

Dialogue Box 4.8: Powerline networking

Dialogue Box 4.8: Powerline networking

Connecting your office or home via the mains wiring is quick and easy, but what are the drawbacks? Dialogue Box uses a vacuum cleaner, a desk lamp and a fluorescent tube to demonstrate some of them more

Dialogue Box 4.9: Browsers, benchmarks and betas

Dialogue Box 4.9: Browsers, benchmarks and betas

Dialogue Box, like everyone else, has been poring over Google's Chrome browser. See how fast it runs JavaScript on an Asus Eee compared to Internet Explorer 7, and more more

Dialogue Box 4.10: Windows Mobile vs the 3G iPhone

Dialogue Box 4.10: Windows Mobile vs the 3G iPhone

In the last of the current series, Rupert and Charles look at two of the latest Windows Mobile smartphones, to see how they match up to the standard set by Apple's iPhone 3G more

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