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Bill Gates, iPhone 2.0, mini laptops and much more...
Photo Here's silicon.com's business editor, Julian Goldsmith, dangling eight storeys in the air as he abseils down a building in the City of London. Photo credit: Apple silicon.com went to check out the technology behind the weather at the European... [30 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.06.08
Round-Up The latest figures - courtesy of BT - show that most city centre office workers are tied to their desks and see less than an hour a day of natural sunlight, with nearly a quarter seeing less than 20 minutes of the sun's rays during the working day. [20 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: Flying high with the UK's best CIOs
Comment This year we decided to celebrate the UK's best IT leadership at a fitting location for the high achievers we had assembled - a reception 40 floors above the City of London at Tower 42, formerly the NatWest Tower. [19 Jun 2008]
Ultra fat pipes to squeeze through Dundee's sewers
News Dundee Council has already used H2O's fibre to link two city centre offices in order to share information quickly, and was keen for it to be the first Scottish Fibrecity, said H2O. Dundee has been selected as the first Scottish 'Fibrecity... [18 Jun 2008]
Stock Exchange offers low latency feeds
News The exchange claims the average speed of data traffic within the City of London has been cut to below a millisecond. Savvis' service will connect investors to the exchange's Infolect and TradElect electronic trading platforms via the supplier's... [10 Jun 2008]
ANPR "ring of steel" watches over Manchester
News Manchester is now protected by a "ring of steel" - a network of surveillance cameras that will log almost every car entering the city centre. The network of 15 automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras cover main approaches to the... [05 Jun 2008]
Vertex bags a £40m Brum Council deal
News Birmingham City Council has extended a contract with Vertex for call centre services in a deal worth £40m. The extension comes immediately after a joint venture between Birmingham City Council and Capita - called Service Birmingham - was contracted... [05 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: Global winners
Comment But this is no time for any city to be resting on its laurels. Despite talk of a skills drain it seems the rest of the world still sees London as a centre of excellence. I've spent the last month or so in conversation with other editors, academics... [05 Jun 2008]
Mobile broadband ushers in Blue day
News Blue Mobile's real focus is not so much established financial hubs like the city of London but the emerging investment centres in China and India. The company's CEO Sulim Malook met with silicon.com at the Capital Club in the heart of the City of... [03 Jun 2008]
What scores in the global tech league?
Comment But if beautiful surroundings are the only reason to work in a particular city then why are major companies like O2 or Mars located in Slough, in the UK's drab M4 corridor? Criteria such as education, language skills, availability of talent... [03 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up The San Francisco Department of Public Health warned that several people had become ill after attending or working at conferences at the city's Moscone Convention Center between 30 April and Thursday. [16 May 2008]
Photos: Discover high-tech India
Photo The twin glass and steel towers of Accenture sit in a well-developed corner of Hitec City, which also houses Satyam's Real Time Learning Centre and IBM's campus. Bangalore is India's most famous offshore location but the city of Hyderabad is also... [28 Apr 2008]
Tech to tackle India's poverty
News We have had people who have left jobs in the city and come back to the village because they can be with their family and have a better quality of life. More on outsourcing… Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals Shell signs... [23 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Athens and roam
Video Despite the city's standing as the cradle of democracy, he finds little freedom when it comes to public-access wi-fi. In his latest video blog, Peter Cochrane reports from the centre of Athens. Still, at least the children seem to have devised one... [21 Apr 2008]
Olympic tech getting fit for Beijing 2008
Case Study The contract Atos Origin has with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the largest IT contract in sport and Beijing will be the fourth games where the company has run the IT infrastructure - the first being the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt... [16 Apr 2008]
