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Photos: Tech cracks the Arctic frontier
Photo During the trek, which began last month, telecoms equipment able to withstand the Arctic's sub-zero temperatures will allow the expedition to relay video streams, live audio commentaries, high definition stills and the... [16 Mar 2009]
Photos: Second Life gets down to business
Photo With interest around virtual worlds hotting up again, silicon.com made another expedition into Second Life to check out what some of the world's biggest businesses are getting up to. There are organisations from a huge... [31 Oct 2008]
India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...
Photo In this 2003 photo from Expedition 7, you can see layers of the Earth's atmosphere. This month silicon.com senior reporter Nick Heath visited India to check out the high-tech goings on in Hyderabad and Chennai. [29 Apr 2008]
Photos: Nasa's top 10 on Earth
Photo In this 2003 photo from Expedition 7, you can see layers of the Earth's atmosphere. An eruption of Cleveland Volcano in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, which lasted only hours, was captured by an... [24 Apr 2008]
Arctic survey put on ice until 2009
News The Vanco Arctic Survey expedition to measure the thickness of the ice cap at the North Pole and predict how quickly the ice is melting has been postponed until next year. The expedition was originally... [11 Jan 2008]
Photos: Arctic tech gets talking
Photo The Vanco Arctic Survey expedition will take 120 days, cover 2,000km and take roughly 10 million measurements of the ice's thickness via a radar system pulled along on a sledge. A polar explorer attempting to traverse... [12 Nov 2007]
Photos of the month - October 2007
Photo The Vanco Arctic Survey expedition team is pictured here demonstrating some of the equipment they intend to take with them. The software behemoth was showing off a table-like device that uses a 30-inch screen, several... [31 Oct 2007]
Arctic tech gets sub-zero test
News The Vanco Arctic Survey expedition will measure the ice's thickness and then the lifespan of the Arctic ice cap can be calculated from these measurements. To handle large quantities of data, the... [26 Oct 2007]
Photos: Cool tech behind an Arctic expedition
Photo The Vanco Arctic Survey expedition will take 120 days, cover 2,000km and take roughly 10 million measurements of the ice's thickness via a radar system used at 20cm intervals. The team will be taking with them three... [17 Oct 2007]
Paxar Helps Jungle Jim's Simplify the Shopping Expedition
White Paper Paxar Corporation, a global leader providing bar code, RFID and identification technologies for the retail supply chain and the supplier of Monarch products and services, is helping Jungle Jim's, a unique international food market... [03 May 2007]
Gates offers chance to meet, er, Gates
News Other prizes include an overseas trip with National Geographic Expedition, VIP access to a major movie premiere and a home makeover with an HGTV designer. Microsoft is looking for true stories about people using Windows... [25 May 2005]
Devil's Advocate: The problem with chip-and-PIN
Comment Since my excellent internet bank has only a few branches, it will be something of an expedition to find one. The problem with this emerging technology, according to Martin Brampton? Keeping track of all those PINs. [15 Jun 2004]
Open source group won't hand over SCO docs
News FSF general counsel Eben Moglen said: "I'm not going to permit a fishing expedition at the Free Software Foundation from a party that has shown a great deal of hostility to the Free Software Foundation and its community. [21 May 2004]
5 years ago: Fraud costs UK firms £5bn per year
News These scams are on the rise across the globe - recent research from Gartner shows one in five Americans were the target of a phishing expedition in the past year. 17.05.99: Internet fraud costs UK businesses £5bn per... [17 May 2004]
NASA: A Mars a day helps you work rest and...
News NASA's recent Mars expedition has proved a massive hit on the web - driving the space agency's website to an all-time high in terms of visitors. NASA has revealed that during the past month and a half, the total number... [23 Feb 2004]
