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Photos: Qualcomm's Snapdragon-powered Android smartbook on show
Photo This week saw chipmaker Qualcomm taking the wraps off a range of hardware powered by its Snapdragon platform. Among the devices on show was this Lenovo smartbook (pictured above and below) which runs the Google Android OS. [20 Nov 2009]
Photos: Forget paper - meet the printer that can print your car parts
Photo In Star Trek, the Starship Enterprise came equipped with a replicator able to rustle up a glass of whisky - or whatever else its user fancied - at the touch of a button. The closest we can get to that today are 3D printers: devices... [27 Aug 2009]
Photos: From Big Bang physics to F1 racing - how analytics is shaping the world's decisions
Photo Today analytics has broken free of the corporation and is shaping everything from nuclear physics to Formula One racing. Here silicon.com takes a look at some of the more unusual organisations where analytics is making a difference. [27 Jul 2009]
ITV Wins the Race Against Time to Keep Formula 1 Website Available With ZeusTechnology as the "High-Octane" Additive
White Paper The day before the first qualifying race in Australia, ITV was becoming a victim of its own success. Formula 1 fans were visiting the website in the hundreds of thousands, and the third party infrastructure that hosted the site was... [01 May 2009]
Towards Combining Web Classification and Web Information Extraction: A Case Study
White Paper Web content analysis often has two sequential and separate steps: Web Classification to identify the target Web pages, and Web Information Extraction to extract the metadata contained in the target Web pages. [01 May 2009]
Tech driving McLaren's hunt for F1 wins
News McLaren Racing, the company behind current Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton's Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team, is using IT to bring him back to the front of the grid. After a difficult beginning to the 2009 F1... [16 Apr 2009]
Photos: F1 tech races into the real world
Photo Here, McLaren Group chairman Ron Dennis speaks at the launch of the Fast Forward: 20 ways F1 is changing our world exhibition at London's Science Museum, as the team's 2006 car hangs above him. The exhibition shows how... [30 Mar 2009]
Red Bull Racing revs up computing grid
Case Study The Red Bull Racing Formula One team is using grid computing to help design and build the car it hopes can take on and beat Lewis Hamilton in 2009. The 2009 season has seen the biggest change in regulations in Formula One for some time -... [24 Mar 2009]
ING Renault F1 Team Takes 1st Place with Symantec Enterprise Vault and NetApp
White Paper View this Webcast to hear why and how joint customer Renault Formula 1 implemented Symantec Enterprise Vault (EV) and NetApp storage for email archival and discovery for over 400,000 messages a week! Organizations are challenged to... [18 Mar 2009]
YouTube music gets silent treatment after licence price hike
News Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube is silencing music videos in the UK after negotiations with the Performing Right Society (PRS for Music), which collects licensing fees for artists and labels, failed. [10 Mar 2009]
Second Life's ecommerce double whammy
News Second Life creator Linden Lab has acquired virtual marketplaces OnRez and Xstreet SL to extend ecommerce options for its residents beyond in-world shopping. The two newly acquired marketplaces can be accessed outside the virtual world... [22 Jan 2009]
ITV F1 website gets in the fast lane
Case Study ITV's F1 web team has been using load balancing software from Zeus Technology during the 2008 Formula One Season to cope with user demand. At the start of the season in March, ITV's F1 website had to... [05 Dec 2008]
Open source, Facebook smuggled into work by Generation Y
News Businesses must open their doors to iPhones, Facebook, instant messaging and open source software if they want to attract the next generation of workers, a report has found. The next generation of workers - the so-called 'Millennials' -... [06 Nov 2008]
Virtual worlds set for second coming
Comment Not hearing much about virtual worlds these days? They're not dead, says Tim Ferguson - just preparing for the next round. Virtual worlds such as Second Life have a bright future, according to experts, especially as businesses start to... [27 Oct 2008]
"There's no credit crunch in Second Life"
Comment Mark Kingdon became Linden Lab CEO back in May this year when founder Philip Rosedale stepped aside to take a more active role in developing Second Life. The hype surrounding virtual worlds a year ago appears to have died down in recent... [23 Oct 2008]
