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Photos: Ellen McArthur's new boat
Photo The BT IMOCA 60 is the fruit of a title sponsorship deal between Team Ellen - headed up by iconic British yachtswoman Dame Ellen McArthur - and BT inked in September last year. She is packed with sophisticated communications that keep the skipper... [02 May 2008]
Photos: Nasa's top 10 on Earth
Photo To celebrate Earth Day this week, Nasa released its 10 favourite photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station. An eruption of Cleveland Volcano in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, which lasted only hours, was captured by an Expedition... [24 Apr 2008]
Photos: Virgin goes Galactic for SpaceShipTwo
Photo Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson (left) and Scaled Composites CEO Burt Rutan show off the final design for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo at New York's American Museum of Natural History. Members of the press, as well as special guests and... [24 Jan 2008]
Photos: When tech chiefs rock out...
Photo Bill Gates' recent CES appearance with ex-Guns 'n' Roses guitarist Slash (above) is one in a long line of memorable musical moments involving tech executives, rock/pop stars and technology trade shows. [22 Jan 2008]
Photos: Robot racer hits the street
Photo Team Caltech, a robotics group at the California Institute of Technology, is one of 35 teams competing in DARPA's Urban Grand Challenge, a race of driverless vehicles on mock city streets, scheduled for 3 November. [27 Sep 2007]
Photos: Virtual war tests new technology
Photo In a small field near Portsmouth, a war has been raging for the past couple of weeks. Fortunately this is only a virtual war - part of the global Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) to test whether the armed forces' latest... [14 Jun 2007]
Photos: The car that drives itself
Photo This may look like an everyday Volkswagen Passat but underneath the unremarkable exterior is cutting-edge technology that allows it to travel without any assistance from a human. Driverless cars may seem like science fiction but they're already a... [13 Apr 2007]
Photos of the month - March 2007
Photo With travels around India's tech hotspots, Formula One racing car launches and a visit to the home of the future, March was a busy month for silicon.com's roving reporters - and their cameras. Take a look though the photo stories of the month and... [02 Apr 2007]
Photo: Boom town Bangalore
Photo silicon.com's Steve Ranger visited Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore to investigate the Indian technology industry. These are some of the sights from the Bangalore leg of the trip. For more news from India visit the special report. [16 Mar 2007]
Photos: BlackBerrys through the ages
Photo Following RIM's recent launch of its first BlackBerry aimed at non-business users, the Pearl, we take a nostalgic look back at how the ubiquitous gadget has changed through the years. This is the RIM 957 wireless handheld, one of the first mobile... [29 Nov 2006]
Photos: Top 10 mobile design classics
Photo The Dynatac lays claim to being the world's first proper mobile phone and was the first to sport the 'brick' look. While other 'mobile' devices had come before the Dynatac, they involved not only carrying a handset but lugging a huge briefcase... [27 Nov 2006]
Photos: High-tech at the heart of US sport
Photo AT&T Park, home to the San Francisco Giants, is, as its name and location would suggest, perhaps the most high-tech baseball stadium in the US, despite the traditional design. Every single seat has high-speed wireless internet access. [21 Apr 2006]
Photos: Inside Amazon.co.uk
Photo Amazon's latest venture sees the company offering rental DVDs. The service was launched in December 2004 and the company remains confident it is gathering momentum in a crowded marketplace - aided by some competitive price cutting around its offer. [31 Aug 2005]
Photos: Copy that - Xerox and Superbikes
Photo Xerox announced its sponsorship of the Ducati Superbike team earlier this year in a branding move it says is aimed at shaking off some of the perceptions associated with being a business IT company and presenting a more dynamic image. [10 Aug 2005]
