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Photos: Future car tech at the British Motor Show
Photo The Greener Driving Pavilion also had a demonstration of its 'Act on CO2' website, which allows people looking for new cars to see which have the lowest emissions as well as offering tips on eco-friendly driving. [25 Jul 2008]
Photos: It's virtual everything in Cisco's future
Photo In future, the company envisages the virtual assistant being able to act more like a real PA - booking meetings, issuing reminders, scanning emails for important information and conducting internet research. [16 Jul 2008]
Photos: Accenture waves goodbye to the wallet
Photo The custom built contactless payment terminal shown here demonstrates how NFC (near field communication) and RFID technology could soon allow phones to pay for goods and services, act as travel or gig tickets and transfer money between bank accounts. [31 Jan 2008]
Photos: The rise of the luxury mobile
Photo And designer clothing label Ted Baker is getting in on the act, with a range of 3G slider phones in collaboration with Samsung. Designer brands are falling over themselves to carve a niche in the mobile world - especially in the run-up to Christmas. [10 Oct 2007]
Photos: High-tech London St Pancras on track
Photo The station is the final element in the High Speed 1 rail link project which was initiated by the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act in 1996.silicon.com went along to the station a month before its official opening to take a look at what will... [08 Oct 2007]
Photos: RNLI floats new pager system
Photo The coxswain - in charge of the lifeboat and the only permanent member of staff at the Lytham St Annes station - sits behind the driver to act as a point of contact and observation to the crew both inside and out on deck. [02 May 2007]
Photos: iPod and BlackBerry lost property mountain
Photo Batchelor said: "Most of it gets recycled because of the Data Protection Act. Transport for London's (TfL) lost property office covers two entire floors beneath Baker Street Tube station and stores any items left on the underground, on London's... [04 Dec 2006]
Photos: The top 10 smart mobile devices
Photo This Windows operating-system device includes a slide-out keyboard with generously proportioned buttons and a massive screen that aids document viewing, but makes the act of holding the phone to your head somewhat cumbersome. [09 Nov 2006]
Competition: Win HD TV, PSPs and iPods
Photo Question 2: This man is one half of an Agenda Setting double act. We will be announcing the lucky winners shortly. Over the next 10 pages you will find 10 questions all relating to this year's silicon.com Agenda Setters. [01 Nov 2006]
Photos: How the table turned techie
Photo This wireless mat can be stored in its rolled-up state, or unfurled to act as a TV screen or games board. HP has unveiled its vision of the next generation of gadgets, all connected to a personal hub. [09 Oct 2006]
Photos: Inside Ricoh's 'Green Centre'
Photo Large cardboard boxes, once used for shipping new machines, now act as repositories for these parts. Ricoh's Green Centre near Wellingborough in Northampton is a 43,000 square foot facility dedicated to processing IT kit, principally copiers, and... [16 Mar 2006]
Photos: How does spyware get on your PC?
Photo Users are forced to act out of the belief their machine has crashed. Speaking at the Virus Bulletin 2005 conference in Dublin, Eric Chien, senior antivirus researcher at Symantec, outlines the common ways users are picking up spyware. [11 Oct 2005]
Photos: Highwaymen stop holdups
Photo Back at HQ, Sarah can track us all the way down the motorway and act as our eyes, in case of any danger. The Highways Agency has been given the duty of dealing with accidents like this. We sent senior reporter Dan Ilett to Surrey to get the lowdown... [22 Sep 2005]
Photos: Inside Amazon.co.uk
Photo The balancing act Amazon must manage is ensuring no customer's order goes unfulfilled but it is not left with an unsold stock of thousands which take up valuable warehouse space and threaten to derail an otherwise smooth just-in-time supply chain. [31 Aug 2005]
Photos: Bill Gates at Live 8
Photo If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act," he told an estimated worldwide audience of around one billion. Bill Gates takes to the stage to address the crowd. [04 Jul 2005]
