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Photos: Tech ensures a smoother course

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. A committed ecologist, she is a strong voice for BT's campaign on...

Tags: yacht, ellen mcarthur, bt

[02 May 2008]

Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine

Photo The machine pictured here was painstakingly rebuilt over 14 years by computer expert and former spy Tony Sale, who collected valves from decommissioned BT exchanges. Bletchley Park was the secret home to Britain's top codebreakers during World War II.

Tags: colossus, bletchley park, message, messages

[18 Mar 2008]

Photos: BT blows £250m on wind farms

Photo BT is planning to develop wind farms to generate up to 25 per cent of its existing UK electricity needs by 2016. BT is aiming to have 50 wind turbines up and running by 2012, which would generate around 100MW of power.

Tags: green it, wind farm, bt

[19 Oct 2007]

Photos of the month - September 2007

Photo BT has built its own island in Second Life, dubbed Area 21. Image credit: BT The iPod Touch features touchscreen controls, much like the iPhone, and the previous version - now available with 160GB - has been rechristened the iPod Classic.

Tags: hp, ipod, apple, iphone

[27 Sep 2007]

Photos: BT talks big on virtual worlds

Photo BT is developing services that could allow users of virtual worlds to call or text out to their colleagues and friends in the real world. To test the technology it has built a private island (above) in Second Life which it has dubbed Area 21 - a...

Tags: mobile, second life, bt

[13 Sep 2007]

Photos: Unearthing the zero-carbon data centre

Photo Smith said putting in the infrastructure was one of the key challenges which timed the launch and Smartbunker had to invest a lot with BT to bring in the connections. Managed services provider Centrinet has launched what it claims is the UK's first...

Tags: offset, carbon offsetting, carbon, underground

[03 Jul 2007]

Photos: The Millennium Dome goes high-tech

Photo AEG's Michelle Wahlgren said the venue has the most sophisticated broadcast network in the UK with a direct link to BT Tower. This week silicon.com got a sneak preview of the new-look Dome. The 23,000-seat arena has been built by AEG and is...

Tags: nec, aeg, millennium dome, o2

[22 Jun 2007]

Photos of the month - November 2006

Photo See what else silicon.com discovered when we went behind the scenes at BT's R&D HQ at Adastral Park in Suffolk. Silverstone Grand Prix circuit in Northamptonshire, UK as seen from Google Earth.silicon.com chose its favourite Google Earth images...

[27 Nov 2006]

Photos: Inside <strong>BT</strong>'s R&D labs

Photos: Inside BT's R&D labs

Photo BT's Adastral Park is home to its research and development teams - plus around £1bn in IT infrastructure and around 3,500 techies. Photo credit: BT which demonstrates how technologies such as RFID can make their presence felt throughout the supply...

Tags: rfid

[21 Nov 2006]

Photos of the month - October 06

Photo Secrets of BT labs revealed: It's been a gadget-tastic month for silicon.com with BT showcasing its latest devices to come from the telco's labs. But don't get your hopes up, the purpose was to get an idea of what kids want from their gadgets...

Tags: salesforce.com, salesforce, hp, hp labs

[31 Oct 2006]

Photos: The secrets of <strong>BT</strong> Labs

Photos: The secrets of BT Labs

Photo To show off some of the gee-whizz stuff being dreamt up by eggheads in its labs, BT has set up an 'innovation showcase' at its London HQ. BT has thousands of staff trialling its 'URU' voice authentication system, shown here.

Tags: bt

[02 Oct 2006]

Photos of the month - August 06

Photo BT's Ker'ching shop showcases new technologies that might be on your high street soon, including RFID and electronic labels. The dishes of Goonhilly This is the first dish built at the Goonhilly satellite station in Cornwall.

Tags: photos of the month, photo

[31 Aug 2006]

Photos: The legendary satellite dishes of Goonhilly

Photos: The legendary satellite dishes of Goonhilly

Photo This is Guinevere, aka Goonhilly 3, one of the dishes at BT's Goonhilly satellite earth station. The visitor centre also features what BT reckons is the world's fastest internet café. Here Tony Soady, BT Wholesale client development manager and a...

Tags: satellite

[22 Aug 2006]

Photos: Inside the shop of the future

Photos: Inside the shop of the future

Photo BT has built this mock-up of the shop of the future in its London headquarters, with the aim of showing off some of the tech developments that could be hitting a high street near you soon. Photo credit: Steve Ranger.

Tags: rfid

[08 Aug 2006]

Photos: The Tate Modern's online overhaul

Photos: The Tate Modern's online overhaul

Photo The site, which has been developed with BT, now gets more than one million visitors per month. Visitors to the Tate Modern on London's South Bank will now be able to get a virtual peek at the gallery's art before even setting foot inside, through...

Tags: tour, rehang, tate modern, tate

[26 Jun 2006]

Photos: A peek inside <strong>BT</strong>'s assault on the digital home

Photos: A peek inside BT's assault on the digital home

Photo BT has taken the wraps off the latest lot of gadgets that it hopes will take off in the digital home. This A4-sized device is the BT 'home hub'. It's essentially a wi-fi router but it links up to a number of BT gadgets, such as the telco's new...

Tags: home hub, videophone, digital home, home

[21 Jun 2006]

Photos: Ealing Studios gets broadband virtual tour

Photos: Ealing Studios gets broadband virtual tour

Photo Photo credit: BT Photo credit: BT The interactive guide was developed by the BFI and its broadband provider BT. Photo credit: BT An interactive guide to Ealing Studios and its films has been launched by the British Film Institute (BFI).

Tags: broadband

[16 May 2006]

Photos: BT Tower at 40

Photo The BT Tower, one of London's most famous landmarks, was opened by the then Prime Minister Harold Wilson 40 years ago on 8 October 1965. All photos: VisualMedia Originally known as the Post Office Tower, it was the UK's highest building at the time...

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[10 Oct 2005]

Photos: London Eye beats the queues with BT

Photo The online booking system from BT will soon allow visitors to print off a ticket with a barcode at home, which is scanned by London Eye staff with wireless handheld ticket machines. The RialtoPlus booking system was built by BT on a Java-based...

Tags: london eye, bt

[16 Sep 2005]

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