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Photo Milovantsev admitted Russia cannot compete with India and China on cost and scale but said: "If we position Russia against India and China, Russia loses its competitiveness. We don't want our labour force to cost as low as China.
[15 Feb 2007]
Photo Countries that rely heavily on road systems, such as Australia and the US, have taken a look, while there has also been interest from Central and Eastern Europe (for example the Czechs are pressing ahead with road-charging) and further east, as...
[02 Feb 2007]
Photo A facility known as the intelligent dormitory 2 (iDorm2) has welcomed its first occupant, Liping Shen, an e-learning researcher from China. She has spent three months testing the flat's gadgets and seeing what it's like to live in the high-tech...
[04 Jan 2007]
Photo WINNER: Hu Jintao breaks the tragic news that the Chinese coastguard have lost contact with Ellison's yacht somewhere in the South China Sea This competition is now closed. Below are the best captions submitted.
[17 Nov 2006]
Photo China's street pirates Part of silicon.com's China special report, these photos show people in Shenzhen selling rogue copies of Microsoft Windows and other goods on the street. The dishes of Goonhilly
[31 Aug 2006]
Photo This is Shenzhen's electronics area . There are hundreds of shops that sell computers, software and electronic components. And all the way down this strip people sell pirated software and DVDs. This computer market, just off the strip, sells legal...
[14 Aug 2006]
Photo Chinese cyber cafés: This is one of China's many internet cafés, as photographed by silicon.com's Dan Ilett on his travels to find out the country's tech secrets. Galileo heads for orbit: Galileo is the new European satellite-based navigation...
[28 Jul 2006]
Photo Welcome to one of China's many internet cafés. This one is down a back street in Shanghai. Photo credit: Dan Ilett This is a typical Chinese internet café. Every seat is taken by people playing games online and chatting - so not that different to a...
[21 Jul 2006]
Photo Welcome to Huawei's HQ in Shenzhen, China. This is a small section of the 1.6km2 of land that the company occupies. It's massive. Photo credit: Dan Ilett And this building is what the Huawei locals have nicknamed the 'Tower of 10,000 engineers'.
[27 Jun 2006]
Photo There are 180 researchers working at the lab, many of whom are linked with China's top universities. Welcome to Microsoft Research's Advanced Technology Center in Beijing. The lab has only been open for seven years but during that time about 2,000...
[23 Jun 2006]
Photo Welcome to Tsinghua Science Park, home to big-hitting companies such as Sina.com, Sohu.com and relative newcomer to China - Google. Photo credit: Dan Ilett The Science Park also houses an 'incubator' (pictured) - a place for young companies to grow.
[20 Jun 2006]
Photo Welcome to Nokia's Beijing mobile phone factory - one of four plants the company runs in China.silicon.com got a look inside as part of reporter Dan Ilett's recent trip to China. Fifty per cent were sold in China and the rest went out to other...
[16 Jun 2006]
Photo One of the aims of HP Labs is to develop products for "the next billion customers" who will come from the so-called 'Bric' countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China. Print applications such as this are more relevant in emerging markets such as...
[12 Apr 2006]
Photo The others are in Brazil, China, Malaysia and the US. The Dell manufacturing facility in Limerick, Ireland is one of seven factories where Dell builds laptops, desktops, servers and storage systems. The Limerick facility opened in January 2000...
[04 Nov 2005]
Photo The system's better multi-lingual capability - due to go live in January - will not only cater for the traditional European markets of France, Germany, Italy and Spain but also emerging markets such as China and Russia.
[16 Sep 2005]
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