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Photos: Google Earth gets Caesar dressing
Photo Google Earth is painting a picture of what the ancient city of Rome looked like in 320 AD. The new 'Ancient Rome 3D' option for Google Earth allows virtual time-travelling tourists to fly around the city... [14 Nov 2008]
Photos: Visa predicts the future of paying
Photo The transport company already operates its own contactless ticket, Calypso, but visitors to the city may not have one of those cards. The stand, which was divided up into a number of showcases depicting home, ticket... [10 Nov 2008]
Photos: Five virtual worlds you need to know about
Photo People can even buy and furnish their own apartments in the city and the platform is already getting commercial interest with German cinema operator, CineStar, opening the first virtual cinema. Once users have created... [21 Oct 2008]
Photos: Sniffing out fraud with digital forensics
Photo The DFU has two attached officers from the City of London Police, soon to be increased to four, and provides evidence for a wide range of cases such as people trafficking. The unit also probes phones for the... [13 Aug 2008]
Photos: Future car tech at the British Motor Show
Photo Unfortunately it's not currently able to operate in London due to a Public Carriage Office rule that forbids vehicles with a turning circle of more than 28ft to operate in the city. This is the Koenigsegg CCR - one of... [25 Jul 2008]
Photos: Broadband in London's Victorian sewers
Photo This sewer is a masterpiece of Victorian engineering - part of a giant project aimed at reducing the foul smells in the city and reducing the incidence of cholera - as reflected by this plaque. silicon.com took a trip... [22 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates, iPhone 2.0, mini laptops and much more...
Photo Here's silicon.com's business editor, Julian Goldsmith, dangling eight storeys in the air as he abseils down a building in the City of London. This is a mobile phone vending machine on show at Fujitsu's customer... [30 Jun 2008]
Photos: Discover high-tech India
Photo Bangalore is India's most famous offshore location but the city of Hyderabad is also one of the country's tech hotspots, and silicon.com went to see it first hand this month. Hitec City in Hyderabad is... [28 Apr 2008]
Photos: High-tech Bangalore
Photo This is the home of one of India's biggest IT companies, Wipro, at the Electronics City high-tech business park in Bangalore, India.silicon.com visited Bangalore last month and got a tour of the sprawling campus, which... [02 Apr 2008]
Photos: Road testing wi-fi at 320kmph
Photo First-time users of the wi-fi service are asked to register via an online form before gaining unrestricted access to the internet and a multimedia portal that is regularly updated with videos, news, city guides and other... [28 Mar 2008]
Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008
Photo The annual show occupies Barcelona's La Fira exhibition centre but as mobile's many players descend upon the city mini conferences spring up in various places around town, like this Ericsson breakfast briefing. [18 Feb 2008]
Photos: Zoom in on London from the air…
Photo This may look like the side of a spaceship but it's actually Sir Norman Foster's Swiss Re tower - dubbed the "Gherkin" - in the City of London. The futuristic City Hall south of Tower Bridge where London... [28 Jan 2008]
Photos: Fibre in the sewers to speed up UK cities
Photo Either Bournemouth, Dundee or Northampton will be chosen as the first city to get H2O's fibre treatment. UK company H2O Networks has announced plans to bring superfast broadband - offering speeds of up to 100Mbps - to UK... [25 Jan 2008]
Photos of the Month - November 2007
Photo Tim Ferguson made his way to Manchester to check out the high tech City Inn hotel where every room comes complete with an Apple iMac computer. Kicking off our photo stories this month was the iPhone launch on 9 November. [29 Nov 2007]
Photos: High life at the high-tech hotel
Photo The recently opened City Inn hotel in Manchester must rank as one of the more high-tech places to stay in town - with an Apple iMac desktop computer installed in every one of its 285 rooms. This is one of the iMac... [20 Nov 2007]
