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Photos: Welcome to futuristic shopping
Photo These aren't in commercial use yet. Fujitsu retail technology serves around 80 retailers and 16,000 stores across Europe, the Middle East and Africa and the company demonstrated some of the tech we could see on the high street in the near future. [04 Jun 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo The National Gallery in London has been using imaging technology from HP in its research on world famous art and more recently to boost the commercial side of the business. This month silicon.com editor Steve Ranger visited China for a behind the... [30 May 2008]
Photos: Cutting edge art at the National Gallery
Photo The National Gallery in London has been using imaging technology from HP in its research on world famous art and more recently to boost the commercial side of the business.silicon.com went along to the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square to have... [16 May 2008]
Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
Photo The brothers were commissioned to build the machine by the Ministry of Supply to make a small and inexpensive analogue computer for commercial use. The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons... [01 May 2008]
Photos: What should be crowned the king of Apple cool?
Photo It was also marketed via the famous 1984 commercial directed by Ridley Scott. The translucent iMac, which Jobs relished in unveiling to the world in 1998, was a huge commercial success. Cracks soon began to appear in the clear Perspex supporting... [24 Jan 2008]
Photos: Virgin goes Galactic for SpaceShipTwo
Photo Members of the press, as well as special guests and about 100 of the 200 travellers who have reserved $200,000 seats aboard the craft - which aims to be the first commercial suborbital spacecraft for the private sector - were present for the... [24 Jan 2008]
Photos: Five mobile gadgets for cops
Photo This replaces the current paper-based scheme many fire services use with their inspections of high-risk commercial and residential properties. Police forces and other emergency services are being equipped with mobile devices to keep officers in... [27 Nov 2007]
Photos of the month - January 2007
Photo With Vista's commercial launch fast approaching, Microsoft unveiled the first new PCs and laptops designed for the Windows Vista operating system at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas at the start of the month. [31 Jan 2007]
Photos: Vista put on ice
Photo The spectacle is part of the Vista branding in the run-up to the commercial launch on 30 January. This is one of the first public exhibits for the Vista commercial launch but it's not about demonstrating the software, it's about fun and raising... [26 Jan 2007]
Photos: Vintage arcade games... revealed
Photo the game was a commercial failure as people complained it was too difficult to play. This is Computer Space, the first commercial computer game, from 1970. Imagine having this in your front room. It's the PDP-1, the system which ran the first-ever... [28 Nov 2006]
Photos: YouTubers spoof and mock tech brands
Photo A parody of a commercial about Xbox Live being the end of your social life. Turns out the furry dancer is struggling to make ends meet in this spoof of an iPod commercial audition. YouTube has ridden a wave of popularity to become the web's fastest... [24 Nov 2006]
Photos: Broadband goes down the drain
Photo Wessex's commercial manager Mike Peacey told silicon.com: "The idea has been around for a long time and many of the water companies have looked at it over the years but the models have never been quite right. [16 Nov 2006]
Photos: "Citizen cartographers" mapping the planet
Photo OpenStreetMap has also started attracting interest from commercial users, and London-based estate agency Nestoria has started using the free mapping data for its online property search service in the Isle of Wight. [13 Nov 2006]
Photos: Prisoners get tech training
Photo The DocuColor 5252 offers the first commercial colour printing capabilities in the HM Prison Service. This is a sample of the types of brochures and pamphlets produced at the new digital print centre at the Standford Hill Prison on the Isle of... [09 Mar 2006]
Photos: Highlights from the silicon.com CIO Forum
Photo Barrett said there is a "parting of the ways" coming and that IT chiefs need to decide whether they want to stay focused on IT or concentrate on the more commercial aspects of the business. George Polk, the founder of The Cloud, delivering the... [28 Sep 2005]
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