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Jet packs, army tech and Victorian gadgets
Photo This satellite (pictured here during integration) will increase Inmarsat's global mobile satellite comms coverage from 98 per cent to complete coverage of the world's population, servicing industries including shipping,... [02 Sep 2008]
Photos: Inmarsat satellite lifts off
Photo This third satellite (pictured here during integration) will increase Inmarsat's global mobile satellite comms coverage from 98 per cent to complete coverage of the world's population, servicing industries including... [20 Aug 2008]
Photos: silicon.com hanging by a rope
Photo For each successful abseil, the comms and IT systems company donated £200. The silicon.com editorial team was invited down to Colt's office near London's Liverpool Street station to abseil down eight storeys to raise... [17 Jun 2008]
Photos: HTC unveils its Diamond touch
Photo Microsoft's senior VP of mobile comms, Andy Lees, explained this is due to "the leapfrog" HTC want to make with the device and IE6 for the mobile not being ready in time. Peter Chou (pictured above), president and CEO of... [07 May 2008]
Photos: Ellen McArthur's new boat
Photo Furthest right are handsets for satellite phone and RF comms. 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... [02 May 2008]
Photos: BT blows £250m on wind farms
Photo Goonhilly was the largest satellite Earth station in the world with 61 dishes but BT announced plans to move its satellite comms business away from the site in Cornwall last year. BT is planning to develop wind farms to... [19 Oct 2007]
Photos: Cool tech behind an Arctic expedition
Photo The control box is fitted with a simple push-button system to change comms settings. A team of polar explorers will travel to and traverse the North Pole next year to survey the Arctic ice. Polar explorer, Pen Hadow... [17 Oct 2007]
Photos of the month - June 2007
Photo This month silicon.com visited an annual field trial running military scenarios and testing tech such as the Skynet 5 satellite-based comms and VoIP phones as part of the military's Falcon project. The ING Renault... [27 Jun 2007]
Photos: The Millennium Dome goes high-tech
Photo This is a view inside one of NEC's four comms rooms at the O2 venue. London's Millennium Dome has been transformed over the last two-and-a-half years into a music and entertainment venue now called simply 'the O2'. [22 Jun 2007]
Photos: Virtual war tests new technology
Photo The CIWD demo is also testing out satellite-based comms. Falcon, the £200m comms network, is designed to complement and work with other military communications systems such as Bcip5 and the Skynet 5... [14 Jun 2007]
Photos: PDAs in space
Photo It is envisaged that crew-to-crew comms will combine wireless communication systems with VoIP, and the crew-to-system contact would be via speech synthesis and voice recognition software. Astronauts living on the... [29 Jan 2007]
Photos: Inside Huawei's Chinese HQ
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... [27 Jun 2006]
