computing in photos
Photos: Google Android dual boots with Windows 7 on Acer netbook
Photo Users requiring full-fat Windows computing can switch OSes when needed, it added. Acer has also shown off a smartphone running Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset for low-power mobile computing called Liquid. [16 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo The Witch machine (shown here) is being restored by volunteers at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. Bonhams previewed some vintage tech last month as the London auctioneer prepared to put a selection of... [02 Oct 2009]
Photos: Computer history goes under the hammer
Photo Sinclair computers were leaders in personal computing in the 1970s and 1980s and this ZX81 is from 1981. This is the Lyons Electronic Office - LEOII/3 electronic programmable storage computer which was first demonstrated... [29 Sep 2009]
Photos: Intel's latest technology on show
Photo The show is Intel's flagship event to announce new technology, tout its vision, and persuade computing partners to see things Intel's way. Sean Maloney, newly-promoted and heir apparent to CEO Paul Otellini in the eyes... [28 Sep 2009]
Photos: Restoring one of the world's oldest computers
Photo Volunteers at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park will rebuild the Witch machine (shown here) - a computer that was first used in 1951 for atomic research. Witch - the Wolverhampton Instrument for... [04 Sep 2009]
Photos: Apple tablet: What's on our wish list
Photo Hardly a day goes by without some form of feverish speculation gripping the web about the existence of a tablet computing device from Apple. With a seemingly blank canvas, there's plenty of room for industry watchers to... [05 Aug 2009]
Photos: From Big Bang physics to F1 racing - how analytics is shaping the world's decisions
Photo The remaining useful data is analysed onsite within the Cern Computer Centre and by machines in the LHC Computing Grid, a global network of more than 100,000 processors, in the hope of finding out more about how the... [27 Jul 2009]
Photos: The netbook rivals on Freescale's drawing board
Photo Both Freescale and Qualcomm have just begun promoting the smartbook notion as a potential category of computing devices between traditional notebooks (or more recent netbooks) and much smaller smartphones. [03 Jun 2009]
iPhone apps, Antique PCs, Microsoft R&D and supercomputers
Photo Our photos of the National Museum of Computing's PC Gallery which opened last month included the retrotastic Commodore PET 2001 pictured above - which had a built-in monochrome monitor, a 1MHz processer and up to 8KB of... [02 Jun 2009]
Photos: The top five UK supercomputing projects
Photo Scientists across the UK are using the monsters of computing, thousands of times more powerful than the average desktop, to help answer these big questions.silicon.com's round-up of pioneering high-performance... [18 May 2009]
Caption Competition: Lean green computing machine!
Photo This competition is now closed. The winning caption, from reader John Waller was "Poor Farmer Giles has a long way to go to before he establishes his Server Farm. Photo credit: Nick Heath/silicon.com [15 May 2009]
Photos: Bletchley needs £2m to save codebreakers' huts
Photo The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley houses a collection of computers, which includes the rebuilt Colossus machine used to break high-level German codes during the war. This hut once housed codebreakers who... [11 May 2009]
Photos: The evolution of the PC
Photo Lin Jones, project manager at The National Museum of Computing, said the British boom in personal computing during the 1980s, which gave rise to the BBC, Spectrum and Amstrad, had inspired a generation... [07 May 2009]
Photos: The watches with tech appeal
Photo It's not the easiest watch to tell the time with - the top lights each equate to 8, 4, 2 and 1 respectively, and will light up in combination to show the hour, while the lower level equates to 32, 16, 8, 4, 2 and 1, which can light up... [01 May 2009]
Photos: The power behind a 3D alien invasion
Photo More than 40 million computing hours were spent on the film, which was created using several hundred HP xw8600 Workstations. Monsters and aliens will be leaping out of movie screens across the UK this weekend - courtesy... [31 Mar 2009]
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