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Photos: The high-tech future of retail

Photo This wearable screen and tablet PC from Adwalker is used by staff to bring promotions to consumers as they shop. The latest innovations in tech for retailers were showcased at the Retail Business Show held at the Olympia in West London earlier this...

Tags: retail, contactless payments, tablet, payment

[15 Feb 2008]

Photos: Apple's Jobs slims down laptop for Macworld 2008

Photo This enables consumers to back up their notebooks wirelessly over Time Capsule (an early complaint about Time Machine was that it only worked over wired networks). Photo credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks

Tags: apple, macbook, macworld, jobs

[16 Jan 2008]

Photos: Innovations at CES 2008

Photo Sanyo had a variety of waterproof products on hand for consumers to try out in its underwater display. CES 2008 was packed with visitors as people gather to find out what's going to be hot in tech this year.

Tags: ces, gates, surface, name

[11 Jan 2008]

Photos: BT blows £250m on wind farms

Photo BT is one of the UK's biggest electricity consumers, with an annual requirement of around 0.7 per cent of the nation's entire consumption. BT is planning to develop wind farms to generate up to 25 per cent of its existing UK electricity needs by 2016.

Tags: green it, wind farm, bt

[19 Oct 2007]

Photos: Top Gun goes virtual

Photo Virtual worlds are all the rage at the moment for businesses and consumers but they also have the potential to be used in the military sphere too. The RAF is testing a new simulator using technology that will eventually allow RAF and US Air Force...

Tags: training, military, raf, mod

[08 Jun 2007]

Photos: Microsoft's touchscreen tabletop PC

Photo Consumers can add their own music selections to the public playlist with the touch of a finger. Mark Bolger, director of marketing for Microsoft's surface-computing effort, shows off the company's new 'Milan' at a briefing in San Francisco.

Tags: touchscreen, microsoft, milan

[30 May 2007]

Photos: Outsourcing to Russia

Photos: Outsourcing to Russia

Photo At the same time we are constantly fighting against unlicensed use of software but we need to fight not with the consumers but those who develop the software. Red Square, the colourful St Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin may be the traditional...

Tags: luxoft, moscow, russia, offshore outsourcing

[15 Feb 2007]

Photos: Is Tesco more trustworthy than Microsoft?

Photo But Microsoft's new UK MD Gordon Frazer said in a recent interview with silicon.com: "Consumers will vote with their wallets. Tesco's range of budget office, security and multi-media PC software finally hit the shelves this month, with the...

Tags: microsoft, tesco

[29 Nov 2006]

Photos: Top 10 mobile design classics

Photos: Top 10 mobile design classics

Photo Among the other innovations the Startac brought to the market was the vibrating ring, and the device also sported a relatively new invention that operators didn't really think would be a big hit with consumers - the text message.

Tags: ericsson, motorola, sony ericsson, blackberry

[27 Nov 2006]

Photos: Inside BT's R&D labs

Photos: Inside BT's R&D labs

Photo This is thought to be less intrusive than simply 'pushing' information out to consumers. BT is also looking at how consumers can use broadband without having to sit at a PC - for example this experimental design for a digital plant.

Tags: rfid

[21 Nov 2006]

Photos: Cambridge boffins showcase tech of tomorrow

Photo This interactive touchscreen projected image is a 'living kiosk' that will hang in a shop window and is capable of giving confused consumers advice. Adverts and promos sent direct to your mobile might seem like a spammer's dream but Cambridge group...

Tags: future, future of it, cambridge, technology

[13 Nov 2006]

Photos: Samsung's ultra-mobile PC

Photos: Samsung's ultra-mobile PC

Photo A Samsung representative makes his way across the room to talk to potential consumers about the various features of the Q1. At the Samsung Q1 launch party, potential consumers have the opportunity to check out the mini-tablet's features.

Tags: ultra mobile pc, origami, samsung

[02 May 2006]

Photos: MOT database targets illegal cars

Photo The MOT computerisation project aims to take a million illegal and dangerous cars off the UK's roads and provide greater protection for motorists and consumers. The MOT computerisation project is the single biggest change to the testing scheme...

Tags: mot, vosa, dvla

[07 Apr 2006]

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