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Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo Alan Osborne, senior manager of global technical operations for Symantec managed security services, said: "We are seeing more escalated security events now. Symantec's security operations centre analyses more than one billion logs per day, as part... [21 Jul 2008]
Photos: Conquering the arctic wilderness
Photo As a team we have used the tool to visualise and brainstorm different events that we might face in the Arctic, even the unexpected and highly unlikely scenarios. A remote corner of the Arctic, the Northwest Passage, is being tackled by a brave band... [13 Mar 2008]
Photos: When tech chiefs rock out...
Photo AMD CEO, Hector Ruiz, often takes to the stage with a guitar slung around his neck at tech events. Bill Gates' recent CES appearance with ex-Guns 'n' Roses guitarist Slash (above) is one in a long line of memorable musical moments involving tech... [22 Jan 2008]
Photos: Future tech at Microsoft Innovation day
Photo Developed by Virtual Events it's designed for use in marketing and in retailing. Also created by Virtual Events, this is a floor that reacts to your movements much like Microsoft's Surface technology. [06 Dec 2007]
Photos of the month - July 2007
Photo Book publisher Penguin joined the Second Life party this month by running a series of events in the virtual world for the launch of a new novel by William Gibson. A British Airways 747 taxis past Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5, which will become... [27 Jul 2007]
Photos: Penguin flies into Second Life
Photo In the next few weeks publishing house Penguin is running a series of events around the launch of the new novel by the father of cyberpunk, William Gibson - such as placing containers like the one above in-world. [20 Jul 2007]
Photos: Inside the Entropia Universe
Photo The Asteroid was named 'Club NEVERDIE' after the owner's avatar and contains 1,000 apartments, a shopping mall and stadium for virtual sporting events. Offering participants a hybrid between the Second Life environment and the game-like World of... [26 Jun 2007]
Photos: The Millennium Dome goes high-tech
Photo The venue will also host sporting events such as basketball and hockey and will have an undercover ice rink in winter and an artificial beach in summer. O2 is looking into screening live sports events on the screen as well as live concerts from the... [22 Jun 2007]
Photos: Top Gun goes virtual
Photo The tech is being developed by Team Active (aircrew collective training through immersive virtual events) which is led by Qinetiq and includes, among others, Boeing. This demonstration version is part of the 30 month, £7.8m project and will play... [08 Jun 2007]
Photos: Second Life - whose HQ can you view?
Photo Second Life residents can meet at the Reuters atrium to discuss the events of the day while viewing the latest real-world news footage. Unsurprisingly big businesses in the real world have been looking with interest at this and now a constant... [01 Nov 2006]
Photos of the month - August 06
Photo It deals with around 4,500 'unplanned events' - such as congestion, accidents or bad weather - per day. The dishes of Goonhilly This is the first dish built at the Goonhilly satellite station in Cornwall. [31 Aug 2006]
Photos: Inside the traffic buster's control centre
Photo It deals with around 4,500 'unplanned events' such as congestion, accidents or bad weather per day. Here Steve Crosthwaite, head of the NTCC, stands by the big screen where they monitor roadway events. [02 Aug 2006]
Photos: Inside Tsinghua University's Incubator
Photo Companies can hold dinners and events - such as conferences - here. Welcome to Tsinghua Science Park, home to big-hitting companies such as Sina.com, Sohu.com and relative newcomer to China - Google. Photo credit: Dan Ilett [20 Jun 2006]
Photos: Inside San Francisco airport's secure operating centre
Photo This is less labour intensive than previous systems and more reliable as staff only check out events which raise alerts, rather than watching an innocuous event unfold on one screen while a threat goes unnoticed on another. [24 Apr 2006]
Photos: Rocket-propelled 'F1' racing jets
Photo In the following six months, races at an additional two air shows and two auto race events are planned followed by a championship event in New Mexico at the X-Prize Cup 2007. Plans for rocket-propelled aircraft to race each other round a 3D... [05 Oct 2005]
