You are here: silicon.com > Tags

13 stories on

foundation

Sort by: Date | Relevance


Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action

Photo He adds that honouring the past is the best way to appreciate the foundation upon which we build to move forward. A forward-thinking mathematician and engineer, Babbage designed the Difference Engine in 1847.

Tags: history museum, babbage

[12 May 2008]

Photos: India 999

Photo The foundation also claims that the average ambulance trip costs about $15 compared to $100 in the US. The Indian government will help fund the rollout of a scheme created by an Indian outsourcing veteran to provide the country's first dedicated...

Tags: satyam, india, ambulance

[01 May 2008]

Photos: Gates takes final UK bow and points to a green future

Photo He discussed everything from the future of technology to politics, as well as his upcoming plans and the charitable work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates addressed the Institute of Directors in London this week in what is likely...

Tags: gates, surface, charity, london

[31 Jan 2008]

Photos: The super 3D body scanner

Photo Dr Keith Prowse, chairman of the British Lung Foundation, said the Brilliance iCT machine enables clinicians to see much smaller things in both the lungs and the airways and the scanner is a quantum shift from the first CT scanners as it gives a...

Tags: hospital, scan, image, machine

[04 Dec 2007]

Photos: Penguin flies into Second Life

Photo The mash-up was built by students at the Leeds College of Art studying for the foundation degree Design in Digital Media. Becoming a good citizen could be the best way for businesses to get the most out of virtual worlds.

Tags: second life

[20 Jul 2007]

Photos of the month - March 2007

Photo This is part of a project the Byrraju Foundation is running to help bridge the digital divide in rural areas. Take a look though the photo stories of the month and you'll see these and more. As part of his recent trip to India, Steve Ranger visited...

[02 Apr 2007]

Photos: Bringing tech to rural India

Photo This is the home of the Byrraju Foundation, which wants to bring to rural India the kind of prosperity which the cities are enjoying as a result of the technology boom. Children in the school in the village of Kondlakoyya outside of Hyderabad learn...

Tags: india

[09 Mar 2007]

Photos: Cooking up a storm in a digital kitchen

Photo Welcome to Lewisham College's e-Kitchen, used to train catering pupils - including those from Jamie Oliver's Fifteen Foundation. Here you can see the teacher preparing a dish, which is being filmed on the motorised digital camera - the device you...

Tags: kitchen

[06 Nov 2006]

Photos of the month - October 06

Photo CSR is child's play: Salesforce met Ground Force as silicon.com managing editor Will Sturgeon joined Salesforce.com's Salesforce Foundation on a project in San Francisco that saw a run-down piece of land transformed into a colourful and safe...

Tags: salesforce.com, salesforce, hp, hp labs

[31 Oct 2006]

Photos: Proof that CSR is child's play

Photos: Proof that CSR is child's play

Photo Recently silicon.com managing editor Will Sturgeon joined Salesforce.com's Salesforce Foundation on a project in San Francisco that would see a run-down plot of land turned into a colourful, safe children's playground in the space of just one day.

Tags: csr, salesforce.com, salesforce

[10 Oct 2006]

Photos: See the new Firefox

Photo Earlier this week the Mozilla Foundation released its first major update to the open source Firefox web browser. Version 1.5 includes a slew of improvements, including more sophisticated security and better performance.

Tags: mozilla, firefox

[02 Dec 2005]

Photos: A look inside France Telecom's Boston R&D labs

Photo To this end, the Boston R&D lab worked with the Mozilla Foundation to create an open-source mobile browser called Minimo, which runs on any Windows CE-based device and is still in alpha. Here's an exterior view of France Telecom's Boston research...

Tags: france telecom

[03 Oct 2005]

Photos: Bill Gates at Live 8

Photo Despite some predictable heckling from the crowd, Gates was given a praise-filled introduction by Live 8 founder Bob Geldof who praised the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for years of charitable donations.

Tags: dido, bono, gates

[04 Jul 2005]

Sort by: Date | Relevance


Site Map    


Quick Sitemap Links: