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Photos: India 999

Photo Since the service was established by Ramalinga Raju - founder of outsourcer Satyam - in Hyderabad in 2005, it has helped scores of people in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The Indian government will help fund the rollout of a scheme created by an...

Tags: satyam, india, ambulance

[01 May 2008]

Photos: Conquering the arctic wilderness

Photos: Conquering the arctic wilderness

Photo Jim McNeill, Ice Warrior's founder, said in a statement: "When faced with a potentially life-threatening situation to the team, the responsibility of getting everyone home safely is imperative. A remote corner of the Arctic, the Northwest Passage...

Tags: expedition, software, credit, logistics

[13 Mar 2008]

Photos: Virgin goes Galactic for SpaceShipTwo

Photo Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson (left) and Scaled Composites CEO Burt Rutan show off the final design for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo at New York's American Museum of Natural History. That project was funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul...

Tags: plane, virgin, space, founder

[24 Jan 2008]

Photos: E-tailer Iwoot opens Second Life shop

Photo Tim Booth, Iwoot founder and creative director, said Second Life provides a safe way to test how to move the Iwoot business from its 2D website into 3D worlds but added: "We are not expecting to sell millions and millions of gadgets online through...

Tags: virtual world, virtual worlds, iwoot, gadgets

[12 Jul 2007]

Photos: When a smart phone is not enough...

Photo Company founder Jeff Hawkins (pictured at right with Walt Mossberg, personal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal) unveiled the device at the D: All Things Digital conference. This is the Foleo, the newest addition to Palm's line-up of...

Tags: foleo, palm

[31 May 2007]

Photos: How Heathrow Express does wi-fi

Photo Nigel Wallbridge, founder and chairman of Nomad Digital, said this is the first time WiMax has been used to provide a wi-fi network to a train within a tunnel and this opens up the possibility of using this technology on underground trains in...

Tags: wi-fi, heathrow express

[24 Apr 2007]

Photos of the month - February 2007

Photo Students had to go through an eight minute grilling by a panel of experienced business gurus, including Peter Jones of Dragons' Den fame and Martha Lane Fox, co-founder of lastminute.com. Pictured is Thomas Whitfield, co-founder of Design The Time...

Tags: photos, photos of the month, electronic road charging system, outsourcing

[01 Mar 2007]

Photos: The business boat race

Photo Pictured here is the panel of judges - including Michael Birch, co-founder and CEO of social networking site Bebo; Peter Jones, entrepreneur and of Dragons' Den fame; and Martha Lane Fox, co-founder of lastminute.com - along with the two-minute...

Tags: oxford, time, medical, digital

[21 Feb 2007]

Photos: How old PCs can bridge the digital divide

Photo Tony Roberts (left), CEO and founder of Computer Aid International, cuts the ribbon on a shipment of PCs delivered to Kenya and hands over the first piece of kit to a pupil at Starehe Boys' Centre. The ribbon-cutting ceremony in Nairobi was watched...

Tags: kenya, digital divide, recycling, pc recycling

[12 Feb 2007]

Photos: Vintage arcade games... revealed

Photos: Vintage arcade games... revealed

Photo Developed by Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari, and inspired by DEC's Spacewar! Imagine having this in your front room. It's the PDP-1, the system which ran the first-ever computer game. Built by the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1960, the...

Tags: computer games

[28 Nov 2006]

Photos: "Citizen cartographers" mapping the planet

Photo Founder Steve Coast (pictured far left in a blue shirt) started OpenStreetMap in response to the legal and technical restrictions on the use of other maps such as Google and OS. OpenStreetMap started two years ago and is aiming to take on the likes...

Tags: openstreetmap

[13 Nov 2006]

Competition: Win HD TV, PSPs and iPods

Photo Question 7: Twice an Agenda Setter, this man is the founder and CEO of which company? What is the name of the co-founder of his venture recently bought by Google? This competition has now closed. We will be announcing the lucky winners shortly.

Tags: prizes, win, it, industry competition

[01 Nov 2006]

Photos: Trio of Origami PCs get CeBIT airing

Photos: Trio of Origami PCs get CeBIT airing

Photo Intel's general manager for Europe, Christian Morales, introducing three Ultra Mobile Origami PCs - from Asus, Founder and Samsung - at CeBIT on 9 March. Few details are available on the UMPC from Chinese company Founder, which was not exhibiting...

Tags: origami

[10 Mar 2006]

Photos: The return of dot-com fever

Photos: The return of dot-com fever

Photo Clegg and co-founder of Second Chance Tuesday, Michael Smith, footed the bill for the event themselves having declined sponsorship from a number of financiers. "Got, got, got.need. The Second Chance Tuesday event, held at The Century Club on...

Tags: first tuesday, second chance tuesday, alex tew

[08 Feb 2006]

Photos: Inside Moscow's Kaspersky Labs

Photos: Inside Moscow's Kaspersky Labs

Photo Company co-founder Eugene Kaspersky has become a respected antivirus expert. But not all associations are so attractive to day trippers and overseas visitors. Unfortunately among the other things Russia has become closely associated with in recent...

Tags: moscow, kaspersky labs, virus, antivirus

[25 Jan 2006]

Re:Viewing 2005: Photos of the year

Photo Here George Polk, the founder of The Cloud, delivers the keynote to a packed room of delegates. 26 August 2005: silicon.com's Will Sturgeon tracks a day in the life of an Amazon.co.uk order. Here we see the interior of Amazon's Milton Keynes...

Tags: photos of the year, photos

[20 Dec 2005]

Photos: Highlights from the silicon.com CIO Forum

Photo George Polk, the founder of The Cloud, delivering the keynote to a packed room of delegates, said Skype is a "joke" right now in the industry because it wasn't bought for its VoIP credentials.eBay's buyout of Skype had very little to do with voice...

Tags: linux tie, cio forum

[28 Sep 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]

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