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Photos: Tech ensures a smoother course

Photo Francois Barrault, CEO BT Global Services on the left was a primary driver for the sponsorship deal. With Francois Barrault, CEO BT Global Services was Ellen McArthur and Seb Josse. Photo credit: Julian Goldsmith

Tags: yacht, ellen mcarthur, bt

[02 May 2008]

India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...

Photo Pictured here is Tata Consultancy Services' campus - the outsourcing company's largest global development centre. This month silicon.com senior reporter Nick Heath visited India to check out the high-tech goings on in Hyderabad and Chennai.

Tags: hyderabad, robots, bangalore

[29 Apr 2008]

Photos: Discover high-tech India

Photo This impressive oval redbrick building is home to Tata Consultancy Services' (TCS) campus, otherwise known as Deccan Park, the company's largest global development centre. Bangalore is India's most famous offshore location but the city of Hyderabad...

Tags: offshoring, india, outsourcing

[28 Apr 2008]

Photos: Red Bull Racing's F1 factory

Photo AT&T backs F1 in bid to go global ¦ This is the headquarters of Red Bull Technology in Milton Keynes where the cars for the Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula One teams are designed.silicon.com went along to take a look at how...

Tags: f1, grid, power, server

[10 Mar 2008]

Photos: Nokia takes recycling to the next level

Photo Nokia president and CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, rocked up to the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona with a warning about global warming. The current model of development is not sustainable and something has to change, he told the Congress...

Tags: nokia, kallasuvo, kallasvuo, recycling

[19 Feb 2008]

Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008

Photo As well as backing the alliance, Touré called for a global alliance against cyber security, saying "the whole world has to unite to fight this crime". He also talked of the global environment, saying the current model of development is "not...

Tags: mwc, android, hsdpa, mobile

[18 Feb 2008]

Photos: US Army's Black Hawk goes high-tech

Photo With the M version, the Sikorsky-built Black Hawk now comes with a digital avionics suite that makes use of embedded GPS/INS (Global Positioning System/inertial navigation system) technology for what the Army calls "situational awareness" and of...

Tags: army, helicopter, military, cards

[28 Nov 2007]

Photos: Floating computers keep an eye on the oceans

Photo The Met Office is taking part in a global programme to monitor the world's oceans to improve understanding of how they influence climate change. The Argo programme also uses the US Global Positioning System satellites Iridium and Orbcomm, which...

Tags: met office, global, weather, satellite

[21 Nov 2007]

Photos: UK tech leaders gather for the CIO Forum

Photo Photo credit: Tim Ferguson silicon.com's community editor and chief reporter, Andy McCue, quizzed Unilever's global CIO, Neil Cameron, in a live version of the McCue interview. Here's Tony Hallett, editor and site director of silicon.com, as he...

Tags: cio jury, cio50, neil cameron, paul coby

[16 Oct 2007]

Photos: BT talks big on virtual worlds

Photo For example, BT has demonstrated an SMS station (above) that allows avatars to send a text to any global mobile number and receive an SMS from the real world. BT is developing services that could allow users of virtual worlds to call or text out to...

Tags: mobile, second life, bt

[13 Sep 2007]

Photos: IBM lifts the lid on web 2.0 tech

Photo A global team of IBM developers have created an internal virtual world called Metaverse, which is based on GarageGames' Torque Game Engine. Above is the Hursley House, the stately home in which IBM's UK R&D operations are based.

Tags: r&d, web 2.0, ibm

[07 Aug 2007]

Photos: Virtual war tests new technology

Photo Fortunately this is only a virtual war - part of the global Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) to test whether the armed forces' latest technologies can cope with battlefield conditions.

Tags: virtual, war, mod, army

[14 Jun 2007]

Photos: Google mashes up its developer day

Photo The global conference saw a number of application launches - including the release of an online code editor for building mash-ups, called Google Mashup Editor. Google cosied up to more than 5,000 developers at 10 locations around the world at its...

Tags: google

[01 Jun 2007]

Photos of the month - May 2007

Photo Handling all this information and dishing it out to 5,000 scientists around the world is no mean feat so a global grid has been put together to distribute and filter the data. A man-in-a-van approach may not seem like the most tech-savvy solution...

Tags: second life, grid

[30 May 2007]

Photos: The super-brain behind the particle smasher

Photo To make sense of all this information, Cern - the European centre for particle physics near Geneva which is building the collider - has put together a global grid to make sure the data is accessible to the 5,000 scientists around the world wanting...

Tags: large hadron collider, grid, particle , lhc

[21 May 2007]

Photos: SAP and Wipro in Bangalore

Photo By the end of this year, SAP plans to have 4,000 staff working at the site, home to 20 per cent of its developers and one of four global hubs with responsibility for products. Earlier this year silicon.com's Steve Ranger visited Hyderabad, Mumbai...

Tags: india

[02 Apr 2007]

Photos: Outsourcing to Russia

Photos: Outsourcing to Russia

Photo Red Square, the colourful St Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin may be the traditional image of Russia but the country is also investing in a series of technology parks - such as one at Dubna, 120km outside Moscow - as it bids for a slice of the...

Tags: luxoft, moscow, russia, offshore outsourcing

[15 Feb 2007]

Photos of the month - October 06

Photo The safety system uses a terrain database, high-resolution display and Global Positioning System (GPS) to create a 3D model of what the pilot would be able to see out of the window in clear conditions.

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

[31 Oct 2006]

Photos: A safer way to navigate the skies

Photos: A safer way to navigate the skies

Photo The SVS uses a terrain database, high-resolution display and Global Positioning System (GPS) to create a 3D model of what the pilot would be able to see out of the window in clear conditions - like the screenshot above.

Tags: google earth, aircraft, safety, honeywell

[05 Oct 2006]

Photos: Quotes of the day - CIO Forum

Photos: Quotes of the day - CIO Forum

Photo However, Neil Cameron, global CIO of Unilever (second on the left) said: "I've always been grateful for the HR department because if ever there's been anybody the business liked less it was HR. 'Reasons to be cheerful': Conference chairman René...

Tags: cio forum

[26 Sep 2006]

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