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Caption Competition: I'm coming down!
Photo A visitor heads down for a tour of London's Victorian sewer network. Submit a caption for this picture as a Reader Comment below. Remember - anonymous posts can't win. All entrants must be aged 18 or over and resident in the UK. [25 Jul 2008]
Photos: Broadband in London's Victorian sewers
Photo silicon.com took a trip out to the east end of London, to the Thames Water depot near Stratford, for a rare trip down inside London's Victorian sewer network to see a much more high-tech network which it is now hosting - Geo's business broadband... [22 Jul 2008]
Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo Symantec's security operations centre analyses more than one billion logs per day, as part of a global network monitoring attacks on computer networks for 650 customers. The security operations centre is part of the Symantec Global Intelligence... [21 Jul 2008]
Photos: 60 years of NHS tech
Photo This shows a doctor using the Prestel system which was a data service for medical professionals that used the existing telephone network. The system used a camera which converted images into audio tones to be sent over the telephone network. [09 Jul 2008]
Photos: Steve Jobs dances the iPhone 3G tune
Photo In a side-by-side speed test, Jobs showed that the iPhone's 3G network downloads the National Geographic page in 21 seconds, while the Edge network, which was used in the first-generation iPhone, takes 59 seconds. [10 Jun 2008]
Photos: Supercomputers signal when storms are a-brewing
Photo Didier Garçon, network analyst at the ECMWF, said: "Even if the computers were 10 times more powerful we could probably fill their computing power. ECMWF receives and sends out data using the Regional Meteorological Data Communications Network and... [06 Jun 2008]
Photos: HTC unveils its Diamond touch
Photo Florian Seiche, VP of HTC Europe, said the Diamond will be offered by all five main network operators - a first for the company. Peter Chou (pictured above), president and CEO of mobile maker HTC, has announced the latest smart phone in its Touch... [07 May 2008]
Photos: Galileo's phase two goes into orbit
Photo It represents the next phase in the development of the satellite network the EU hopes will become the region's equivalent of GPS. The second trial satellite (Giove-B) in the European Galileo satellite programme was launched in Kazakhstan at the... [29 Apr 2008]
Photos: Discover high-tech India
Photo While the landscaped campuses live up the 'high-tech' name, the road network in Hyderabad is creaking under the strain. The 1,280,000-square-foot park has state-of-the-art network connectivity and is host to names such as Accenture, Cognizant, HCL... [28 Apr 2008]
Photos: Nokia gives web tablet a WiMax-flavour
Photo Nokia said the tablet, which has a touchscreen and a slide-out Qwerty keyboard, will be available this summer - "to coincide with local rollouts of the XOHM network [a planned nationwide WiMax network from US mobile operator Sprint Nextel] - which... [04 Apr 2008]
Photos: Road testing wi-fi at 320kmph
Photo Here a wi-fi-enabled laptop has detected the onboard network: WiFi-TGV. French train operator SNCF is running a trial of a wi-fi internet service onboard three TGV trains that travel eastbound from Paris via the Gare de l'Est station. [28 Mar 2008]
Photos: Android, high-tech Heathrow, the future of shopping
Photo One of the more unusual stories in February was about a mobile phone network for the moon. Check out how the lunar network might work when it gets under way in 2012. It seems wi-fi is getting ever more omnipresent with Manchester indoor ski slope... [28 Feb 2008]
Photos: Lunar mobile phones preparing to soar
Photo In space no one can hear your ringtone - something that could be a blessing from 2012 when Nasa and the British National Space Centre (BNSC) trial a mobile phone network on the moon. The joint Nasa/BNSC MoonLite mission, due to be launched after... [25 Feb 2008]
Photos: Heathrow's T5 tech ready for take-off
Photo The desk includes a phone connected to the terminal's high capacity IP network and a barcode scanner to register boarding passes. Ground crew can use PCs connected to the IP network to access up-to-date information on flights, passengers who have... [12 Feb 2008]
Photos: Wi-fi gets ice cool on the slopes
Photo Chill Factore, a ski village on the outskirts of Manchester which has the UK's longest indoor, real-snow ski slope, along with bars, restaurants and conference facilities, has installed a wireless network across its complex. [05 Feb 2008]
