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Photo Owen Memanin of Wood Lane in North London shows his support for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon outside the Home Office following the refusal by the European courts to block McKinnon's extradition to the US. [02 Oct 2008]
Photos: Britain's first business computer
Photo The National Museum of Computing's Murrell explains: "Elliott the company was in Boreham Wood in North London and when they needed to find a source of tape they actually went to the film industry because this is actually... [05 Sep 2008]
Photos: The building of a data centre
Photo At a secret location north of London, telecommunications company Colt lifted the lid on what it takes to build these powerhouses of industry. As the beating heart of business, data centres store and process the... [11 Jun 2008]
Photos: Google Earth issues stark climate change warning
Photo Here the Americas show a general rise of four degrees to seven, creeping up to patches of 12 degrees across North America and climbing further still towards the Arctic Circle. In parts of north west... [22 May 2008]
Photos: Microsoft beams outer space to the desktop
Photo Here you can see that the edge of the Big Dipper's cup does indeed point to Polaris or the North Star, which is located at the plus sign. Somewhere near the Martian North Pole is the proposed destination... [19 May 2008]
Photos: Nasa's top 10 on Earth
Photo Hollywood is at the bottom and the bright lights in the north are from the port facilities at Long Beach Naval Shipyards and Los Angeles International Airport. Volcanoes flowed in the north-south vent... [24 Apr 2008]
Photos: Zoom in on London from the air…
Photo It also extends from Stoke Newington in the North down to Crystal Palace. This is the Angel statue near Angel Islington in North London. The business listing company has launched a high resolution aerial... [28 Jan 2008]
Photos: The super 3D body scanner
Photo The Brilliance iCT scanner was unveiled at the Radiological Society of North America last month. Philips Medical Systems has unveiled a CT (Computer Tomography) scanner which can produce detailed 3D images. [04 Dec 2007]
Photos of the Month - November 2007
Photo The team were trialling technology that will be used when the three-strong Vanco Arctic survey team makes its way to the North Pole next year. Kicking off our photo stories this month was the iPhone launch on 9 November. [29 Nov 2007]
Photos: Arctic tech gets talking
Photo A polar explorer attempting to traverse the North Pole next year to survey the Arctic ice has sent the world's most-northerly as-live transmitted video message. UK explorer and environmentalist Pen Hadow (pictured... [12 Nov 2007]
Photos of the month - October 2007
Photo This team of polar explorers will travel to and traverse the North Pole next year to survey the thickness of the Arctic ice. The software behemoth was showing off a table-like device that uses a 30-inch screen, several... [31 Oct 2007]
Photos: Cool tech behind an Arctic expedition
Photo A team of polar explorers will travel to and traverse the North Pole next year to survey the Arctic ice. Polar explorer, Pen Hadow (pictured) will travel to the North Pole as part of a three-strong team... [17 Oct 2007]
Photos of the month - May 2007
Photo Pictured is a 'Mersey' class of all-weather lifeboat used at the Lytham St Annes lifeboat station on the North West coast of England. Ever wondered where the maps on your sat-nav device come from? A man-in-a-van approach... [30 May 2007]
Photos: RNLI floats new pager system
Photo Pictured is a 'Mersey' class of all-weather lifeboat, used at the Lytham St Annes lifeboat station on the North West coast of England. The rollout of the Swissphone DE920 pagers (pictured) began in February 2007 in the... [02 May 2007]
Photos: How old PCs can bridge the digital divide
Photo Students at Ndururumo Secondary School in Nyahururu, in the highlands north of Nairobi, were among some of the first to benefit from the work of Computer Aid International (CAI) and Computers For Schools Kenya (CFSK) in... [12 Feb 2007]
