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Photos: High-tech Bangalore

Photo Many of the young workforce at Wipro and other companies brave the crazy Bangalore traffic to get to the office by motorbike - one of the campus' many bike parks can be seen here. This is the home of one of India's biggest IT companies, Wipro, at...

Tags: bangalore, wipro

[02 Apr 2008]

Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine

Photo The original Colossus machine was built using more than 1,500 valves by Post Office engineer Tommy Flowers to speed up the breaking of German codes - in particular that of the Lorenz cipher. Bletchley Park was the secret home to Britain's top...

Tags: colossus, bletchley park, message, messages

[18 Mar 2008]

Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008

Photo This not-so-subtle Windows Mobile ad reads: 'Ladies and gentlemen, Windows has left the office'. The world's biggest mobile phone trade show - Mobile World Congress 2008 - kicked off in Barcelona on 11 February.

Tags: mwc, android, hsdpa, mobile

[18 Feb 2008]

Photos: Wi-fi gets ice cool on the slopes

Photo It effectively means they can take their office with them if, for instance, they go to a meeting room," he said. Chill Factore, a ski village on the outskirts of Manchester which has the UK's longest indoor, real-snow ski slope, along with bars...

Tags: wi-fi, wireless, wi fi, fi

[05 Feb 2008]

Photos: Zoom in on London from the air…

Photo And silicon.com's home at the CNET Networks UK office in Lavington Street, Southwark. The business listing company has launched a high resolution aerial photography service that covers the majority of central London.

Tags: maps, london, city, google maps

[28 Jan 2008]

Photos: Apple flying high at Macworld

Photo Microsoft made a Macworld appearance to promote its Office for Mac 2008. The Apple display at Macworld 2008 features MacBook Airs - the latest addition to the MacBook family - hanging from the ceiling.

Tags: steve jobs, ipod, apple, mac

[17 Jan 2008]

Photos of the Month - November 2007

Photo Photo credit: Japan Railways Group, New York Office Kicking off our photo stories this month was the iPhone launch on 9 November. Natasha Lomas went down to Apple's flagship store on Regent Street in London to see who was in the queue.

Tags: macs, iphone, travel, power

[29 Nov 2007]

Photos: Five mobile gadgets for cops

Photo The service has also developed a back office portal and server, which is specifically tailored to Fire Service requirements and includes a risk management system. Police forces and other emergency services are being equipped with mobile devices to...

Tags: police, ambulance, mobile, fire

[27 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. It works in partnership with the British Oceanographic Data centre, National Oceanography Centre in...

Tags: met office, global, weather, satellite

[21 Nov 2007]

Photos: High life at the high-tech hotel

Photo Each computer has the standard keyboard and mouse for browsing the internet or using one of the various office applications installed. The recently opened City Inn hotel in Manchester must rank as one of the more high-tech places to stay in town...

Tags: manchester, hotels, hotel, itunes

[20 Nov 2007]

Photos: Six unusual power sources

Photo For example US researchers have developed a way to power electronic gadgets automatically when their owners wander into their home or office - without the need for cumbersome cables or chargers. Speaking in November 2006, Marin Soljacic, assistant...

Tags: power, energy, solar, mobile devices

[19 Nov 2007]

Photos: GCHQ aims to recruit with in-game ads

Photo The GCHQ is an intelligence and security organisation that reports to the Foreign Secretary and works with MI5, MI6, the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has launched...

Tags: recruitment, advertising, online, game

[23 Oct 2007]

Photos: Are you part of The IT Crowd?

Photos: Are you part of The IT Crowd?

Photo Linehan added: "This also helped me make the characters less adversarial - so there's no shouting across the office in this series - which was one of the problems with series one. The IT Crowd is a sitcom about a group of social misfits which make...

Tags: channel 4, it crowd, graham linehan

[12 Oct 2007]

Photos: BT talks big on virtual worlds

Photo Matthew Brotherton, project manager at the Applied Technology Centre in BT's chief technology office, told silicon.com: "This is about how we integrate BT's communications services that are exposed as part of the Web21C platform, into virtual...

Tags: mobile, second life, bt

[13 Sep 2007]

Photos: Cambridge innovation day abuzz with fresh tech

Photo The event was hosted by the St John's Innovation Centre, which provides support to businesses ranging from entrepreneurs who need office space to mature businesses seeking technology partnerships. Search and rescue flying saucers, sniffer bees and...

Tags: university, chip and pin, innovation

[07 Sep 2007]

Photos: The future of videoconferencing

Photo Managed office space company Regus is one of Cisco's first big TelePresence customers. Videoconferencing has had many false dawns over the last couple of decades because of issues with video quality, poor latency and the cumbersome nature of the...

Tags: hp, cisco, videoconferencing

[26 Jul 2007]

Photos: Unearthing the zero-carbon data centre

Photo Smith said: "When we tell people about an underground bunker they think of a dingy place with water running down the walls but it's just like a normal office. The data centre has been built 100 metres underground in a former-RAF radar station.

Tags: offset, carbon offsetting, carbon, underground

[03 Jul 2007]

Photos: Take a peek at Google Street View

Photo And here's the entire team, pictured outside Google's office in the Bay Area. Google has unveiled the latest addition to its mapping technology, Street View - which shows pictures at street level. However, images such as the one above have raised...

Tags: google street view, google

[08 Jun 2007]

Photos: High tech vans map out Europe

Photo The data feeds into two hard drives located on the van and is stored there until the operators are given the green light by the Tele Atlas head office to delete it. This is one of the vans used by mapping company Tele Atlas to gather images and...

Tags: cameras, mapping, sat nav

[21 May 2007]

Photos: Second Life business evolution

Photo Even lawyers are getting in there - this is the office of Field Fisher Waterhouse. And as that audience grows, big brands are making sure they have their own outpost in place. Click through this photo story to see how some of the biggest brands are...

Tags: second life

[10 May 2007]

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