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

Photo Here, an exhibition of electronic art at the Science Museum in London attempts to digitally interpret the sights and sounds of 100,000 people chatting online. Pictured here is Tata Consultancy Services' campus - the outsourcing company's largest...

Tags: hyderabad, robots, bangalore

[29 Apr 2008]

Photos: Eavesdropping on the net

Photo The exhibition is a collaboration by sound artist Ben Rubin and statistician and artist Mark Hansen, who began with the question: 'What would 100,000 people chatting online sound like? Eavesdropping on the whispers of the web has been made a whole...

Tags: listen, web

[07 Apr 2008]

Photos: Nokia gives web tablet a WiMax-flavour

Photo As well as enabling users to get online, the tablet includes VoIP and IM clients for voice connectivity. Nokia has added to its internet tablet series with a WiMax-flavoured version of the pocket-sized web browsing gizmo.

Tags: tablet, wimax, nokia

[04 Apr 2008]

Photos: Road testing wi-fi at 320kmph

Photo First-time users of the wi-fi service are asked to register via an online form before gaining unrestricted access to the internet and a multimedia portal that is regularly updated with videos, news, city guides and other content.

Tags: business traveller, train, wi-fi

[28 Mar 2008]

Photos: When art meets tech - Nokia phone Morphs into view

Photo Morph, a concept mobile phone co-developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge, is featured in an online display presented in conjunction with 'Design and the Elastic Mind', an exhibition of art-meets-technology.

Tags: nokia, phone, art, phones

[26 Feb 2008]

Photos of the month - January 2008

Photo Picture credit: H2O Networks com launched its Super Zoom online map application which allows you to view central London from a height of 10 storeys. A video was played showing Gates asking various celebrities for a job.

Tags: speech, picture, credit, history

[30 Jan 2008]

Photos: Driving safety through tech

Photo It shows an IP phone under attack from an online virus. silicon.com went along to NEC's R&D labs in Heidelberg, Germany, to see some of the technology it has been developing. Some of the projects include technology to improve road safety, boost the...

Tags: mobile, r&d, iptv, nec

[21 Jan 2008]

Photos: GCHQ aims to recruit with in-game ads

Photo Job ads will appear in real world scenarios - such as billboard and street advertising - in a number of online games. The ads will appear in various Massive online PC and console games in the UK - for around a month - towards the end of October.

Tags: recruitment, advertising, online, game

[23 Oct 2007]

Photos: Inside the British Library's digital books project

Photo Over a period of two years, around 100,000 books from the British Library's nineteenth century literature collection will be made available on its online catalogue and Microsoft's Live Search Books, and silicon.com paid a visit to the digitisation...

Tags: books, digital, british library

[27 Sep 2007]

Photos: Steve Jobs and the UK iPhone launch

Photo Sale of the handset will be restricted to Apple's retail and online outlets, O2 stores and The Carphone Warehouse. Apple has confirmed O2 as the exclusive UK carrier for the iPhone, which will make its UK debut on 9 November.

Tags: o2, iphone, apple

[18 Sep 2007]

Photos of the month - August 2007

Photo This image shows a web mash-up called 'Find Me Some Wifi', which takes worldwide wi-fi hotspot data and plots area where you can get online on Google Maps. Follow the link to find all five business traveller-friendly mash-ups, as chosen by silicon...

Tags: second life, imac, mod, mash-ups

[31 Aug 2007]

Photos: Five business traveller-friendly mash-ups

Photo Get online A Google Maps mash-up that incorporates "worldwide" wi-fi hotspot data to help you locate a wireless watering hole - or similar - where you can get online. This site lets you create an online attendee list for conferences.

Tags: business traveller, mash-up

[30 Jul 2007]

Photos: Penguin flies into Second Life

Photo Penguin digital publisher Jeremy Ettinghausen told silicon.com: "Penguin is always looking at ways to communicate with new communities and moving our brand from being an offline brand to being an online brand, so Second Life is really interesting.

Tags: second life

[20 Jul 2007]

Photos: Heathrow's Terminal 5 comes alive

Photo Once they have checked in, using one of the 96 self-service check-in kiosks, 56 manned check-in desks or BA's online service - the first 'wave' - they can put their luggage into the state-of-the-art baggage handling system.

Tags: heathrow

[13 Jul 2007]

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 of the month - June 2007

Photo Pictured is a possible Mapplet use - a Google map showing which cinemas in New York are currently showing the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie, instead of just providing movie-goers with an online list.

Tags: cio50, o2, cio, entropia universe

[27 Jun 2007]

Photos: Inside the Entropia Universe

Photo Pictured is the interior of one such online outlet called 'Vexed Generation Clothing Ltd'. Entropia recently signed a deal with Chinese online entertainment company Cyber Recreation Development (CRD) to push its presence in Asia.

Tags: realistic, business, entropia universe, virtual worlds

[26 Jun 2007]

Photos: Virtual war tests new technology

Photo CWID UK (the UK's arm of the virtual war) is part of the wider US-led CWID event held online and around the world with countries such as Australia, Canada and New Zealand involved in testing and developing new military technologies.

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. Mapplets lets developers add more functionality to any Google Maps mash-ups appearing on...

Tags: google

[01 Jun 2007]

Photos of the month - February 2007

Photo Pictured is Thomas Whitfield, co-founder of Design The Time, pitching the online timeline site. Honda's new Civic Type-R (above) is one of numerous cars now equipped with iPod capability. Check out the rest of silicon.com's guide to all things car...

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

[01 Mar 2007]

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