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Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle

Photo What the unit sees is what its operator will see, although the unit will automatically travel through a set series of waypoints, leaving the operator free to assess what they see through the robot's eyes.

Tags: military, sensor, robot

[06 May 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...

Tags: tablet, wimax, nokia

[04 Apr 2008]

Photos: Road testing wi-fi at 320kmph

Photo 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. Photo credit: Natasha Lomas TGV passengers on the wi-fi-equipped trains can use the...

Tags: business traveller, train, wi-fi

[28 Mar 2008]

Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008

Photo Mobile operator body, the GSM Association (GSMA), held a press conference on Congress' opening day. 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: Accenture gets touchy feely with its interactive wall

Photo The screen allowed the operator to page hospital employees, order equipment to be moved or set alarmed zones, for example if a piece of expensive equipment was removed from that area. There were shades of sci-fi film Minority Report as Accenture...

Tags: future, touch, accenture, interactive

[01 Feb 2008]

Photos of the year

Photo Jobs confirmed O2 will be network operator for the device which became available on 9 November, retailing at £269 for the 8GB version. 2007 has seen a bumper crop of top tech photos from silicon.com, including the Apple iPod and iPhone launches...

Tags: photos, microsoft, car, google

[13 Dec 2007]

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

Photo That also allows one pilot to fly the aircraft while the other serves as the mission operator. The US Army's 159th Combat Aviation Brigade will begin taking delivery of the UH-60M - the latest generation of its widely used medium-lift utility...

Tags: army, helicopter, military, cards

[28 Nov 2007]

Photos: Arctic tech gets talking

Photo Virtual network operator Vanco developed and integrated the technology involved to keep the Arctic team's communications system operating smoothly. A polar explorer attempting to traverse the North Pole next year to survey the Arctic ice has sent...

Tags: arctic, photo, tech, vanco

[12 Nov 2007]

Photos of the month - September 2007

Photo Jobs confirmed O2 will be network operator for the device when it becomes available on 9 November, retailing at £269 for the 8GB version. The iPod Touch features touchscreen controls, much like the iPhone, and the previous version - now available...

Tags: hp, ipod, apple, iphone

[27 Sep 2007]

Photos: Inside the British Library's digital books project

Photo The scanner operator has to make sure only single pages are turned, check the images and make sure the pages don't get removed or damaged. A scanner operator checks a book is set up correctly for the machine to continue taking images.

Tags: books, digital, british library

[27 Sep 2007]

Photos: Steve Jobs and the UK iPhone launch

Photo The operator's UK CEO Matthew Key (above left, with Jobs) said: "We are confident that we will sell a significant number of iPhones. There had been long-running speculation about which operator would offer the iPhone in the UK, and Jobs (above...

Tags: o2, iphone, apple

[18 Sep 2007]

Photos: 'Top Gun course' for submarine hunters

Photo A sonar operator's shift can last up to eight hours, with operators typically sitting at their stations listening to the sonar signals for up to 45 minutes at a time. Street added a good sonar operator must be patient, have meticulous attention to...

Tags: submarine, military tech, mod

[22 Aug 2007]

Photos: The Millennium Dome goes high-tech

Photo The 23,000-seat arena has been built by AEG and is sponsored by mobile operator O2. London's Millennium Dome has been transformed over the last two-and-a-half years into a music and entertainment venue now called simply 'the O2'.

Tags: nec, aeg, millennium dome, o2

[22 Jun 2007]

Photos: How Heathrow Express does wi-fi

Photo He predicted every train operator around the world will be offering a wi-fi network in five years' time. All Heathrow Express trains have been wi-fi-enabled, providing broadband access to passengers for the entire journey which lasts about 15 to 20...

Tags: wi-fi, heathrow express

[24 Apr 2007]

Photos: The top 10 smart mobile devices

Photo The Vario II is just one name you might know this by - it's made by HTC and branded differently by each operator that offers it. Palm recently announced its decision to up the ante in Europe, showcasing the Treo 750v as its main offering for the...

Tags: hp, linux, sony ericsson, nokia

[09 Nov 2006]

Photos: How GNER's on-board wi-fi works

Photos: How GNER's on-board wi-fi works

Photo GNER's on-board wi-fi works using a combination of a satellite link and mobile 3G/GPRS networks, which enables the operator to maintain 100 per cent connectivity even when going through tunnels. That will mean GNER is the first UK train operator to...

Tags: gner, wi-fi

[27 Jul 2006]

Photos: MOT database targets illegal cars

Photo The 10-year £230m private finance initiative (PFI) contract was awarded by the Vehicle & Operator Services Agency (Vosa) to Siemens Business Services (SBS) in 2000. The MOT computerisation project is the single biggest change to the testing scheme...

Tags: mot, vosa, dvla

[07 Apr 2006]

Photos: Highwaymen stop holdups

Photo Meet Sarah, an operator at the Highways Agency (HA) Regional Control Centre in Surrey. The Highways Agency has been given the duty of dealing with accidents like this. We sent senior reporter Dan Ilett to Surrey to get the lowdown on policing the M25.

Tags: highways, ha, police

[22 Sep 2005]

Photos: What's inside France Telecom's Paris R&D Labs

Photo The telco, which owns mobile operator Orange and ISP Wanadoo, took silicon.com for a sneaky peak at the next generation of devices it's working on. This isn't a photo from a Star Trek: Next Generation conference or a picture of a wannabe X-Man - it...

Tags: france telecom

[09 Sep 2005]

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