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Photos: Second Life gets down to business
Photo This is one of the company's laptop PCs floating on top of a hill. There are organisations from a huge range of sectors plying their trade in Second Life in interesting and unusual ways. Meanwhile tech companies who... [31 Oct 2008]
Top 10 green gadgets for your office
Photo One way to make sure all PCs go dark when the working day is over is to use remote power management software like Intel's vPro which can automatically power down a company's PCs whether they're on... [14 Oct 2008]
Photos: A dip into Bletchley's classic PC archive
Photo With its distinctive rubber keyboard, the 1982 follow up to the ZX81 was the colour ZX Spectrum - one of the first mainstream, mass-market PCs to appear in homes across the UK. The UK's cash-strapped National Museum of... [03 Sep 2008]
Jet packs, army tech and Victorian gadgets
Photo Armed with laptops and suitcases containing specialist forensic tools the 21-strong team can swiftly capture information from nearly any device - from laptops to mobile phones and PCs to games consoles. [02 Sep 2008]
Photos: Sniffing out fraud with digital forensics
Photo Cracking encryption is the second major hurdle, with the team employing the brute force of its 100 quad-core PCs to break low-grade encryption, such as password protected files. Armed with laptops and suitcases... [13 Aug 2008]
Photos: How to destroy your hard drive
Photo Here Tony Roberts (left), Computer Aid International CEO, cuts the ribbon on a shipment of PCs delivered to Kenya and hands over the first piece of kit to a pupil at Starehe Boys' Centre. Disposing of computer hard... [17 Jul 2008]
Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments
Photo He's pictured sprawled around PCs running Microsoft's then current operating system. A young William Gates poses for police in Albuquerque in December 1977 after he was caught speeding in his Porsche during the early... [23 Jun 2008]
Photos: Bill Gates through the ages
Photo Gates and Allen pose by PCs in 1981. Not an auspicious start for a young William Gates who was caught speeding in Albuquerque, New Mexico in December 1977 during the early days of Microsoft. Little did anyone know that... [20 Jun 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo Microsoft has released a free public beta of its WorldWide Telescope, which is software that lets both amateur and professional stargazers explore the universe from their PCs. This month silicon.com editor Steve Ranger... [30 May 2008]
Photos: Microsoft beams outer space to the desktop
Photo Microsoft has released a free public beta of its WorldWide Telescope, which is software that lets both amateur and professional stargazers explore the universe from their PCs. The WorldWide Telescope is a rich web... [19 May 2008]
Photos: Heathrow's T5 tech ready for take-off
Photo Ground crew can use PCs connected to the IP network to access up-to-date information on flights, passengers who have checked in and luggage issues. This is one of the 96 bag drop points air travellers will be using when... [12 Feb 2008]
Photos: IBM lifts the lid on web 2.0 tech
Photo The DIY Shopper system also works through customer mobiles and tablet PCs that can be used by shop staff. The shop staff could use the tablet PCs to access the DIY Shopper from anywhere in the store and... [07 Aug 2007]
Photos: Technology at the heart of Terminal 5
Photo The sheer scale of the project from an IT perspective is clear with 180 IT supplier contracts, 2,103 PCs, 163 systems and 9,000 connected devices. Terminal 5 (T5) is the first new terminal to be built at Heathrow for... [17 Jul 2007]
Photos of the month - May 2007
Photo Van-mounted cameras, tablet PCs and hard drives make up the camper-van infrastructure. Ever wondered where the maps on your sat-nav device come from? A man-in-a-van approach may not seem like the most tech-savvy solution... [30 May 2007]
Photos: The super-brain behind the particle smasher
Photo The LHC's grid network will use dedicated 10Gbps optical fibre links to connect 100,000 PCs around the globe - these computers are used to analyse the experimental data and compare it to theoretical simulations. [21 May 2007]
