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Photo The BT IMOCA 60 is the fruit of a title sponsorship deal between Team Ellen - headed up by iconic British yachtswoman Dame Ellen McArthur - and BT inked in September last year. She is packed with sophisticated communications that keep the skipper...
[02 May 2008]
Photo The Indian government will help fund the rollout of a scheme created by an Indian outsourcing veteran to provide the country's first dedicated ambulance service. Now the government has agreed to help roll out the Emergency Management and Research...
[01 May 2008]
Photo ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ¦ Photos: The best of Google Earth ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ¦ Photos: The best of Google Earth
[24 Apr 2008]
Photo In a manner similar to tuning on a TV, the fibreoptic system uses 64 unique frequencies within this range to transmit high volumes of data. The Ile de Sein (pictured) is a massive ship that sports a crew of 60, who work in shifts to lay cable 24...
[14 Apr 2008]
Photo Here, the crew that shipped it begin the process of hooking up the box containing the machine to an adjacent crane. Here is the Difference engine, one of only two full-scale models in the world. The process of unpacking the difference engine was...
[10 Apr 2008]
Photo The campaign is an attack on government plans to take the biometric details of UK citizens for ID cards, starting next year. Wild West-style wanted posters will offer a £1,000 reward for anyone capturing the fingerprints of the Prime Minister or...
[07 Apr 2008]
Photo This is the home of one of India's biggest IT companies, Wipro, at the Electronics City high-tech business park in Bangalore, India.silicon.com visited Bangalore last month and got a tour of the sprawling campus, which is home to around 15,500 of...
[02 Apr 2008]
Photo The size-zero phone was launched at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona this year. Its vital statistics weigh in at 72.1 x 37.6 x 7.8mm - comparable to the dimensions of a credit card as seen here.
[27 Mar 2008]
Photo Announced in March last year, the partnership between Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge is intended to initially focus on nanotechnology applications. Morph, a concept mobile phone co-developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and...
[26 Feb 2008]
Photo The opening day of Congress saw long queues snaking around the entrance to the Fira as attendees lined up to get their 'badges' so they could bypass the twin towers and get on with ogling the mobile goodness.
[18 Feb 2008]
Photo There's the usual array of the latest Nokia mobile devices to whet your appetite as you walk in. The silver spheres on the ceiling are similar to those hung over Regent Street as part of the Nokia-sponsored Christmas decorations.
[12 Feb 2008]
Photo Half of all the UK police forces now carry BlackBerry smart phones when on the beat, as seen here. This reduces the amount of time spent in the station processing paperwork and increases their visibility.
[08 Feb 2008]
Photo But goods being out of stock on shelves could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new high-tech camera. The camera connects with a video analysis server containing a database of store items, which recognises products by reducing their image to...
[31 Jan 2008]
Photo Accenture predicts such technology will become widely commercially available by the end of next year. The SMS is on the wall for crumpled notes and battered leather wallets as Accenture Technology Labs shows off the future of contactless payments...
[31 Jan 2008]
Photo And talking of CES, we brought together some of the stars from this year's consumer tech extravaganza including Microsoft's Surface technology and this projector resembling Star Wars' R2D2. Picture credit: 192.com silicon.com looked back at the...
[30 Jan 2008]
Photo Originally launched separately but grouped together under the iLife brand in 2003, the applications offer an integrated, user-friendly but feature-rich tools consisting of iPhoto for managing photos, iTunes for managing your music collection...
[24 Jan 2008]
Photo Apple is adding five applications to the iPod Touch, including Mail, Maps, Stocks, Notes and Weather, which make the iPod Touch much more like the big event of last year's Macworld - the iPhone. A display in the lobby of San Francisco's Moscone...
[16 Jan 2008]
Photo The software delivers food pairing recommendations, tannin information and a map of where the wine is made. DLP Texas Instruments' line up included a multimedia projector taking the form of R2-D2. Retro is the name of the game at PF3D.
[11 Jan 2008]
Photo 2007 has seen a bumper crop of top tech photos from silicon.com, including the Apple iPod and iPhone launches, solar bikinis, St Pancras' reopening, trips to destinations including India, Kenya and Russia, sneak previews of the O2 - aka the old...
[13 Dec 2007]
Photo One of the competitors, Team Lux showed off their car in London's Science Museum earlier this year. One of the world's first digital computers creaked into life again this month as Bletchley Park's code-cracking Colossus began running for the first...
[29 Nov 2007]
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