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Caption Competition: I'm coming down!
Photo Submit a caption for this picture as a Reader Comment below. A visitor heads down for a tour of London's Victorian sewer network. Remember - anonymous posts can't win. All entrants must be aged 18 or over and resident in the UK. [25 Jul 2008]
Photos: Broadband in London's Victorian sewers
Photo The broadband ducts are just visible in the top left of the picture. silicon.com took a trip out to the east end of London, to the Thames Water depot near Stratford, for a rare trip down inside London's Victorian sewer network to see a much more... [22 Jul 2008]
Caption Competition: Road to nowhere!
Photo Picture credit: O2 This competition is now closed. The winning caption, from reader Ian Springham was "Now you only need to shrink the bike and train a budgie to ride it - true portability. [04 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates, iPhone 2.0, mini laptops and much more...
Photo This picture shows the steelwork which is built up from the floor to hang the ceiling of the data halls. This is a mobile phone vending machine on show at Fujitsu's customer experience centre in Surrey where the company's future vision of retail is... [30 Jun 2008]
Photos: Shopping just got high-tech
Photo The customer can take a picture of what they are wearing, send it to a social networking site and phone friends to get their opinions about the garment in question. A number of adventurous technologies were on display at the Retail Solutions Show... [27 Jun 2008]
Photos: Top tech for the festival season
Photo Picture credit: Orange Picture credit: O2 Picture credit: Orange Picture credit: Orange With the festival season kicking off with Glastonbury this weekend, silicon.com has brought together the most interesting tech O2 and Orange have come up with... [26 Jun 2008]
Photos: Bill Gates through the ages
Photo Shortly after this picture was taken the company signed a major contract with IBM to write software for a new line of computers. Not an auspicious start for a young William Gates who was caught speeding in Albuquerque, New Mexico in December 1977... [20 Jun 2008]
Photos: A snapshot of what HP's got up its sleeve
Photo This particular application allows people to select photos in their collection and create a picture collage. HP Labs focuses on research and development of new technology that can potentially join the HP product portfolio or be licensed to other... [09 Jun 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo This picture shows how stellar winds from the Orion galaxy bounce off a nearby sun. This month silicon.com editor Steve Ranger visited China for a behind the scenes tour of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and its technology. [30 May 2008]
Photos: Feeling chipper about green IT
Photo In this picture chippings from the woodshed floor pour into the plant to be burnt off. Burning wood might be a chip off the old block but it is something of a novel approach to green IT. Shelves of number-crunching servers at Rackspace Hosting's... [20 May 2008]
India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...
Photo Picture credit: Nick Heath Vehicles are fitted with five radar units and four control nodes and backed up by air picture trailers. From 2012 the Land Environment Air Picture Provision programme (Leapp) will pull together information from a range of... [29 Apr 2008]
Photos: Galileo's phase two goes into orbit
Photo Picture credit: ESA The second trial satellite (Giove-B) in the European Galileo satellite programme was launched in Kazakhstan at the weekend. It represents the next phase in the development of the satellite network the EU hopes will become the... [29 Apr 2008]
Photos: Nasa's top 10 on Earth
Photo This picture was taken in 2006. An eruption of Cleveland Volcano in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, which lasted only hours, was captured by an Expedition 13 crew member in 2006. Photo credit: Nasa Want more great photos? [24 Apr 2008]
Photos: Eavesdropping on the net
Photo Picture credit: Nick Heath Picture credit: Nick Heath Picture credit: Nick Heath to slightly less challenging queries, such as the pick-up line seen here. Picture credit: Nick Heath Picture credit: Nick Heath [07 Apr 2008]
Photos: Smart posters and the 'seeing eye phone'
Photo Tags can also be used to effortlessly transfer photos from phones to smart digital picture frames. Pictured is a stick-on NFC tag applied to the back of the picture frame (top right). An NFC tag could be programmed with a person's phone number and... [04 Apr 2008]
