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Photos: High-tech Bangalore

Photo It's not all work and there is time for some play. 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...

Tags: bangalore, wipro

[02 Apr 2008]

Photos: Android, high-tech Heathrow, the future of shopping

Photos: Android, high-tech Heathrow, the future of shopping

Photo Tapping on the screens allows people to access information or video, navigate menus or play games. Photo credit: Natasha Lomas Hundreds of bags wait to be loaded into the high tech baggage system at Heathrow's brand new Terminal 5.

Tags: heathrow, mobile world congress, android, rfid

[28 Feb 2008]

Photos: The high-tech future of retail

Photo Shoppers can interact with the system, play games and enter their details. The latest innovations in tech for retailers were showcased at the Retail Business Show held at the Olympia in West London earlier this month.

Tags: retail, contactless payments, tablet, payment

[15 Feb 2008]

Photos: Google Android comes out to play

Photo Texas Instruments drew the crowds to their booth at Mobile World Congress by demonstrating a prototype phone running Google's Android software platform. Photo credit: Natasha Lomas The prototype was iPod white and had a full Qwerty keyboard.

Tags: mwc, android, google, handset

[15 Feb 2008]

Photos: Accenture gets touchy feely with its interactive wall

Photo Tapping on the screens allows people to access information or video, navigate menus or play games. There were shades of sci-fi film Minority Report as Accenture showed off its 'interactive wall' at its Technology labs in France.

Tags: future, touch, accenture, interactive

[01 Feb 2008]

Photos: Apple flying high at Macworld

Photo Mac fans could get a taste of samba at the Belkin booth, where Quetzal Guerrero and Gustavo Angeles play into Belkin's TuneStudio, a portable tuner made for the iPod. The Apple display at Macworld 2008 features MacBook Airs - the latest addition to...

Tags: steve jobs, ipod, apple, mac

[17 Jan 2008]

Caption Competition: Splish splash!

Photo It only seems to play wav files. This competition is now closed. The winning entry, from silicon.com reader Robin Jones, was "I'm taking this back. Photo credit: OverBoard

Tags: prizes, caption competition, reader comments, address

[09 Nov 2007]

Photos: Hamburg's high tech hospital

Photo This is the Asklepios Klinik Barmbek in Hamburg.silicon.com went to take a look at how the hospital's IT and medical team have been collaborating and how Intel - through its Digital Health programme - is working to make technology play a greater...

Tags: rfid, tablet, wireless, hospital

[18 Oct 2007]

Photos: BT talks big on virtual worlds

Photo To test the technology it has built a private island (above) in Second Life which it has dubbed Area 21 - a play on the ultra-secret Area 51 and BT's 21CN network technology which is being used in the services.

Tags: mobile, second life, bt

[13 Sep 2007]

Photos: Apple unveils new iPods

Photo The Nano is thinner but now has a wider screen to play video. Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the new range of iPods in San Francisco this week. The launch event was screened live to the UK media at BBC TV Centre in London.

Tags: touchscreen, steve jobs, ipod, apple

[06 Sep 2007]

Photos: Top Gun goes virtual

Photo This demonstration version is part of the 30 month, £7.8m project and will play host to several test events over the coming months to establish the real benefits of the tech for the military. Virtual worlds are all the rage at the moment for...

Tags: training, military, raf, mod

[08 Jun 2007]

Photos: Schoolkids develop games to aid learning

Photo Scientists are developing software which allows school children to build their own computer games - in a bid to improve their creative and IT skills. The 'Adventure Author' software, currently being developed at the Heriot-Watt University in...

Tags: school, computer games, children online, kids

[23 Jan 2007]

Photos: Vintage arcade games... revealed

Photos: Vintage arcade games... revealed

Photo the game was a commercial failure as people complained it was too difficult to play. Imagine having this in your front room. It's the PDP-1, the system which ran the first-ever computer game. Built by the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1960, the...

Tags: computer games

[28 Nov 2006]

Photos: Top 10 pieces of Linux kit

Photo And if you're wondering quite why you'd want to put Linux on your MP3 player, it's worth noting that changing to an open source operating system means you can play the game Doom on your iPod as a result.

Tags: ipod, watch, robot, linux

[22 Nov 2006]

Caption competition 3: More than your Jobs worth?

Photo Can I Sing the Theme Tune, Write the Theme Tune, Play the Theme Tune? This competition is now closed. But below is a list of the best captions including the winning entry. WINNER: Apple unveils new iPods for people with massive hands.

[10 Nov 2006]

Photos: Tower of London trials virtual escapes

Photo The game's Mediascapes technology was developed by HP Labs and has also been used for a two-hour walking tour of Yosemite national park in the US and for Riot 1831, an interactive, location-based play using voices to re-create the atmosphere and...

Tags: hp labs, tower of london

[10 Nov 2006]

Photos: Vista behind the scenes

Photos: Vista behind the scenes

Photo When they aren't compiling code or fixing bugs, guests can play Xbox 360 games or try their hand at darts. A display in Building 3 - the home of the Windows marketing team - highlights Windows Vista. Microsoft makes extensive use of ads within its...

Tags: windows vista, vista

[09 Nov 2006]

Photos: Second Life - whose HQ can you view?

Photo There's also mini radio-controlled cars to play with here. Second Life, the virtual world created by Linden Labs now has nearly 1.2 million players (or 'residents') and $500,000 is spent on products and services there every day.

Tags: second life, sony bmg, sony

[01 Nov 2006]

Photos of the month - October 06

Photo CSR is child's play: Salesforce met Ground Force as silicon.com managing editor Will Sturgeon joined Salesforce.com's Salesforce Foundation on a project in San Francisco that saw a run-down piece of land transformed into a colourful and safe...

Tags: salesforce.com, salesforce, hp, hp labs

[31 Oct 2006]

Photos: Proof that CSR is child's <strong>play</strong>

Photos: Proof that CSR is child's play

Photo Kaboom has worked with other high-tech companies such as CA on similar projects and has a commitment to providing all children with a safe place to play within walking distance of their home. Recently silicon.com managing editor Will Sturgeon...

Tags: csr, salesforce.com, salesforce

[10 Oct 2006]

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