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Photos: Take a tour through BT's 'secret WWII tunnels'
Photo In the mid-1950s, the Post Office installed a trunk exchange in the tunnels. This time, the Post Office took over the Kingsway facility and kept hold of it until the facility is transferred to BT in... [20 Oct 2008]
Photos: 60 years of NHS tech
Photo What is now BT was part of the General Post Office when the NHS started in 1948. The NHS celebrated its 60th birthday on 5 July. BT has been providing technology to the service since 1948 and has released some... [09 Jul 2008]
Photos: Welcome to futuristic shopping
Photo This is a self service system already being used by Jersey Post. silicon.com visited Fujitsu's Customer Experience Centre in Middlesex to see the Japanese company's vision for the future of retail. Fujitsu retail... [04 Jun 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum in London. [30 May 2008]
Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
Photo The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum in London. [01 May 2008]
Photos: Eavesdropping on the net
Photo The Listening Post at the Science Museum in London captures snapshots of fractured conversation from thousands of public chatrooms and bulletin boards. Listening Post debuted in late 2002 in New York,... [07 Apr 2008]
Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine
Photo The original Colossus machine was built using more than 1,500 valves by Post Office engineer Tommy Flowers to speed up the breaking of German codes - in particular that of the Lorenz cipher. Bletchley Park was the secret... [18 Mar 2008]
Photos: MoD unveils £80m IT health programme
Photo Pictured is a mock-up of an aid post which the MoD would deploy on a battlefield. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has unveiled an £80m electronic military medical records system. The system, due to be fully rolled out by... [02 Aug 2007]
Photos: Unearthing the zero-carbon data centre
Photo The Smartbunker is getting a facelift from its post-RAF radar station days. The data centre has been built 100 metres underground in a former-RAF radar station. The so-called Smartbunker's zero carbon branding simply... [03 Jul 2007]
Photos: High tech vans map out Europe
Photo Examples include Deutsche Post, which supplies house number information, and databases belonging to Ordnance Survey and National Land Survey. The Dutch company is one of two major European mapping organisations - the... [21 May 2007]
Caption Competition: Google 2.0
Photo The winning entry, from Matthew Howell was the charmingly post modern "Insert User Generated Caption Here". This competition is now closed. [20 Apr 2007]
Photos: The business boat race
Photo The website - due to be launched in two months' time - will feature a virtual timeline split into minutes with each one available to be bought by users for around $1 to post memorable moments in their lives. [21 Feb 2007]
Photos: MOT database targets illegal cars
Photo Once a vehicle has been tested using the new MOT system, the owner will no longer need to take their MOT certificate to the Post Office when re-licensing their vehicle. Instead when the owner applies for Road Tax, the... [07 Apr 2006]
Photos: BT Tower at 40
Photo Originally known as the Post Office Tower, it was the UK's highest building at the time, standing 189 metres tall including a 12 metre London Weather Centre radar mast. The BT Tower, one of London's most famous... [10 Oct 2005]
