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Photos: Second Life gets down to business
Photo You can watch a feed of the latest news on the screen in the atrium or pick up a head-up display for your avatar which you can then use to keep up to date with real world news while roving around the rest of Second Life. [31 Oct 2008]
Minority Report: 10 Apple patents to watch
Photo Chances are this is one for the bin, as Steve Jobs has complained about devices which dedicate half of their physical 'real estate' to input, whether the function in focus needs it or not. Perhaps more than any tech... [28 Oct 2008]
Gadget Watch: T-Mobile G1
Photo While we're not in love with the design and would have liked some additional features, the real beauty of the T-Mobile G1 is the Google Android platform, as it has the potential to make smart phones more personal and... [24 Oct 2008]
Photos: Five virtual worlds you need to know about
Photo Twinity is all about recreating real world cities in 3D, with Berlin being the first metropolis to be reborn virtually. Qwaq is essentially a virtual office where teams within organisations can work together even if they... [21 Oct 2008]
Photos: IBM's store of the future
Photo Here the site architecture is organised into real-world processes that acknowledge the sale needs to be registered in both store and supply chain systems when the order is made. The IBM business development centre in... [08 Oct 2008]
Photos: Exploring virtual shipwrecks
Photo The aim of the Venus project is to digitally recreate Europe's shipwrecks before they become eroded and therefore impossible to explore for real. Ever wanted to explore Europe's shipwrecks without donning your wetsuit? [25 Sep 2008]
Photos: A dip into Bletchley's classic PC archive
Photo It is the only real British computer company to survive. One of the museum's exhibits displays the best of British personal computing through the ages. Here, silcon.com takes an exclusive look at some of the exhibits. [03 Sep 2008]
Photos: Latest BlackBerry Boldly arrives in UK
Photo But business customers on these shores will shortly be able to get their hands on the 3.5G device, via T-Mobile UK, which is pledging 'real world' maximum speeds of 4.5Mbps. RIM's latest addition to the BlackBerry... [11 Aug 2008]
Photos: Future car tech at the British Motor Show
Photo Despite the presence of such exotica, one of the real stars of the show was the Honda Clarity FCX, potentially the first ever commercially viable fuel cell car. This is the Koenigsegg CCR - one of the fastest and rarest... [25 Jul 2008]
Photos: It's virtual everything in Cisco's future
Photo In future, the company envisages the virtual assistant being able to act more like a real PA - booking meetings, issuing reminders, scanning emails for important information and conducting internet research. [16 Jul 2008]
Photos: Shopping just got high-tech
Photo The real issue isn't the technology's strengths but the cost of deploying so many ESELs around a store. The show covers all aspects of retail technology, from IP VPNs, to plain old cash registers. Some of the... [27 Jun 2008]
Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments
Photo Gates played the popular computer game Guitar Hero while Slash played the real thing. 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: Steve Jobs dances the iPhone 3G tune
Photo A demo of Major League Baseball's At-Bat on the iPhone showed real-time video highlights from a Yankees-Royals game. Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced a new version of Apple's popular iPhone last night at the company's... [10 Jun 2008]
Photos: Feeling chipper about green IT
Photo Loewe said in a statement: "Rackspace is committed to being energy efficient and making a real and positive difference to the environment. Burning wood might be a chip off the old block but it is something of a novel... [20 May 2008]
Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle
Photo Alongside ultrasound, light detection and ranging technologies, the aerial unit in this entry will carry a camera that streams near-real-time imagery to the operator, who can direct the angle of the camera with just head... [06 May 2008]
