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Photos: Google Earth issues stark climate change warning
Photo Since the 1950s Lake Chapala, Mexico's largest natural lake, has declined, as has its surrounding wetland area, one of the most important in the region. Google Earth is painting in stark colours how climate change will... [22 May 2008]
Photos: Galileo's phase two goes into orbit
Photo It represents the next phase in the development of the satellite network the EU hopes will become the region's equivalent of GPS. The second trial satellite (Giove-B) in the European Galileo satellite programme was... [29 Apr 2008]
Photos: Nasa's top 10 on Earth
Photo This volcanic region of Saudi Arabia is known as Harrat Khaybar, as seen in a photo taken this year. An eruption of Cleveland Volcano in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, which lasted only hours, was captured by an... [24 Apr 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo Here the team sits with their equipment which they are using to measure the effect of climate change on the fragile region. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from various... [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: Five mobile gadgets for cops
Photo Automating the process means inspectors can focus wholly on working onsite on more properties across their region - which could mean more lives are saved through improved preventative measures. Police forces and other... [27 Nov 2007]
Photos: IBM lifts the lid on web 2.0 tech
Photo By taking information from various databases, QEDWiki allows the freight company create a mash-up to locate ships, see what the weather is like in the vicinity of the different vessels and monitor pirate activity in the... [07 Aug 2007]
Photos: The future of videoconferencing
Photo After that the plan is to offer TelePresence suites as a service to Regus customers in the region of $300 to $500 per hour per room. Videoconferencing has had many false dawns over the last couple of decades because of... [26 Jul 2007]
Photos: RNLI floats new pager system
Photo The rollout of the Swissphone DE920 pagers (pictured) began in February 2007 in the RNLI North region - covering the area from North Berwick to Skegness in the North East of England, and Silloth to West Kirby in the... [02 May 2007]
Photos: Inside Dell's Irish build-to-order factory
Photo The Limerick factory builds all the systems for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region and some for other parts of the world. The Dell manufacturing facility in Limerick, Ireland is one of seven factories where Dell... [04 Nov 2005]
