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Photos: Game over for boring business training
Photo The online version of the game posts the player's score on the web, allowing trainees to compare their business skills. Kevin Farrar, skills leader for IBM UK and Ireland - which funded the game - said:... [08 Sep 2009]
Photos: Bowled over by high-tech cricket at Lords
Photo Lords also has a cricket school in which international players can hone their bowling and batting skills and school kids can learn the basics of the game. This is the main pavilion at Lords cricket ground in north London... [25 Mar 2009]
Skills Survey 2008 in pictures
Photo Has the IT skills crisis turned a corner? Results from the 10th annual silicon.com Skills Survey show a decline in the number of unfilled IT vacancies for the first time in years, suggesting the... [16 Dec 2008]
Photos: A dip into Bletchley's classic PC archive
Photo It allowed a computer to be produced for under £100 so many more people could buy the machine and develop their computing skills and develop computing as a quality British industry. The UK's cash-strapped National Museum... [03 Sep 2008]
Photos: The jet pack blasts off
Photo Martin hovered off the ground, pictured, and showed off his aeronautical skills to rapturous applause at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2008, one of the world's biggest air shows in Wisconsin in the US. Man's obsession with... [01 Aug 2008]
Bill Gates, iPhone 2.0, mini laptops and much more...
Photo Here he demonstrates his weightlifting skills with Hollywood actor Matthew McConaughey in a video shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. This month silicon.com looked at tech being used at the summer music... [30 Jun 2008]
Photos: The new-look $100 laptop
Photo It's only through access to education that young people will be able to develop the skills necessary to compete globally and to develop the solutions required to break the cycles of poverty, disease and malnutrition. [21 May 2008]
Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action
Photo Charles Babbage was widely considered to be lacking managerial skills to get his machine built. Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View,... [12 May 2008]
Photos: High-tech Bangalore
Photo Some of the technical skills taught are seen here in these 'talent transformation' books. This is the home of one of India's biggest IT companies, Wipro, at the Electronics City high-tech business park in Bangalore,... [02 Apr 2008]
Photos of the month - October 2007
Photo Monday 15 October was the date for the fourth annual silicon.com CIO Forum - which brought together the cream of the UK's IT bosses for a conference on the theme of tech skills. The software behemoth was showing off a... [31 Oct 2007]
Photos: UK tech leaders gather for the CIO Forum
Photo As part of the event, delegates were invited to take part in an interactive poll on questions concerning IT skills, recruitment and staff retention. Here's Tony Hallett, editor and site director of silicon.com, as he... [16 Oct 2007]
Photos: Are you part of The IT Crowd?
Photo Moss and Roy are the two stereotypical socially inept geeks in The IT Crowd who have been respectively banished to the basement for their lack of social skills and abrasive manner. After exaggerating her IT... [12 Oct 2007]
Photos: 'Top Gun course' for submarine hunters
Photo The Advanced Acoustic Analysis Course (AAAC) - commonly referred to as the "A" course - takes experienced sonar operators and aims to buff up their skills to enable them to make quick decisions when detecting and... [22 Aug 2007]
Photos: Outsourcing to Russia
Photo Red Square, the colourful St Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin may be the traditional image of Russia but the country is also investing in a series of technology parks - such as one at Dubna, 120km outside Moscow - as it bids for a slice... [15 Feb 2007]
Photos of the month - January 2007
Photo Encouraging schoolchildren to use computer games may sound like a no-brainer but scientists are developing software that allows kids to build their own games - in a bid to improve their creative and IT skills. [31 Jan 2007]
