testing in photos
Photos: Emerging tech from location-based services to social networking
Photo AT&T is testing recommendation engines for television shows, movies, and music. AT&T Labs in San Francisco opened its doors on Thursday to show off its Emerging Devices division, as well as some research projects around... [09 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo Since Google launched its Wave collaboration platform this year businesses have been testing how they can make use of the system. Google Wave is currently in a testing phase but when it goes live towards... [02 Nov 2009]
Photos: Inside Big Blue's big green datacentre
Photo The centre is beta testing an upcoming version of its Tivoli monitoring software, which can take the data and allow workers to manage energy required to cool and run the datacentre. This datacentre is also... [22 Sep 2009]
Photos: Driverless pod cars offer a glimpse of the future of transport
Photo Here's one of the pod cars in action on one of the tracks at ATS's testing facility near Cardiff. One of the pod cars make its way over a car park during testing at Heathrow. From next year, travellers... [13 Aug 2009]
Photos: The tech timetable to the 2012 Olympics revealed
Photo According to the roadmap for the second half of this year, pictured above, Atos Origin will have completed work on the designing and testing of the Games' complex mesh of technology infrastructure and systems by the end... [24 Jul 2009]
Photos: Virtual fighting force takes over shopping centre
Photo As well as testing their mettle in simulated warfare, visitors to the army showroom in the Treaty Centre in Hounslow tried out army equipment and chatted to serving soldiers. Laser weapon ranges and virtual battlefield... [21 May 2009]
Photos: Doctor, doctor - your receptionist looks like a touchscreen
Photo Currently, the Camberwell Sexual Health Centre at King's College Hospital already has its own separate touchscreen registration system and self-service machines allowing people to obtain free condoms, pregnancy testing... [23 Apr 2009]
Photos: Take a tour of the Olympic Park
Photo BT recently revealed it is investing 640,000 man hours in building and testing the network infrastructure for the 2012 Olympics. Teams of techies and construction crews are working around the clock to transform this... [18 Mar 2009]
Photos: From robot teachers to Microsoft Surface
Photo The robot's creator, Jim Wyatt, told silicon.com that 10 UK schools are currently testing out ED-E in the classroom. Forget laptops - tomorrow's classrooms could be getting their lessons from robots. This is ED-E, a... [19 Jan 2009]
Photos: The world's fastest supercomputers revealed
Photo The system hit 478.2 teraflops per second and is used to check the safety, security and reliability of the stockpile of US nuclear weapons without the need to carry out underground testing. The colossi of computing took... [17 Nov 2008]
ID cards, driverless buses and virtual shipwrecks
Photo Photo credit: UC Berkeley silicon.com got a behind-the-scenes look at Sun Microsystems' manufacturing and testing facility near Edinburgh in Scotland. This is one of the testing rooms where businesses... [02 Oct 2008]
Photos: IBM from Spitfires to Sphynxes
Photo What is now a conference hall on the ground floor was at that time used as a testing bay for Rolls Royce Merlin engines. The IBM development laboratory at Hursley House celebrates its 50th birthday this month. [19 Sep 2008]
Photos: Sun's manufacturing and test centre
Photo Sun Microsystems recently opened the doors to its Linlithgow manufacturing and testing facility near Edinburgh in Scotland.silicon.com went to check out what the company does at the facility and to see the opening of its... [12 Sep 2008]
Photos: Inmarsat satellite lifts off
Photo The I-4 is still in need of thorough testing before it can be put into geostationary orbit to circle the Earth's equator. The Proton Breeze M rocket has successfully launched the third Inmarsat-4 (I-4) satellite, which... [20 Aug 2008]
Photos: Future car tech at the British Motor Show
Photo Around 200 FCXs have been built with selected customers currently testing them in Japan and southern California. This is the Koenigsegg CCR - one of the fastest and rarest cars in the world - on display at this week's... [25 Jul 2008]