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Photo silicon.com has been given a behind-the-scenes tour of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games venues and technology infrastructure. This is the Beijing National Stadium - also known as the 'Bird's Nest'. It will seat 91,000 during the games and be used for...
[07 May 2008]
Photo The cutting-edge Masternaut Three X telematics system allows a control centre to track 20 gritter lorries that keep a 178km stretch of the M4 motorway in South Wales clear of snow and ice. Pictured here is Tata Consultancy Services' campus - the...
[29 Apr 2008]
Photo The cutting-edge Masternaut Three X telematics system allows a control centre - pictured above - to track 20 gritter lorries that keep a 178km stretch of the M4 motorway in South Wales clear of snow and ice.
[09 Apr 2008]
Photo Find out how tech is keeping the team on track in our photo story. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from various malicious programmes. This creation pictured is from a phishing program.
[27 Mar 2008]
Photo Meanwhile, Heathrow's Terminal 3 and Emirates Airlines are running a trial of RFID technology to keep track of baggage on flights to and from Dubai. The biggest mobile trade show in the world, aptly called Mobile World Congress 2008, took place in...
[28 Feb 2008]
Photo Webcams are attached to each screen which are linked to a computer and track the movement of fingers on the display's surface - doing away with the need for a touch-sensitive coating. There were shades of sci-fi film Minority Report as Accenture...
[01 Feb 2008]
Photo They don't make them like this anymore - silicon.com casts an eye back over the ever-shrinking transistor, the invention that became the cornerstone of computing and the modern world. This is one of the first transistors, a replica of which has...
[29 Jan 2008]
Photo This photo shows a system developed by the Microsoft Research team in Cambridge, where the car learns how to drive around a track within a computer game. 2007 has seen a bumper crop of top tech photos from silicon.com, including the Apple iPod and...
[13 Dec 2007]
Photo You can then keep track of the items you have in stock. This photo shows a system developed by the Microsoft Research team in Cambridge, where the car learns how to drive around a track within a computer game.
[06 Dec 2007]
Photo This is the impressive 1868 façade of St Pancras train station in London. The station is nearing completion after a 10 year renovation project making it into London's Eurostar terminal, which will take over from Waterloo on 14 November.
[08 Oct 2007]
Photo The new version of GarageBand lets you create a customised background track for your vocals or instrumental prowess using several different templates, such as rock, blues, jazz, Latin or reggae. There will be two 20-inch iMacs with different...
[08 Aug 2007]
Photo It is being used to record the location of faults spotted during the track inspection. The consortium looks after 255 trains, 100 stations, 2,395 bridges and structures, 71 lifts, 227 escalators and more than 200 miles of track.
[01 May 2007]
Photo The system is supplied by vendor Progress and uses natural language search to help shoppers track down their desired tomes. While the decision to destroy the tags safeguards shoppers' privacy - tags cannot be read once the book is purchased - it...
[16 Apr 2007]
Photo AT&T is providing networking services to the team to support data transfer and communications between track and factory. With technology and Formula One more closely associated than ever, silicon.com went along to the launch of the 2007 Williams F1...
[19 Mar 2007]
Photo As Bangalore fills up, many companies are looking at Pune because of its strong track-record in education as the 'Oxford of India'. Earlier this month silicon.com's Steve Ranger visited Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore to investigate the...
[13 Mar 2007]
Photo The system can then be controlled via the stereo system, with several options to change tracks and playlists, although the track and artist names only appear on the iPod. In-car tech is changing rapidly with satellite navigation systems, DVD...
[01 Feb 2007]
Photo Another upcoming application is the Inventory Management System (IMS), which is responsible for keeping track of the location of all items stored on-board the ISS. Astronauts living on the International Space Station (ISS) will soon be using PDAs...
[29 Jan 2007]
Photo London-based Premiership football club Fulham has started issuing RFID-enabled smartcards to fans, following a successful trial of the technology at a pre-season friendly game against Portuguese club Boavista this summer.
[15 Nov 2006]
Photo Built to track the Telstar satellite, it also received the first live transatlantic television broadcasts from the US. The dishes of Goonhilly This is the first dish built at the Goonhilly satellite station in Cornwall.
[31 Aug 2006]
Photo This is the first antenna constructed, known as Arthur, which was built to track the Telstar satellite and received the first live transatlantic television broadcasts from the United States in 1962. This is Guinevere, aka Goonhilly 3, one of the...
[22 Aug 2006]
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