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Photo Innovision, one of the companies involved in O2's six-month Oyster mobile wallet trial in London, has been showing off potential applications for NFC phones using its Topaz tag technology. Pictured here is Tata Consultancy Services' campus - the...
[29 Apr 2008]
Photo The second trial satellite (Giove-B) in the European Galileo satellite programme was launched in Kazakhstan at the weekend. It represents the next phase in the development of the satellite network the EU hopes will become the region's equivalent of...
[29 Apr 2008]
Photo Innovision is one of the companies involved in O2's six-month Oyster mobile wallet trial in London, which kicked off back in November. Near field communications (NFC) technology company Innovision, has been showing off its vision of a future where...
[04 Apr 2008]
Photo French train operator SNCF is running a trial of a wi-fi internet service onboard three TGV trains that travel eastbound from Paris via the Gare de l'Est station. Photo credit: Natasha Lomas TGV passengers on the wi-fi-equipped trains can use the...
[28 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 In space no one can hear your ringtone - something that could be a blessing from 2012 when Nasa and the British National Space Centre (BNSC) trial a mobile phone network on the moon. The joint Nasa/BNSC MoonLite mission, due to be launched after...
[25 Feb 2008]
Photo Heathrow Terminal 3 and Emirates airlines are running a six-month trial of tagging luggage with RFID chips on flights to and from Dubai. About 300,000 pieces of luggage are expected to be scanned during the course of the trial which will cost £150...
[14 Feb 2008]
Photo Dr Karyn Webster from the ARI, who is participating in the trial told silicon.com: "The support of healthcare delivery in remote and rural areas is a priority for the SCT, especially where the recruitment and retention of healthcare practitioners...
[08 Feb 2008]
Photo The trial system uses a five-megapixel camera and can handle a database of thousands of objects but currently struggles with more visually complex items such as clothes and vegetables. Gaps on shop shelves can cost large retailers more than $4bn-a...
[31 Jan 2008]
Photo Just this week, O2 and Nokia announced a mobile wallet trial in London, which will see hundreds of guinea pigs using NFC handsets to swipe in and out of London Underground and pay for low-value goods and services at participating retailers.
[03 Dec 2007]
Photo This phone box can be used by avatars to make calls to real world phones and will be launched as a beta trial. The iPod Touch features touchscreen controls, much like the iPhone, and the previous version - now available with 160GB - has been...
[27 Sep 2007]
Photo Most of the services are currently just demonstrations of the possibilities of the technology, although BT is planning to launch the phone box as a beta trial to collect usage statistics. BT is developing services that could allow users of virtual...
[13 Sep 2007]
Photo This month silicon.com visited an annual field trial running military scenarios and testing tech such as the Skynet 5 satellite-based comms and VoIP phones as part of the military's Falcon project. The ING Renault Formula One team has opened up an...
[27 Jun 2007]
Photo It is an annual field trial which runs military scenarios over three weeks to put the tested technologies in context and uses employees from industry and the military to help out with the demo. In a small field near Portsmouth, a war has been...
[14 Jun 2007]
Photo Tube Lines is also considering a trial of Skype using the handhelds. Tube Lines is the consortium responsible for the maintenance and upgrade of all the infrastructure on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines under a 30-year contract with...
[01 May 2007]
Photo April 2006: While travelling through France, silicon.com's Jo Best stopped at the city of Caen in Normandy to find out how the city's trial of near field communications (NFC) tech - the largest trial to date - is going.
[20 Dec 2006]
Photo The miSense trial at London's Heathrow Airport will use biometric fingerprint and iris scans to screen air passengers on selected Emirates and Cathay Pacific flights to and from Dubai and Hong Kong. One aim of the trial is to test the feasibility...
[06 Dec 2006]
Photo Wessex Water Enterprises will soon start a trial in Bournemouth to test the technology installed in the drains by H20 Networks. It's a common sight - streets ripped up so companies can lay cable. But now sewage pipes are being enlisted to bring...
[16 Nov 2006]
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 The trial - run over the school half-term holiday in October - was put together over three months by the Historic Royal Palaces and HP Labs. It makes history fun, and we are keen as an organisation to trial innovative technologies.
[10 Nov 2006]
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