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Photos: Welcome to Satyam's R&D labs
Photo Passing through the soothing blue glow of a giant neon tube sets the tone perfectly for outsourcer Satyam's R&D facility in Chennai, south-east India. Stepping out of the tube, visitors immediately find themselves standing on a giant image, a... [19 May 2008]
Photos: £1,000 reward for PM's fingerprints
Photo The elaborate stunt has been dreamt up by anti-ID cards campaigners No2ID and Privacy International, who will put up posters in tube stations and pub toilets. Wild West-style wanted posters will offer a £1,000 reward for anyone capturing the... [07 Apr 2008]
Photos: Modern computing balancing on the head of a pin?
Photo The transistor was invented by Bell Labs scientists John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley to replace the vacuum tube. They don't make them like this anymore - silicon.com casts an eye back over the ever-shrinking transistor, the... [29 Jan 2008]
Photos: Hamburg's high tech hospital
Photo This shows the system used to introduce the compounds to the test tube racks. The screens at the top showing each test tube being filled. Dr Carsten Pohlmann, chief neurology physician at Barmbek, explains how his job has been made much easier... [18 Oct 2007]
Photos: The rise of the luxury mobile
Photo Dubbed the Serenata, the 3.5G mobile phone offers a built-in stereo loudspeaker system which its manufacturer claims delivers 'outstanding sound quality without distortion' - so no more tinny tunes on the Tube. [10 Oct 2007]
Photos: RFID, tablets, handhelds - going down the Tube
Photo 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 London Underground. Tube Lines is involved in a massive improvement... [01 May 2007]
Photos: iPod and BlackBerry lost property mountain
Photo Transport for London's (TfL) lost property office covers two entire floors beneath Baker Street Tube station and stores any items left on the underground, on London's buses, in black cabs and on the Docklands Light Railway. [04 Dec 2006]
Photos: RFID tickets track football fans
Photo Fulham's IT chief Matthew McGrory said the club will be trialling the smartcards for e-cash purchases for the shops at the stadium, as well as a possible tie-up with London Underground to enable fans to get cheaper tube tickets on match days... [15 Nov 2006]
Photos: Roll-up, roll-up, for the roll-up laptop
Photo The material shown here is a copper alloy, with its structure distorted to produce either two shapes: a flat screen or tube structure. Welcome to the screen you can slot in your pocket. A team of engineers at the University of Cambridge have... [25 Sep 2006]
A photo guide to London's wi-fi pubs
Photo Handy for Blackfriars or Temple tube station, it's a decent enough place to kill some time catching up on emails with a pint.map) A Fuller's pub just yards from the Tower of London and only a short walk from Tower Bridge, Tower Hill and Monument... [31 Aug 2006]
Photos: Inside Heathrow's Terminal 5
Photo The Piccadilly Tube line will run through this tunnel. Welcome to Heathrow Airport Terminal 5. When finished in March 2008, the £4.2bn project will accommodate 35 million passengers every year - half of the 70 million people the other terminals serve. [20 Feb 2006]
Photos: Inside this year's MacExpo
Photo Even the local tube station has taken on a distinctly Apple-themed air. This year's MacExpo - the gathering for all things Mac and iPod related - is being held at the Olympia centre in London's Kensington and will run until Saturday. [28 Oct 2005]
