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Photos: Cutting edge art at the National Gallery

Photo This shows two paintings believed to have been commissioned at the same time as Leonardo Da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks but which researchers think were painted by other artists. The image shown is of the head of the Virgin Mary on Leonardo Da...

Tags: london, x-ray, images, hp

[16 May 2008]

Photos: The high-tech future of retail

Photo The product has already been used at London stores, including Virgin Megastore and Superdrug. Sainsbury's and Virgin have both used this equipment to promote goods. The latest innovations in tech for retailers were showcased at the Retail Business...

Tags: retail, contactless payments, tablet, payment

[15 Feb 2008]

Photos: Heathrow bags RFID tech to end lost luggage

Photo Terminal 3 is undergoing gradual refurbishment and the Virgin Atlantic check-in area, seen here, has been recently completed. About 300,000 pieces of luggage are expected to be scanned during the course of the trial which will cost £150,000.

Tags: rfid, luggage, heathrow, trial

[14 Feb 2008]

Photos of the month - January 2008

Photo Sir Richard Branson unveiled the latest vehicle with which he hopes Virgin Galactic can make space tourism a viable pastime. Here's the pilot of SpaceShipOne, Brian Binnie, in the simulator for the Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, which was unveiled...

Tags: speech, picture, credit, history

[30 Jan 2008]

Photos: Virgin goes Galactic for SpaceShipTwo

Photo Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson (left) and Scaled Composites CEO Burt Rutan show off the final design for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo at New York's American Museum of Natural History. Virgin Galactic hopes it will make its first flight...

Tags: plane, virgin, space, founder

[24 Jan 2008]

Photos: Celebrating the top CIOs

Photo Virgin group CIO Gareth Lewis (left) chats to Norwich Union CIO Alex Robinson (right) at the silicon.com CIO50 launch party. silicon.com launched the CIO50 list of the UK's top 50 most influential and innovative CIOs at an exclusive private party...

Tags: cio50

[13 Jun 2007]

Photos: HP helps art classics reclaim streets of Soho

Photo Here Leonardo da Vinci's 'Virgin of the rocks' has its own velvet rope, on a street in Soho. Reproductions of priceless masterpieces by some of the world's greatest artists are being hung in the streets of London for all to see.

Tags: art, hp

[12 Jun 2007]

Photos: How GNER's on-board wi-fi works

Photos: How GNER's on-board wi-fi works

Photo On the west coast line, Virgin is experimenting with a mix of wi-fi, HSDPA, non-standard WiMax and satellite technology to allow passengers to browse from their seat. GNER's on-board wi-fi works using a combination of a satellite link and mobile 3G...

Tags: gner, wi-fi

[27 Jul 2006]

Photos: Highlights from the silicon.com CIO Forum

Photo Tony Johnson, IT director at Virgin Megastores, (far left on the panel), said: "We've been trying for some time to do security tagging. George Polk, the founder of The Cloud, delivering the keynote to a packed room of delegates, said Skype is a...

Tags: linux tie, cio forum

[28 Sep 2005]

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