workers in photos
Photos: Wi-fi in the great outdoors
Photo Desk space could be booked for two hours at a time - and there was also a boardroom and 'creative zone' up for grabs where office workers could indulge in a little 'blue sky thinking'.silicon.com reporters Natasha Lomas and Tim Ferguson went down... [08 Jul 2008]
Photos: Beijing Olympics 2008 - tech keeping the games on track
Photo Each testing team includes workers from Atos Origin, the Beijing Olympic organising committee and other partners such as Omega. silicon.com has been given a behind-the-scenes tour of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games venues and technology infrastructure. [07 May 2008]
Photos: India 999
Photo All calls are directed to the EMRI call centre, which employs 4,382 workers directing some 600 ambulances in response to 1.6 million emergencies each year. The Indian government will help fund the rollout of a scheme created by an Indian... [01 May 2008]
India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...
Photo HP is targeting the mini laptop market with this sub-£300 offering aimed at mobile workers and school children. This month silicon.com senior reporter Nick Heath visited India to check out the high-tech goings on in Hyderabad and Chennai. [29 Apr 2008]
Photos: HP squeezes into the dinky laptop market
Photo HP is bringing a sub-£300 laptop to Blighty - with an eye on mobile workers and kids in classrooms. The HP 2133 Mini-Note PC has an 8.9-inch screen and an anodised aluminium shell. WLAN comes as standard with Bluetooth an optional extra. [11 Apr 2008]
Photos: Future tech at Microsoft Innovation day
Photo It can also be used to allow healthcare workers to monitor patients and interact with them without visiting as frequently, or to provide social interactions for people who may not be able to leave the house as much as they would like. [06 Dec 2007]
Photos: Are you part of The IT Crowd?
Photo Linehan said the characters are not a fair representation of IT workers because "fairness isn't funny". The IT Crowd is a sitcom about a group of social misfits which make up the IT support team in the dingy basement of a successful company in London. [12 Oct 2007]
Photos: IBM lifts the lid on web 2.0 tech
Photo The idea is for IBM workers to use Metaverse to communicate with each other and share ideas. Above is the Hursley House, the stately home in which IBM's UK R&D operations are based. The Spitfire engine was developed here by previous occupants... [07 Aug 2007]
Photos: Technology at the heart of Terminal 5
Photo Above - two workers connect one of the customer bag drop points to the state-of-the-art baggage handling system. Terminal 5 (T5) is the first new terminal to be built at Heathrow for more than twenty years - and includes some cutting-edge... [17 Jul 2007]
Photos of the month: April 2007
Photo Bangalore tech workers get up to at the weekend. Above, a traveller on his way to the airport accesses the wi-fi now available on all Heathrow Express trains running to and from Paddington. The service provides broadband access - at speeds of up to... [27 Apr 2007]
Photos of the month - March 2007
Photo Microsoft unveiled a 'tailored' version of its Windows operating system to be used by NHS workers. See what other apps are helping health workers here. Here are some billboards advertising luxury apartments on the way into Pune, many of which will... [02 Apr 2007]
Photos: High-tech on the streets of Pune
Photo Billboards advertising luxury apartments on the way into Pune - many of these apartments will be sold to the IT workers in town. Earlier this month silicon.com's Steve Ranger visited Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore to investigate the Indian... [13 Mar 2007]
Photos: First look at Microsoft's NHS software
Photo Microsoft has unveiled a 'tailored' version of its Windows operating system to be used by National Health Service workers. The Common User Interface (CUI) is only halfway through its four year development project but Microsoft has been showing off... [08 Mar 2007]
Photos: The first Windows Vista computers
Photo Aimed at mobile "information workers", the Portege R400 comes with the all-singing Windows Vista Ultimate edition. Microsoft unveiled the first new PCs and laptops designed for the Windows Vista operating system at the annual Consumer Electronics... [10 Jan 2007]
Photos: Get your Bluetooth into 007's style
Photo Among those already trialling digital pens is Leeds City Council, which is rolling out digital paper and pens to 1,300 social care workers in a bid to save £1.2m by 2008. Social workers in Greenwich, meanwhile, have been trialling a digital pen and... [20 Nov 2006]
