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Photos: Qualcomm's Snapdragon-powered Android smartbook on show
Photo This week saw chipmaker Qualcomm taking the wraps off a range of hardware powered by its Snapdragon platform. Among the devices on show was this Lenovo smartbook (pictured above and below) which runs the Google Android OS. [20 Nov 2009]
Photos: Apple's latest Big Apple store
Photo Here's a look inside Apple's latest Manhattan store in New York US. Photo: Sarah Tew/CNET Except for the marble supporting walls, it's mostly glass, with an all-glass roof. Photo: Sarah Tew/CNET Apple's iconic logo on the glass. [19 Nov 2009]
Photos: Nokia debuts full-Qwerty E72 business smartphone
Photo Not every smartphone has a touchscreen - as Nokia's latest device shows. The E72, pictured above, is the latest addition to Nokia's business-focused Eseries line-up. The device, launched today, will initially only be available through... [18 Nov 2009]
Photos: How Dubai's driverless trains get their wi-fi
Photo The Dubai Municipality is in the process of constructing the Middle East's first fully automated, driverless metro system. Once completed the Metro will have 47 stations served by 87 trains, and is eventually projected to carry some 355... [17 Nov 2009]
Photos: Dell unveils its very first smartphone
Photo Dell may be better known as a PC vendor but it also has designs on smartphones. Last week the computer giant revealed details of its first foray into the increasingly crowded smartphone market with a touchscreen device called the Dell... [16 Nov 2009]
Photos: The latest Windows Phones from HTC, Sony Ericsson
Photo While Microsoft's share of the mobile OS market may have waned of late, Windows Mobile continues to find its way onto shiny new hardware. Pictured above is the Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 - the follow-up device to the mobile maker's first... [13 Nov 2009]
Future mobiles, Windows 7, iPhone apps and the latest gadgets
Photo Check out the rest of silicon.com's photos to see what other options there are if you're in the market for a Windows 7 PC. Shown above is the Skype app which allows users to make calls and send instant messages to anyone... [12 Nov 2009]
The Security Analysis and Enhancement of Photographic Authentication
White Paper The tool captures the displayed photos, matches with historical ones to accumulate their counts. In order to interfere with the photo match of the attack tool, a noise displacement method is also used to add noises into... [11 Nov 2009]
Photos: The happy robot sat-nav
Photo In the future drivers will regard their sat-navs as their friends, if robotics experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are to be believed. Engineers at the university are developing a robotic dashboard assistant that can... [11 Nov 2009]
Photos: Firefox through the ages
Photo Mozilla is celebrating the fifth anniversary of Firefox 1.0, released 9 November, 2004. The project began as a fresh start intended to be leaner and faster. While the official Mozilla effort still was working on the unified browser and... [10 Nov 2009]
Photos: Emerging tech from location-based services to social networking
Photo But US carrier AT&T liked what it saw and partnered with the company to enable the wireless networking that allows photos to be sent from a computer or phone to this frame. The frame has a touchscreen interface, and the... [09 Nov 2009]
Photos: Android marches onto even more smartphones
Photo It's two years since Google announced it was building an open mobile OS platform - and the number of smartphones with Android inside is on the up. Sony Ericsson's first Android phone is a bit of a looker. [06 Nov 2009]
Photos: Inside a Microsoft datacentre
Photo Microsoft recently opened its Chicago datacentre. In its first phase, the ground floor of the facility is designed to hold up to 56 containers, each filled with somewhere between 1,800 to 2,500 servers. [04 Nov 2009]
Photos: The Apple mouse through the ages
Photo Lisa mouse Apple's Lisa of the early 1980s was among the first computers to sport a mouse - albeit a boxy and clunky one. And while the Lisa tanked, most people remember the mouse as a key part of the Macs that followed it. [03 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo People can exchange real-time IM, photos, videos, maps and documents within the wave but it is the wave's ability to handle custom apps that promises to be the most useful for business. Since Google launched its Wave... [02 Nov 2009]