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White Paper Orange Mountain Bikes built the winners' bikes for the UCI World Cup Downhill in 2001, 2002 and in 2004. Like most companies, it has come to rely heavily on the use of email in recent years, with its factory in Penrith receiving over 50,000 email... [19 Apr 2006]
Motorbike tracking tags aim to cut theft and improve safety
News A new tracking system for motorbikes has been developed that aims to improve the recovery rate of stolen bikes and automatically alert the emergency services to a serious accident. The recovery rate for stolen motorbikes is 26 per cent compared to... [21 Mar 2005]
Dell Notebooks Hit the Road With Motorcycle Officers
White Paper The Newport Beach Police Department is mounting Dell's advanced Latitude C400 notebooks on the back of officers' bikes. Police in Newport Beach, California, may be the first in the nation to operate motorcycles equipped with wireless laptop PCs. [12 Jan 2005]
Photos: Copy that - Xerox and Superbikes
Photo The 1000cc Ducati machines used in Superbikes, which are based on street bikes and can hit a top speed of almost 200mph, are not as highly modified as in other types of motorsport but the team's engineer told silicon.com that technology can still... [10 Aug 2005]
Photos: Top tech for the festival season
Photo Gig goers at the O2 Wireless Festival in London's Hyde Park will be able to use three of these bespoke bikes to charge their phones themselves. With the festival season kicking off with Glastonbury this weekend, silicon.com has brought together the... [26 Jun 2008]
High-tech shopping basket ditches the minidisc
News Other non-technological goods to be removed from the basket include exercise bikes, children's fleeces and the local paper. Frozen turkey, cheese slices and gin aren't the most obvious things you would link to the humble minidisc player. [15 Mar 2004]
Photos: Tech predicts future of London transport
Photo A London bus has been converted from its original use to a first aid centre, and people are shown to rely heavily on bikes. This is part of the London Transport Museum, which reopened to the public this week following a two-year £22.4m refurbishment. [23 Nov 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.03.05
Round-Up That said, any self-respecting Irish drinker would probably avoid those aforementioned abominations with bikes on the wall and a jukebox consisting solely of Van Morrison, U2, the Corrs and B*witched. [18 Mar 2005]
Will's Web Watch: Follow me on my travels
Comment Now we're in these rural communities the sight of 16 Brits on bikes - complete with crash helmets, sunglasses and decked out in cycling gear - coming through tiny villages and settlements on mountain bikes is certainly causing something of a stir. [08 Feb 2007]
Devil's Advocate: The chauvinism of ebusiness
Comment Buying parts and accessories for motor bikes is often easier by mail order, whereas car parts are easily found in any town or city. Let's make sure change is for the right reasons, says Martin Brampton. [10 Dec 2002]
Dan's China diary - day 1
Comment Huge loads of cardboard and other bits and pieces are carted around on the back of bikes. In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett travelled to China, seeking to get behind some of today's most interesting tech and business stories. [08 Jun 2006]
Halfords cuts costs with IT revamp
Case Study Car accessories to bikes retailer Halfords has slashed £1m from its IT costs by replacing outdated IT systems. When the company was acquired by CVC Venture Capital Partners from Boots, the race was on to move the company's systems off the ageing... [30 Aug 2006]
Photos: "Citizen cartographers" mapping the planet
Photo Here are a few of them getting ready to head out on foot, bikes and by car on a mapping weekend in the Surrey Hills at the end of last month. OpenStreetMap started two years ago and is aiming to take on the likes of Google Maps and Ordnance Survey... [13 Nov 2006]
Bumpy landing for Bangalore's airport dream
Comment For the best part of the ride to the airport, commuters have to jostle with fume-spewing three-wheelers, bikes, buses, cyclists and, as in most Indian cities, the odd stray animal. But locating it in a near wilderness without a decent road was not... [30 Jul 2008]
