traffic in photos
RSS traffic in photosPhotos: Inside the traffic buster's control centre
Photo The project is being run from here, the National Traffic Control Centre (NTCC) in Birmingham, which looks after strategic traffic management for the whole of England. Regional centres look at traffic at a local level while the NTCC is concerned... [02 Aug 2006]
Photos: Playing full scale London Monopoly
Photo And instead of rolling dice to decide where they land on the board, their movements will be decided by the whims of London traffic. Congestion at the Bank of England: Rather than rolling dice, players are at the mercy of London’s traffic to make... [29 Jun 2005]
Photos of the month - August 06
Photo Traffic jam busting tech This is the nerve centre of the National Traffic Control Centre, which looks after strategic traffic management for the whole of England. The dishes of Goonhilly This is the first dish built at the Goonhilly satellite... [31 Aug 2006]
Photo: Boom town Bangalore
Photo Above - light traffic in Bangalore. silicon.com's Steve Ranger visited Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore to investigate the Indian technology industry. These are some of the sights from the Bangalore leg of the trip. [16 Mar 2007]
Photos: Viruses and Trojans come to life
Photo This pretty vision is Netsky - a worm that consistently poses a threat via email traffic. Security software firm MessageLabs, has turned a number of cyber threats into works of art using the malicious computer code which forms them. [06 Mar 2008]
Photos: High-tech on the streets of Pune
Photo Traffic on the roads heading into Pune. Earlier this month silicon.com's Steve Ranger visited Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore to investigate the Indian technology industry. These are some of the images from the Pune leg of the trip. [13 Mar 2007]
Photos: High-tech Bangalore
Photo Many of the young workforce at Wipro and other companies brave the crazy Bangalore traffic to get to the office by motorbike - one of the campus' many bike parks can be seen here. This is the home of one of India's biggest IT companies, Wipro, at... [02 Apr 2008]
Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive
Photo Telstra said about 65 per cent of the internet content accessed by Australians comes out of the US, and IP traffic has been doubling every two years, a trend that is expected to continue into the future. [14 Apr 2008]
Photos: Highwaymen stop holdups
Photo Here she can see where a phone call has been made and dispatch the job to the traffic officers. The Highways Agency has been given the duty of dealing with accidents like this. We sent senior reporter Dan Ilett to Surrey to get the lowdown on... [22 Sep 2005]
Photos: Offshore, inside India's IT capital Bangalore
Photo Bangalore isn't a huge city but the traffic situation means it usually takes at least 45 minutes to drive anywhere, although the unpredictable nature of the roads means journeys can often take much longer. [28 Nov 2005]
Photos: The tech secrets behind Wimbledon
Photo It gets around 20 million hits per day and IBM says it is now 35 per cent cheaper to run than it was in 2001 - while dealing with twice the traffic. This keypad might not look like much but the data it conveys is central to many of the systems... [03 Jul 2006]
Photos: A look inside France Telecom's Boston R&D labs
Photo This screenshot shows how the Business Everywhere software prioritises data traffic based on what's needed to ensure high-quality communications. Here's an exterior view of France Telecom's Boston research and development lab, one of the company's... [03 Oct 2005]
Photos: Robots race around 'Darpa city'
Photo Darpa released more than 30 vehicles to simulate real traffic conditions for the robots in the Urban Challenge. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, raised the green flag on 11 driverless cars to manoeuver a 60-mile course at... [14 Nov 2007]
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]
A photo guide to London's wi-fi pubs
Photo Nowadays it offers a fairly peaceful refuge from the traffic outside a decent array of guest ales, should you fancy a pint with your wi-fi. The Harcourt Arms - 32 Harcourt St, W1H 4HX A truly excellent pub tucked away down the side streets to the... [31 Aug 2006]
