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Photos: Inside Symantec's secure bunker
Photo The Symantec bunker was built by the UK government in the early 1990s to shelter key utilities workers in the event of a nuclear attack and was originally a reservoir. All workers must sign in and out at this terminal when entering and leaving the... [29 Nov 2005]
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: Inside Nokia's Beijing factory
Photo The factory canteen where 4,000 workers come to eat every day. The factory runs 24x7 with workers doing eight-hour shifts. Labour agencies provide a good deal of the workers. Welcome to Nokia's Beijing mobile phone factory - one of four plants the... [16 Jun 2006]
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: Inside Big Blue's new RFID centre
Photo This tag, pictured worn around the neck of an IBM demonstrator, can help companies locate their workers. The location of the tags is then displayed graphically on a PC - here, the positions of five tag-wearing IBM workers are displayed onscreen. [22 Mar 2006]
Photos: Inside Dell's Irish build-to-order factory
Photo A computer tells factory workers which parts to collect. The monitors on top of the cabinets show the factory workers how far along each system is in the tests, and if any problems have been detected. [04 Nov 2005]
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]
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: 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: Digital pens the end of paper?
Photo Greenwich social workers say the pens fit in with their normal working patterns and don't create a barrier in the same way that laptops do. Digital pens are starting to take off in the public sector. As well as writing in ink the pens also... [03 Nov 2005]
Photos: Vista behind the scenes
Photo Workers gather inside the "shiproom", to make sure that there is nothing that should stand in the way of Vista's release. A display in Building 3 - the home of the Windows marketing team - highlights Windows Vista. [09 Nov 2006]
Photos: Art work by students at Chelsea Children's Hospital School
Photo These animations were made by the students on computers donated by the Worshipful Company of IT workers. The students at Chelsea Children's Hospital School (CCHS) are sometimes forced to stay away from home for months on end. [15 Dec 2005]
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: 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: 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]
