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Photos: Motor Show showcases the future of car tech
Photo This is an electric taxi developed by Zero Emissions Vehicles. This is the Koenigsegg CCR - one of the fastest and rarest cars in the world - on display at this week's British International Motor Show in London. [25 Jul 2008]
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment Today I can look back at episodes of the industry's history with real nostalgia: the start of a small company called Novell (UK) in London's Regent Street or when I shared a Boston taxi with a chap named Ray Ozzie, who had just been demonstrating... [17 Jul 2008]
Photos: Heathrow's T5 tech ready for take-off
Photo The screens display information about the workings of the whole airport, including departures and arrivals, traffic on taxi ways and crew information. silicon.com has been given an exclusive behind the scenes look at BAA's brand new Terminal 5 (T5... [12 Feb 2008]
Editor's Blog: If you want to know about Microsoft-Yahoo!...
Comment Still, I'm thinking that next time I have a producer on the phone asking for an expert comment, I might just direct her to the nearest taxi rank. It's often the case, when a big tech news story impinges on the consciousness of the broadcast media... [12 Feb 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Monday
Comment I dodged Nokia's signbearers - the Mighty Finn's announcement was being covered by silicon.com at an event at Nokia's Regent Street store in London - to snatch a taxi and head over to the Fira for - you guessed it - another press conference. [12 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.11.07
Round-Up The worst loss of personal information since the Domesday Book author left the newly completed tome in the back of a horse-drawn taxi after a celebratory night on the mead. It's not often the Round-Up gets on its moral high horse but this week is... [23 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... cashless concerns, battle of the OSes, iPhone fans...
Comment I personally put £10 in a separate pocket - on a night out - so I know I have enough for a taxi. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest... [15 Nov 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Don't mess with mobile users
Comment In the early days, more than 20 years ago now, the concept was a phone attached to the dashboard of a vehicle - in the style of police and taxi walkie-talkies. Written in my home office just outside Woodbridge in the UK and dispatched via my home... [07 Sep 2007]
East England Ambulance rides the Airwave
News Before we started using Airwave, it wasn't uncommon to have signals from local taxi companies and Cambridge Ambulance Service bleeding into ours. The NHS has commenced the rollout of the Airwave secure digital radio network to ambulance teams... [24 Aug 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Let the train take the strain
Comment Throw in flight time plus taxi transfer at the other end and I've found it all makes for a total travel time of more than four hours and 30 minutes door-to-door, during which you're pretty much on the move the whole time, bar 30 minutes on the... [04 Jun 2007]
Silver Top Taxis Deploys Avaya Text-to-Speech: Benefits Speak for Themselves
White Paper Australian taxi company, Silver Top Taxis, Silver Top Taxis runs a busy contact centre that handles around 500,000 inbound customer calls per month for car bookings, trip confirmations and cancellations. [28 Apr 2007]
From CIO to consultant: The first month
Comment Taxi to the airport, quick check-in, breakfast in the lounge, business class seats to New York, car to the 5 star hotel? Train fares, taxi fares, lunches, dinners all require receipts and documentation if the tax man is to be satisfied at the end... [20 Mar 2007]
India diary, day 12: Searching for the next big thing
Comment I'm pretty sure that the first company to bring a helicopter taxi service would earn millions and the grateful thanks of thousands of visiting executives. Thursday 15 February - Bangalore As well as taking advantage of the cost arbitrage that India... [15 Mar 2007]
Photos: High-tech on the streets of Pune
Photo Above - on the Mumbai-Pune highway with a broken down taxi. 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... [13 Mar 2007]
India diary, day 8: Pune or bust
Comment As I sit in my broken down taxi on the highway from Mumbai to Pune I very much hope the strike time on Indian roads is slightly longer. Sunday 11 February - Pune Once you've broken down on a UK motorway the strike time - the average time before... [11 Mar 2007]
