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Comment For sure you can't run roughshod over the laws of physics, and to get anything like the advertised 3G data rate you would have to sit on top of the cell tower! Compiled on BA 215 flying... [14 Sep 2009]
Photos: Inside a virtually perfect hospital
Photo This is an outside view of the hospital, which is set within a replica of Imperial College's grounds, complete with a virtual Queen's Tower - pictured here. This is not a real hospital,... [20 May 2009]
Photos: The top tech sites on Google Street View
Photo Rising above the rooftops of London's West End is the BT Tower - a 1960s icon and now a Grade II listed building. Here silicon.com has rounded up a selection of the top... [20 Mar 2009]
High tech driving test, the perfect CV and 4bn mobiles
News The annual Byte Night sleep-out took place this month to raise awareness and money for Action for Children.silicon.com joined a group of hardy CIOs at the sleep-out by London's Tower... [13 Nov 2008]
Photos: When celebrities and CIOs sleep out
Photo Here the IT crowd in London prepare for a night sleeping out with the lights of Tower Bridge in the background. The annual Byte Night sleep out in aid of Action for... [10 Oct 2008]
Editor's Blog: Back to the future
Comment Satellites won't be going anywhere any time soon I guess, and perhaps the BT Tower will find a new use. So earlier this week I found myself in east London, getting kitted out in very big boots and a hard... [24 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Flying high with the UK's best CIOs
Comment This year we decided to celebrate the UK's best IT leadership at a fitting location for the high achievers we had assembled - a reception 40 floors above the City of London at Tower 42,... [19 Jun 2008]
SMS snitch pilot targets knife crime in schools
News The text informant scheme has been running for around a week in three schools in Tower Hamlets and is likely to continue until the end of the summer term. A plan to use SMS to combat youth knife crime is... [03 Jun 2008]
Photos: Eye across the Atlantic
Photo Two Telectroscopes, one near Tower Bridge in London and the other in the shadow of Brooklyn Bridge, beam images of people and the cityscapes across the Atlantic via... [28 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Protestors clueless on wireless health risks
Comment Living really close to a mobile phone base station tower is the safest place to be. That means the further from the tower the lower the power received by a mobile and the higher the power transmitted... [04 Mar 2008]
Photos of the month - January 2008
Photo This shows one of the famous towers of Tower Bridge. Picture credit: H2O Networks com launched its Super Zoom online map application which allows you to view central... [30 Jan 2008]
Photos: Zoom in on London from the air…
Photo This may look like the side of a spaceship but it's actually Sir Norman Foster's Swiss Re tower - dubbed the "Gherkin" - in the City of London. The futuristic City Hall... [28 Jan 2008]
iPhone 'mugging fear' unfounded, say police
News Operation Prestige took place in eight London boroughs: Brent, Camden, Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham, Newham, Southwark and Tower Hamlets - which were selected after analysis of police... [07 Jan 2008]
Escape From the Tower of London: History Comes Alive
White Paper HP Mediascape technology has brought the Jacobite Nithsdale and other ghosts from the Tower of London back to life in a new location-aware adventure game. [14 Dec 2007]
Photos: The Millennium Dome goes high-tech
Photo AEG's Michelle Wahlgren said the venue has the most sophisticated broadcast network in the UK with a direct link to BT Tower. London's Millennium Dome has been transformed over the last two-and-a-half... [22 Jun 2007]
