Round-up: The past month's best tech photos
Published: 03 Aug 2007 12:16 BST
After the initial buzz died down from the long awaited launch of Apple's iPhone, the next obvious step was to buy one, strip it down and see what makes it tick — which is exactly what our colleagues at TechRepublic did — with some interesting results.
Other highlights from the last month included computer parts being used as art exhibits and a look behind the scenes at the technology developed by IBM for the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
Photos: Inside Wimbledon's tech fortress
From court-side data entry to underground servers, the information needs of the world's most famous tennis tournament are rocketing, as ZDNet.co.uk discovered [06 Jul 2007]
Photos: MoD unveils £80m IT health programme
System will allow military personnel's records to be transferred and accessed electronically, providing timely, accurate and relevant medical information [02 Aug 2007]
Photos: First image of carbon-neutral PC
PC World has released the first image of its upcoming energy-efficient PC, which comes with a wooden keyboard and a heatsink instead of a fan [02 Aug 2007]
Photos: Military-grade tablet PC launched
Toughened laptop specialist Getac has launched a notebook and tablet hybrid machine that is hardened for military use and low temperatures [02 Aug 2007]
Photos: Mobile WiMax in action
Mobile WiMax has a good chance of deployment in the UK if spectrum is secured at auction next year. ZDNet.co.uk attended a demonstration of the technology [30 Jul 2007]
Photos: Nasa deploys NAS Storage
Space agency's flight research centre is using network-attached storage software from Exanet [27 Jul 2007]
Photos: HP's hardware graveyard
Roseville, California is home to HP's huge recycling centre, where computer equipment, printing supplies, rechargeable batteries and other items go to die [26 Jul 2007]
Photos: Nigerian students get to grips with IT
Students in Nigeria are expanding their education and learning about computers with the help of the One Laptop per Child project [12 Apr 2007]
Photos: New BlackBerry goes Wi-Fi
Research In Motion is preparing to release its first Wi-Fi-enabled smartphone, the BlackBerry 8820 [19 Jul 2007]
Photos: Cisco goes racing in Italy
Misano World Circuit has deployed a converged communications system. Take a look behind the scenes [19 Jul 2007]
Photos: Met Office powers ahead
With floods causing havoc across the UK, the Met Office is reliant on some very clever people and some very large supercomputers [02 Jul 2007]
Photos: Microsoft's rivals in touchscreen tech
Despite the attention which its Surface tabletop PC received, the software giant isn't the only company interested in multitouch technology [19 Jun 2007]
Photos: Via launches energy-efficient PC
Chipmaker Via has teamed up with a South African PC maker on a low-power desktop for schools in the developing world [10 Jul 2007]
Photos: Cracking open the iPhone
A step-by-step summary of one brave soul's project to take apart the iPhone and put it back together in working order [06 Jul 2007]
Photos: Steorn's free-energy device hits London
Irish company Steorn has set up a public demo of a device it claims can produce more energy than it consumes [05 Jul 2007]
Photos: Re-use don't recycle, says Computer Aid
As the charity donated its 90,000th PC to the developing world, chief executive Tony Roberts stressed the environmental benefits of re-using PCs over recycling [05 Jul 2007]
Photos: Iconic computer innards as art
A Californian museum and book on vintage computers supply images of some of the most significant developments in the history of the computer [04 Jul 2007]
Photos: Apple's iPhone in detail
Americans have been queueing up for the iPhone, Apple's first foray into the mobile marketplace. Here are some of the highlights [02 Jul 2007]
Photos: Dell laptops get a splash of colour
Dell's new line of Inspiron notebooks comes in a range of colours and is intended to grab back some market share from HP [27 Jun 2007]
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