CeBIT 2010: A punter's eye view of the biggest tech show in the world
Photos: See what tech's biggest names brought to the party
This is one of the 19 halls at the 2010 CeBIT technology trade show held this week at the Messe exhibition centre in Hannover, Germany.
The show is essentially the European version of the US Consumer Electronics Show and is the biggest of its type in the world. As a result, most of the major technology players were in attendance to show off their latest wares.
In the foreground is IBM's stand which it used to promote its Smarter Planet strategy designed to connect different kinds of technology to create more useful, efficient and environmentally friendly systems.
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Part of Big Blue's Smarter Planet strategy is Smarter Cities, which is looking at using technology to create more sustainable urban environments, including better integration of renewable energy sources such as wind power into electricity grids.
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IBM also had some of its hardware on show including this server running on the recently launched Power7 architecture.
The architecture is designed to help organisations cope with the increasing demand for computing power created by the development of technologies such as smart electricity grids, real-time analytics and financial market trading.
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As you would expect, Microsoft had a significant presence at CeBIT with this sizeable stand, which included its own technology, as well as that developed by a number of its partners.
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Microsoft offered CeBIT punters a look at several of its recent software developments with demos of the Windows 7 operating system, Windows Office 2010 and its Windows Phone technology.
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Korean computer maker Acer showed off a few of its latest devices including this Aspire One netbook running on Google's Android mobile operating system. The Android logo can be seen on the bottom right corner of the device.
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And for fans of all things automotive, Acer was also displaying this rather natty Ferrari-branded netbook, the Ferrari One 200, which lives up to its name with a speedy 1.2Ghz AMD processor using 4GB of RAM.
The device also has 320GB of hard drive space and runs on Windows 7.
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Packard Bell showed off its oneTwo touchscreen device at CeBIT which features a full HD 16:9 screen.
Here you can see it running the Touch Media Share application which can be used to manage, edit and share photos.
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Demonstrating the importance that big tech names place on CeBIT, this picture shows the stands of Amazon Web Services and Dell with the IBM stand in the background.
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Virtualisation technology maker Citrix was also in attendance at CeBIT and its presence included this demo lab housed on the back of a lorry.
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