India, F1 and homes of the future...
With travels around India's tech hotspots, Formula One racing car launches and a visit to the home of the future, March was a busy month for silicon.com's roving reporters - and their cameras. Take a look though the photo stories of the month and you'll see these and more...
As part of his recent trip to India, Steve Ranger visited the campus of IT company Satyam in Hyderabad (above), which includes a swimming pool and golf course as well as a zoo with a variety of animals - including emus and rabbits.
See what else Satyam is doing to help keep its employees enjoy their work in the full photo story.
Check out more in our Inside India special report here.
Photo credit: Steve Ranger
Microsoft unveiled a 'tailored' version of its Windows operating system to be used by NHS workers.
The interface lets clinicians see data in different formats - pictured above is a graph of how a patient's blood pressure has changed over time.
See what other apps are helping health workers here.
Photo credit: Microsoft
Another set of photos from Hyderabad, as part of silicon.com's Inside India special report.
Jobs in call centres and BPO operations are well paid and sought after, and the employee attrition rates can be high with companies scrambling to hire the top people.
Photo credit: Steve Ranger
The Ideal Home Show at Earl's Court has gone high-tech this year. As well as the giant show-homes - such as the ones above (which have a sustainable living theme this year) - there's plenty to interest gadget fans.
From the look of things, networked kitchens and bedrooms will be all the rage in a few years.
See what else is in store in the full photo story.
Photo credit: Steve Ranger
With technology and Formula One more closely associated than ever, Tim Ferguson went along to the launch of the 2007 Williams F1 car at the team's base at Grove, Oxfordshire.
The new car (above) looked impressive and performances in testing and at the first race in Melbourne two weeks ago suggest the team could be in for a much more successful season in 2007.
See more pictures from the launch here.
Photo credit: Tim Ferguson
Here, children in the school in the village of Kondlakoyya outside Hyderabad learn how to use PCs. This is part of a project the Byrraju Foundation is running to help bridge the digital divide in rural areas.
Find out what other methods are being used to bring tech to rural India here.
Photo credit: Steve Ranger
The next stop for the India special report was Pune, an up-and-coming IT city not far from Mumbai.
Here are some billboards advertising luxury apartments on the way into Pune, many of which will be sold to the IT workers in town.
See what other clues to Pune's status as a new tech city silicon.com's Steve Ranger discovered on his visit here.
Photo credit: Steve Ranger
While in Pune, we asked whether the city has the potential to be the next Bangalore for IT and outsourcing.
Here in the centre of Pune the mix of old and new is obvious.
More sights of Pune can be seen here.
Photo credit: Steve Ranger
From the pretender of Indian tech cities to the established boom town, our India special report moved from Pune to Bangalore.
The Tesco Hindustan Service centre in Bangalore has been the IT development centre of the UK supermarket chain since 2004. Tesco was among the first major international retailers to have a fully owned support-centre in India.
See how else the tech industry has had an impact in Bangalore here.
Photo credit: Steve Ranger
silicon.com's Steve Ranger also checked out Electronics City - home to big tech names such as Infosys - while he was in Bangalore.
This photo shows one of the new buildings (peeking through in the centre) which is just in development.
There are plenty of examples of these impressive structures - which are a testament to Bangalore's boomtown reputation - in our full photo story.
Check out more in our Inside India special report here.
Photo credit: Steve Ranger