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RSS colossusBletchley Park appeals to US for funds
News Bletchley Park is famous for being the nerve centre of UK code-breaking operations during the Second World War, and for being the home of the world's first programmable computer, Colossus. A campaign will be launched... [09 Sep 2008]
Photos: A dip into Bletchley's classic PC archive
Photo The UK's cash-strapped National Museum of Computing is based at Bletchley Park, home of World War II code-breakers and the Colossus code-cracking supercomputer. One of the museum's exhibits displays the best of British... [03 Sep 2008]
Bletchley Park future under colossal threat
News Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Bletchley Park is famous for the decrypting... [24 Jul 2008]
Celebrating 60 years of computing
News Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since... [20 Jun 2008]
Photos: The building of a data centre
Photo ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ¦ Photos: The best of Google Earth ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ... [11 Jun 2008]
Bletchley Park restoration short on funds
News Bletchley is home to a rebuilt version of the legendary Colossus codebreaking machine which cracked the Nazi Enigma code and played a major part in ending the war in 1945. Photos: Colossus gets cracking... [30 May 2008]
Sat-nav back seat drivers on their way
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Sat-navs that warn drivers not to speed or can even slow the car automatically could be as little as a year away. Drivers in London would be first in line for the technology... [15 May 2008]
Microsoft users surf the skies from the web
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Microsoft has launched its WorldWide Telescope, a free web-based program that allows web surfers to explore galaxies, star systems and distant planets. The program, which... [14 May 2008]
Credit crunch failing to hold tech back
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Confidence seems to be high in the UK tech industry that it can avoid the pitfalls of the credit crunch during 2008. More than half (53 per cent) of SMEs surveyed by tech... [02 May 2008]
Ballmer on Yahoo!: Price in mind and not "a dime" more
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer, told employees he has a figure in mind as to what Yahoo! is worth but doesn't plan to pay "a dime above" that amount, according to... [02 May 2008]
Photos: Nasa's top 10 on Earth
Photo ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ¦ Photos: The best of Google Earth ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ... [24 Apr 2008]
Fifa World Cup to get high-tech makeover
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Indian IT company Satyam is promising to "transform" the way fans watch football on the back of its World Cup deal with the game's governing body Fifa. Latest photo stories... [23 Apr 2008]
Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's security chief has revealed. Speaking at the... [23 Apr 2008]
Open source: 'World's largest software company'
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Open source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many large companies and eating into the annual revenues of proprietary software vendors by $60bn... [22 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for... [21 Apr 2008]
