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RSS museumCode red: Cash pleas for struggling home of codebreakers
News In an early day motion filed on Monday, MP Phil Willis called on the government "to provide operational funding whilst the museum is developed for long-term sustainability, securing the site for future generations to... [24 Jul 2009]
Happy birthday silicon.com
News The UK's leading business and technology publication first saw the light of day on 6 July 1998 with a party at London's Natural History Museum and has been making and breaking the hottest stories ever since.silicon.com... [06 Jul 2009]
Photos: Inside HP's garage - the Silicon Valley birthplace
Photo While considered a museum, the garage is not open to the public, despite thousands of annual visits by people who have read about it in various guidebooks. In 1938, after returning from stints at General Electric and... [29 Jun 2009]
Photos: Intel's experimental tech unveiled
Photo Intel Labs researchers demonstrated some of its new technology at the Intel Research Day at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, on Thursday. This prototype system, pictured here, based on Intel's... [22 Jun 2009]
Interactive Museum Improves Communication, Brings History of Texas to Thousands of Visitors With New 3Com Secure Converged Network
White Paper The Old Red Museum of Dallas County History & Culture in Dallas is located in a restored 1890's courthouse that was reopened last year after an extensive six-year restoration and renovation project. According to Ross... [12 Jun 2009]
iPhone apps, Antique PCs, Microsoft R&D and supercomputers
Photo The huts at Bletchley Park - which houses the National Museum of Computing and formerly played home to WWII codebreakers - are shown to be in a bad state of repair in this photo story. Our photos of the National... [02 Jun 2009]
Museum of Computing gets new home
News A museum dedicated to the history of computing has found a new home after being forced to shut its doors for a year. The Museum of Computing will reopen in new premises in Swindon in July, showcasing a... [26 May 2009]
Funding snub for historic Bletchley Park
News The government has refused to stump up more cash to help Bletchley Park stay afloat until the museum can support itself. The fundraising effort is going pretty well, as is work to improve both the buildings and... [19 May 2009]
Photos: Bletchley needs £2m to save codebreakers' huts
Photo The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley houses a collection of computers, which includes the rebuilt Colossus machine used to break high-level German codes during the war. This hut once housed codebreakers who... [11 May 2009]
Photos: The evolution of the PC
Photo The PDP-8 kicks off The National Museum of Computing's PC Gallery, which opens today, where the story of the evolution of the modern PC is told using 50 machines that defined personal computing. Lin Jones, project... [07 May 2009]
Public sector pours £30m of Sugar on desktop deal
News Earlier this year, Viglen inked another public sector deal, to supply a storage platform to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Viglen, the IT company owned by Sir Alan Sugar, has landed a hardware deal with the Office of... [01 May 2009]
Microsoft gives sneak peek at high fashion apps store
News Microsoft has cut deals with two design houses - Design Museum London and Council of Fashion Designers of America - to have artists and designers create themes and wallpaper for Windows Mobile phones. [31 Mar 2009]
Photos: F1 tech races into the real world
Photo Here, McLaren Group chairman Ron Dennis speaks at the launch of the Fast Forward: 20 ways F1 is changing our world exhibition at London's Science Museum, as the team's 2006 car hangs above him. The exhibition shows how... [30 Mar 2009]
Photos: The top tech sites on Google Street View
Photo Another tech mecca - the Science Museum on South Kensington's Exhibition Road. Google has launched its Street View service in the UK, giving street-level photography of 25 of the largest cities in the country. [20 Mar 2009]
WWII codebreakers' home gets £600,000 boost
News Huts three and six will form part of a heritage lottery-fund application," he continued, adding that the buildings housing the National Museum of Computing are "in good order" compared with the rest of the site, and so... [12 Mar 2009]
