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Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on enterprise systems and would not be... [21 Apr 2008]
Microsoft invites hobbyist developers to light a spark
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Microsoft is trying to foster more interest in embedded software, encouraging amateur developers to experiment with programmable components in devices from toasters to... [17 Apr 2008]
Google and Salesforce.com team up to serve business
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Salesforce.com and Google have announced they're linking up to offer Google Apps integrated with Salesforce.com's CRM applications. The companies announced that... [14 Apr 2008]
Yahoo! tests the Google route to advertising bliss
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Yahoo! will test the use of Google advertisements on some of its search pages, the companies have said, a move that raises the possibility of a significant departure from... [10 Apr 2008]
Google invites developers to play on the Bigtable
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Google is offering web developers a slice of its own infrastructure by announcing the preview release of the Google App Engine platform, which provides access to the same... [09 Apr 2008]
Backseat driver keeps armed forces in line
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine The UK's armed forces are to get an electronic backseat driver aimed at saving lives on the road. The GreenRoad Technologies box will record 120 different driving manoeuvres... [04 Apr 2008]
Intel registers second-gen Classmate
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Intel has launched its second-generation Classmate PC at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai. The new laptop shares its basic hardware design with the first generation... [04 Apr 2008]
Microsoft smartens up for enterprise mobility
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Microsoft has announced it is smartening up its enterprise mobility strategy, making it easier for IT departments to deploy, manage and secure Windows Mobile phones while... [02 Apr 2008]
Microsoft touches the Surface of AT&T
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Microsoft has announced it has its first customer ready to put Surface computers into public use. Perhaps most interestingly, the first one out of the gate is not one of the... [02 Apr 2008]
Computing museum at risk of being thing of the past
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine The plea coincides with an appeal from the UK's other computing museum at Bletchley Park, which houses a rebuilt version of the Colossus World War II... [01 Apr 2008]
The high-tech road to happiness
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Technology will be at the heart of an overhaul of the UK's road network. The government has laid out its vision of motorists avoiding jams by watching live video of their... [01 Apr 2008]
BT Yahoo! Mail suffers email update glitch
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Several thousand BT Yahoo! Mail customers have been unable to send email from their accounts following a Yahoo! security update. Users have been receiving a 553 error... [31 Mar 2008]
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Comment ¦ Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Multitasking mastery ¦ Heathrow Terminal 5 opens its doors ¦ Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine With the... [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo Photo credit: MessageLabs silicon.com took a trip to Bletchley Park to see the rebuilt Colossus machine used to break the German Enigma code during World War II. This shows paper tape - punched with enciphered messages... [27 Mar 2008]
Android laid bare, dressing for success, grown up social networking...
News Leaving technology of the future for a moment, silicon.com took a trip down memory lane to witness computing's pivotal role in WWII espionage with an exclusive peek at Bletchley Park's Colossus codebreaking machine. [27 Mar 2008]
