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News And from cutting-edge tech to vintage techies - some of the surviving veterans who worked on the Colossus codebreaking machine and helped crack the Nazi military's codes during the Second World... [30 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News The work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers is credited with shortening the Second World War by two years. Navy Wrens attend to a Colossus machine during the Second... [05 Nov 2009]
Photos: WWII codebreakers return to Bletchley Park
Photo During the Second World War these women pictured helped crack the codes used by the Nazis to protect communications. During the World War II, Bletchley... [07 Sep 2009]
Apple tablet, Windows 7, Nokia mini laptop, 3D printers and future mobiles
Photo Photo credit: Donald Bell/CNET silicon.com had a sneak preview of one of the world's largest collections of Enigma cipher machines last month - known for being used by the Germans to protect their communications during... [02 Sep 2009]
Photos: Secret-code machines come to Bletchley
Photo One of the world's largest collections of Enigma cipher machines - famous for being used by the Nazis to protect communications during the Second World War - is to go on... [17 Aug 2009]
Code red: Cash pleas for struggling home of codebreakers
News In addition to funding, the early day motion calls for recognition by the government of the work performed by Bletchley Park personnel, and for acknowledgement "that the use of the intelligence gained at Bletchley Park and subsequent... [24 Jul 2009]
Chrome OS: What Google can do, Ubuntu does better
Comment The growing dominance of Ubuntu (at least on the desktop, the server room seems to have been won by Red Hat) has delivered the Linux community a serious advantage in its ongoing war against the incumbent Windows and... [08 Jul 2009]
Editor's Blog: Winning the war on technology marketing speak
Comment Usually when I meet a technology company boss for the first time, he is itching to fire off a payload of marketing speak - hoping to persuade me with talk of world-leading seamless end-to-end solutions, and the such like. [26 Jan 2009]
2008 in film: From Gates' departure to T5 opening its gates
News In September, silicon.com took a look at the world's first electronic codebreaking computer, Colossus, as part of a series of exclusive videos exploring Bletchley Park, the former home of Britain's World... [12 Dec 2008]
Photos: The greatest tech sites from around the globe
Photo It was established in 1945 by Sir Bernard Lovell, who wanted to investigate cosmic rays after working on aircraft radar systems during the Second World War. The world is... [13 Nov 2008]
Artificial intelligence, virtual worlds, BT's tunnels and Apple's patents
News BT to sell off 'secret World War II tunnels' Well now's your chance as BT sells off its secret World War II tunnels beneath the streets of London. There has been a lot... [05 Nov 2008]
No pink slips in Bangalore - yet
Comment Economic theory has it that no two countries with McDonald's fast food outlets will ever go to war with each other. The economic corollary to that theory in the recent global financial meltdown could well be that, in a... [28 Oct 2008]
Voice biometrics, war tech and the history of computing
News In September silicon.com had an exclusive look through the treasure trove of historical technology in the National Museum of Computing at the home of the World War II codebreakers, Bletchley Park.... [08 Oct 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.09.08
Round-Up Senator John McCain is many things: respected politician, highly decorated war veteran and inventor of the BlackBerry. We are living in a 2.0 world these days, the power is with the people not the... [19 Sep 2008]
Bletchley 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... [09 Sep 2008]
