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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 personal computing through... [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 messages enciphered by the Nazi Enigma machines - depicted in the... [24 Jul 2008]
Bletchley Park restoration short on funds
News Bletchley is home to a rebuilt version of the legendary Colossus code breaking machine which cracked the Nazi Enigma code and played a major part in ending the war in 1945. Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years [30 May 2008]
Sat-nav back seat drivers on their way
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war Sat-navs that warn drivers not to speed or can even slow the car automatically could be as little as a year away. [15 May 2008]
Microsoft users surf the skies from the web
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war Microsoft has launched its WorldWide Telescope, a free web-based program that allows web surfers to explore galaxies, star systems and distant... [14 May 2008]
Credit crunch failing to hold tech back
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war Confidence seems to be high in the UK tech industry that it can avoid the pitfalls of the credit crunch during 2008. [02 May 2008]
Ballmer on Yahoo!: Price in mind and not "a dime" more
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer, told employees he has a figure in mind as to what Yahoo! [02 May 2008]
Fifa World Cup to get high-tech makeover
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war 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... [23 Apr 2008]
Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's security chief has revealed. [23 Apr 2008]
Open source: 'World's largest software company'
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war Open source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many large companies and eating into the annual revenues of... [22 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the... [21 Apr 2008]
Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on... [21 Apr 2008]
Microsoft invites hobbyist developers to light a spark
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war Microsoft is trying to foster more interest in embedded software, encouraging amateur developers to experiment with programmable components in... [17 Apr 2008]
Computing museum at risk of being thing of the past
News 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 codebreaking computer, for sponsorship and funding. [01 Apr 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 - being read by Colossus at... [27 Mar 2008]
