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Dear silicon.com... green carrots, cloud nine chats, open source ponderings …

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 Easter weekend now a distant memory and...

Tags: green it, flight, mobile, open source

[27 Mar 2008]

Editor's Blog: Time for 'listed' computers?

Comment Ancient even.silicon.com has been to visit Bletchley Park, home of the World War II codebreakers and Colossus - the world's first electronic codebreaking machine - which smashed the codes used by the German Enigma machine.

Tags: colossus, soe, bletchley, history

[20 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ How to detect data leaks ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: US...

Tags: vista, skills, nhs, e-crime

[20 Mar 2008]

It's time Indian IT took the lead

Comment India's booming tech industry seems acutely aware of the problems it faces - conservatism, social exclusion, lack of diversity. So can it change? Richard Sykes reports. Nasscom's Leadership Forum closed with a session called 'Taking India to the...

Tags: india, software, innovation, outsourcing

[20 Feb 2008]

Editor's Blog: The pyramids versus Macclesfield

Comment There's probably an obvious few - Bletchley Park home of the WWII codebreakers and Colossus the world's first electronic computer, for example. A couple of new destinations to add to your holiday list: after you've visited the pyramids and the Taj...

Tags: satellite, babbage, history, recognition

[23 Jan 2008]

Leader: Open, caring-sharing Microsoft

Leader The reason would appear to be Microsoft has realised its position - stood astride the world like an all-conquering colossus - means it has the greatest chance of effecting widespread change among end users but its knowledge base and the reach of...

[27 Oct 2006]

Editor's Blog: Dell and Google - titans in trouble?

Comment Another tech colossus that the man in the street is just as likely to know about as a tech industry insider is Google. Dell is having to recall batteries - just over four million of them - that power some of its notebook PCs.

Tags: dell computer, michael dell, google

[15 Aug 2006]

The McCue Interview: Dell CIO Randy Mott

Comment It's not quite what you'd expect from a man charged with running the IT infrastructure behind Dell's manufacturing colossus around the globe, and not only running it but applying the same rigorous approach to driving out inefficiencies that...

Tags: randy mott, dell

[09 Aug 2005]

Why Messier is living on borrowed time

Comment Today at the AGM of his Vivendi Universal colossus he will be facing angry shareholders, protesting Canal Plus workers - upset he recently ditched their boss - and even anti-globalisation protesters. Who'd be Jean-Marie Messier?

[24 Apr 2002]

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