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RSS computer historyThe Gold Standard for Operating System Security: SKPP
White Paper With the recent NSA evaluation of INTEGRITY to the Common Criteria SKPP standard, there now exists, for the first time in history, an operating system that can be trusted to protect corporate intellectual property,... [13 Nov 2009]
UK software industry - alive and kicking
News The UK has played a vital role in the development of the software industry over its 40-year history, having had an early hand in many of today's most popular applications - from databases and email to... [23 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.10.09
Round-Up As the Round-Up pondered a week of worthy but gag-light news about Intel's tech on show and tech's history under the hammer there was a refreshing ping on Wednesday as a press release dropped into its inbox with some... [02 Oct 2009]
Photos: Computer history goes under the hammer
Photo This is the Lyons Electronic Office - LEOII/3 electronic programmable storage computer which was first demonstrated in 1958. Another classic in the collection is this BBC Micro computer which comes... [29 Sep 2009]
A world where your every moment is recorded is coming
News Bell, who started his recording effort in 1998, designed seminal computers for Digital Equipment Corp, established a supercomputing prize in his own name, co-founded the Computer History Museum, and... [21 Sep 2009]
Credit card hacker pleads guilty to fraud worth millions
News Albert Gonzalez, a former federal government informant and the alleged ringleader of one of the largest known identity theft cases in US history, pleaded guilty in Boston to 19 counts of conspiracy,... [14 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.09.09
Round-Up Be a part of Windows history," goes the pitch. The promotional website for the parties shows a bunch of people crowded around a computer looking amazed. Microsoft, eh? It seems like there's any excuse... [11 Sep 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard: Embracing the brave new multicore world
News If you look at history of information technology, things that have to happen really do happen. That's because Mac OS X 10.6 begins a long-term attempt by Apple to get ahead by cracking a problem facing the entire... [01 Sep 2009]
Apple still satisfaction king despite budget PC makers' gains
News The company just recorded its best non-holiday quarter in its history, selling 2.6 million Macs, a four per cent increase from the same quarter a year ago. Compaq's score of 74 represented an increase of 5.7 per cent,... [18 Aug 2009]
iPhone 3.0, holograms and the shed birthplace of Silicon Valley
Photo Intel Labs' researchers were also demonstrating some new technology at the Intel Research Day at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.silicon.com sister site CNET News.com went along... [03 Jul 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,... [22 Jun 2009]
IBM sets sights on mobile with £100m research boost
News Another project saw IBM work with Taiwan Mobile to analyse customers' preferences, context and transaction history. The company said on Wednesday it is setting aside $100m over five years to "bring simple, easy-to-use... [19 Jun 2009]
Advanced Micro Devices Case Study: Jim Henson's Creature Shop
White Paper The Jim Henson Company has a long history of bringing puppets to life. It needed to create technology that allows a non-technical performer to "puppeteer" a computer graphics character. Jim Henson... [12 Jun 2009]
Skydiving and kendo: What CIOs do when they aren't at work…
News Other hobbies and interests that CIOs have mentioned this year include guitar collections, Roman military history, world music, woodworking, golf and swimming. Many of course are also involved with industry associations... [10 Jun 2009]
Obama: 'We are underprepared for cyber attack'
News Senators John Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe, members of the Commerce and Intelligence committees, said in a statement that "no other president in American history has elevated this issue to that level and we thank... [01 Jun 2009]
