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Codebreaking Bletchley given help to fill in the cracks
News Bletchley Park is famous for the role it played in decrypting messages enciphered by the Nazi Enigma machine - depicted in the Hollywood film of the same name - and also for the world's first codebreaking supercomputer... [06 Nov 2008]
Steve Jobs: No Apple netbook, no touchscreen laptop
News In the interregnum, the major Hollywood studios are hedging their bets, some offering titles as a free download once you buy the title on disc. In brief comments after a keynote speech to launch Apple's update MacBook... [15 Oct 2008]
Google digs deep for geothermal energy
News From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Google is investing $10m in "enhanced" geothermal systems - essentially technology for tapping underground... [20 Aug 2008]
Bletchley Park future under colossal threat
News Bletchley Park is famous for the decrypting messages enciphered by the Nazi Enigma machines - depicted in the Hollywood movie of the same name - and also for the world's first codebreaking supercomputer Colossus, which... [24 Jul 2008]
Google Docs: Now more than just spreadsheets
News From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Users of Google Docs, the online applications for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, now have... [18 Jul 2008]
Google open sources web 2.0 security
News From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Google has released as open source a web application assessment tool, Ratproxy, that is designed to root out... [14 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data description language... [11 Jul 2008]
Dell, HP, Lenovo openly pledge Linux driver support
News From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Dell, HP and Lenovo have promised to push chipset vendors to make open-source drivers for Linux. [02 May 2008]
Satyam spices up silver screen with latest effects
News The glamour of Hollywood and the Indian outsourcing industry will collide on the big screen this year. He said: "We have a contract with a German entertainment studio 4K animation to do one Hollywood... [29 Apr 2008]
silicon.com Classics: The best of Google Earth
News The photo tour also includes incredible shots of the famous Hollywood sign in California, Microsoft's Redmond HQ and a rude message in a farmer's field. The latest in our weekly look back through some of the classic... [22 Apr 2008]
Google bots are crawling in a new way
News From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Google's search bots, which scour the web constantly for new pages, have begun a new, more active phase of... [16 Apr 2008]
Office updates for Mac? There's good news and bad
News From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Microsoft offered Mac fans both good news and bad news yesterday, and it all depends on which version of... [22 Feb 2008]
.uk branches out to fund "worthwhile" web
News From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. The organisation that runs the .uk domain is to set up a foundation devoted to research and educational... [18 Jan 2008]
Google invests in web to fight disaster
News From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Google.org's technology project to help save lives in the event of natural disasters or public health... [17 Jan 2008]
Shell's outsourcing plans face legal threat
News From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Shell is facing the threat of legal action from trade union Amicus over staff redundancy terms, which could... [07 Jan 2008]