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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. As well as cracking codes, staff carried out a range of other tasks, from translation... [07 Sep 2009]
Apple tablet, Windows 7, Nokia mini laptop, 3D printers and future mobiles
Photo The German navy developed this four rotor M4 Enigma machine in 1942 and its codes were not cracked by UK codebreakers until late 1943. August saw this futuristic-looking machine, the ULTra personal rapid transit (PRT)... [02 Sep 2009]
Photos: Secret-code machines come to Bletchley
Photo This four rotor M4 Enigma machine was developed by the German navy in 1942 and its codes were not cracked by Bletchley codebreakers until late 1943. One of the world's largest collections of Enigma cipher machines -... [17 Aug 2009]
Photos: Bletchley needs £2m to save codebreakers' huts
Photo The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley houses a collection of computers, which includes the rebuilt Colossus machine used to break high-level German codes during the war. This hut once housed codebreakers who... [11 May 2009]
Photos: Vicious viruses find a home in art
Photo After MessageLabs intercepted these codes and diffused them so they were rendered inoperative, Dragulescu built an application to analyse them and used their values to create 3D visualisations. The RSA Conference being... [27 Apr 2009]
Photos: My seven wonders of the tech world
Photo D barcodes called QR codes can also be found peppered around the city and mobile users snap them to get info or download content. So where are the tech world's marvels? silicon.com's Natasha Lomas selects her seven... [09 Apr 2009]
Photos: The greatest tech sites from around the globe
Photo World War II codebreaking centre Bletchley Park was home to the world's first codebreaking supercomputer Colossus, which cracked codes used to encipher messages between Hitler's high command. Here silicon.com visits the... [13 Nov 2008]
Photos: A snapshot of what HP's got up its sleeve
Photo Using photons, the mobile device requests security codes that are then transmitted back to the phone. Researchers say due to the way the codes are transmitted, quantum computers would not be able to... [09 Jun 2008]
Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine
Photo The original Colossus machine was built using more than 1,500 valves by Post Office engineer Tommy Flowers to speed up the breaking of German codes - in particular that of the Lorenz cipher. Bletchley Park was the secret... [18 Mar 2008]
Photos of the Month - November 2007
Photo It was used to crack Nazi codes in the World War II and was one of the world's first programmable computers. Kicking off our photo stories this month was the iPhone launch on 9 November. Natasha Lomas went down to... [29 Nov 2007]
Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years
Photo It is kept in its original location at Bletchley Park, where it cracked Nazi codes during World War II and played a key role in the Allied victory. The Colossus code-cracking computer is up and running for the first time... [16 Nov 2007]
Photos: First look at Microsoft's NHS software
Photo The software can deal with the estimated 200,000 abbreviations and codes which clinicians use and holds a further 600,000 to 800,000 medical terms. Microsoft has unveiled a 'tailored' version of its Windows operating... [08 Mar 2007]
Photos: Inside Big Blue's new RFID centre
Photo Once the unique tags on the codes are read, they are checked against a database containing product details. The equipment can be used to print off labels containing both RFID tags and bar codes, which... [22 Mar 2006]
Photos: A day in the life of an Amazon.co.uk order
Photo At this stage the orders are identified by bar codes generated when the order is processed. The next stage will see those bar codes matched against delivery addresses on the database in order for labels... [26 Aug 2005]
