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Photo The Colossus code-cracking computer is up and running for the first time in more than 60 years. Colossus is widely recognised as one of the world's first digital computers. Pictured are the Wrens using a Colossus Mark II computer in the 1940s.
[16 Nov 2007]
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]
Video The base is now home to the fledgling National Museum of Computing, which features a rebuild of the world's first electronic codebreaking computer - Colossus. In the first of this exclusive video series, silicon.com takes you behind the scenes at...
[19 Mar 2008]
News In the Cipher Challenge, a competition run by the National Museum of Computing last week, the cipher-breaking computer Colossus had to decode encrypted radio communications intercepted from Paderborn in Germany.
[19 Nov 2007]
Photo See more photos from Colossus here… Computer expert and former spy, Tony Sale, demonstrates the mighty codebreaker Colossus - WWII's top secret weapon. Bletchley Park is now home to the new National Museum of Computing, which features a rebuild of...
[18 Mar 2008]
whitepaper This paper shows that the encryption capabilities of the Third Reich’s Enigma machine prompted British cryptanalysts to develop the world’s first programmable computer, called Colossus. Using code-breaking databases developed during WWI, Colossus...
[24 Feb 2004]
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.
[20 Mar 2008]
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[24 Apr 2008]
News Leaving technology of the future for a moment, silicon.com took a trip down memory lane to witness computing's pivotal role in WWII espionage with an exclusive peek at Bletchley Park's Colossus codebreaking machine.
[27 Mar 2008]
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine 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]
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...
[20 Mar 2008]
News Ernie 1 was built by the team behind the World War II code-breaking Colossus machine. Ernie - the venerable computer in charge of randomly picking premium bonds winners - has been overhauled. National Savings and Investments (NS&I), which runs the...
[17 Aug 2004]
News Thousands of internet users across the country have lost their connections following a massive failure in BT's national IP network, Colossus. A failure in BT's Colossus IP backbone was responsible, but there is no information as yet about what...
[20 Nov 2001]
News Tesco has spread its dominance of UK retail into online shopping and now bestrides internet grocery deliveries like a colossus. According to statistics from research company comScore, Tesco has 66 per cent of the UK's online shopping market.
[23 Aug 2006]
News BT's national IP network, Colossus, fell over for a second time in a week on Friday afternoon, plunging weary customers into chaos. The network fell over at 14:55(GMT), a spokeswoman confirmed. It was fully restored by 15:45(GMT), she claimed.
[26 Nov 2001]
News The software colossus had been contending, through a series of Microsoft-funded studies and "Get the Facts" advertisements, that Microsoft products have a lower "total cost of ownership" than Linux and other open source software.
[04 Feb 2004]
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]
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Web and phone insurer eSure is creating a single "information hub" to improve the management and quality of customer data and reduce duplication. Latest photo stories from silicon.com
[26 Mar 2008]
News Since AOL bought old media colossus Time Warner divisions handling film, music and TV have continued to contribute the bulk of revenues and, recently at least, good profits while AOL has slumped along with the whole commercial online market.
[03 Dec 2002]
News Ballmer told US wires that Microsoft's main competitor is without a doubt internet colossus AOL. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, claims one-time arch rival Sun has fallen by the wayside on Microsoft's competitive landscape.
[18 Jun 2002]
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