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Chrome OS: What Google can do, Ubuntu does better
Comment The growing dominance of Ubuntu (at least on the desktop, the server room seems to have been won by Red Hat) has delivered the Linux community a serious advantage in its ongoing war against the incumbent Windows and... [08 Jul 2009]
iPhone 3.0, Windows 7, robots and the office of the future
Photo A concert of electronic music took place in March using machines ranging from the World War II-era Colossus Mark II, to the 1980s favourite: the BBC Micro. In the concert, musician Matthew Applegate... [07 Apr 2009]
Photos: Making beautiful music with the earliest computers
Photo The codebreaking computer used in World War II, the Colossus Mark II, and vintage machines ranging from the 1960s' Elliott 803 through to the 1980s' BBC Micro - will sing again as part of the Obsolete... [10 Mar 2009]
BT to sell off 'secret World War II tunnels'
News BT is looking for a new buyer for its "secret World War II tunnels". The mile-long Kingsway Tunnels have a chequered history, starting off life in the early 1940s as air raid shelter designed to hold 8,000 people and... [16 Oct 2008]
ID cards, driverless buses and virtual shipwrecks
Photo See what else silicon.com saw at the National Museum of Computing based at Bletchley Park, home of World War II code-breakers and the Colossus code-cracking supercomputer. The MoD showed off the computer games it uses to... [02 Oct 2008]
Photos: IBM from Spitfires to Sphynxes
Photo The house's owner was a passionate supporter of the British war effort in the 1940s and bankrupted himself and his family funding it. The IBM development laboratory at Hursley House celebrates its 50th birthday this month. [19 Sep 2008]
Photos: The tech that holds up the net
Photo Alan Turing - widely seen as the father of modern computer science - worked at the NPL in the 1940s after his time at Bletchley Park where he was involved in cracking German code during World War II. Packet switching is... [06 Aug 2008]
Photos: Vintage arcade games... revealed
Photo Missile Command is a Cold War classic from 1980 in which players defend cities from the threat of interplanetary ballistic missiles. Pac-Man was another benchmark in arcade gaming, moving away from the... [28 Nov 2006]
Re:Viewing 2005: The year in mobile and wireless
News Still, if silicon.com's readers and analysts are to be believed, none of us much fancy watching it anyway, so the standards war might end up more of a standards conker-fight. Mobile email, mega-mergers, BlackBerry envy... [15 Dec 2005]
Cheat Sheet: 3G - in all its flavours
Cheat Sheet So who is winning the war, as it were? 3G? Simple - doesn't it just mean faster mobile networks? In a word, yes, though we're not only talking about speed when it comes to 'third-generation' (or 3G, get it? [04 Aug 2004]
Devil’s Advocate: Marching backwards to the Promised Land
Comment And while GDP has risen dramatically since the end of the Second World War, MDP has struggled to rise at all. The increasing power of big business, the curbing of civil liberties and customer 'fobbing off' hardly count... [06 Apr 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: The death of the CIO
Comment If the war in Iraq marked a low point at the start of this year, the recent capture of Saddam Hussein has added to the upsurge in good feeling. The top echelon of IT is going to be dominated increasingly by those whose... [22 Dec 2003]
SCO revokes IBM Unix licence
News The war of words continues outside the courtroom. SCO claims to have revoked IBM's Unix licence in its ongoing battle to squeeze cash out of its claimed Unix rights. And it is asking for an injunction to stop IBM's AIX... [17 Jun 2003]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64
Comment It even had one for a modem, though I was never about to embark on some War Games-style dial up action. This week we hear from Tony Hallett and Jon Bernstein, silicon.com writers who were drawn to the glamour of... [04 Feb 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64
News It even had one for a modem, though I was never about to embark on some War Games-style dial up action. This week we hear from Tony Hallett and Jon Bernstein, silicon.com writers who were drawn to the glamour of... [01 Feb 2002]
