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Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News The work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers is credited with shortening the Second World War by two years. There were 10 Colossus computers built by the end of the war. Naval recruit Doreen Osborne, like... [05 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News While Symbian continues to dominate the smartphone market it could soon be facing increasing competition from a new quarter - Maemo. There's no debating that the Symbian platform remains the daddy of the smartphone world: one in every... [02 Nov 2009]
Will 'citizen developers' shake up IT development?
News We've had the 'citizen journalist', blogging from war zones or capturing breaking news on their cameraphone. Now step forward the 'citizen developer' - an individual set to play an increasingly important role in creating... [23 Oct 2009]
Bletchley Park WWII codebreakers honoured
News The Foreign Secretary David Miliband has paid tribute to the work done by the World War II codebreakers at Bletchley Park who cracked the Enigma code used by Nazi Germany's military. He said the work at Bletchley Park... [13 Oct 2009]
Bletchley Park lands £460,000 funding boost from lottery
News After prolonged debate over its future, Bletchley Park - home of the World War II codebreakers who cracked the Enigma code used by the Nazis - is to receive lottery funding. Bletchley, which houses the National Museum of... [29 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The turntable spins on
Comment Ten years ago a 19-year-old Shawn Fanning launched Napster and music file-sharing; and the property rights war has been raging ever since. Compiled at my home on a sunny autumn day over a morning coffee and dispatched to... [24 Sep 2009]
Photos: Inside the RSA cybercrime war room
Photo At RSA's Anti-Fraud Command Centre (AFCC) in Herzelia, Israel, more than 100 staff work to detect, dissect and block phishing sites and Trojan attacks 24 hours per day. From the AFCC, the security firm sifts through more than 10 million... [18 Sep 2009]
Bletchley Park's Alan Turing gets official apology
News Alan Turing, the mathematician and cryptographer whose work played an essential role in the efforts of codebreaking-centre Bletchley Park during WWII, received a posthumous apology from Prime Minister Gordon Brown last week for Turing's... [14 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.09.09
Round-Up However, fans of Super Mario or Gears of War are going to be sorely disappointed with the game as the challenge for the would-be office commandoes is to become a master of the cutthroat world of business process management. [11 Sep 2009]
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. During the World War II, Bletchley Park was a codebreaking factory. By the end of the... [07 Sep 2009]
Apple tablet, Windows 7, Nokia mini laptop, 3D printers and future mobiles
Photo Photo credit: Donald Bell/CNET silicon.com had a sneak preview of one of the world's largest collections of Enigma cipher machines last month - known for being used by the Germans to protect their communications during the Second World... [02 Sep 2009]
HP Neoview: Architecture and Performance
White Paper With both private businesses and public enterprises under more financial and competitive pressure than at any time since World War II, business intelligence continues to rise in importance. Executives need to make more... [01 Sep 2009]
Invoice Capture: Where Do You Stand in the War Against Paper?
White Paper Despite efforts to go paperless, most organizations still receive the majority of invoices in paper format. A faster, more efficient means of handling invoices is crucial to the success of the financial operations. [29 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can tech end bloody wars?
Comment Throughout my life I have seen warfare mutate from the World War II model to terrorism, the threat of weapons of mass destruction and cyber attacks. The cost of a 'real' war was so great in some tribal... [28 Aug 2009]
Bletchley Park funding call rejected: No new cash for codebreakers' home
News Bletchley Park, the home of UK codebreakers during World War II, will get no financial support from the government after a petition calling for funding from Whitehall was rejected today. Bletchley Park is to receive no... [26 Aug 2009]
