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Enigma thief will be found, says Bletchley director
News The work done by code-breakers such as Alan Turing -- credited with building the world's first programmable computer -- at Bletchley, also known as Station X, is thought to have helped shorten the Second World War by up to two years by cracking...
[August 11, 2003, 13:35]
Tech heroes in line for 'Greatest Briton' award
News During World War Two, Turing -- an anti-war protestor in the 1930s -- worked at the top-secret Bletchley Park. Alan Turing was both an unlikely hero of the Second World War and a vital player in the birth of computing.
[August 22, 2002, 12:07]
Blizzard Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Downloads In Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, players revisit the war-torn world of Azeroth a generation after the end of the Second War between the Orcs and the Humans. the largest online service of its kind in the world.
[December 12, 2009, 3:39]
Blizzard Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Downloads In Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, players revisit the war-torn world of Azeroth a generation after the end of the Second War between the Orcs and the Humans. ®, the largest online service of its kind in the world.
[December 6, 2002, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Especially Mr Dolby, who tweaks his World War Two vintage electronics hooked up to state of the art Mac magic with aplomb. As he started his career with an album called The Golden Age Of Wireless, it seems appropriate to move there from the world...
[March 20, 2006, 12:00]
Life before email: A look back at the 'vacuum post'
News After World War II the system continued to function and, according our guide, it was not until the 1970s that it fell into complete disuse. The obvious gap between the pipes, shown in the image above,�marks the consequences of World War II.
[November 27, 2008, 14:11]
Gates rejects birthplace of modern computing
News Despite its code-breakers being credited with ending the Second World War at least two years ahead of time, and its innovative history, Bletchley receives no public funding at all from the UK Treasury.
[August 11, 2003, 10:00]
Argentina: More near-shore than offshore
News What you have to understand about Argentina is that before the First World War - say 1914 - there were only two or three million people living in the country. Starting with the First World War and ending in about 1950 there was a massive...
[July 27, 2004, 16:10]
VoIP price war looms
News The current price war is erupting among VoIP providers with services that let callers seamlessly connect from an ordinary telephone handset to any phone number around the world. The dropping prices are also affecting the higher-quality services...
[November 4, 2003, 15:20]
Microsoft to Oracle: Cease and desist
News The recent war of words between Microsoft and Oracle is hardly the first clash between the two in the database space. In fact, Microsoft has called in its lawyers over Oracle's recent criticisms of Microsoft's SQL Server performance, Oracle chief...
[October 27, 2000, 8:32]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog World War II. None of this requires fundamental breakthroughs from quantum computing or material science: economic collapse, global war or environmental disaster could stop it happening, but we might as well continue in the hope that none of the...
[March 3, 2006, 17:00]
IDG softens stance in Macworld spat
News After a war of words last week, Apple Computer and Macworld Expo show promoter IDG World Expo managed a bit of detente on Monday. IDG World Expo and Apple have.agreed to hold ongoing discussions about Apple's role in upcoming East Coast Macworld...
[October 22, 2002, 7:57]
Mozilla hits out at Apple's Safari plans
News If Jobs had shown the second graph with significant Safari market share at the expense of IE, it would be an outright declaration of war against Microsoft. Which is sort of moot, I think, because I don't think this two-party world will really come...
[June 18, 2007, 11:21]
Re: Pride
Talkback I'm sure many people in this country of my generation had relatives that they deeply respected that fought in World War 2. On the subject of the need for the next generation to understand just exactly what a war is REALLY about, I could not agree...
[May 19, 2008, 11:22]
Analysis: 'Baby Bills' solution has potential
News It's war. It's now certain that the world's largest software company will face the biggest anti-trust suit that America has seen since the Bell Telephone company was broken up into the 'Baby Bells'. Commentators that view this as a desktop-only...
[May 19, 1998, 15:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Following some really nasty Cold War arguments over the naming of new elements -- the Yanks wanted to call stuff LiveFreeUnderCapitalismWithGunsium, while the Ruskies favoured TheRuleOfTheProletariatGlorifiesMarxon -- people agreed to name...
[February 6, 2004, 15:10]
Microsoft and SAP square up for business applications battle
News An all-out war between Microsoft and SAP would certainly be spectacular. The giant said that instead of selling its wares to the world's largest corporations as SAP and its traditional rivals do, it would target a largely untapped market: millions...
[December 11, 2003, 10:15]
IT pioneer Norris dies
News Before that, he worked on code breaking for the US Navy in World War II and ran the Univac division of Sperry. Working on code-breaking calculators for the US Navy during the war, he was in at the start of the computer industry, and set up the Navy...
[August 23, 2006, 15:20]
The Swedish datacentre with a bunker mentality
News It was begun in 1943 and extended during the Cold War to became a civil-defence bunker, stocked with provisions and emergency vehicles. Key staff could survive a nuclear war there, and emerge to rebuild the city.
[December 5, 2008, 16:01]
IBM drops AMD in North America
News Intel and AMD are currently locked in a brutal price war. Despite the North American setback with IBM, an AMD spokesman said the two companies will continue to work together in other regions of the world.
[August 14, 2001, 8:37]
