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Colossus Misses The Christmas Rush
Blog The Cipher Challenge, run by the National Museum of Computing, was a great idea to test the rebuilt Colossus. After 14 years of rebuilding, I'd want to test the beast too. Ironically, the challenge to break the WWII era German code was won.by a...
[January 4, 2008, 16:52]
The Rebuilt Colossus Codebreaker In Action
News 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. The man who rebuilt Colossus, computer expert and former spy Tony Sale, here demonstrates...
[March 27, 2008, 11:57]
Bringing Colossus Back To Life
News The Colossus codecracking computer has recently been kicked into action for the first time in more than 60 years. Colossus is widely recognised as one of the world's first digital computers. Pictured are Wrens using a Colossus Mark II computer in...
[November 19, 2007, 14:10]
German Man Beats WWII Colossus Codecracker
News In the Cipher Challenge, a competition run by the National Museum of Computing on Thursday and Friday, the cipher-breaking computer Colossus had to decode encrypted radio communications intercepted from Paderborn in Germany.
[November 16, 2007, 13:52]
Modern PCs To Challenge WWII Codebreaker
News Colossus, the cipher-breaking World War II computer, is to be pitted against modern computing power in a competition organised by the National Museum of Computing. In an event called the "Cipher Challenge", which is running on Thursday and Friday...
[November 15, 2007, 14:09]
32Mb: The Next RAM Standard?
News Granville Technology-owned PC vendor Colossus today made the bold move of shipping almost all of its business systems with a minimum of 32Mb RAM as standard, saying the move was caused by user demand.
[September 4, 1996, 16:57]
Actually...
Talkback However, I did mention that Schüth deciphered the signals before the Colossus team received theirs: Colossus is still chugging away, as we got the signals late. Hello there, Thanks for taking the time to post a talkback.
[November 19, 2007, 16:43]
Code Breakers Secrets Revealed
News The documents will show that a machine known as "Colossus II", with basic programmable capabilities, was being used at British code-breaking headquarters, Station X in Bletchley Park, to decrypt high-level tactical communications encrypted using...
[October 2, 2000, 15:11]
Not So Much Irony As Conspiracy Lol
Talkback What you fail to mention is the fact that Schüth deciphered the signals many hours before the Colossus team even received theirs! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7098005.stm I take the point that the time it took Schüth to decipher was...
[November 19, 2007, 14:29]
BT's Broadband Vision Explored
News On Monday, BT launched a defence of its Internet strategy, proudly showing off its new IP backbone -- dubbed Colossus -- and claiming to be "passionate" about broadband. On Wednesday Oftel announced the fourteen operators that will roll out...
[April 6, 2000, 15:03]
Tesco Dominates Internet Shopping
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 percent of the UK's online shopping market.
[August 24, 2006, 9:50]
Time Ships First 6x86MX PR266-based PCs
News Time's Colossus 266M-2 Ultimate PC with 64Mb EDO RAM, 8.6Gb hard drive, 8Mb ATI Rage Pro graphics card, TV tuner card, 56K voice modem, 32-speed CD-ROM and Lotus SmartSuite and software bundle costs from £1,269 + VAT.
[February 17, 1998, 6:00]
Sun Hits Back At Torvalds In Open-source Row
News Software colossus Sun Microsystems has hit back at the founding fathers of open-source for criticising its decision to release some of the source code to Solaris, its version of Unix. Linus Torvalds, creator of open-source operating system Linux...
[October 7, 1999, 16:31]
AOL And Time Warner To Merge
News America Online, the world's largest Internet service provider, and US media and entertainment colossus Time Warner Monday announced a stock-for-stock merger. The deal is to create a sprawling media empire with a combined market capitalisation of...
[January 10, 2000, 10:10]
Intel, SAP Team On E-commerce
News The US chip colossus and German business application software powerhouse said that together they intended to rocket the progress of the sector through a joint venture called Pandesic. Craig Barrett, president and chief operating officer of Intel...
[August 5, 1997, 16:44]
Baltimore Secures Wireless Deal In Japan
News Irish Baltimore Technologies inked a deal with Japanese mobile phone colossus DoCoMo Tuesday that will see it providing security for its mobile commerce service i-mode in Japan. Security firm Baltimore also announced Tuesday the Telepathy...
[February 21, 2001, 6:31]
The Day Ahead: Mileposts For AOL Time Warner
News Commentary: With the AOL Time Warner merger about to finally close, investors should put aside all the descriptions of the entertainment giant -- colossus, media empire, Internet gatekeeper -- and focus on how shares will trade.
[January 10, 2001, 14:03]
ISPs Left In The Dark Over ADSL Crash
News The fault, which occurred in Colossus -- BT's IP backbone network -- sometime on Tuesday morning, is thought to have affected well over 100,000 surfers. BT has been criticised for not keeping ISPs informed about the technical problem that crashed...
[November 21, 2001, 11:14]
Microsoft Moves From 'facts' To Interoperability
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.
[February 4, 2004, 7:15]
Google To Yahoo: We're In Your Corner!
Blog Comment colossus. Harpless.good post! However, if I were Google I wouldn't give a hoot about the merger. In fact Google's own concern worries more more than the potential of the MS/ Yahoo! In fact, it may be time that the BIG G had some real competition.
[February 5, 2008, 8:55]
