Life before email: A look back at the 'vacuum post'
News In the Cold War period, when Germany was split in two, so was the vacuum post. 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.
[November 27, 2008, 14:11]
Dell earnings match expectations
News Despite the economic uncertainty brought on by war prospects and the resulting difficulty to predict sales, Dell executives are bullish about the company's prospects for the current quarter, given its ability to gain market share.
[February 14, 2003, 9:16]
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. While the Colossus project remained completely secret during the war and for a...
[November 15, 2007, 14:09]
Congressman criticised for GSM quote
News The GSM community has responded to a southern California congressman who has called for the adoption of CDMA mobile technology in post-war Iraq, to ensure the rebuilding efforts don't benefit European vendors at the expense of US industry.
[March 31, 2003, 10:09]
Reach Aging Baby Boomers Online ... The Right Way
White Papers Baby boomers - that oversized post-World War II generation identified with free love and rock and roll - are rolling into their 60s and heading toward old age. Boomers are bringing to their online experience, however, a growing list of ailments and...
[May 28, 2007, 23:51]
Bob 'Ethernet' Metcalfe looks to the future
Talkback Gray Walter is Grey Walter and pre-war should be immediately post-war - my father covered both periods, I'm not sure Grey Walter did. since I was being pedantic I have of course shot myself in the foot.
[November 17, 2005, 13:28]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback Any ways all I can say is its a war "Job War". After going through various comments been putforth by the individuals all I can say is those who lie about things do not post their name in the comments section.
[September 15, 2006, 20:10]
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[March 8, 2007, 6:00]
Schindler heads toward life post-Mitnick
News Schindler began tracking hackers back when they were nearly mythical figures, straight out of movies such as War Games. But a closer look at the Post-it notes tacked to those file cabinets reveals that this office isn't your ordinary bureaucratic...
[October 4, 1999, 8:59]
Straight talking on terrorism
News Last year after he left his post as cybersecurity tzar at the White House, he openly criticised the president's handling of the 'war on terror', claiming Bush could have prevented the 9/11 attack if he had listened to his advisors.
[November 12, 2004, 16:00]
US Army demotes blogger
News One post at the blog DailyKos lamented Clark's situation and compared selected quotes from Clark's old emails about the war in Baghdad with accounts in the mainstream media. He has been asked not to comment, and is doing so," the post said.
[August 3, 2005, 10:25]
Fiorina: The quest continues
News With one year to go, that quest has proven largely quixotic, as Silicon Valley pioneer HP has been buffeted by a brutal price war in PC and printer sales and stiff competition in servers and services.
[September 4, 2001, 9:38]
Dell meets Wall Street's mark
News We're winning the price war," Dell said, citing costs that are now 50 percent lower than competitors. Analysts have also made it clear that a protracted price war will neither help Dell's profitability nor its standing on Wall Street.
[August 17, 2001, 9:02]
Tuesday
Blog This year, though, the war and the general gloom conspire against such japes, and I don't have the spirit to come up with anything. During a time of war and with the present concern for homeland security, terrorist acts will not be tolerated and...
[April 4, 2003, 12:24]
Dressing for IT success
News When Matthew Broderick hacked into the US Defence Department's War Operations Plan Response (WOPR) system (aka Joshua) back in 1983 in the Warner Bros movie War Games, he also managed to drag the hypercasual dress code already endemic in the IT...
[February 6, 2003, 14:24]
Wall Street jittery over Intel price cuts
News In a research note on Monday, Lehman Brothers analyst Dan Niles said Intel is hatching a plan to regain market share from Advanced Micro Devices, sparking a price war that will hurt earnings. For those who thought the price war was already...
[August 8, 2001, 8:30]
Gateway cuts jobs and closes shops
News The softness in revenue reflects general economic softness, as well as uncertainty related to the war," in Iraq, he said. Analysts polled by First Call had been expecting the company to post a loss of 34 cents per share for the quarter.
[March 18, 2003, 11:25]
9/11 Commission Report
Downloads Section 6 - From Threat To Threat, including The Millennium Crisis, Post-Crisis Reflection: Agenda for 2000, The Attack on the USS Cole, Change & Continuity, and The New Administration's ApproachSection 7 - The Attack Looms, including First...
[October 7, 2004, 8:00]
Thursday
Blog As my friend said: these are the people who are organising a war? Fun War Project: next time you see a nice cosy piece in the press about army chaplains helping their khaki flock with matters spiritual, see if you can't track down the US Army...
[March 13, 2003, 16:35]
More cuts at Gateway
News Gateway's latest decision to cut prices will likely prolong the more than year-long price war that has been wiping out profits in the PC market. Chief executive Ted Waitt said in a statement Thursday that the company can cut prices and post losses...
[January 25, 2002, 8:35]



