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Drowning In Wireless Spaghetti
News World War II A more complex system evolved from ideas first mooted during World War II by, among others, film star Hedy Lamarr. Negotiating the world of wideband wireless data is like swimming around in alphabetti spaghetti, only somewhat less...
[November 1, 2005, 12:00]
On Challenging China With A Tariff
News But critics worry about sparking a trade war that could hurt both sides. But Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics and a former US Treasury official, says a 50 percent tariff on Chinese products may be required to level...
[June 15, 2005, 14:55]
Bletchley Park Faces Bleak Future
Articles We have this huge estate to run and it's one of the most important World War II stories there is. Historians have postulated that, without Bletchley Park, code-named Station X to keep its location from the Germans, the Allies may never have won the...
[May 13, 2008, 17:53]
State Of Victoria Case Study: Torus Games
White Papers Operation Shadow is a war-themed 3D action adventure that immerses gamers into the world of heavy combat action, lightning strikes and the latest military equipment. The two games that Torus Games has produced for Nokia N-Gage took about three...
[March 21, 2005, 23:00]
Outrage At Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Now, France owes us because of World War Two. We repaid that debt during World War One. "shut up you american nonce, the difference between Bob Geldoff and Bill Gates is a world appart. And if it were not for Europe there wouldn't be an American...
[March 2, 2005, 19:45]
Think Napster -- Only For Movies
News The World War of digital rights is welling up on the Internet. It has Hollywood, which is already on its heels in the war against piracy, sticking yet another thumb in the digital rights dam. No one has publicly taken credit for doing the work, he...
[May 12, 2000, 15:27]
Recognising Bletchley Park's Unsung Heroines
News During World War II, around 6,000 women worked at the highly secretive Bletchley Park and its outposts. It's absolutely fitting that we link with the BCS, which works with the modern-day computer world, and recognise the work that was done by all...
[March 12, 2008, 11:08]
New Flare-up In Battle Over E-books
News But in addition to the customary war of words between the two camps, an equally heated dispute emerged at e-Book World on Monday over the business model publishers should choose to capitalize on the slowly emerging e-book market.
[November 7, 2000, 9:48]
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]
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]
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]
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]
