Bletchley given £57,000 donation

Bletchley given £57,000 donation
Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, BBC
Many parts of Bletchley Park are showing their age
A bid to save Britain’s computing heritage has been given a $100,000 (£57,000) boost by a joint donation from US hi-tech firms IBM and PGP.
The donation will help curate and restore exhibits at the National Museum of Computing in [...]

Where does Sarah Palin stand on technology issues?

Where does Sarah Palin stand on technology issues?
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While Gov. Palin is fairly new to the political scene nationwide, the Alaska native’s stance on key topics may give clues into the policies she would support if she were elected Vice President.
Sarah Palin earlier this week, and received assurances that we would be receiving responses to our [...]

CIA, FBI push ‘Facebook for spies’

CIA, FBI push ‘Facebook for spies’
WASHINGTON  – When you see people at the office using such Internet sites as Facebook and MySpace, you might suspect those workers are slacking off.
A social-networking site for the world of spying officially launches for the U.S. intelligence community this month.
A social-networking site for the world of spying officially [...]

Google at 10

As Google prepares to celebrate its tenth anniversary the company has an eye on its future and declared that for web users “the best is yet to come”.
“Internet search has just gotten started,” Marissa Mayer, Google’s head of search products, told.
“The best search engine would be your friend, with a photographic memory about [...]

      Spore – changing the game     

Gamers can customize almost any feature of the game

Spore is one of the most eagerly awaited games in years and has both players and pundits watching its every move.
The game takes evolution as its broad theme and is the creation of famed developer Will Wright. Many [...]

One Laptop signs up with Amazon

      One Laptop signs up with Amazon

The OLPC will call on Amazon’s experience with delivery and despatch

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation has signed a deal with Amazon to sell its low cost laptops.
The online retailer will help with its next Give 1 Get 1 (G1G1) programme that is due to [...]

Google launches internet browser

Google launches internet browser
Google is launching an open source web browser to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox.
The browser is designed to be fast, and to cope with the next generation of web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia.
Called Chrome, it will launch as a beta for Windows machines in 100 countries, with Mac [...]