Downtime
December 2007
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Lonely web users warned off caddish software
18 Dec 2007 -
Rock-fuelled granddad reinvents the wheelchair
17 Dec 2007 -
Downtime slips up making a monkey of a chimpanzee
14 Dec 2007
It is the time of year when the lonely can be made susceptible, and lulled into all sort of devilish traps. So internet-chatroom romantics beware: your next chat may be with a clinical computer, ...
A retired IT systems engineer from Germany was arrested after he was found doing 40mph down his local high street in a super-powered wheelchair he had upgraded. Guenther Eichmann, 54, told cops in ...
Downtime thought the chimpanzee apocalypse might well be upon us when we reported last week that monkeys were being trained to replace data analysts. However, reader John Long wrote in to point out ...
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Facebook frees users from present-tense pickle
14 Dec 2007 -
DWP bypasses courier to issue security guidelines
12 Dec 2007 -
What I did on holiday: stole a car, smoked pot…
12 Dec 2007 -
Russians see miracle of childbirth in a new light
12 Dec 2007 -
Microsoft's Santa bot talks naughty, not nice
12 Dec 2007 -
Chimps forget to pretend they have poor memories
12 Dec 2007
Facebook users are rejoicing as the social networking site has removed the “is” from the status formula “John Smith is”, meaning users are free to enter their own verb of choice after their name.
DWP sends unencrypted email detailing password.
A teenager in Norfolk has been banned from using the internet to publish “threatening or abusive” material. The 17-year-old, who was tried at Norwich Youth Court, had posted his thoughts on his ...
The future is orange, but not particularly bright, as a Russian mother at the point of delivering her baby girl discovered. When a hospital in Shelehov in northern Russia was pitched into blackness ...
Microsoft internet bot talks dirty
Monkeys have better numerical skills than humans