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Downtime
Taking a look at the lighter side of IT - technology may be a serious business but it rarely fails to raise a smile too.
December 2008
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MPs' concerns over sensitive data seem a little misplaced
19 Dec 2008 -
Unemployed CGI robot seeks suitable position
18 Dec 2008 -
Too much information is a very frightening thing
18 Dec 2008
It was nice to see politicians question the security of confidential information on the Commons computer system. Following the Damian Green leak affair, MPs have been worried about the police ...
Downtime's heartstrings were duly tugged by this campaign prepared on behalf of all those unfortunate CGI robots who have found themselves out of work this Christmas due to the seasonal switch to ...
Downtime is worried about the transparency created by technology. On a recent train journey from London to Horsham, the driver left his PA system switched on while he held a conversation with a ...
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Ned Kelly rehabilitation results in bank job
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 17 Dec 2008 -
Online banking spells end for dirty money stories
17 Dec 2008 -
Cancer models used to mine Facebook
16 Dec 2008 -
Over-engineering a solution to a non-existent problem
16 Dec 2008 -
Was blackmailing copper a victim of 419 scam?
15 Dec 2008 -
Singing in the key of ERP
11 Dec 2008 -
PC shop Mike-O-Soft in Microsoft pirate sales shock
08 Dec 2008
News that Crocodile Dundee is set to head up the IT operations at Citigroup are wide of the mark. Following the bank's decision to appoint Ned Kelly to head up its merged corporate and investment ...
Downtime was happy to read the story about the binman who found £10,000 worth of ripped bank-notes in a dustbin. Best of luck to him: if he pieces it back together, the Bank of England will replace ...
As all who read Downtime know, technology tends to be pretty predictable (Moore's Law still holds), but what people will do with it remains a mystery.Take the latest modelling tool from the ...
Downtime was mystified by a Reuters report that a Belgian health products distributor has invented a microchip that it claims will protect mobile phone users from potentially damaging ...
There were several odd sorts of symmetry to last week's story about the police officer on trial for blackmailing sex offenders. Former police constable Amerdeep Johal hoped to extort £419,000 in ...
Epicor's viral adverstising campaign for enterprise resource planning prodcuts will have you singing In the Key of ERP,
Mike-O-Soft, a Swansea-based PC shop, has been fined for selling Microsoft software without a licence. Downtime thinks this may be a particularly tragic case of nominative determinism; poor Mike ...
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Apple takes really relative approach to telling the truth
05 Dec 2008 -
Melvin Clark of Liberia offers way out of recession
04 Dec 2008 -
Internet leak reveals government's VAT flip-flop
03 Dec 2008 -
Jury is out on character of Facebook generation
01 Dec 2008 -
City IT workers take a break from financial apocalypse
01 Dec 2008
Apple has run into more trouble over its iPhone adverts. The company had claimed that users could access all parts of the internet on the iPhone. Not true, said The Advertising Standards Authority. ...
Despite the assiduous attentions of Computer Weekly's panoply of anti-malware tools, a rogue phishing offer got through to Downtime's -computer. Melvin Clark of Liberia, currently resident in the ...
The government has taken the bold decision to cut VAT, judging that a 2% reduction in the price of goods will prompt Britain's unemployed homeless populace of the financial Armageddon into a ...
A woman was thrown off a jury for holding a poll on Facebook to help her reach a decision on a case she was sitting on. CIOs who are frequently being told that they must understand Generation Y can ...
A website is offering City IT workers the chance to win a prize for telling their stories online. With all the shenanigans in the City, that should make interesting reading. Apparently, the ...