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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.
July 2008
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Lilly-livered law can't help protect your public image
31 Jul 2008 -
You know when you've had enough - the bear says so
30 Jul 2008 -
Workaround genius: the Blue Peter flap
29 Jul 2008
Sometimes you wonder who your friends are. London's Metro newspaper reports that someone pinched a woman's pictures off of Facebook and plastered them all over a fetishists' website, along with a ...
If the fluffy bear mascot on your car dashboard starts talking, drivers could be forgiven for thinking they have had a bit too much to drink. But Japanese scientists have come up with a high-tech ...
Downtime was pleased to see a local railway station use the Blue Peter approach to fixing IT. When bright sunshine made its ticket machine screens impossible to read, a bit of sticky back plastic ...
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Who's watching you watching the movie?
29 Jul 2008 -
South African backpackers voice employment concerns
19 Jul 2008 -
Bonnie Scotland - it's the new Bangalore
18 Jul 2008 -
Robot turns up the heat and gets out of the kitchen
18 Jul 2008 -
Technology staff want to get promoted, survey reveals
18 Jul 2008 -
Malware writers cook up a treat for Nigella fans
18 Jul 2008 -
Sex worker perks up IT staff with bedroom revelations
18 Jul 2008
The Odeon cinema chain has put CCTV cameras in nine of its venues across the country to "ensure the safety and security of audience members", it says. The nation must put a stop to this blatant ...
Meet the world's first robotic barman. Mr Asahi has recently made his London debut. The brainchild of Japanese brewer Asahi, the robot trained for six months ahead of the gig at Selfridges. ...
Scotland is the next Bangalore, or so we have heard. Downtime has read an article about Scotland's opportunity to become the next Bangalore by using its skills to become a centre for outsourcing. ...
"Two sugars in that tea Hal." "Sorry Dave I cannot do that." "Why not?" "Because I am Chris, a robot created in Bristol using one million pounds of European Commission money. Although I was ...
Downtime loves surveys, especially as they tend to confirm the blindingly obvious and hence lead to jocular speculation about what planet these people live on. The latest in this line comes from - ...
Celebrity cook Nigella Lawson has had her website (nigella.com) hacked by the increasingly dangerous SQL injection attacks doing the rounds. Visitors to the site could have found themselves ...
An article in London's Metro newspaper last week following Max Mosley's attempts to prove that he is just a pervert and not a Nazi, carried an unexpected PR coup for IT workers. Poppy Williams, one ...
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Get to know your dinner a little better
18 Jul 2008 -
Photo story: Government CIOs turn green
17 Jul 2008 -
Ingenious excuses from banks number 452
17 Jul 2008 -
Richard Thomas gets tough on Dot Cotton
16 Jul 2008 -
Cards in London cabs are contactless and pointless
15 Jul 2008
Shoppers in Norway are getting a supermarket information system that will allow them to download complete curricula vitae of any poultry they buy. Norwegian food producer Nortura has started work ...
Computer Weekly caption competition - greening government IT.
Banks and building societies should implement bespoke excuse generating machines. This was the idea of one reader who was told by his erstwhile mortgage lender that the reason there was a hold up ...
No-one is safe from the Freedom of Information Act, not even the BBC. Big brother is cracking the whip and Aunty will have to comply. The Information Commissioner's Office - which, one would hope, ...
The Scots clearly have no idea how much taxis cost in London. The Royal Bank of Scotland anyway. The bank has decided to roll out contactless card readers in London cabs. Good idea you may think. ...