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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.
September 2008
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South Cambridgeshire becomes a virtual Guyana
26 Sep 2008 -
Prank calling gets a not-at-all-needed IT makeover
26 Sep 2008 -
"Let them eat broadband," Brown tells conference
26 Sep 2008
The British National Party was on high alert when a computer system used by South Cambridgeshire council recorded that there were thousands of South American people living within its boundaries. A ...
Downtime has learnt, through an unwisely directed PR e-mail, of a website aimed at reducing the time needed to make a prank call by automating the process. The website, hoaxcall.com, allows users ...
It is good to see that politicians are using technology to help them prise votes from the electorate. Boris Johnson and Gordon Brown have both separately pledged to improve access to the internet. ...
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University students live on kebabs and credit crunchies
26 Sep 2008 -
Large Hadron Collider has an NHS IT moment
26 Sep 2008 -
Financial turmoil could spell acronym windfall
26 Sep 2008 -
Basics of cloud computing become as clear as mud
26 Sep 2008 -
Skype gains unfortunate advocate in PR jungle
26 Sep 2008 -
Colliding banks fail to release missing capital
26 Sep 2008 -
Vernon Kay is not dead, long live Vernon Kay
26 Sep 2008
The Financial Services Authority has gone on red alert in the wake of the shocking news that a third of students are constantly overdrawn. The financial services watchdog is introducing a financial ...
Downtime was interested in reading that the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be shut off until spring 2009 while engineers probe a magnet failure. The so-called God Particle will have to wait ...
Here at Downtime we tire of spelling out acronyms. And this is about to get worse if the current consolidation in the banking sector continues.It looks like we could soon have HTSBOS for one, or ...
Does cloud computing confuse you? Not us. Because "the degree to which we can help our customers become more cloud-like internally will actually enable them to federate more easily with external ...
Downtime was surprised to hear that Taliban fighters have found the ultimate weapon to avoid capture... Skype.Security sources say that, unlike mobile calls, which can be monitored by RAF Nimrod ...
Switching on the Large Hadron Collider underneath the Swiss Alps has had the unintended consequence predicted by chaos theory, namely the implosion of the world's financial system.Instead of ...
Those of us who rely on Wikipedia as the ultimate adjudicator on any matter of disagreement had our beliefs shaken this week when it was revealed that Vernon Kay was not dead.Vernon Kay's Wikipedia ...
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Microsoft chooses not to advertise its failures
26 Sep 2008 -
It's quiet out there, Hoskins. Too quiet
10 Sep 2008 -
Cern: bringer of the apocalypse or hit factory?
05 Sep 2008 -
Sweden cooks up a treat for fans of laptop computing
05 Sep 2008 -
Shanghai police reminds the public it is always watching
05 Sep 2008
Downtime's ruthless critique of Microsoft's new Jerry Seinfeld-starring advertising collaboration, published last week, seems to have had more of an effect than even we expected.It has emerged that ...
They've turned that thing on, and so far we seem to be all in one piece. Downtime has even arranged his Wednesday lunch date at the usual time and place, this week with an unusual sense of occasion ...
While the Cern laboratory is possibly better known for its imminent deployment of the Large Hadron Collider - and possible attendant apocalypse - it is also emerging as a crucible of musical talent ...
The latest laptops look good enough to eat. So Downtime was delighted to discover that enterprising Swedes have created the first edible gingerbread laptop. Benny, Monica, Anna-Maria and Erik held ...
Police in Shanghai have announced plans to publish photographs and stills from CCTV of jaywalkers and other traffic nuisances in local newspapers in an effort to shame miscreants into mending their ...