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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.
October 2009
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Party comes to an end as fugitive discovers policemen can read
22 Oct 2009 -
Call centre automation takes macabre twist
22 Oct 2009 -
Bloggers mob libel lawyers, restore free speech
14 Oct 2009
A fugitive from justice was arrested after alerting the US authorities to his whereabouts through Facebook.Maxi Sopo, who was wanted for falsely obtaining more than $200,000 in credit, wrote a ...
The Register brings news that Japanese programmers have developed an algorithm which can tell, just by listening to your voice, if you are about to die. The software was developed by trawling ...
Carter Ruck withdrew its opposition after the blogosphere rose up
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Scandinavian sex tourism saga continues
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 14 Oct 2009 -
Single, dead female
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Smart phones, not users
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MOD leaks plugged on Wikileaks
08 Oct 2009 -
Regulator speaks as it sees
07 Oct 2009 -
Ernest Marples
05 Oct 2009
After Danish tourism bods pulled a promotional You Tube video that basically described the nation as a place to get your leg over without worrying about a problem nine months later, the Swedes ...
Proving that social networking can be murder, a jilted lover killed his partner in south Wales when she changed her status to single on Facebook. Brian Lewis is to serve a minimum of 14 years in ...
Twitter members are so addicted to the microblogging service that thousands are risking their lives to do it. One in ten motorists are using mobile devices to send tweets while on the road say ...
Downtime didn't know whether to feel insulted or honoured by the inclusion of investigative journalists among the Ministry of Defence's list of people to defend the realm against.
Cyril Connelly, a British critic, said that no-one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book. This is ...
...our trusty moral guardian Websense banned entry. Reason? Sex.