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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 2009
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Print advertising is the future - Google says so
- Editor in chief 14 Dec 2009 -
New uses for old phone booths
10 Dec 2009 -
Face your future - it won't be pretty
10 Dec 2009
Imagine if you can, for a moment, that you are Google. You have revolutionised the advertising industry. Billions of marketing dollars now flow your way. Traditional outlets for ads, such as ...
BT is giving away some 6,700 iconic red phone booths
Last month, a study by Fat Free Fitness revealed that IT workers have the unhealthiest lifestyles of all professional workers in the UK. Now you can see the effects of poor diet, smoking and ...
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Facebook kills man in prank
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 10 Dec 2009 -
1 in 4 men pull a sickie to play video games
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Tiger Woods cited by FBI in corruption study
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Online safety literacy
09 Dec 2009 -
Knowledge is power
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Expensive PC move
- Senior analyst 09 Dec 2009 -
Respected alien hunter loses his job
04 Dec 2009
Social networking site Facebook is in the headlines again for all the wrong reasons. A user was killed off as part of a prank by a friend. The 'friend' created a memorial site for Dan Evans, which ...
Why to employees fake illness ? The most popular reason, if you are a man, is to spend the day playing video games. Some 14% of men admit they have no qualms about calling in sick to play new video ...
corruption is the greatest criminal threat facing the US
driving lessons to make them safe on the information super-highway
Most iPod owners are paying more for downloaded music than necessary. Ignorance is costly, but TuneChecker.com saves the day. The music price comparison site helps find tracks at the cheapest ...
Lancashire Council paid £1,500 to move PCs and other office equipment across a road in Preston, which works out at £150 a metre. Why? The removal firm said health they could not carry boxes across ...
A network systems administrator in Arizona has lost his job after downloading alien-hunting software.
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John Terry to play for Yorkshire club
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 03 Dec 2009 -
If you have been injured in an accident use your iPhone
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Dummy's guide to running really exciting meetings
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Spare a $$$$ billion
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Post Office bankers bullied in The City
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 02 Dec 2009
It has got nothing to do with tectonic plates but Chelsea is now part of Yorkshire. The Yorkshire and Chelsea building societies are merging. Whatever next? I've never seen such a disparate group ...
Download iPhone app to help you find a personal injury lawyer...great!
.In meetings..don't dunk the bourbons in your coffee, otherwise you'll draw attention to yourself trying to fish out a dissolved biscuit from your coffee mug....
Microsoft spends more money getting people to say "I'm a PC" and run their own Windows 7 launch parties than Novell's entire opex.
Downtime was both concerned and pleased that the Post Office could become a full service bank. The good news is this means lots of IT investment. But Downtime worries how the Post Office's bankers ...