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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.
March 2009
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Enthusiast makes sweet music from computing past
20 Mar 2009 -
McGregor finds online alibi for a multitude of sins
20 Mar 2009 -
Poll to shed Sir Fred of his knighthood rejected
20 Mar 2009
Musician Pixelh8, aka Matthew Applegate, is performing a concert this week at Bletchley Park, using the sounds emitted from vintage computers at the The National Museum of Computing. Who would have ...
UK film star Ewan McGregor is threatening to take legal action against those responsible for bogus entries in his name on Twitter. Almost 200,000 people have been following what they thought were ...
The internet-using public has been putting their time to good use calling for Fred Goodwin's knighthood to be stripped from him. A petition on the Downing Street website has garnered a modest 2,085 ...
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Bill Gates back on top as his fortune takes a tumble
20 Mar 2009 -
Traffic wardens find a friend in GPS-enabled devices
20 Mar 2009 -
German TV licence authority flogging a dead scholar
20 Mar 2009 -
Fisherman catches a very well-connected cod
09 Mar 2009 -
Bill Gates' children forced to survive on Apple-free diet
09 Mar 2009 -
Abstain from the joy of texts, Catholic Church tells youths
09 Mar 2009 -
Mandelson wows China with gift of a memory stick
09 Mar 2009
It has been a year of mixed fortunes for Bill Gates. The good news: he is back at the top of the Forbes rich list for 2009.The bad news: he has lost £12.2bn.It is no wonder that the world is ...
Technology has come to the rescue of a newly endangered species. The once feared force of London parking attendants are coming under increasing attacks from the public. GPS-enabled panic alarms are ...
The BBC licence fee is a source of much ire. Downtime found an entire website devoted to those who do not have a television complaining about the harassment they have been subjected to from the ...
A businessman who left his phone on a beach was reunited with the phone after it was found inside a fish.Andrew Chettle thought he had seen the last of his trusty gadget when he lost it at the ...
Bill Gates' children have a rough time of it. This week it was revealed that his three children - Jennifer, 13, Phoebe, seven, and Rory, 10 - are not allowed to own Apple technology because of ...
Targeting more traditional vices is so last millennium. The Catholic Church is telling its youth to give up their cyber-passions. They should abstain from texting activities and from indulging in ...
In days of yore, ministers plenipotentiary - the blokes charged with getting a good trade deal for our side - went armed with expensive gifts or products (such as opium) calculated to stun the ...
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A mighty expensive game of American Football
09 Mar 2009 -
What the twits have been tweeting about this week
09 Mar 2009 -
Destructive garden worm snuggles up in computer
09 Mar 2009 -
Jon Stewart and Samantha Bee take on Twitter
03 Mar 2009
We all know data roaming is expensive. In fact, European Communications Commissioner Viviane Reding is presently trying to make mobile network operators see reason over their rates. But put ...
With the UK government looking to get into Twitter, Joe Public can now check up on the latest tweets in Whitehall. The TweetMinster.co.uk service has a search feature that allows users to ...
News that a worm destroyed a computer last week may not seem surprising at first, but when it turns out that it was a real worm, as in the slimy invertebrate type, then it is a shock. Yes, one of ...
Friend or foe of Twitter, watch and learn how not to make use of social media...