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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.
April 2009
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Money can't buy you love, but love can't sell you security
21 Apr 2009 -
Hackers plan to blow up international trade
21 Apr 2009 -
Website urges politicians to get stuck into the web
21 Apr 2009
There is more chance of catching a virus on the internet than finding true love according to the security bods at Websense. Websense received thousands of malicious e-mails in its e-mail Honey Pot ...
What the neutron bomb could not do, hackers hope malware will, judging from Wall Street Journal reports that Chinese, Russian and other cyber-spies have left viruses and Trojans all over the ...
MiCandidate.co.uk, a new website for putting people in touch with politicians, launched last week with a symbolic burning of a door outside Westminster. Why stop at the door?Co-founder Oisin ...
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Amazon finds itself fighting through a PR jungle
21 Apr 2009 -
Councils wise up to the many benefits of Facebook
03 Apr 2009 -
Educators rush to get five-year-olds tweeting
03 Apr 2009 -
ITV gets a £60m poke in the side from social networking
03 Apr 2009 -
BMW driver gets led up the coastal path by his sat nav
03 Apr 2009 -
Scientists unveil robot that can walk and wear clothes
03 Apr 2009
Amazon's PR department must have had a busy couple of weeks.Last week the online retailer was attacked from all sides when books with gay themes, along with books on erotica and sexual medicine, ...
Soon your braggings about your day-to-day activities on Facebook could be read with interest by benefit fraud investigators. Councils are reportedly using the social networking website to catch ...
News that the primary school curriculum could soon feature Twitter and Wikipedia has come as a shock to most, but not us. Computer Weekly's journalists are fully versed in the world of Web 2.0, and ...
ITV has come under flak for its management of the one-time social network of choice Friends Reunited.Friends Reunited, bought by ITV for £120m in 2005, has seen users decline from a peak of 5.5 ...
People who trust their satellite navigations systems too much get a rough time of it. Downtime feels the derision that meets their wrong turnings is a little unfair given that if they knew where ...
Robots can do some amazing things these days: clean houses, assemble cars, perform surgery... walk.That's right: computer scientists in Japan have broken through the glass ceiling of robotics by ...