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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 2010
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How to friend a felon
- Editor in chief 29 Oct 2010 -
Virtually ransacked
- Senior analyst 27 Oct 2010 -
The hive mind will soon be able to solve life's little problems
26 Oct 2010
In a further sign that the old-school concept of bobbies on the beat is fading away, police are to be trained on how to use Facebook and Twitter to catch killers. According to the BBC, the move is ...
Virtual worlds are becoming so like reality, that even virtual property is safe from thieving individuals. Italian police are investigating the ransacking of a virtual flat set up by Paola Letizia ...
Bees, apart from being very good at making honey, have also been proved to be computing whiz-kids.They solve regularly (or have solved and shared the solution) what scientists at Royal Holloway, ...
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Twitter enables puppy snooping
- Senior analyst 25 Oct 2010 -
Manchester police risks 'breach of [Twitter] peace' charge
14 Oct 2010 -
Now, to debug the bacteria...
13 Oct 2010 -
The limits to Infinity
07 Oct 2010 -
Talking the walk
04 Oct 2010
Typically dogs are the ones sniffing out things, but now, thanks to yet another Twitter-enabled application, owners can keep close tabs on their canine friends.Puppy Tweets is an electronic dog tag ...
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) have given a whole new meaning to 'time and motion study' by vowing to tweet a whole day's activities in an effort to prove that they give value for money on the eve ...
bacteria make nanowires but this is the first time they have been shown to carry a current
we now know that Infinity stops at 1000.
Those who talked to more co-workers were getting through calls faster, felt less stressed and had the same approval ratings as their peers.