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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 2010
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Black berets and Blackberrys cause journo confusion
31 Mar 2010 -
A prickly problem
- Managing Editor 31 Mar 2010 -
How to improve on the best...
- Managing Editor 31 Mar 2010
Black berets and Blackberrys cause journo confusion
Someone has discovered a little hole in Durex Inda's website. A customer worked out he could find other people's vital stats quite easily, by changing the user ID in his boweser window, allowing ...
Car manufacturers do like to use state of the art computer gear to design better cars. Downtime received news about a new supercomputer that SGI has just sold...to Skoda. One wonders how they can ...
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Private photos not so private with Quip app
31 Mar 2010 -
PayPal is April fool in Japan
31 Mar 2010 -
MI5 recruits internet savvy spies
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Beware of users with corporate credit cards
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Tips on keeping track of servers
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Virtual farmer sacked for milking his cows
24 Mar 2010 -
They don't like it up 'em
23 Mar 2010
While the BBC has delayed the release of its iPhone apps, due in early April, because of concerns from the BBC Trust that the Beeb has too many fingers in online pies, some iPhone users have ...
It is good to see online payments firm PayPal keeping its finger on the regulatory pulse of leading economies. The company has had to shut its Send Money service in Japan until further notice as it ...
MI5 is recruiting a new team of intelligence officers in their 20s and 30s to replace ageing operatives who do not have the IT skills they need to survive. Jonathan Evans, the director-general of ...
Thanks a lot Salesforce.com - now any bozo with corporate plastic, can get around IT and sign up to a software service. But why stop at Salesforce...one company found that a couple of high-def TVs ...
Andy Bechtolsheim, a co-founder of Sun, has a bit of advice for IT managers worried about what all the servers in the data centre are doing: "If you have 10,000 servers, how do you know if one ...
he was discovered milking a virtual cow
David Blunkett recanted his belief in the National Identity Register and all that it entails
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Headhunters find happy hunting ground online
23 Mar 2010 -
Google confirms judge's intuition
23 Mar 2010 -
Fired on Facebook
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Scarface mafia hitman red-faced after being nabbed through Facebook
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Civil service bans bad language
11 Mar 2010
we're doing all our headhunting on LinkedIn
confirm his intuition by conducting a basic internet search
Social networking is a popular way to communicate, but is often a way of getting a message across without having to face someone or deal with them on the phone. Proving this theory beyond a shadow ...
Facebook is not only becoming a drag for some reckless members of generation-Y who are being vetted by recruiters based on their online posting, but criminals are beginning to feel the pinch too. A ...
"thought shower", "meaningful reusable interactivity" and "headroom for change"