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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.
May 2010
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The net's boys-only club
26 May 2010 -
Slough today, gone tomorrow
- Managing Editor 26 May 2010 -
Come on baby light my speakers
- Managing Editor 26 May 2010
it does have some quibbles about who it chooses to bless as ".com honorees".
FiFA.com is running its 75 supercomputer server farm for the world cup in Slough. According to Matt Stone.head of new media at FIFA, "Slough was the natural choice for FIFA.com to house its ...
Here at Downtime we've just been pitched the most amazing product - a solar-powered pair of speakers. The techies have managed to get hold of a batch and are planning a midnight rave in Downtime's ...
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May the salesforce be with you
- Managing Editor 26 May 2010 -
Pac-Man rules, again
24 May 2010 -
Cluck me gently, sergeant-major
20 May 2010 -
IT is a load of old poo - it's official
- Editor in chief 19 May 2010 -
Gambling with the house's money
17 May 2010 -
Unlikely terms will turn up sermons on YouTube
- Senior analyst 13 May 2010 -
Oracle hijacks Iron Man
- Senior analyst 10 May 2010
It seems the bods at Salesforce.com are taking the idea of cloud to new heignts. This week the company announced that Virgin Galactic will be using the service as part of its Astronaunt Relations ...
Pac-Man turned 30 last week.
Those sessions are known as "hypnotising chickens".
"Information technology and manure have a symbiotic relationship." That quote is basically a polite way of saying IT and poo are pretty much the same thing, so thanks to Chandrakant D. Patel, the ...
it's like gambling with the house's money
Anyone typing in the search term "whore" in YouTube would not expect to come across a religious sermon, but in all likelihood, they would. An Austrian monk, who is using YouTube to spread his ...
Ever wondered how big suppliers really spend those billions of dollars in licensing and services fees? The question is answered, in part, by the latest in the series of Iron Man films. Oracle ...
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Lean manufacturing ? Fat chance.
- Computer Weekly 07 May 2010 -
Brighton leads the UK, again
06 May 2010 -
Oxygen thieves unite!
04 May 2010
A well-known IT company is rolling out lean manufacturing out across the company, writes one Computer Weekly reader. Some time ago it reached the diagnostic and support areas where the 3rd line ...
the zombie constituency may be larger that the traditional press acknowledges
Then we'll see who's a time-wasting oxygen thief.