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Taking a look at the lighter side of IT - technology may be a serious business but it rarely fails to raise a smile too.
July 2010
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Apple tries to restore cherry
30 Jul 2010 -
Free apps cost £1,200
- Senior analyst 29 Jul 2010 -
Facebook joke's on the joker
- Senior analyst 29 Jul 2010
Apple is up to its censoring tricks again
Have iPhone will download free apps. What could be simpler or more alluring? But it could also be extremely costly, as teenager Ben Kitching found out. He popped his SIM into a second-hand iPhone ...
Branding his now former friend Raymond Bryce as a paedophile on Facebook seemed like a good joke to Jeremiah Barber, but the joke was finally on him. Bryce took legal action and the court also ...
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iPad is not like reading a book
- Managing Editor 28 Jul 2010 -
Get your motormouse running
- Editor in chief 13 Jul 2010 -
Echelon's big ears pick up email whispers
12 Jul 2010 -
Why snail-mail is best for whistleblowers
12 Jul 2010 -
US Army looks to Wikileaks for help
12 Jul 2010 -
News flash - geeky girls eat dinner
08 Jul 2010 -
Whitehall websites not alone in getting axed, iPhone apps get hit too
06 Jul 2010
Apple is being sued by a group of users who argue that its marketing claims that the iPad is just like reading a book, are false due to the fact that the must-have device seems to get hot and ...
Downtime has often wondered what is the best seller out of all the apparently pointless items in the executive toys section of in-flight duty-free shopping brochures. (Yes, we know, this makes us ...
As for regular electronic comms, "they read it all," Assange says.
Google is very unlikely to go to court to protect your privacy
GI joes were hooking into the Wikileaks website to check serial numbers
Geek Girl Dinners has gone global
The BBC has discovered that various government departments have been developing iPhone apps, including an NHS drinks tracker which cost £10,000 to develop, a DVLA how to change your wheel ...
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Not even the Queen is immune from IT budget cuts
- Editor in chief 06 Jul 2010 -
Solace for the gutted
01 Jul 2010
According to the latest report on Royal spending from the Keeper of the Privy Purse, the Queen's IT budget was slashed by 50% last year, down from £400,000 in 2008 to £200,000 last year. Apparently ...
England was robbed of Frank Lampard's goal