Downtime

July 2010

• Apple tries to restore cherry

  ComputerWeekly Staff 30 Jul 2010

Apple is up to its censoring tricks again

• Free apps cost £1,200

  Warwick Ashford - Senior analyst 29 Jul 2010

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 ...

• Facebook joke's on the joker

  Warwick Ashford - Senior analyst 29 Jul 2010

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 ...

• iPad is not like reading a book

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 28 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 ...

• Get your motormouse running

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 13 Jul 2010

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 ...

• Echelon's big ears pick up email whispers

  ComputerWeekly Staff 12 Jul 2010

As for regular electronic comms, "they read it all," Assange says.

• Why snail-mail is best for whistleblowers

  ComputerWeekly Staff 12 Jul 2010

Google is very unlikely to go to court to protect your privacy

• US Army looks to Wikileaks for help

  ComputerWeekly Staff 12 Jul 2010

GI joes were hooking into the Wikileaks website to check serial numbers

• News flash - geeky girls eat dinner

  ComputerWeekly Staff 08 Jul 2010

Geek Girl Dinners has gone global

• Whitehall websites not alone in getting axed, iPhone apps get hit too

  ComputerWeekly Staff 06 Jul 2010

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 ...

• Not even the Queen is immune from IT budget cuts

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 06 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 ...

• Solace for the gutted

  ComputerWeekly Staff 01 Jul 2010

England was robbed of Frank Lampard's goal