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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.
August 2010
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Ofcom's Olympian largess
23 Aug 2010 -
Don't call us
23 Aug 2010 -
Are you reading this on the loo?
- Editor in chief 16 Aug 2010
Ofcom proposes going to give away those frequencies to broadcasters, albeit just for most of 2012.
this is a list of volunteer companies that have elected to put themselves through tthe ordeal of having up to 600 mystery callers clogging up their lines
Regular readers will know that Downtime thrives on the activity of organisations that fund utterly pointless research in the name of desperate PR. But for once, even we have been left wondering ...
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Da Vinci Code meets Lord of the Rings in plan to save the internet
13 Aug 2010 -
Researchers show private web browsing history is not so private
13 Aug 2010 -
Husband fingered as polygamist by digital fingerprints on Facebook
- Security Editor 12 Aug 2010 -
Don't tell the spooks
06 Aug 2010 -
Computer super-material could stop your shoes smelling
06 Aug 2010 -
Tales from the dark side of tech support
04 Aug 2010 -
Don't flush the toilet with your mobile phone
- Editor in chief 02 Aug 2010
Downtime fears the leaders of domain name controller Icann have been reading too many Dan Brown novels.
Many of you will have seen the TV advert highlighting the privacy mode in Internet Explorer 8, which allows a husband to "browse for a present for his wife" without leaving any evidence on the ...
User generated content is all very well, but as one - no two married couples in the US found out, digital fingerprints, once out there, can come back to haunt you. Cleveland woman Lynn France typed ...
In the quantum world all roads lead to Rome
Graphene has been heralded as the new super-material. It possesses incredible strength and elasticity, while its exceptionally high conductivity and use in flexible semiconductors could soup up ...
It's the silly season, so all kinds of stories crawl out of the woodwork to warm themselves in the Downtime sun.
It is not that often that Downtime receives a press release that starts, "Mobile phones could become the next key consumer market for built-in anti-bacterial protection." Our extensive recollection ...
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Up the garden path
- Security Editor 02 Aug 2010 -
PA points a finger at iPhone death grip
02 Aug 2010
A trucker discovered that vigilance against being led up the garden path does not apply only to confidence tricksters of various types, but should also extend to technology. Mike Shillabar was led ...
PA Consulting has jumped on the Apple-slagging bandwagon