Downtime
November 2011
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Why hoax Irish MPs bad-mouthing bad-weather cloud computing?
- University of Gloucestershire 29 Nov 2011 -
What is worse than a game of charades? Lionel Blair hosting an online game of charades
- TechTarget 29 Nov 2011 -
Nintendo Wee
- TechTarget 29 Nov 2011
According to internet reports, an Irish MP has been the butt of jokes and verbal abuse for suggesting cloud computing is only viable in areas with lots of rain and heavy clouds - like the Irish ...
Presumably after Bruce Forsyth, Ant and Dec, Vernon Kay and even Les Dennis turned this gig down, former 'Give Us a Clue' captain Lionel Blair decided he'd return to the charade game and give this ...
Never mind arcade shoot-um-ups, or the Wii's nunchucks, video games have just got a whole new form of "joystick" in the urinal-based games console.
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Happy birthday from Orange. Now give us more money.
- TechTarget 29 Nov 2011 -
It's true: Facebook can bite
- Security Editor 28 Nov 2011 -
Nowhere to hide in sight
- Security Editor 24 Nov 2011 -
Does this not make the UK's Chief Rabbi a hypocrite?
- TechTarget 23 Nov 2011 -
Samsung mock Apple iPhone fans in new advert
- TechTarget 23 Nov 2011 -
Best £5 you'll ever spend? Not likely.
- TechTarget 21 Nov 2011 -
It's official, 'password' is the worst password you can pick
- TechTarget 18 Nov 2011
News of Orange's 4.5% pay monthly contract price rise is spreading, as are the complaints.Orange are notifying customers via text of a 'change to their contract pricing as of January 2012'. They ...
Although the danger of social media to job seekers has been running through the rumour mill for some time, an Australian survey proves it is true that careless postings can come back and bite. The ...
Mobile technology means that there are very few places to hide and few excuses for not being available to friends, family, colleagues and managers. If researchers at the University of Washington in ...
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Britian's Chief Rabbi, may have backtracked a little too far on some comments he made a few days ago.Rabbi Stacks was giving a speech on consumerism when he reportedly said, ...
Samsung and Apple have been going head to head for months now but after Apple secured a court ruling in Germany banning the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from being put on sale, things turned sour.It got so ...
If you are anything like me you'll have given up on Call Of Duty and other shoot 'em up games a long time ago. They have become dominated by reclusive, obsessive beings who's hands seem to have ...
SplashData have released their annual list of the worst possible internet passwords and the usual suspects are all there, with 'password' and '123456' topping the pile.The rise in websites ...
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Charlie makes his family £100,000 just by biting a finger
- TechTarget 15 Nov 2011 -
iPhone emergency get US man into hot water
- Security Editor 15 Nov 2011 -
Microsoft grows mobile portfolio (literally)
- University of Gloucestershire 09 Nov 2011 -
No half-baked solution to weak WiFi signal
- Security Editor 08 Nov 2011 -
A must have for the Christmas list!
- TechTarget 02 Nov 2011
Since YouTube introduced a partnership that allows uploaders to earn revenue through the use of advertising alongside their videos, Charlie and Harry have raked in more than enough to put ...
A man in the US state of Illinois faced with a malfunctioning iPhone landed himself in hot water when he sought help. Michael Skopec simply did what any other US citizen would do in an emergency: ...
Microsoft has taken advice to grow its mobile market presence quite literally. The company has built a giant Windows Phone 7
Proving that solving a common technology problem like weak-WiFi reception need not be a Heath Robinson affair, in fact the complete opposite is former BT chief technology officer Peter Cochrane. On ...
It may prove to be astronomically expensive and ridiculously dangerous but I still want one.This is the world's first manned mulitcopter and it was created by German engineers over at e-volo. The ...