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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.
February 2011
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MPs tune in to BT's music
28 Feb 2011 -
The value of pure cheek? Priceless. (Well, $192,500, to be precise)
- Editor in chief 28 Feb 2011 -
Love is blind X2 online
- Senior analyst 28 Feb 2011
Downtime was delighted to learn via The Guardian that BT, the UK's biggest telecoms provider, sponsors the parliamentary choir to the tune of £60,000. No doubt it helps if MPs sing from the same ...
There are not many proper URLs left to buy these days - hence the number of start-up firms with obscure-sounding names including lots of "Z" and "X". But one enterprising domain name owner has ...
They say love is blind, but when the relationship has been conducted purely online and there are large sums of money involved, there are bound to be tears. According to police reports, a ...
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Dumb and dumber
- Managing Editor 24 Feb 2011 -
How to be happy
22 Feb 2011 -
Fools and their money
21 Feb 2011 -
Pseudo computer science baffles top US officials
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Nun expelled from convent in Spain over Facebook
- Senior analyst 21 Feb 2011 -
Lawyers go cloudy
17 Feb 2011 -
Flamenco nights at MWC
16 Feb 2011
A burglar has been caught thank to Facebook, after he stole a laptop, logged into the user's Facebook account, then posted a picture of himself. Doh! A fews ago a techie got robbed when he blogged ...
Happy countries are disproportionately rich, educated, democratic, trusting, and low-unemployment.
A National Audit Office discovered MOD cock-ups had cost taxpayers an extra £3.3bn in just the 15 biggest projects last year.
Computer expert Dennis Montgomery tricked the US government into paying £13m for software he claimed could stop terrorist attacks. He even managed to persuade former President George Bush to divert ...
A convent in Spain has expelled a 54-year-old nun for spending too much time on social networking website, Facebook. Sister Maria Jesus Galan said on her Facebook page that she has been asked to ...
Downtime is confident that he will soon benefit as his legal team passes on the benefit of their reduced input costs
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Getting to the heart of the UK's economic problems
- Editor in chief 15 Feb 2011 -
Get your Royal Wedding technology tat here...
- Editor in chief 14 Feb 2011 -
Psychic gets timing wrong
11 Feb 2011 -
WikiLeaks moves into T-shirts
11 Feb 2011 -
Christina Aguilera copies and pastes national anthem error
- UK at eBay 08 Feb 2011
At last, a press release has provided Downtime with the essential piece of news for all of us struggling under the weight of government cutbacks and economic adversity. Apparently, 80% of employees ...
Nowhere, it seems, is going to be immune to the tidal wave of tat that will be produced for the forthcoming Royal Wedding - not even technology. Downtime would like to thank accessory maker ...
I am considering buying stock in either Intel, Microsoft or Nokia.
Downtime suspects trade in leaked documents might be more lucrative.
Christina Aguilera made a mistake that will probably cost her her life... she took what Wikipedia says for fact.