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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.
June 2011
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Justin Timberlake, Rupert Murdoch will break your heart just like Britney did!
- TechTarget 30 Jun 2011 -
Pope integrates bigger religion to Catholic church
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Jun 2011 -
DIY MS product launch
- Managing Editor 30 Jun 2011
The news that Justin Timberlake is providing backing to the dying social media site Myspace may come as a surprise to some. Particularly for those who have long admired JT's talents of hip-shaking ...
It has finally dawned on the Catholic Church that it needs to acquire customers from somewhere. So why not do what every other big business does? A bit of M&A activity is called for. Pope ...
Microsoft has launched its latest and greatest product - Office 365. So what's the best way to launch a new thing these days? Let me see. You need a spokesperson who can say great things about a ...
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Twitpic founder uses Twitpic to make himself look like a Twitpric!
- UK at eBay 30 Jun 2011 -
Porno helps IT manager/hacker get revenge on boss
- UK at eBay 23 Jun 2011 -
Stop keeping IT in the dark
- Managing Editor 22 Jun 2011 -
"Computer glitch" sparks cheap booze stampede
- Senior analyst 20 Jun 2011 -
Lonely heart? There may soon be an app for that.
- Senior analyst 20 Jun 2011 -
Nurse's outfit with that, Madam?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 16 Jun 2011 -
Web filtering with a human touch
- Managing Editor 16 Jun 2011
You've been arrested by the police. You've done something quite embarrassing. Things aren't looking good for you, so what do you do?Tweet the incident and Twitpic the cop car? Really? Well yeah ...
Having been fired the former IT manager at Baltimore Substance Abuse System Walter hacked into his old boss's system and stole his passwords.
In many organisations IT's primary function is to keep the lights on. Lucky for IT professional Logitech has developed this solar powered keyboard . Who says IT peops are always kept in the dark? ...
A supermarket chain in Scotland was inundated with shoppers who came to blows outside stores as they battled to benefit from a too-good-to-be-true special offer. With the power of social networking ...
Apple's marketing machine is bound to go into overdrive once app developers deliver on a new iPhone patent application for a networking service that links people with shared interests. The patent ...
Ann Summers has introduced technology to help it personalise people's online shopping habits. The new technology will make recommendations to shoppers based on their profiles. It will apparently ...
As the Sunday Mirror recently reported, a worker at Virgin Atlanic was sacked for breaching the Obscence Publication Act. The hapless individual sent pornographic material to the company's entire ...
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Sarah Palin: I knew she was an idiot before but searching through her inbox confirms it
- UK at eBay 15 Jun 2011 -
Lost in translation
- Senior analyst 13 Jun 2011 -
Facebook party reveals German austerity measures
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 07 Jun 2011 -
How would you like to pay for your iPad 2? Do you take kidney?
- UK at eBay 06 Jun 2011 -
Finger on the pulse
- Senior analyst 06 Jun 2011
Now it's well known that Sarah Palin is a fool but she just might be the next US President so I better watch what I say.
UK companies eager to tap into foreign markets have rather been letting themselves down with local language versions of their web sites marketing materials. Proving that not all online translations ...
A teenage girl in Hamburg last week advertised her birthday party on Facebook. Problem is she forgot to mark it as private. As a result over 1,500 crazy teenagers turned up. But in stereotypical ...
A young 17 year old boy named Zhen wanted an iPad 2 so badly that he sold his kidney to raise the money.
A UK teenager has come up with a lucrative - for him that is - evolution of the humble doorbell, adding new technology to adapt to a sadly changing reality. With the increase in the ransacking of ...