Downtime

July 2011

• Microsoft's 'Data Furnace' warms businesses to cloud computing

  Jenny Williams - University of Gloucestershire 28 Jul 2011

Picture the scene. Indoors on a cold winter's night, hot cocoa in hand, warming your feet by a roaring...server

• Rick Astley will save the world economy - the White House says so

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 28 Jul 2011

While the White House engages in a game of brinkmanship with US Republicans over the future of the US - and effectively the world - economy and its ever-growing national debt, they do at least ...

• Computer Weekly's Olympian readers

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 28 Jul 2011

London has been celebrating the milestone of a year to go to the start of the 2012 Olympic Games, and as such, current and former athletes are focusing on their top priorities. To prove the point, ...

• NHS touts virtual visits by Skype to cut costs

  Warwick Ashford - Senior analyst 25 Jul 2011

Not only are small businesses looking to Skype to cut call costs, but NHS trusts are touting virtual hospital visits to cut costs.The scheme is being proposed by Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation ...

• Facebook lashes out over Google+ competition

  Warwick Ashford - Senior analyst 18 Jul 2011

Facebook has lashed out over competition from Google+ by shutting down all ad campaigns by web developer Michael Johnson who ran a Facebook ad asking people to add him to their Circles on rival ...

• Virgin Racing beats Red Bull...virtually

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 12 Jul 2011

They may be finishing at the tail end of races, if they finish at all, but Formula 1 team, Virgin Racing is pretty quick of the start line...at least its website is according to Keynote.The ...

• Food cooking updates via Bluetooth

  Warwick Ashford - Senior analyst 11 Jul 2011

Hot on the heels - pardon the pun - of a positive Bluetooth experience with Sony's Bluray remote control for the PS3, Downtime has discovered another inspired Bluetooth device. Whether it is ...

• Meet QR man

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 11 Jul 2011

A bloke in Paris called Marco has become the second man in history to have a QR code tattoo. We've been reliably informed that the first QR man was, in fact, English ...

• Budding songwriter? There's an app for that

  Warwick Ashford - Senior analyst 07 Jul 2011

Anyone who fancies themselves as a writer has for quite some time already been able to get published internationally in an instant using a raft of free online publishing tools. Now, thanks to a ...