Downtime

September 2011

• Could Dublin be outdoing London's Tech City as the technology capital of Europe?

  Kathleen Hall - TechTarget 27 Sep 2011

Twitter has become the latest tech giant to set up shop in the Emerald Isle, joining the likes of Google and Facebook to make Dublin its new international home.No doubt Cameron has been overturning ...

• Watch out Twitter there is a greener version of you ready for global roll out

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Sep 2011

With social media companies failing environmentalists, messages in bottles might take over. With green activists unhappy with the lack of carbon footprint monitoring at social media giants there ...

• Virtual monkeys, typewriters and Shakespeare

  Jenny Williams - University of Gloucestershire 26 Sep 2011

Virtual monkeys have randomly re-created Shakespeare's poem, A Lover's Complaint along with 99.99% of Shakespeare's other works. US programmer Jesse Anderson set up the project in August 2011 to ...

• Satirical blog causes a stir in the Maldives

  Matt Scott - TechTarget 23 Sep 2011

After a satirical blog which stated the Maldives was set to be omitted from the Times Atlas of the World was published the country's acting high commissioner, who is based in London, wrote to the ...

• Facebook users rushing to freshen up music collection

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 22 Sep 2011

Facebook's new music sharing tool has made me think I should freshen up my music collection. Hang the DJ and The Boy With a Thorn in his side might embarrass my kids, while my compilation including ...

• PETA to go .XXX

  Matt Scott - TechTarget 22 Sep 2011

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, who are no strangers to having nude women, celebrities and even former adult film stars, pose for their cause, has filed the necessary paper work in ...

• Do you hate your colleagues?

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 21 Sep 2011

Don't you just hate the people you work with? Samsung thinks so. It asked 1500 workers what they most hate about their work colleagues.And apparently, given Samsung's a printer maker, that printer ...

• Sony to ban gamers unless they promise not to sue

  Warwick Ashford - Security Editor 20 Sep 2011

Sony, fearing it is between a rock and a hard place after more than 100 million online user accounts were exposed in a hacking attack, is taking desperate and somewhat sneaky measure to limit ...

• This whole Apple V Samsung battle is getting a little petty

  Matt Scott - TechTarget 16 Sep 2011

Apple has proudly reclaimed the title of producer of the 'world's thinnest smartphone' at the expense of Samsung.Despite Samsung's Galaxy S II measuring 8.7mm at its slimmest point, the 9.91mm ...

• Management consultants obviously get paid too much

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 14 Sep 2011

It has been rumoured for years but now it is official. Management consultants are paid too much. Management consultancy professionals are now paid so much that they are unable to carry their ...

• A London artist is to publish 12 years worth of saved text messages

  Matt Scott - TechTarget 14 Sep 2011

Tracey Moberly has kept every text message she has received since 1999 and she is about to publishing her collection of almost 100,000 messages in a book entitled, "Text me up!".It all started ...

• Winklevoss twins find nutty way to jab Zuckerberg

  Warwick Ashford - Security Editor 13 Sep 2011

The Winklevoss twins, who have found Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg a tough nut to crack, have switched tactics against their arch rival. In June, twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who ...

• Question: Still desperate for a HP TouchPad? Answer: Get a job at HP

  Matt Scott - TechTarget 13 Sep 2011

HP has announced that 6000 more TouchPads are coming to the UK, however, they are only going to be offered to HP employees and partners. Talk about teasing. The TouchPad has been in high demand ...

• Dramatic Dr Who revelation: the TARDIS runs on Windows XP

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 12 Sep 2011

Dr Who conspiracy theorists who have long believed the mysterious time traveller to be a front for British military intelligence have firm proof of their suspicions today. The UK Ministry of ...

• It is time for the government to find another adjective for its "Big ideas"

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 07 Sep 2011

This is a bit off the beaten track for me but as I have just written an article about the government's Big Innovation Center. I hate the way the government refers to everything as "big". Even my ...