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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.
September 2011
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Could Dublin be outdoing London's Tech City as the technology capital of Europe?
- TechTarget 27 Sep 2011 -
Watch out Twitter there is a greener version of you ready for global roll out
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Sep 2011 -
Virtual monkeys, typewriters and Shakespeare
- University of Gloucestershire 26 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 ...
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 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 ...
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Satirical blog causes a stir in the Maldives
- TechTarget 23 Sep 2011 -
Facebook users rushing to freshen up music collection
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 22 Sep 2011 -
PETA to go .XXX
- TechTarget 22 Sep 2011 -
Do you hate your colleagues?
- Managing Editor 21 Sep 2011 -
Sony to ban gamers unless they promise not to sue
- Senior analyst 20 Sep 2011 -
This whole Apple V Samsung battle is getting a little petty
- TechTarget 16 Sep 2011 -
Management consultants obviously get paid too much
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 14 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'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 ...
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 ...
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, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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A London artist is to publish 12 years worth of saved text messages
- TechTarget 14 Sep 2011 -
Winklevoss twins find nutty way to jab Zuckerberg
- Senior analyst 13 Sep 2011 -
Question: Still desperate for a HP TouchPad? Answer: Get a job at HP
- TechTarget 13 Sep 2011 -
Dramatic Dr Who revelation: the TARDIS runs on Windows XP
- Editor in chief 12 Sep 2011 -
It is time for the government to find another adjective for its "Big ideas"
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 07 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...