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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.
April 2012
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Mac owners can now stink differently
- Security Editor 25 Apr 2012 -
MoD rules out Bring Your Own Device Scheme after AK47 becomes mobile of choice
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 24 Apr 2012 -
John Lewis virtually undresses customers
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 24 Apr 2012
Apple Mac owners tend to take this status very seriously. One only has to watch the reverence of a Mac "unboxing" on YouTube to understand that. Such "unboxings" are usually accompanied by "oohs" ...
Bring your own device schemes (BYOD) have been ruled out as a policy option at the Ministry of Defence, according to the MoD's security head.The practice of allowing staff to use their own ...
John Lewis has invested in technology that will negate the need for being dragged around shops by people that insist on trying clothes on before they buy them. The retail giant has introduced ...
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Not so helpful customer service teams
- Computer Weekly 19 Apr 2012 -
This makes Titanic 3D seem almost watchable
- TechTarget 19 Apr 2012 -
Time for Word and Excel to bow out?
- TechTarget 19 Apr 2012 -
First thing, what do you do?
- Security Editor 19 Apr 2012 -
Royal Mail is putting a nail in its own coffin via Twitter
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 17 Apr 2012 -
Job: Google Doodler - Mountain View (seriously)
- UK at eBay 16 Apr 2012 -
They don't make 'em like they used to
15 Apr 2012
Some may say that the customer service offered by banks, nowadays, is not as good as it could be, but the recent email Downtime received from Barclaycard just topped it. Whilst scheduling time ...
You people have the good folks at Bytes Document Solutions to thank for bringing this self labelled "viral" film, I Hate Printers, to our attention.
It does not surprise Downtime one bit that a recent neurological experiment has revealed that office workers are wasting 20% of their mental resources.Wasting!? Downtime would kill for someone to ...
When you wake up in the mornings, what is the first thing you do? Think carefully. Odds are you check your mobile for email, messages and status updates, as do more than four in ten Londoners. Only ...
Recent months have seen the poor old Post Office and its Royal Mail mothership suffer a couple of technical problems.But what downtime found most interesting was how the organisation has harnessed ...
Google has advertised a job that sums up just how ridiculous the world has become. You know those little drawings that say 'Google' in funny ways on the search page? Yeah that's someone's job.
While the digital age may be a forward-looking one, Downtime is glad of the connections to the past captured in the various formats of Web 2.0. For example, this backwards glance - the 50 worst ...
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Technology to fit a student's life
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 12 Apr 2012 -
Men biggest multi-taskers in bed
- Security Editor 10 Apr 2012 -
Could we soon have flat pack robots?
- TechTarget 05 Apr 2012 -
Darth Vader controls your evil children and makes them happy
- UK at eBay 05 Apr 2012 -
Twitter ideal for 5-year-olds, says teacher
- Security Editor 03 Apr 2012
As if technology, like the internet, wasn't making students' lives easy enough a university is making the kind gesture of allowing students to attend lectures in their own time. The University of ...
Who said men are not good at multi-tasking? Nearly three quarters of people who work on computers in bed are men, according to a survey by Infosecurity Europe. More than a third of those polled on ...
The BBC recently reported that a US-based project could see the average person designing and printing a robot within 24 hours. Surely this would be more fun than building flat park furniture from ...
You're driving, the kids are driving you crazy. The little one is crying because the older one keeps hitting him etc. etc. So what do you do? Switch on the sat nav and let Darth Vader navigate you ...
Just as business leaders are finding official uses for social networking in the work environment, teachers are beginning to find a place for it in schools. A pre-school teacher in New York has ...