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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.
May 2012
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iPhone-shaped air con
- TechTarget 31 May 2012 -
A presidential cock-up
- TechTarget 30 May 2012 -
Mushroom app helps enthusiasts locate favourite fungi
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 29 May 2012
Now the weather has taken a warm turn (for the moment at least, anyway) what better way to cool off at your desk than with the iPhone 'shaped' compact air conditioner.
It is not unheard of for an American president to have trouble with his grammar, but surely if you are hoping to be the president of one of the world's super-powers good spelling should be a ...
Finally there is an app that helps us locate mushrooms. The iMushroomHunter and iMushroomGuide apps are available on the iPhone and Android phones. The app allows mushroom fanatics to share ...
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Stolen iPhone exposes thief
- Security Editor 29 May 2012 -
Sky launches Jubilee remote control
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 23 May 2012 -
Never mind the IT, the Jubilee line is my Olympic worry
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 23 May 2012 -
What can businesses can learn from foxes?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 23 May 2012 -
Watch out for Robo-Fish!
- TechTarget 23 May 2012 -
Technology attachment gone too far
- Security Editor 22 May 2012 -
Wi-Fi proof wallpaper
- TechTarget 14 May 2012
Katy McCaffrey assumed she had lost her iPhone and would never see it again when it was missing after she had been on a Caribbean cruise, but that was not the end. A few weeks later, the iPhone ...
Major retailers are stocking special Diamond Jubilee remote controls for Sky boxes. So if you don't think you have been fleeced enough by the Royal family through your taxes you can spend almost ...
Downtime went to visit IT supplier Atos at the Technical Operations Centre (TOC) for the London Olympics. There will be 900 servers, 1,000 network and security devices and more than 10,000 ...
Does a fox shit in the woods? Yes and we can tell you how many times. Downtime was chatting to the business behind the data analytics carried out in the recent Channel 4 documentary series about ...
You've heard of Robo-cop, now meet Robo-fish - the new aquatic pollution-fighter. The machine is being tested off the cost of Spain to hunt down contamination in the water and feed information back ...
Apple fan boys are typically very attached to their technology, but some take that a little too far as in the case of David Hurban in the US. Anxious that he should never be far from his iPod nano, ...
With smartphones, tablets, laptops, smart TVs and even cookers linking up to the internet at home, Wi-Fi is a must for most families. Yet, security specialists are always warning us how vulnerable ...
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Facebook is as good as sex
- Security Editor 14 May 2012 -
The end of rectangular boobs
- TechTarget 14 May 2012 -
Baseball Wi-Fi security blunder
- TechTarget 10 May 2012 -
Sexting app could have a use for tech firms
- TechTarget 10 May 2012 -
Global warming just a load of guff
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 10 May 2012
"Better than sex," is a common [in more senses than one] way of expressing how good something is. While Facebook does not quite qualify, posting on social networking sites does rank alongside sex ...
Downtime is proud that the headline for this post not only spells out what the content is about but that it is also one of the weirdest you will read this week. Probably. We don't know what else ...
InfoSec is still fresh in our minds, but it seems some people aren't as security conscious as others. We stumbled across this picture on Matthew Pascucci's blog... At first glance, it may appear as ...
Okay, you caught Downtime. We sexed up the headline a bit, Snapchat isn't "officially" a sexting app, it is a real-time picture chatting app that offers time protection.Although, you would be ...
Scientists have revealed that dinosaur flatulence might have been responsible for the warm climate 150 million years ago.Yes scientists at Liverpool John Moore's University have revealed that ...