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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 2013
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Dad dancer Ballmer dirty dances from the Microsoft stage - and we have the photo to prove it
- Editor in chief 27 Sep 2013 -
Customers come second when boat racing is involved and Britannia rules the waves
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Sep 2013 -
Ctrl-Alt-Delete "Not my fault, guv" says Bill Gates
- Editor in chief 26 Sep 2013
Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is well known for his dad dancing - but at his farewell company meeting in Seattle he revealed a previously unknown love of dirty dancing.As reported by The ...
Oracle customers were a little upset when CEO Larry Ellison decided the Americas Cup was more important than his customers last week. The flamboyant CEO missed a keynote he was giving in favour of ...
How many different ways have your contorted your fingers over the years, to find the best way to hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete - that perfect encapsulation of how to make computers much harder to use than ...
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Apple patents the rectangle
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 18 Sep 2013 -
How to close the IT skills gap: Face paint 20 actors
- Computer Weekly 17 Sep 2013 -
Eat cake on programmer's day
- Managing Editor 13 Sep 2013 -
Aussies trade cricket pundits for our IT assets
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 05 Sep 2013 -
Russia warns hackers to stay at home
- Senior analyst 04 Sep 2013 -
Paws for the camera!
- TechTarget 03 Sep 2013 -
Revenge is tweet
- Senior analyst 03 Sep 2013
A colleague of downtime once scanned a news headline that the price of apples had increased and presumed it meant the handheld devices made by the well-known US technology firm, rather than the ...
Downtime was contacted by a certain UK IT infrastructure company this week that wanted to share its plan to recruit 1,000 new cloud experts. Its "dramatic" campaign involved hiring 20 actors, ...
Micro Focus has just sent a little box of cup cakes to Downtime's office, to celebrate Programmer's Day.According to the guide it also sent out, Cobol is everywhere. Well if Cobol tastes this good, ...
It seems that Australia is experiencing a shortage of IT professionals for some major projects. A company that specialises in emigration to Australia and New Zealand reckons the Aussies can't get ...
Russia has issued an advisory to cyber and other criminals not to leave the country to avoid being kidnapped by the US to face legal proceedings, according to Wired.com.According to the advisory, ...
Dog sunny Day Afternoon (Photo credit: allert)The current online obsession with 'selfies' - yes it is a word, it has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary - has given us paws for thought ...
In an attempt to prove that a tweet is mightier than a corporation, a frustrated airline passenger has bought a promoted tweet to complain about British Airways. Unhappy about lost luggage ...