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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.
February 2014
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New app to make cheating easier
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 28 Feb 2014 -
This smartphone will self-destruct in 5... 4... 3...
- TechTarget 27 Feb 2014 -
Church blocks porn in not so shocking move!
- TechTarget 20 Feb 2014
Social media has changed the world. Lovers today are in constant contact with smiley faces and messages going back and forward 24:7.This is hard work for many. So one company has developed an App ...
Everyone is at panic stations since the revelations of Edward Snowden and the sneaky spying by governments on our communications. But the industry that has been providing the data to the state are ...
Canterbury Cathedral. View from the north west circa 1890-1900 (retouched from a black & white photograph). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)For better or worse, filthy content is only ever a click ...
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404 Errors: What a load of Balls
- TechTarget 18 Feb 2014 -
Birds Eye to sell potato hashtags
- Business Editor 17 Feb 2014 -
Besotted gamer bids for Darwin Award
- Security Editor 14 Feb 2014 -
Androids may cry over spilt coffee
- TechTarget 14 Feb 2014 -
Google glass set to reduce first class lounge fistycuffs
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 11 Feb 2014 -
Engineering works during a strike, a machine would never think of that
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 05 Feb 2014 -
Technology to discover the psychopath in your life
- Editor in chief 05 Feb 2014
We all know political parties and their politicians are some of the most frustrating characters we will come across in our lives. They rarely say what they mean, shout like school children in their ...
Birds Eye is hoping its newest product will be a viral hit. Potato Mashtags are set to feature shapes including one of the most popular key symbols of the social media age - the hashtag. A pack of ...
An obsessed gamer (as if there were any other kind) in Kansas very nearly put himself the running for a Darwin Award for those who remove themselves from the gene pool in a silly way.He risked his ...
Walk into any coffee shop today and you will be surrounded by mustached hipsters, sipping their extra shot lattés and tapping away on their tablet of choice. Coffee cup (Photo credit: ...
Staff working in first class lounges are constantly having to deal with people that are "significantly richer than yow." It is hard to be polite to people that can afford to throw away their money ...
Downtime had some time to ponder the use of technology to carryout human roles whilst sitting waiting for a bus. The tube strike in London was the perfect opportunity to gather some thoughts.London ...
This is a guest post by Steven Hipwell, principal project manager at Birmingham City University.Channel 4's recent "Psychopath Night" gave some chilling insights into the inner workings of the ...