Downtime

July 2014

• Homophobe? Know, Knot me

  Archana Venkatraman - Datacentre Editor 31 Jul 2014

Tim Torkildson, a social media specialist, was taken by surprise when he was fired last week for blogging about homophones

• Bull photobomb extreme

  Caroline Baldwin - Business Editor 30 Jul 2014

A man was photobombed trampled while trying to take a selfie of a raging bull at the Fetes de Bayonne festival. The bull was menacingly running around a few feet behind the man who was desperately ...

• How to screw up your network

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 30 Jul 2014

Friday was probably one of the hottest days of the year in the Downtime office, so it was no surprise when the network went down (probably due to the heat). "Hello mate we've got a weird one here," ...

• The importance of punctuation on Twitter, a lesson learnt by the Associated Press

  Caroline Baldwin - Business Editor 24 Jul 2014

The Associated Press learnt an important lesson about using correct punctuation within a 140 character Tweet. Yesterday the news wire sent out a Tweet to inform the world that a Dutch military ...

• Security firm supports ovine CCTV

  Warwick Ashford - Senior analyst 22 Jul 2014

Downtime always like to see technology put to good use, and in this case CCTV security firm AlertSystems agrees.After a report in The Daily Record, AlertSystems has come out in support of a farmer ...

• NOT available on the app store

  Caroline Baldwin - Business Editor 17 Jul 2014

A new hashtag has been created as a campaign to point out things in life that are NOT available on the app store, because "there isn't an app for everything". #Notavailableontheappstore encourages ...

• Microsoft targets crap programmers

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 16 Jul 2014

By tracking eye movement, researchers at Microsoft reckon they can identify if someone has accidentally introduced a bug in software they are developing.Microsoft researcher Andrew Begel said: "My ...

• No sex please, we're commissioning a survey

  Alex Scroxton - Security Editor 08 Jul 2014

Summer's here, and it's time for Downtime to bring out its favourite picture of a skateboarding tortoise. Yes, the silly season is closing in and here's a survey about how smartphones are bad for ...

• Who cares about bytes when bites are all the news?

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 01 Jul 2014

Downtime received press releases last week about the volume of data that had been created online by the World Cup. They'll try anything to get a story those pesky PR peeps.Apparently first ten days ...

• A grand for Google Glass? Gosh, movie piracy is getting expensive

  Alex Scroxton - Security Editor 01 Jul 2014

The Cinema Exhibitors' Association has taken the decision to ban Google Glass from all cinemas because it is worried that the devices could be used to pirate films.