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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.
March 2015
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Is autocorrect the bane of working from home?
- Business Editor 31 Mar 2015 -
Fake chocolate more lucrative than cybercrime?
- Business Editor 31 Mar 2015 -
Google and its "no comment" GIF
- Senior Editor, UK 27 Mar 2015
Everyone is caught up in the BYOD revolution, and the flexibility it brings mean more people are emailing from anywhere using whatever gadget they have on them. Unfortunately it seems that ...
A press release came through to the Downtime inbox in the lead-up to Easter warning consumers to be aware of fake branded chocolate bars being sold, presumably over the internet or otherwise. An ...
Rumour and speculation is the fuel that much of the tech journalism world runs on, and for press officers working at firms like Google, responding to it all must be a wearying experience. So much ...
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Cisco's postal service needs some work
- Senior Editor, UK 27 Mar 2015 -
Smartphones lack smart users
- Security Editor 26 Mar 2015 -
Kaspersky's sauna nights with the KGB
- Senior Editor, UK 20 Mar 2015 -
Smart ass watches
- Managing Editor 20 Mar 2015 -
Solar eclipse pings network
- Managing Editor 20 Mar 2015 -
Ashes to ashes, tweet to tweet
- Editor in chief 12 Mar 2015
Cisco has hit on a novel way to stop the US National Security Agency (NSA) from tampering with its networking kit by sending its customer orders to the wrong address. The shady US surveillance unit ...
Most smartphones lack smart users a survey by mobile security firm Lookout has revealed, with 52% of people who claimed to be security savvy admitting they do not read privacy policies for mobile ...
When it comes to kicking back after work, most people open a bottle of wine, binge-watch a favourite show on Netflix and/or hit the gym to work off some of the day's frustrations. Not anti-virus ...
Here's a couple of things to do with your new smart watch:You can check if your heart is still beating during the 25th PowerPoint slide in your boss's presentationWhen you get mugged, you are now ...
Downtime experienced the full effects of the solar eclipse today with its network inadvertently failing. Since London is all cloudy, the best views were those on the live stream from other parts of ...
Saga - that well-known organisation famed for its popular use in taunts against your over-50 friends - is encouraging its elderly audience to get into the social media mindset before it's too ...