Downtime

August 2015

• Authorities restrict innovation in captive market

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Aug 2015

They say whatever happens in the US in technology terms hits the UK soon after. Delivery companies in the UK should therefore take note of what is happening in the US.The business opportunities ...

• Oracle licence spells four letter acronym

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 17 Aug 2015

Oracle has introduced a new perpetual user licence agreement - or Pula for short. How the It industry loves acronyms. It's also a four letter word in Romania...something that Wikipedia calls a ...

• How clean is your smartphone?

  Caroline Donnelly - Senior Editor, UK 13 Aug 2015

For reasons unknown, furniture retailer Bright House has commissioned some boffins to investigate the cleanliness of a range of living room items, including laptops, smartphones and tablets.Their ...

• Ofcom learns secret of time travel, uses it for really boring consultation

  Alex Scroxton - Networking Editor 13 Aug 2015

Ofcom should relinquish control of its time machine to BT's Adastral Park boffins immediately, for the greater good.