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24 Jan 2012: Reader Ian Thompson has found some excellent advice for SMB owners this week from HP, “How to stop working and go home”....
24 Jan 2012: We’re gutted to have missed comedy science gig Festival of the Spoken Nerd last week at the Bloomsbury Theatre because,...
24 Jan 2012: From the boundaries of science this week, we bring the news that someone just cut an electron in half, which we thought wasn’t...
24 Jan 2012: As many Backbytes readers are hopeless romantics, we pass on the news of research from Drexel University in Philadelphia...
24 Jan 2012: Backbytes is perhaps the smartest desk at Computing, rather like being the world’s tallest dwarf, and we have a lot of...
23 Jan 2012: The sale of data from cookies in third-party datamarts is well established (Time to shed light on the dark art of behavioural...
23 Jan 2012: It is interesting that negative opinions of integrated systems come so high in your recent survey of IT leaders (CIOs rail...
23 Jan 2012: In some ways working with the big vendors is a bit like doing business with banks; “too big to fail” comes into play,...
23 Jan 2012: I was alarmed and dismayed to read the letter from Omar defending Syria’s president Assad against quips in Backbytes (Backbytes...
23 Jan 2012: It seems possible that Sony’s Tablet S was picked for the Pope because it’s specifically set up to act as a remote control...
19 Jan 2012: Not many people read IT disaster recovery (DR) plans for pleasure but these documents are often far more insightful than...
16 Jan 2012: Last week was extremely busy, so the first I heard of Amazon’s Direct Connect service being available in the UK was when...
10 Jan 2012: “We’re always hacking to find better ways to solve problems”, says the announcement for Facebook’s second annual...
10 Jan 2012: Kudos to Read Write Web, which has published its second round-up of the worst Tech Tattoos. Actually, it is called “The...
10 Jan 2012: For those of you who prefer your possessions not to plot the destruction of the planet, then the new range of "Minty Geek"...
10 Jan 2012: This year we believe that the robots will finally take over, for which we’re extremely grateful. We haven’t had a decent...
10 Jan 2012: On the subject of calendars, we’re sure that all readers of the Huddersfield Daily Examiner among our readership will be...
10 Jan 2012: Welcome to a new year of Backbytes. We’re familiar with the emotion that every year seems like the last one, so we’re...
09 Jan 2012: So the poor darlings expect this, that and the other (Next generation of employees doesn’t respect IT rules)? Well,...
09 Jan 2012: In the Darwinian employment ecosystem, anyone with principles will choose the best option for themselves: either slave away...
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