Staff shortages could be leading to downtime.

By Patrick Thibodeau | Computerworld US
Published: 07:56 GMT, 24 August 09

IT staff cutbacks could be causing supply problems say industry observers, citing several recent examples of downtime where customers have been left with no service following techncal problems.

Data centres have been hard hit by... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1666 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:32:58 GMT http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1634/t/Digg-com-Hijacks-Thousands-Of-Users-Digg-com-SUCKS-.html Digg.com appears to have changed the behavior of its short URLs so they no longer go to the source of the story for logged-out users: instead they direct visitors to a landing page on Digg feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1634 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:21:01 GMT http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1562/t/Google-Creates-A-New-Web-Browser-Called-Chrome-.html

A fresh take on the browser
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(July 14) - The affordability and... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Horologist) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1547 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:09:03 GMT http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1507/t/Speed-Trap-Location-Service-from-Trapster-This-is-neat-.html Speed Trap Location Service from Trapster

Unique service turns your cell phone into a speed trap finding device

By KEVIN RANSOM, AOL AUTOS

feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1507 Thu, 22 May 2008 20:15:03 GMT http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1502/t/Cell-Phone-Sales-Drop-For-The-First-Time-.html For the first time since it started monitoring mobile phone sales, analyst firm NPD notes a decrease in the number of handsets sold in the United States for the first quarter this year by a significant 22 percent.

The cause has less to do with a mature market than with a squeeze on the economy and consumers' buying power, the firm says. NPD estimates sales of about $2.7 billion during the first quarter of 2008, down from $2.9 billion during the same period last year.
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1502 Tue, 20 May 2008 10:55:16 GMT http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1478/t/Switch-Back-To-Windows-XP-From-Windows-Vista-.html
How To Switch Back To Windows XP ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1478 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:38:20 GMT http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1408/t/US-to-Shoot-Down-Broken-Spy-Satellite-.html US to Shoot Down Broken Spy Satellite

AP

Posted: 2008-02-14 16:30:14

WASHINGTON (Feb. 14) - President Bush decided to make a first-of-its-kind attempt to use a... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1408 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:10:13 GMT http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1406/t/-History---Mercedez-Benz-Brand---Three-Pointed-Star-.html

The History Behind the Mercedez-Benz Brand and the Three-Pointed Star

Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz

The invention in the 1880s of the high-speed engine and the automobile enabled Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz - independently of one another - to lay the foundations for the motorization of road transport.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1406 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:59:47 GMT http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1399/t/Court-Strikes-Down-EPA-s-Plan-on-Mercury-What-About-Clocks-.html Court Strikes Down EPA's Plan on Mercury

By H. JOSEF HEBERT,

AP

Posted: 2008-02-08 18:09:53

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court said Friday the Bush administration... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1399 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:06:41 GMT http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/937/t/Energy-Saving-Bulbs-Causing-Migraine-Headaches-.html
Posted Jan 2nd 2008 10:08AM by Tim Stevens

Compact fluorescent bulbs, the twisted looking replacement lights that use as little as one fourth the power of their common incandescent counterparts (and last much longer), are being adopted worldwide in an effort to reduce energy consumption. They are even becoming mandatory in some countries -- a little troubling according to the Daily Mail, which reports that health experts in the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/937 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:17:38 GMT http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/938/t/AOL-Pulls-Plug-on-Netscape-Web-Browser-.html
By ANICK JESDANUN,AP
Posted: 2007-12-28 17:11:59

NEW YORK (AP) - Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web browser and the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1 after a 13-year run.

Its current caretakers, Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, decided to kill further development and technical support to focus on growing the company as an advertising business. Netscape's usage dwindled with... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Horologist) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/938 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:41:46 GMT http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/939/t/Illegal-Cell-Phone-Jamming-Could-Cost-You-11-000-00-.html
According to the New York Times, overseas exporters of the cell zapping boxes say shipments to the U.S. have increased recently. They've been shipping hundreds every month to owners... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/939 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:38:02 GMT http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/940/t/Study-Ties-Time-Shift-Pedestrian-Deaths-Time-Change-.html Friday, November 2, 2007 10:35 PM EDT
The Associated Press
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) After clocks are turned back this weekend, pedestrians walking during the evening rush hour are nearly three times more likely to be struck and killed by cars than before the time change, two scientists calculate. Ending daylight saving time translates into about 37 more U.S. pedestrian deaths around 6 p.m. in November... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/940 Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:29:49 GMT http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/941/t/Vampire-Electronics-Drain-Homes-of-Energy-.html By JULIE CARR SMYTH,AP
Posted: 2007-10-30 00:58:12
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A force as insidious as Bram Stoker's leading man is quietly sucking a nickel of every dollar's worth of the electricity that seeps from your home's outlets.

Insert the little fangs of your cell phone charger in the outlet and leave it there, phone attached: That's vampire electronics.

Allow your computer to hide in the cloak of darkness known as... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/941 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:15:25 GMT http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/942/t/Secrets-of-Sputnik-Emerge-50-Years-Later-.html By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV,AP
Posted: 2007-10-01 17:38:13

MOSCOW (Oct. 1) - When Sputnik took off 50 years ago, the world gazed at the heavens in awe and apprehension, watching what seemed like the unveiling of a sustained Soviet effort to conquer space and score a stunning Cold War triumph.

A Soviet rocket carrying the satellite Sputnik blasts off on Oct. 4, 1957, from Kazakhstan. Fifty years later, scientists involved with the launch... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/942 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:34:47 GMT