Microsoft: Internet Toilet Was A Prank
News I can confirm it was an April Fools' joke," said Nouri Bernard Hasan, a Microsoft spokesman in the United States, said on Monday. Microsoft claims that the iLoo, an outhouse with a built-in terminal for Web browsing, was an April Fools' Day gag...
[May 13, 2003, 8:19]
Mobiboo, Truphone, Fring Etc...
Talkback Truphone should be called Loophone .coz it belong in the toilet - can't say much about Fring coz i've never seen it and Mobiboo, well an interesting name (wonder where it originates) - well hats and coats and gloves off to you .a fab product.
[January 31, 2007, 21:27]
Uncrypted Code Reveals Rituals And Chants To The Secrets Of The Unknown
Blog Well, woe is me for the Google search came back with the Your Keyboard: Dirtier Than a Toilet news article minutes subsequent to me failing to wash my hands after going to the potty. Knowing that this columnist was expected to hold up the in depth...
[May 6, 2008, 8:20]
Jane Wakefield: In Search Of Internet Truth
News Generally this comes down to the mundane factors such as information overload from too many emails, people taking their work home with them on laptops and the fact that mobile phones mean we are always contactable -- I have heard people having...
[March 20, 2001, 7:36]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog No sign whether the researchers from companies Ericsson and TeleDanmark asked them whether they'd prefer their Internet access not stuck to a large lump of metal in the kitchen: hell, if it was DSL-to-the-toilet-bowl or nothing at all, I'd go for...
[April 27, 2001, 17:51]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog While hanging around, I have occasion to find out that the RAF is the last place on earth still using toilet paper that could do duty as lining for cake tins. Highly recommended: I'd been to Kew a couple of weeks before so was a little overplanted...
[September 28, 2001, 18:21]
Ten Traits To Look For When Hiring A Programmer
Comment Of course, a severe lack of attention to detail can sometimes be obvious too; the candidate who walks in with trousers unbuttoned or toilet paper stuck to a shoe is clearly not paying attention to detail!
[March 14, 2008, 16:06]
New Year Resolutions For The IT World
News You could argue that an automatic hand dryer in a gents toilet is a more intelligent machine than that 450MHz beast on your desk, because at least the hand dryer knows you are there. Now, that wasn't too difficult was it.
[January 1, 1999, 0:20]
Jane Wakefield: Dark Side Of The Net
News Japanese company Matsushita has come up with the wonderful idea of a tell-tale toilet, which analyses the contents of your underpants and passes the results to an Internet service that offers diet and health advice.
[February 28, 2000, 11:45]
Microsoft Wins £500m NHS Contract
Talkback Decisions like this really anger me, this is the same NHS thats supposingly so strapped of cash, to just throw another half a billion pounds down the toilet? When I was over there I have seen the recent degrade in healthcare due to this supposed...
[November 4, 2004, 11:08]
The Apple Of Symantec's Eye
Talkback A reminder to wash your hands after going to the toilet? What I think the geek in a suit was trying to communicate was that it was a "salutary reminder". Geez Louise, what the hell is a sanitary reminder?
[September 30, 2005, 2:56]
Friday: Flushing Away The ILoo
Blog It seems that the Microsoft Internet Toilet is no more. They've made a big job of canning it, though: once the Redmondians got wind of the UK iLoo, they kicked up a stink and said 'Sorry, it was just a hoax'.
[May 16, 2003, 17:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog As I said at the time, Big Blue -- sounds a bit like a toilet cleansing product, that -- had avoided the difficult bit of predicting how long the person in front of you would take and merely codified something mankind had never had a problem with.
[January 16, 2004, 16:15]
A Challenge To All Linux Users In The World
Blog Comment I don't understand why Microsoft thinks that flushing the user interface down the toilet with each new OS is such a wonderful idea. It aggravates the hell out of me that just todo the same things I was doing 5 minutes ago on an XP box I now have to...
[June 1, 2007, 14:17]
PC Industry Ridiculed By Academics And Researchers
News Shouldn't your computer be as smart as your toilet? I would call that a world fragmented with features, and.of course it cannot stay that way. The essence of the speakers' complaints was that computer engineers have spent the last five decades...
[March 14, 2001, 12:27]
What ZDNet UK Readers Want For Christmas
News Alex Waddell, a technology risk manager, asks for: "One of those battery operated massagers - the one that looks like six little puppies trying to escape from a bin bag that you strap to your office chair, armchair, dining room chair, toilet seat.
[December 24, 2004, 8:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Rubber goods, toilet paper, hunting rifles and cables were all part of the rather unusual and mostly independent group of divisions that made up the concern, and for a long time in the 1960s and 70s the whole lot was kept profitable mostly by...
[July 1, 2005, 19:15]
Ex Luna Scientia
Blog The asteroid, three times the size of Wales", "If you laid out every sheet of toilet paper used in the Emirates Stadium over the course of 90 minutes, it would cover the same area as three football pitches", "The iPod is about the size of a packet...
[October 29, 2006, 14:49]
