Skype 4.0 beta - STILL No Multi-Party Video
Blog Skype has announced their 4.0 beta release, with the typical amount of hype and intentionally misleading propaganda (see below for details). As for the press release itself, it is obvious from the fact that every news site which ran it includes the...
[June 18, 2008, 9:27]
Microsoft Resorts to Disinformation and Distortion Against Linux
Blog That now includes distortion, disinformation, false and misleading claims and statements, according to this article in Daily Finance. Apparently the fear and paranoia inside Microsoft has reached the level where they are willing to say anything to...
[September 9, 2009, 14:45]
Plaintiffs sought in potential battery-life class action
Blog Girard Gibbs has put up a webpage referring to AMD's claims that "many laptop battery manufacturers calculate battery life based on a misleading test that is conducted by running computers at low energy levels, resulting in seemingly larger life...
[June 30, 2009, 11:06]
Homeland Security Backdoor Behaviour
Blog Taken out of context this statement may be misleading (as far as I know, it may even be unfairly “massaged” statistics) as a huge proportion of the total Homeland Security installed base of IT is almost certainly well behind locked doors - much...
[February 5, 2008, 18:44]
BBC fesses up on Panorama Wi-Fi nonsense
Blog Yes, it "was unbalanced", and yes, it "gave a misleading impression of the state of scientific opinion on the issue". Remember that travesty of a Panorama report on the evilitude of Wi-Fi? The one with that anti-Wi-Fi guy who just happened to be...
[December 3, 2007, 10:42]
Thursday
Blog But the best bit was the way the misleading advert was uncovered: Microsoft had forgotten to remove information from the header of a Word file associated with the campaign. Thursday 17/10/2002 It's not been a good week for Microsoft.
[October 18, 2002, 18:28]
Rebtel's blog looks awfully familiar
Blog And, while I'm on the subject of our original piece, I'd like to call out Vodafone for saying: "There is a misleading perception that VoIP services are 'free'. Here's an entry on the blog of VoIP company Rebtel that looks very familiar to me.
[April 24, 2007, 13:02]
Oracle is not the only database
Blog Those advertisements at airports telling you that, “97 of the Fortune 100 companies use Oracle,” are arguably somewhat misleading - because those 97 companies probably also have some Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Sybase or MySQL throbbing away in...
[September 1, 2008, 23:20]
'Solar' breakthrough reveals green ambitions
Blog It is, however, curiously misleading. A reader points me at an energy story that comes larded about with exciting predictions. MIT Energy Storage Discovery Could Lead To "Unlimited" Solar Power! Illustrated with a large picture of a solar cell...
[October 26, 2008, 12:29]
Skype "Back Door" - Still No Comment
Blog It is much more of an issue of honesty with customers and misleading claims. Skype's strategy regarding the "back door" monitor rumors is clear - and consistent with everything else they do. Don't say anything, and it will die down.
[August 10, 2008, 6:47]
Orange's attempt at fighting call cards
Blog Orange research shows that people currently find making international calls confusing due to misleading price structures and the lack of transparency around calling cards," warns Orange, but how is it making things simpler for the customer by...
[May 10, 2007, 12:34]
The Importance of Customer-centric Process Management
Blog On the minus side they have provided misleading and conflicting information, and have left me car-less for a couple of weeks. You would think that after decades of practice, Business to Consumer (B2C) companies would have worked out both the...
[December 12, 2008, 13:03]
No spat here says US cybersecurity investigator
Blog When I spoke with Kurtz, he claimed that my earlier post and presumably the CNET story, was misleading and that he and Jamison have worked in the same circles for a long time and that there was no personal animosity between the two of them.
[October 29, 2008, 18:17]
Microsoft says it's a SaaS mistake
Blog Microsoft it now seems had made an error, or rather a Microsoft executive had unfortunately given us a misleading message. A Microsoft speaker at a conference on Monday came out with some interesting news that I reported on ZDNet UK.
[March 11, 2009, 12:45]
More on Skype Pornography - Genius?
Blog He is totally misleading when he says: The Skype Cheerleading Squad (also known as the Skype Journal) has a lead article today on the "Evil Genius" behind the "Sexy SPIM for Skype" (SPIM = Spam over Instant Messaging), replete with numerous...
[March 7, 2008, 13:03]
NERC gets Aurora slap on the wrist
Blog Not only did they propose cybersecurity standards that - according to the GAO and NIST - are inadequate for protecting critical national infrastructure, but throughout the Committee’s investigation they continued to provide misleading statements...
[May 28, 2008, 16:49]
Brits Are Broadband Speed Junkies
Blog Like I said before, broadband providers need to stop misleading us over broadband speeds. Back in February I blogged that UK-based broadband users are being fobbed off with vastly under-performing services - the average speed in the UK at that time...
[April 28, 2008, 12:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Microsoft is being misleading - no, more than that. Fly back from Oslo, where I and A.N. Other have been whiling away a rather chilly yet interesting weekend. Norway is an odd place - friendly, tidy, smug, rather like Switzerland in many ways - but...
[December 20, 1997, 7:00]
Can we rely on guys who have used Linux for years?
Blog Also, the "Unix foundation" he mentions is slightly misleading - there is no Unix code in the Linux kernel whatsoever. I spotted this article recently: The market has rejected Linux desktops. Get over it.
[November 24, 2009, 13:03]
Microsoft accused over $8.52bn Vista bill
Blog Microsoft is facing some criticism for, is is argued, misleading people over what made a PC, Vista Capable. A Washington academic has estimated just how much it cost the world to become "Vista Capable" and the figure is a very heft $8.52bn.
[January 26, 2009, 16:25]
