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Toilet paper pokes fun at dot-com bottom
News Two entrepreneurs have created a line of novelty toilet paper printed to look like ticker tape spewing off the stock prices of struggling dot-coms. Demand for the toilet paper is coming from surprising places, Zappa said.
[August 20, 2001, 13:31]
Log on with the Microsoft Internet toilet
News Microsoft is taking the Internet into new territories with the announcement of an internet toilet. Anybody who has ever used a toilet at Glastonbury or a similar festival may well question the logic of such a move.
[May 8, 2003, 8:44]
Microsoft: Internet toilet was a prank
News Microsoft claims that the iLoo, an outhouse with a built-in terminal for Web browsing, was an April Fools' Day gag -- even though it was announced on 2 May. The Redmond, Washington-based software giant said on Monday that news that MSN UK was...
[May 13, 2003, 8:19]
IBM eliminates loo patent
News IBM has quietly eliminated a patent it received on a method for determining who gets to use the toilet next. The patent office probably should have disposed of the patent application on the toilet reservation system instead of granting it, said...
[October 14, 2002, 8:37]
Bouncing little robots aid the US police and military
News Worse still the blighters look unnervingly like toilet rolls. Tiny robots that jump and roll around and are "shaped like toilet rolls" (for what reason we don't know) are at this very moment being developed by the US police and military to spy on...
[November 11, 1999, 12:17]
Jesse Berst: How AOL beat Microsoft to win your future
News but good toilet seats. America Online makes lousy plumbing (remember its infamous 19-hour outage? Now, in AOL's latest effort to make an increasingly important function easier and more comfortable, the online giant is rolling out the Net equivalent...
[July 1, 1999, 9:02]
Top 10 data destruction disasters
News Toilet Trauma One man became so mad with his malfunctioning laptop computer, he threw it into the toilet and flushed a couple of times. One man brought in a hard drive in a wet plastic bag. He said he had read on the Internet that if you place a...
[August 22, 2005, 11:45]
Putting the pressure on outside suppliers
News CFOs are scrutinising everything from the cost of toilet paper and printing to consulting services and contingent labour cost. It's a fact of life in the post-bubble era, and the smartest companies are figuring out how to get more cost efficiency...
[October 20, 2003, 11:55]
Home networking buzzing at CES
News The (talking) toilet will be most interesting and most helpful," Joseph said. That is the vision to be presented this week at the massive Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. All in all, more than 1,800 makers of everything from stereos...
[January 7, 1999, 14:35]
Amazon strengthens ties with Drugstore.com
News Under the agreement, Drugstore.com, which markets everything from toilet paper to prescription pharmaceuticals, becomes a fulfilment partner for certain products sold through Amazon. Amazon.com has expanded a deal with Drugstore.com to establish a...
[December 19, 2003, 10:05]
Amazon UK accused of treating staff harshly
News Employees reportedly get only two short breaks during an eight-hour shift and must request permission to use the toilet. Temporary workers at Amazon.com's UK fulfilment centres risk being terminated if they call in sick and are required to work...
[December 16, 2008, 9:38]
Man dies after four-day game marathon
News He was subsequently found dead in the cafe's toilet. A South Korean man died on Tuesday after playing computer games non-stop for four days. According to the Associated Press, the jobless man was glued to a computer in a cybercafe in Kwanju, 260...
[October 11, 2002, 9:47]
Programming apprentice scheme demanded
News That's to fix my goddamn toilet. Two leading software developers are calling for an improvement in the way that programming is taught. James Coplien, a software design expert who currently works as an object architect at US-based software company...
[April 21, 2005, 18:10]
Jane Wakefield: How we can't resist a bargain
News A new unmetered ISP crawls out of the woodwork every day and Internet businesses put together with rubberbands and toilet rolls are shouting about their great new services. My favourite unmetered joke!
[June 12, 2000, 17:00]
Tesco dominates Internet shopping
News Analysis also revealed that Tesco shoppers are a discerning lot — the supermarket's biggest revenue generator this year was Luxury Soft Toilet Tissue 12-packs, racking up more than £2m in sales. Tesco has spread its dominance of UK retail into...
[August 24, 2006, 9:50]
Can the Net save Marks & Sparks?
News The Internet is a chance to have a more valuable relationship with your customers -- and it's a good way to lift your stock out of the toilet by having a clear Internet strategy," said Evan Neufeld, director of international research for Jupiter...
[November 3, 1999, 7:26]
Mobile phone rings voted the top workplace annoyance
News Job jockeying, or riding on the work of others, ranked the third most annoying workplace issue according to the survey, followed by bad breath and/or body odour, and empty toilet paper rolls in restrooms.
[January 31, 2002, 17:29]
Surveillance 2: Is nothing sacred?
News But this tops it all: a Health Monitoring Toilet System that measures the user's weight, body fat and uric sugar levels and can send the results to an Internet service for health and diet advice. Even undercover you may be out in the open.
[February 25, 2000, 7:35]
Dirty little secrets of the keyboard revealed
News In one case a microbiologist suggested the removal of a keyboard as it had 150 times the recommended limit of bacteria — five times filthier than a toilet seat that was swabbed in the same test. Next time you are eating at your desk, try not to...
[March 12, 2009, 8:53]
Opinion: Yahoo's Mega mistake
News Yoyodyne's Seth Godin said it succinctly in a Fast Company interview: "Every month 25 million unknown users show up at this site and Yahoo flushes these people down the toilet. Yahoo flaunts itself as the new media master and lavishes scorn on old...
[June 30, 1998, 9:31]
