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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Perhaps I'll take her to a Pprune (Professional Pilots Rumour Network) bash: seeing the species in large numbers out for a good time should put her right on a few points. Friday 14/1/2005 Normal office life is returning at last, and there are even...
[January 14, 2005, 12:30]
Martin Veitch's Diary
News The lantern-jawed icon Jobs may be coming back as chairman, says the rumour. Well, that makes sense, Intel gets the leading role in notebook graphics - a nice incremental step for Mr Grove. NatSemi is buying dear old Cyrix, the chip maker we all...
[August 2, 1997, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Once again, online forums -- at first, the PPRuNe (Professional Pilots Rumour Network, if you must know) Web site, and now a new Ryanair European Pilots Association site -- have formed the focus for dissent, ensuring that any attempts to divide...
[December 3, 2004, 17:40]
Nokia may acquire Psion
News Nokia and Psion declined to comment on the rumour. The future of Symbian as a mobile operating system provider backed widely across the industry has once again been questioned following a weekend report that Nokia is considering acquiring fellow...
[November 10, 2003, 16:10]
Gates may find it's better to be red than dead
Leader That rumour has now become fact following the planned introduction of a new policy at the end of this year by China's governing body, the State Council, which will require all government ministries to only buy locally produced software at the next...
[January 7, 2005, 11:25]
Wednesday
Blog A rumour surfaced that there was another bar just outside the auditorium, and runners were dispatched to find out if this was true. Wednesday 12/03/2003 Intel launches Centrino! And to this end, hires Vinopolis -- a sort of warehouse theme park in...
[March 13, 2003, 16:35]
The Linux monkey on Microsoft's back
News Contributors to open-source forum Slashdot.org are quick to jump on any anti-Microsoft rumour and hype it without first checking whether their information is right (or even close). Microsoft continues to find itself caught between a rock and a hard...
[January 1, 2000, 15:28]
Roundup: Mac Expo 2000
News Mac rumour mill is working overtime What it unveils at the Mac Expo in New York this week may give us some clues. In the past few years, sussing out the future directions of Apple has become a field much like Kremlinology at the height of the Cold...
[July 18, 2000, 9:45]
A Year Ago: The Linux monkey on Microsoft's back
News Contributors to open-source forum Slashdot.org are quick to jump on any anti-Microsoft rumour and hype it without first checking whether their information is right (or even close). It's not simply Linux's notoriety that makes it a continued sore...
[January 1, 2001, 6:02]
Symbian smartphone shipments surge
News Nokia has declined to comment on this rumour. Symbian's licensees shipped nearly four million high-end mobile phones running the company's operating system during the third quarter of this year, which ended on 30 September, the company said on...
[November 20, 2003, 13:20]
The Schmoozer: UK military declares war on Anna K
News Researching an update to the story, the Schmoozer was intrigued to see a story on lowendmac.com's groundless rumour mill claiming that Apple was to counter-sue Cobalt. "Could it be the end of all global viruses forever?
[April 27, 2001, 14:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Recently, MS' attempts to contribute to anti-spam standards foundered because the company refused -- at Gates' personal behest, according to rumour -- to relinquish licensing controls over its IP, and nobody could say why this was so difficult for...
[January 14, 2005, 12:30]
The Week in Review: Fooling the tech industry
News More bizarre was a Web site-generated rumour that Hong Kong would be isolated as an infected area, which caused a food buying panic and forced the government to reassure citizens. Some of the hoaxes going around were just plausible enough, and just...
[April 4, 2003, 16:52]
Rumours of ISP industry tryst for EarthLink and MSN
News Microsoft representatives declined to comment on the rumour, saying talk of a MSN-EarthLink deal is merely speculation. The recent suspicion that Microsoft may be courting number two Internet service provider EarthLink lends further evidence that...
[February 13, 2001, 10:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Philips and Everex have given up on their CE product line (as has Sharp, by rumour unconfirmed), and you won't see millions of Windows CE phones packing out your pockets next year. Monday 15/11/1999 Biometrics!
[November 20, 1999, 16:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Philips and Everex have given up on their CE product line (as has Sharp, by rumour unconfirmed), and you won't see millions of Windows CE phones packing out your pockets next year. Monday 15/11/1999 Biometrics!
[November 20, 1999, 16:25]
US Report: Nortel and Bay downplay product overlap
News House rejected a long-standing rumour that Bay would consolidate its operations at one geographic location. Yesterday, Nortel announced it would acquire Bay for about $9.1bn (£7bn). The 45-minute call consisted mostly of the two men rehashing their...
[June 16, 1998, 9:33]
Rupert Goodwins' 12 best days of 1997
News I can't possibly give any credence to the rumour (from sources close to the companies concerned) that US Robotics had swapped their presentation at the last minute: UUNet had insisted that nothing commercial should be mentioned, and during the...
[December 29, 1997, 7:00]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News Unfortunately, there has been a long-running whisper that Compaq was about to "go direct" - a rumour the company stoutly denies. This is going to be an exciting week, I can tell. The PC Magazine "reliability" survey is out - at least internally...
[June 28, 1997, 8:00]
HP and Salesforce could be made for each other
Blog Add to that HP's stated position that it is only interested in buying companies that are number one or number two in their markets and the fact that Salesforce is number one in the CRM SaaS market and you have a good rumour.
[December 10, 2008, 16:08]
