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Bill Gates Ribbed By Hoax E-mail Circular
News This is the gist of a chain-letter hoax that appeared to start Tuesday. The first part of the letter sounds almost believable - well, only to those people not yet (justifiably) skeptical about Internet chain letters.
[December 3, 1997, 12:53]
We Want Your Love, Says BT Boss
News The telecoms bubble was no more than a chain letter scam, and the current level of the industry is more like "normality" said Verywaayen, speaking on Tuesday at the UK Technology Summit run by the European Technology Forum.
[October 2, 2002, 15:36]
The Real Threat Of Spam
White Papers No longer are mail administrators just worrying about the classic Chain Letter E-mails pleading for donations. Spam is very much an unwanted by-product of the Internet and USENET in particular. Spam has become the number one problem for corporate e...
[March 29, 2005, 3:00]
Demon Takes Observer Tussle To Web
News Demon has posted its solicitor's letter and an open letter from its Chairman on its Web site after The Observer failed to print a retraction of its August 25 article accusing the ISP of being one of the "key links in the international paedophile...
[September 3, 1996, 16:56]
Tesco Vs Hollywood In DVD Battle
News The company has written a letter to Warner Home Video president, Warren Lieberfarb, claiming that regional zoning is a barrier to trade and is keeping UK DVD prices artificially high. In its letter, Tesco accuses Hollywood's use of regional zoning...
[February 21, 2000, 14:59]
Spammers Busted In Net Fraud Crackdown
News The FTC, which renewed its fight against spam earlier this year, said it sent warning letters to 500 sites accused of running illegal chain-letter efforts as well as 75 letters to sites that appeared not to be honoring instructions to remove...
[April 3, 2002, 10:01]
When Aggressive Job Candidates Won't Take No For An Answer
News Make sure the candidate gets a formal rejection letter, and that HR is copied. While getting a candidate's interest is "half the battle, as you've sold the job," a bigger battle looms when a candidate just won't accept rejection, despite the fact...
[August 5, 2002, 12:48]
PeopleSoft Acquisition Move 'provoked' Oracle
News Four days later, Oracle faxed a letter to PeopleSoft asking to buy the company for $5.1bn (£3.1bn). The acquisition comes amid tough times for companies hawking so-called enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, which handles business tasks...
[June 9, 2003, 9:32]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In the end, BT said it would turn his line back on, write him a letter confirming everything they'd said on the phone and give him compensation. That proved to be a derisory offer of twenty quid, a letter which said absolutely nothing -- but at...
[November 28, 2003, 15:20]
AOL Blocks MSN... Again
News Also late last week an AOL executive, network security chief Tatiana Gau, sent a letter to Microsoft suggesting the two companies negotiate a deal. Microsoft vice president Brad Chase responded in a letter Tuesday inviting America Online to take...
[July 30, 1999, 9:31]
AMD Chips Win Broader Dell Approval
News Dell received a letter from the SEC in August 2005, but it is only disclosing the probe now because it has found "some potential issues" during its own review of its accounting practices, said Jim Schneider, Dell's chief financial officer.
[August 18, 2006, 8:45]
Gobsmacked At Amazon Delivery Fiasco
Blog Comment If it can't fit in the letter box don't order online. Go up the supply chain, try ordering from manufacturers only i.e.you should have ordered directly from Apple and got free engraving to boot! Some ecommerce rules:
[January 12, 2008, 15:40]
2000 Roundup: Cybercrime Goes Global
News The LoveBug made Melissa look like an chain-letter, sweeping across the world with a voracious appetite for destruction and damage. In February, computer hackers demonstrated that even the biggest Internet companies remain vulnerable to basic forms...
[December 26, 2000, 6:12]
Melissa Virus: Man Charged
News The Melissa virus appeared last Friday and spread rapidly around the world on Monday like a malicious chain letter, causing affected computers to fire off dozens of infected messages to friends and colleagues and swamping e-mail systems.
[April 6, 1999, 8:42]
Microsoft Defends Xbox Console, Software Sales
News In a letter to analysts, Microsoft said that the Xbox's 468,000 US sales for November -- as reported by NPD Group -- represented a dramatic rise, and was nearly double the figure for October. The number does not include sales from Wal-Mart, the US...
[December 19, 2002, 16:04]
What Small Business Can Teach Big Business review
Reviews In fact, I think these giant firms, with their one-letter stock ticker symbols, have a lot to learn from small businesses -- the millions of companies that constantly do more with less, live by their wits and not their inertia, and actually make...
[March 31, 2005, 8:35]
Catching Up With A Famous Fraudster
News In the US, every time there's a breach, you get a letter. You can't just keep hiring people, because one weak link breaks the chain. These days Abagnale is firmly on the right side of the law, and has worked with the FBI for over 30 years.
[November 1, 2007, 11:37]
Microsoft Pretties Office For Business Apps
News For example, a person could send out an offer letter for employment from Word and draw information from a specialised human resources application. The supply chain application can also collect and monitor RFID information.
[June 13, 2006, 9:40]
VeriSign Refuses To Budge On Redirection
News All indications are that users, important members of the Internet community we all serve, are benefiting from the improved Web navigation offered by Site Finder," VeriSign vice president Russell Lewis said in a letter on Sunday to the Internet...
[September 23, 2003, 8:35]
Naughton: The American Dream Turned Sour, Part V
News Nevertheless, as a result of that call and a subsequent letter, Infoseek, citing gross misconduct on Naughton's part, revoked his stock options. In a guest column for Forbes magazine, he once wrote: "I'm glad I'm at the top of the food chain.
[March 21, 2000, 13:59]
