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Lenovo's ThinkServer embargo farrago
Blog But it's out there already, I said, and clearly out there as the result of another news outlet being given the release ahead of time and under embargo, then breaking the embargo. So Lenovo had decided to break its own embargo.
[September 16, 2008, 13:10]
European Union may consider Pentium III embargo
News A report to be presented to the European Union Technical Committee discusses the possibility of placing a European trade embargo on Pentium III chips, according to a report on German newswire Futurezone .
[November 24, 1999, 17:11]
Embargo? Nobody told me about any embargo
Blog Long-embargo press events are always tricky for the poor PRs to organise. Even if they're all willing, a lot of embargo'd stories go into content management systems with a 'publish on' date and time - and then you're at the mercy of your CMS.
[December 17, 2007, 18:48]
Microsoft's PR - losing the plot?
Blog Comment It looks to me like dealing with Microsoft PR is no longer a "cooperation" situation, it is much more like they are "using" the press and the embargo process to increase the buzz, and are honestly just hoping/waiting for someone to break the embargo.
[July 14, 2009, 11:11]
Ethics? Is that near Sussex?
Blog Both sides must obey them, otherwise the embargo is broken. If journalist (a) and company (b) agree to obey an embargo then that is fine. But if publications x, y and z all disobey the embargo then journalist (a) may well decide that as the embargo...
[May 28, 2008, 16:15]
Microsoft's PR - losing the plot?
Blog The penalty for breaking an embargo is usually to be cold shouldered from thereon in: there's no point in giving another embargo'd story to an embargo breaker. We knew some time ago that Microsoft was going to be releasing news and details of...
[July 13, 2009, 13:29]
Microsoft's PR - losing the plot?
Blog Comment An advertising friend of mine told me some years ago that they were asked to manage the embargo and the campaign for a new product for a hamburger chain with a clown. Embargoes hurt everybody but the embargo source.
[July 14, 2009, 8:05]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News It's all under embargo till November. I thought this was under strict embargo till November edition. The office network is full of really smart Quakers. I don't mean Friends; I mean people who can shoot a rocket into the floor, and at the moment...
[August 16, 1997, 1:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The embargo will just be until Friday, when we'll have had the chance to tell people in the US. It looks as if the embargo was designed to protect the US from the embarrassment of having its announcements foreshadowed by Europe -- but, of course...
[May 14, 2004, 19:00]
IE8 beta 2, feature complete. Launch event, best deleted.
Blog We had also learned that there had been briefings earlier in the day, under embargo, for other journalists - who had now presumably filed and were waiting for the 8pm embargo to be lifted so they could post.
[August 27, 2008, 22:44]
iPhone - first reviews
Blog Looks like the embargo's off in the US; the first reviews are coming in. Check out Crunchgear for a round-up; they're still up in the US, so there may be more tomorrow. Right now, it's the NY Times and the WSJ.
[June 27, 2007, 0:40]
The lowdown on Asus' Eee PC
Blog Comment As far as I can tell, this isn't the same thing they're offering for our US and Canadian Cousins, under the brand "EMBARGO", the eee pc is now up for preordering by the company NCIXUS.com.http://www.ncixus.com/search/?
[September 8, 2007, 1:56]
Cómo ofrecer el mejor cifrado SSL
White Papers Sin embargo, muchos de estos mismos profesionales apenas si tienen conocimiento de un protocolo extremadamente importante dentro de SSL, uno con el potencial para alterar radicalmente el nivel de protección ofrecido a cualquier visitante del...
[January 3, 2007, 0:00]
F/A-18 Korea demo
Downloads A trade embargo has disintegrated, diplomacy has failed. F/A-18 Korea is the latest flight combat game from Graphic Simulations. The global community's worst fear has been confirmed: an unfriendly government in an unstable part of the world...
[February 26, 1998, 1:58]
Los ejecutivos de desarrollo de aplicaciones deben aumentar su visibilidad para ser unos socios comerciales más fiables
White Papers Sin embargo, las organizaciones de desarrollo de aplicaciones de hoy día operan en un entorno más complejo que nunca, pero incluso sin esta complejidad añadida, siguen pasando apuros para satisfacer a sus clientes corporativos.
[July 3, 2007, 1:00]
So THAT's what makes a good business!
Blog Those of you who enjoy silly corporate-sponsored formulae (read the Guardian's Ben Goldacre enthusiastically sounding off on the subject here) should have fun with this one, released by.can't tell you yet actually, as it's under embargo until...
[November 21, 2006, 16:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog That's what Logitech must be thinking: it has a big surprise for us all planned for 1 September, but someone didn't quite spot the embargo and published a preview anyway. Wednesday 25/8/04 The Web has a short-term memory problem - it doesn't forget...
[August 27, 2004, 17:20]
RIM takes ZDNet UK on a magical pixie ride
Blog I can't tell you yet why we're here (hint: it's BlackBerry-related, but nothing that I couldn't write up from ZDNet UK towers) because the embargo hasn't lifted yet. Well, I'm here in Bochum, Germany, on a press trip with Research In Motion.
[October 21, 2009, 10:28]
Computers to Africa Diary: Days Two and Three
Blog Unfortunately, despite the teeth-jarring off-road driving that had to be endured thanks to some very serious road works being done to the main Nairobi to Mombassa highway - I can't actually reveal what I was doing down there yet - thanks to a...
[September 11, 2007, 19:12]
More fun for frequent fliers
Blog Other options - such as not selling nutters such things in the first place, trying not to motivate nutters to have a go in the first place, or instituting an air embargo of anywhere supportive of such nutterdom - are apparently not available.
[January 18, 2007, 12:42]
