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The Wireless Craze, The Unlimited Bandwidth Myth, The Spectrum Auction Faux Pas, And The Punchline To Ronald Coase’s ‘Big Joke’
White Papers In 1959 the Federal Communications Commission invited economist Ronald Coase to testify about his proposal for market allocation of radio spectrum rights. The FCC’s first question: “Is this all a big joke?
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Telewest Learns From NTL's Broadband Faux Pas
News As the furore over NTL's controversial broadband bandwidth limits rumbles on, Telewest is watching and learning from its rival's discomfort. And -- while it isn't ruling out the possibility of following suit in the future -- the word from Telewest...
[February 12, 2003, 16:01]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback My favorite grammer faux pas, in speech not writing, "A whole nother. NO, there is no word "nother". People take the word "another", split it, and stick "whole" in it.
[June 7, 2006, 15:22]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A jobbing hack on Cix mentioned he was researching EDS' faux pas (EDS is the large American company with a habit of picking up the Establishment's big computing jobs - to less than universal acclaim), and promptly got an email from the company...
[May 2, 1998, 7:00]
Oracle9i Application Server: Best Practices
White Papers It covers common faux pas, product usage scenarios, and also provides a review checklist for different phases of Oracle9iAS deployment. This white paper is a collection of common practices around development and deployment of Oracle9iAS.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Fashion Mistakes
Downloads While the world may be leaning toward more casual attire, there are still a number of fashion faux pas you need to avoid, regardless of the occasion or dress code. They include: wearing the wrong colors, wearing too small a size, inappropriate...
[May 30, 2007, 2:16]
Microsoft: Striking Out In Security?
News For a company that prides itself on the quality of its software development prowess, Microsoft has encountered a rough patch of late, racking up two security holes as well as committing a major faux pas in the space of less than a week.
[April 18, 2000, 8:39]
Linux Can Cost More - Study
Talkback An attempt to overcome the recent PR faux pas caused by these kind of reports being funded by Microsoft. It's interesting to see the note that this research was "not sponsored by any other company". Whereas you wouldn't expect this particular...
[April 6, 2004, 17:24]
Tracking Down Ambiguous Tuxedo®/Oracle Errors
White Papers These two errors, and several other Oracle errors, are simply trying to indicate that you have committed some sort of protocol faux pas. You eagerly boot your application and run ud32 to test your service.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News A jobbing hack on Cix mentioned he was researching EDS' faux pas (EDS is the large American company with a habit of picking up the Establishment's big computing jobs - to less than universal acclaim), and promptly got an email from the company...
[May 2, 1998, 6:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Match them to their faux pas, email it in and the first right answer wins a rare and special gift -- I (the journo) buy you (the PR) a beer. Friday 5/9/2003 OK - that's the end of Rupert's PR Masterclass!
[September 5, 2003, 17:35]
Aaron Goldberg: "IT's Like This..."
News Yet, based on its many faux pas in the early 1990s, it has. One of the most problematic situations for IT is when two key vendors get into technology-direction wars that put the customer in the middle.
[August 18, 1998, 14:37]
Email Blunder Leaves Councillor In Tight Spot
News The Bracknell email faux pas is the latest in a string of email incidents that have affected -- and in some cases damaged -- careers. A Conservative councillor resigned from the party on Thursday after emails that he sent containing photographs of...
[August 8, 2003, 10:40]
X-Box Alert! Microsoft Got Game?
News A US-based spokeswoman would not comment on the faux pas. Microsoft is getting ready to declassify its long-secret gaming X-file. Last week the software giant completed the purchase of the X-Box.com domain name, lending that much more credence to...
[February 28, 2000, 9:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A compromised mobile may just be the most embarrassing faux pas of the modern age. Monday 21/2/2005 I'm not Paris Hilton. Following the court case, I'm not even allowed in the same city. But I do have some sympathy for the woman, following today's...
[February 25, 2005, 17:10]
Linuxites: OS/2ers In Sheep's Clothing?
News And more often than not, as soon as one Linuxite publicly disses our Linux coverage, another magically appears to clean up the damage, apologising for his brother's faux pas. The Linuxites are unbelievably organised for a group that prides itself...
[March 1, 1999, 17:24]
Creative MP3 Strategy Scuppered By Trademark Dispute
News With Diamond about to launch the latest version of its Rio player, and Samsung making a play with its Yepp model, this legal faux pas may leave Creative struggling to make an impression in the UK market.
[October 21, 1999, 16:51]
MapPoint Users Sent On Detour
News To avoid a repeat, Microsoft's no longer separates the world into countries within the clock, but the company has managed to make other cultural faux pas. Norwegians might want to use a reality check before trusting directions from Microsoft's...
[January 27, 2005, 8:25]
Analysts: Apple's In LCD Squeeze
News This is a big faux pas on Apple's part, not having this all ironed out before they brought the new iMac to market, particularly if they want to wow Windows users and bring them over to what they call 'the light side' from the Windows dark side...
[March 7, 2002, 8:39]
The Chris Long Column: Of Christmas And Email ...
News It is now one of life's great faux pas to not return an email. I've just realised why I hate Christmas. It isn't accidentally coming across the Great Escape on the telly again (for Christ's sake that bike is NOT going to get over the fence!
[January 11, 1999, 14:43]
