Parallels Boss Sees No Joke In April Fool's
News Beloussov was the victim of an April Fool's Day joke, but as jokes go it was not a very good one, according to Parallels. Sun buying us for $205m, this is definitely an April Fool's joke," he said in a email.
[April 2, 2008, 16:20]
T-Mobile Trademarks Colour, Issues Legal Threats
Blog File this one under "I-wish-it-was-an-April-Fool's-joke-but-it-isn't". Engadget, the mobile blog, has received a nasty letter from T-Mobile's lawyers demanding that it stop using the colour magenta. Because T-Mobile pwns magenta.
[April 2, 2008, 10:45]
Encrypted Bots Could Be The Next Threat
Talkback Please tell me this article is an early/late April Fool's joke. Is this a joke? I mean really - let's be somewhat grounded here. Worms that act in a "retarded" but mass effort haven't _commonly_ used encryption for the past 5 years or so (some of...
[November 15, 2005, 17:29]
The Week In Review: Fooling The Tech Industry
News Unfortunately for Microsoft, this report came out just around April Fool's Day, but in fact wasn't a joke: new research shows that the Redmond company is massively increasing its investment in search technology, and could launch a paid search...
[April 4, 2003, 16:52]
OOXML Result Will Come Wednesday
Blog UPDATE (April Fool's morning but not a joke apparently): The chairman of Norway's standards body is appealing to ISO to discount Norway's vote. However, it would be fair to assume that ISO already knows the answer - it's not that many votes that...
[March 31, 2008, 20:26]
April Fool: Timing's Right For A Virus
News Basically, some Windows-based programs become confused when Daylight Savings Time kicks off on 1 April, creating an accidental April Fool's joke. On Sunday 8 April, the problem corrects itself. A two-year-old bug in Microsoft software will finally...
[March 30, 2001, 13:41]
Google Ups The Ante With Gmail Enhancements
News Google first broke the email mould on April 1, 2004, with an announcement so bizarre that many assumed it was an April Fool's Day joke. Google plans to offer a bottomless cup of storage with its Gmail Web-based email service, dramatically raising...
[April 1, 2005, 8:55]
EC Proposes Standardised CVs
News This is not a late April Fool's joke, but a real proposal from the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training. The European Commission has proposed a standardised CV format. Some might argue that individually created CVs are one of...
[April 11, 2002, 12:24]
Microsoft Offers Downloadable Blue Screen Of Death
Blog I'm not sure whether this is some kind of early April Fool's Joke, or indeed whether Microsoft knows it's offering the download. Want to pretend your machine's crashed? Well, this is your opportunity, as Microsoft has brought us a download of its...
[November 9, 2006, 15:36]
April Fool's Day Story Clarification
News The story was one of many such jokes published by various members of UK media, where the April Fool's Day practice is widespread and something of a journalist's tradition. It has been brought to our attention that a small number of readers may not...
[April 6, 2000, 10:16]
Microsoft Confirms April Fool's Bug
News The fact that April 1, 2001, falls on a Sunday confused an algorithm within the file, which leads to a one-week delay in beginning daylight savings time. A bug reported by a Massachusetts programmer will cause some Windows applications to behave as...
[January 13, 1999, 11:05]
Net Laughs At Itself On April Fool's
News To make his April Fools' joke as believable as possible, Kaplan tweaked the Web address of the fake story so that it looked like it was posted on Yahoo News. Obviously, some people got the joke, but others didn't.
[April 2, 2002, 14:58]
