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Demon Could Sue BT For Poaching Customers
News Demon Internet is considering legal action against beleagured telco British Telecommunications (quote: BT) alleging that it has been poaching its customers. The ISP, owned by Scottish telco Thus (quote: THUS), said BT is telling customers that...
[October 10, 2000, 9:54]
Yahoo Accused Of Poaching Speech Engineers
Talkback What's the matter can't these guys have two jobs, and what's so bad about forwarding the industry toward that goal of intelligent voice communication with ones computer. Sure Skype is a phenomenon for some, but then everyone else has to wait while...
[September 30, 2005, 19:07]
Salesforce.com Expands Poaching Plan
News CRM firm Salesforce.com is making a cheeky attempt to poach top staff from Siebel, which is in the process of being acquired by database giant Oracle. In an email sent to his staff last week, Salesforce.com chairman and chief executive Marc Benioff...
[October 4, 2005, 9:20]
Yahoo Accused Of Poaching Speech Engineers
News A California court has temporarily barred about a dozen engineers hired by Yahoo from working on interactive speech technology at the search engine after the company they recently left filed a lawsuit accusing Yahoo of trying to steal trade secrets.
[September 30, 2005, 10:40]
HP Crows Over Poaching Of Sun Customers
News Hewlett-Packard has garnered $75m (£41m) in revenue in 2003 through a programme that encourages customers of rival Sun Microsystems to move to HP servers that run Linux, the company said on Wednesday.
[January 22, 2004, 10:35]
A Year Ago: Oftel Moves To Stop BT's Poaching
News Following IT Week and ZDNet's reports of BT's abuse of customer records, OFTEL has taken steps to ensure it will not happen again. The regulator said that customer complaints, which described how BT telesales staff had identified Internet users...
[September 25, 1999, 7:00]
Borland Sues MS Over Staff Poaching
News According to Borland CEO Delbert Yokam, Microsoft has taken on 34 top staff in 30 months and using hard cash incentives ranging up to $1 million. Borland is so desperate to stem the flow that it is seeking a temporary injunction preventing staff...
[May 8, 1997, 15:36]
Rupert Goodwins: IT's Like This...
News The ISP customer poaching story has reached its denouement - at least for now. Everyone involved in the business of BT's poaching should come away with a valuable lesson. But if BT does it again, there'll be trouble.
[September 25, 1998, 12:54]
Customer Retention Strategies In Action: A Communications Industry Report
White Papers As competitive pressures within the communications market continue to intensify, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are forced to devote more resources to defending their customer base against poaching.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Bush's EU Man Attacked For Microsoft Links
Talkback Contrary to Gray's claims, MS has had a history of growth through acquisition, either buying up, buying out, or just plain poaching technologies as well as smaller companies. Point out the factual errors in Gray's defense of MS to make stronger...
[August 8, 2005, 18:29]
Take Security Precautions When An Employee Leaves The Organization
White Papers When employees leave, they know your competitors, your phone directory (useful for social engineering), your client list (useful for poaching), how often you perform backups, how seriously you take physical security, how often passwords are...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Forrester: Consider Unorthodox Sources For IT Staff
News Poaching IT staff from other organisations is a short-term solution, warns research company Forrester in a report published this week. Instead, chief information officers should search more widely in the rapidly narrowing IT talent pool to capture...
[July 26, 2007, 14:02]
IBM Attempts To Poach EMC Customers
News The customer-poaching effort, slated to be announced on Wednesday, includes a patent-pending hardware device that lets organisations shift data from EMC boxes to IBM equipment without any computer system downtime, according to IBM.
[December 3, 2003, 9:10]
Click Gets Browser And Email - To Launch As Click+
News But less than a week after Oftel warned BT to stop poaching customers from other ISPs, the man charged with running the service is still insisting that "only one over-zealous salesperson" stepped out of line.
[September 30, 1998, 14:33]
Exclusive: BT's 'rogue Salesman' Excuse Fails To Click
News Following BT's admission last week that it has been poaching Internet users from other ISPs, a ZDNet News reader has reported a second instance of the tactic contradicting the telco's claim that the first was an "isolated" occurrence.
[September 14, 1998, 16:17]
BT's ‘rogue Salesman' Excuse Fails To Click
News Following BT's admission last week that it has been poaching Internet users from other ISPs, a ZDNet News reader has reported a second instance of the tactic contradicting the telco's claim that the first was an "isolated" occurrence.
[September 14, 1998, 15:07]
Microsoft Exec Takes On Services, Google
News Another concern: Google poaching developers away from Windows and .Net. It's been a long and steady march into the enterprise for Microsoft. The company's Office and desktop Windows divisions have long been the primary revenue engines for the company.
[June 20, 2006, 12:20]
Low-end 'Enchilada' Spices Up Sun Server Line
News The V210 and V240 are a good move to keep (competitors) from poaching their customer base," said Giga Information Group analyst Richard Fichera. As part of a multi-product debut on Tuesday, Sun Microsystems will add two new Unix servers code-named...
[April 8, 2003, 8:22]
Morpheus Shutdown Puts Rival In The Spotlight
News After a silent first month, Sharman has emerged as a key player in an increasingly bizarre triangle with Morpheus' parent company, StreamCast Networks, and Kazaa BV, in which accusations of unpaid bills, user-poaching and technical sabotage are...
[March 6, 2002, 9:31]
