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Goodwins: Govt Web Project Favours Microsoft
News A press release arrived from the Cabinet Office, touting a brand-new online service from the Inland Revenue. Pausing only to note that no electronic address of any kind was present on the press release, I decided to see how secure the system would be.
[December 11, 1997, 9:18]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News I hate press-deadline weeks on PC Magazine. If you come to the press conference, we'll give you the charger," they say. Alas, Hursley has to be cancelled: it's press week. The office is full of people frantically doing stuff they said they'd do...
[July 19, 1997, 8:00]
Techies Teach Teachers A Lesson
Talkback Very inspiring and important, so how does this related to the ludicrous Workforce Boredom Index, that the TDA’s press office and PR agency (Band and Brown) have been spruiking to the media? A good first step might be to rethink the benefits of...
[August 2, 2006, 12:51]
The Printing Press Delivers High-Quality Printing And Quick Turnaround To Its Customers Via The HP Color LaserJet 9500
White Papers Approaching a Heidelberg press in print quality, this office-sized printer is easy to use for office staff and does not require printing specialists to operate it. The Printing Press in Meridian, Idaho is a medium-sized commercial printing facility.
[October 2, 2004, 3:00]
Oracle: Have It Our Way
News Ellison told press conference attendees he believed Microsoft behaved illegally in integrating its browser and Windows desktop but not in integrating its Office desktop applications. You bet," Ellison said at a press conference following his...
[October 4, 2000, 8:10]
Behind Microsoft's 'experience' Strategy
News The XP name is short for 'experience,' symbolising the rich and extended user experiences Windows and Office can offer by embracing Web services that span a broad range of devices," according to a press release issued by Microsoft Monday morning.
[February 6, 2001, 8:38]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Whatever you do," Control commanded, "don't talk to the press.this, strangely enough, really is a large part of a press relations office's job). You know how paranoid big companies are about the press (yes, cuddly, friendly, harmless people like us).
[April 15, 2005, 19:30]
Orange's Attempt At Fighting Call Cards
Blog A quick call to the Orange press office, asking whether it might not be more user-friendly to, y'know, just lower the standard international calling rates, elicited this response: UPDATE: Just been rung by the Orange press office to point out that...
[May 10, 2007, 12:34]
Marc Ambasna-Jones' Diary
News Moved to the press office bar to add to my morning's cologne and headed for a meeting with Citrix. Microsoft's press office said it had nothing of interest coming up in the next week and then I discovered Microsoft plans to release its first beta...
[June 28, 1997, 8:00]
Exclusive: Yahoo! UK Recruits Paedophile 'inspector'
News The Home Office unwittingly revealed Mullins' appointment in a press release announcing the creation of an Internet taskforce last Wednesday, set up to oversee the implementation of recommendations made in the Internet Crime Forum report Chat Wise...
[April 6, 2001, 15:42]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Could you put me through to the press office? Can I talk to your press office, please? Is that the press office? Can I talk to your press office please? Can I have your press office please? You know, people who talk to the press?
[August 9, 2002, 18:19]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News So you do, only to discover what you already knew: that the blessed press officer has been transferred to the US office. They handle all the UK press. I've already read a half dozen press reports of the speech, and nobody managed to persuade their...
[January 11, 1997, 7:00]
The Blair IT Projects
News The email was leaked to the press about a month after it was first sent around the department press office. Edward Leigh, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, was outraged when the National Audit Office subsequently picked through the...
[June 27, 2007, 12:08]
Microsoft Decision Coming Today
News The state attorney general of Iowa's office did not return calls by press time, nor did the attorney general's office of Connecticut. He also lashed out at those responsible for leaks regarding the content of the settlement talks, and rebuked the...
[April 3, 2000, 16:48]
Microsoft Broke The Law - Jackson Rules
News The state attorney general of Iowa's office did not return calls by press time, nor did the attorney general's office of Connecticut. During a press conference Microsoft called late Saturday, Bill Neukom, Senior Vice President Law & Corporate...
[April 4, 2000, 9:05]
The Luncher
News New marketing manager, and ex-Office, ruddy-cheeked Oliver Roll was on a roll, fending off hostile questions from the feral press pack. In a recent press release. One posh office: Software Warehouse: a new 84,000 square foot premises with its own...
[November 8, 1997, 7:00]
HP Unveils Ink-based Technology For High-volume Printing
News It's ink-based printing for huge-volume workloads," said Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president of the HP Imaging and Printing Group, as he introduced the technology at a press conference in downtown San Francisco.
[October 4, 2006, 10:05]
Windows Software By Any Other Name?
News A representative of the Windows team did not respond by press time to a request for comment on the Windows XP rumor. And, coincidentally or not, Microsoft is holding a preview of its Whistler Beta 2 code for press and analysts 13 February at the...
[February 2, 2001, 16:00]
BlackBerry Patent Case Settled
News Research In Motion and NTP have agreed to settle the patent dispute over the BlackBerry device for $612.5m (£349.3m), the companies announced in a press release on Friday. Months of uncertainty regarding the BlackBerry took a financial toll on RIM...
[March 6, 2006, 8:05]
Microsoft Makes Last-gasp OOXML Push
News Microsoft has hosted four conference calls a week with national standards bodies, and recently invited international press to a conference close to its Redmond, Washington headquarters to set the record straight on the OOXML issue.
[January 29, 2008, 7:57]
