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Sun: MS's Java Letter Was A 'publicity Stunt'
News Calling the recent letter "a publicity stunt," Baratz said Sun "will continue to lead the industry in the evolution of the Java platform. Saying he wanted to "cut through the rhetoric" that surrounds Java, Alan Baratz, president of Sun Microsystems...
[September 23, 1997, 10:19]
A Year Ago: MS' Java Letter Was A 'publicity Stunt'
News Calling the recent letter "a publicity stunt," Baratz said Sun "will continue to lead the industry in the evolution of the Java platform. Saying he wanted to "cut through the rhetoric" that surrounds Java, Alan Baratz, president of Sun Microsystems...
[September 24, 1998, 6:08]
Crazy Open Source Cola Publicity Stunt
News The hype surrounding open source is now so thick, smaller companies are resorting to some bizarre publicity stunts. One small Canadian software firm even claims it is about to revolutionise the world of popular refreshment by developing the first...
[February 8, 2000, 16:25]
Microsoft's Mojave Just A Desert Vista
Blog Comment About the same time as the Mojave publicity stunt, Dell announced it's Studio Hybrid a tiny, cheap $499 (base configuration) desktop -- with Vista as the only operating system offered even though a look through the specifications makes it clear...
[August 11, 2008, 17:41]
Opera Boss Starts Atlantic Swim
Talkback Publicity stunt! No.excellent publicity stunt!
[April 26, 2005, 16:10]
Lycos Should Send Its Zombie Army Home
Leader Similarly, Lycos' latest wheeze should be dismissed as an absurd publicity stunt at best. We all hate spammers, and few of us would shed a tear should some unfortunate fate befall them. Our knee-jerk reaction, therefore, is to laud Lycos for...
[December 1, 2004, 12:25]
Cheap Booze Alert!
Blog Thank you, BBC, for alerting us to this error in judgment/publicity stunt as made by Threshers - 40 percent off your wine and champagne with this here voucher, if you stagger there before December 10.
[December 1, 2006, 16:03]
Steorn's Free Energy Seems Curiously Expensive
Talkback You're probably right, it's just a publicity stunt. Laws of physics don't just die in the vicinity of a couple of magnetic fields. But I'd really like it to be true (I guess they are counting on this type of expectations to get attention.
[August 22, 2006, 14:22]
Security Firm Charged With Computer Crimes
News The indictment alleged that Forensic Tec's activities were a publicity stunt intended to drum up clients for the small company. The head of security firm Forensic Tec Solutions was arraigned on Tuesday by federal prosecutors on computer crime...
[October 1, 2003, 8:35]
Steorn's Free Energy Seems Curiously Expensive
Talkback I would like to know how much Goodwins is getting paid by the nuclear industry to write this.I'm also curious as to why he chose the word 'curiously' in describing how expensive, because he says it's 'publicity stunt'.lol.GOOD!
[August 22, 2006, 16:56]
Pricing Blunder Hits Apple Online
Talkback Perhaps this is just a publicity stunt to drive people to their store. How long does it take apple to change a price field 8am until 6pm. Or if it was aunavailable how about stockcontrol stock = stock - 1 thats how you do it!
[January 5, 2006, 17:07]
An Uncomfortable Month Makes A Quiet Year
Leader Those against say that it's a publicity stunt that goes against the grain of proper, steady security research, bringing problems to the surface before there's been a chance to fully research them and their solutions.
[March 5, 2007, 16:14]
Germans Launch $5,000 CeBIT Hacker Challenge
News Although the event has been decribed as little more than a publicity stunt by one UK computer security expert, it is sure to draw a crowd at this year's show: the company is offering a prize of $5,000 to any hacker that can break its copy...
[March 22, 2001, 10:39]
Mobile Phones Scale The Highest Mountain
News Future alpinists hoping to tap into the Everest mobile network will be disappointed as this is a temporary publicity stunt and will not be commercially launched. The last phone-free sanctuary has just been conquered: in a stunt to promote mobile...
[April 17, 2003, 9:20]
Dot-com Stars Shine Brightest Before They Die
News The goal was to get as much coverage as possible with a publicity stunt, with the underlying assumption that more and better coverage would follow and help them reach their business objectives. Our research proves that's not a good practice.and...
[February 28, 2001, 11:37]
Security Industry Slams Virus Reward
News Regardless of whether the publicity stunt works, the company could find itself in legal trouble if virus writers start claiming that they wrote viruses for the competition, said Joe Wells, the founder of a comprehensive online dictionary of...
[April 3, 2001, 10:32]
Five Years Ago: Jim Barksdale On Netscape Communicator 4.0
News We wouldn't spend that amount of money on a publicity stunt; we're in the newspapers every day! Some have accused us of making it into a PR stunt. A worldwide press conference from here to New York and Mountain View [California] to talk about new...
[October 15, 2001, 7:30]
Spam Tide Drowns Email
Talkback When will the trade press realize that this was, and is, a long-planned, well executed PR stunt by a tiny, tiny, little, religious cult- based company who has taken a long hiatus from reality ? Your article shows the world that ZD Net UK is now...
[September 5, 2004, 14:53]
Calculator Looking Number Generator From The Bank
Blog Comment What i would like to know is that if any body out there be you from the banks themselves or anyone else has any definative information on this, please share it so we can establish whether it adds security or is just a publicity stunt.
[April 8, 2008, 10:44]
News Roundup: Windows XP Gold Code
News Tues 21 Aug Microsoft is planning an elaborate publicity stunt, delivering the new operating system to PC makers from a helicopter at its Redmond headquarters. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer predicted that the gold code of Windows XP would...
[August 23, 2001, 15:54]
