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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]
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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Cheap, sleazy publicity stunts always meet with a warm welcome here, and Evesham Technology -- Evesham Micros, as was -- is clearly up to the stiff challenge. Curiously, Evesham itself seems to lie on some sort of ley line for prophylactic-powered...
[August 15, 2003, 16:50]
Opera boss starts Atlantic swim
Talkback Publicity stunt! No.excellent publicity stunt!
[April 26, 2005, 16:10]
Fueling the fire
Talkback Well the only reason they are doing this will be to generate publicity for themselves and not for any philanthropic principles. The thing is though there seems to be a lot of negative Apple publicity lately and while most of it seems to blow over...
[December 21, 2006, 10:17]
Microsoft cashes in on Blair campaign
News Prime minister Tony Blair is accused of offering Microsoft free publicity for its latest product after he sat through a ten minute Office XP presentation on Tuesday. Blair normally uses people for his own publicity stunts, so he can't complain if...
[May 30, 2001, 13:41]
Microsoft's Mojave just a desert vista
Blog Comment Microsoft's "Vista isn't really as bad as people say" publicity campaign is doomed. 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...
[August 11, 2008, 17:41]
Malware and the moral compass
Blog All publicity is good publicity. Symantec has certainly got some publicity out of this blog post, so they’re onto a winner in that sense. There’s no such thing as bad news. These are widely held beliefs by those involved in self promotion - for...
[October 1, 2009, 9:17]
Spyware company goes undercover
News A US-based spyware developer appears to have taken down its Web site after a storm of bad publicity over its practice of tracking individuals' surfing habits as well as gathering credit card information and other personal data entered online...
[January 31, 2002, 9:37]
A Year Ago: Critics shake heads at Freeserve ADSL plan
News ISP charged with grabbing publicity to keep shareholder interest. I would think publicity is a big factor here," he said. Freeserve's plans to roll out ADSL trials in the UK by November met with scepticism and a fair amount of ridicule Monday.
[September 18, 2000, 7:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Everything else is publicity. It's difficult in IT journalism, which is overwhelmingly about the business rather than the technology of information, to walk that line: most of the stuff written about is a direct result of companies trying to sell...
[November 14, 2003, 15:15]
Hatch hearings: Now what?
News Tuesday's hearing before the Senate Judiciary committee could be just the beginning of a series of similar events, as Washington lawmakers clamor for publicity and trustbusters expand their investigation into Microsoft's business practices.
[March 4, 1998, 8:51]
IBM's 35 atoms and the rise of nanotech
News When IBM researcher Don Eigler picked up and moved the first individual atom 20 years ago today, he paved the way for what arguably was the smallest publicity stunt ever: IBM's logo made from a precise arrangement of 35 Xenon atoms.
[September 29, 2009, 15:53]
Don't take data-wiping methods for granted
News Today, however, even the smallest breaches open companies up to major public relations and legal nightmares, thus disproving the old adage that "any publicity is good publicity". A few years ago, a minor data breach may not have been considered a...
[September 13, 2006, 14:00]
New Skype CEO "Interview" - He Still Doesn't Get It!
Blog First, rather than face the press and public, and possibly have to answer some hard questions from people who have (miserable) experience with Skype, he chose to hide behind a pseudo-interview with his own publicity manager.
[September 11, 2008, 16:03]
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]
Wi-Fi Client Device Security and Compliance With PCI DSS
White Papers The retailer, however, is the one hammered by bad publicity. In addition to costing the retailer business, the bad publicity sullies the retailer's reputation, forever linking its name to the theft. Wi-Fi Client Device Security and Compliance With...
[July 13, 2009, 1:21]
Who Shot Darl McBride?
Talkback The purpose of the lawsuits is to generate publicity, not to win damages. The reason for the publicity is to perpetrate the illusion that SCO is a real company, with assets that are worth something -- in order that the insiders can unload their...
[April 23, 2004, 20:36]
Confidential reports to aid cybercrime crackdown
News The culture of secrecy surrounding cybercrime means that many attacks go unreported, with businesses being unwilling to risk publicity for commercial reasons. Akdeniz also pointed out that larger companies are often concerned about receiving bad...
[June 22, 2001, 13:02]
