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The Luncher Awards For 1997
News The Luncher has chosen his 12 favourite blags of the year, listed below. It's also been a good year for trips abroad, football games and visits to swanky hotels and restaurants, but it is the object d'art the Luncher takes home with him that he...
[January 2, 1998, 10:39]
The Luncher In Las Vegas
News The Luncher had sipped his last Mexican lager and, like a character in a Frenchman's novel, the aroma of lime quadrant nested in beard transported him back through the peculiar blend of hi-tech and brashness that embodies Comdex week in Las Vegas.
[November 24, 1997, 14:22]
The Luncher
News Well, you know Nick Eades is leaving IBM for Dell of course," The Luncher said, while mulling a nicely symmetrical career that now runs IBM-AST-IBM-Dell. Anyhow, got to run," yawned The Luncher. Smoke and mirrors," said The Luncher.
[November 15, 1997, 7:00]
The Luncher
News thought The Luncher. Intel's move to set up a standard for PC-connected toys reminded The Luncher of Compaq's alliance with Fisher-Price to produce PC-type toys. Watch this space Xmas time in the UK, quoth The Luncher.
[February 14, 1998, 6:00]
The Luncher
News Sticking with the Net - what did The Luncher think about Netcom's demise? Of course, it's not all hi-tech for The Luncher. The Luncher's patriotism had caused him to accept hospitality at the Italy versus England match in Rome.
[October 18, 1997, 8:00]
The Luncher
News Seagate chief Al Shugart becomes Al Sugar, mused the Luncher. Don't be so absurd, retorted the Luncher from under the streetlight. The Luncher laughed into his beard. Much as I like Big Bill, a dog's a dog, the Luncher said, and MSN 2.5's got a lot...
[November 8, 1997, 7:00]
The Luncher
News It mightn't have been so bad but for an incident just the day before - again at IBM's municipal library-lookalike London offices - when an innocent Luncher asked product manager Pam Mills why Lotus hadn't stuck with the name 'Kona' for its Java...
[November 29, 1997, 7:00]
The Luncher
News Or paying £2.60 for a pint of warm, flat beer, The Luncher said. How come the Journal beat you on the Compaq-to-buy-Digital story then, Luncher? Like the chap in Shakespeare who threw away the pearl worth all his tribe," mulled The Luncher.
[November 1, 1997, 7:00]
The Luncher
News Word is you'll see other shows using the CeBIT brand throughout Europe.and the UK could be first," The Luncher said, winking. And all of them nonsense, says The Luncher. Speaking of run-ins," some youngster piped up, "have you ever met departing...
[March 28, 1998, 6:00]
The Luncher
News Bottom line is my friends at AMD are in the sushi," he mulled as he considered the likelihood of a late ship for K6-3D. That's a company that probably holds its Christmas party the following Easter if its chip release history is anything to go by.
[March 14, 1998, 6:00]
The Luncher
News In the old days when men were men, these wealthy companies would feud and call each other names until they were of an azure complexion. Speaking of buying off, for whom does the bell toll next? A man in the know says Sun might pick up Silicon...
[October 29, 1997, 13:12]
The Return Of The Luncher
News He was referring to the major IT news of the week. Microsoft not buying BT, new top-level Internet domain names, AST UK bisecting itself
[February 7, 1998, 6:00]
Insider Dealings: All The Gossip That's Fit To Read
News Xerox kicked off the Luncher's week by announcing it's taking on HP in printers. The Luncher found out later it had been written by a PR man who hadn't even met Thomin. I had a chat with IBM to get an idea of what he's like, and how he talks," he...
[October 4, 1997, 8:00]
Insider Dealings: All The Gossip That's Fit To Read
News Early this week, the Luncher mooched around the ECTS games trade show, at London's Olympia, blagging free beers and hogging the consoles. Mid-week, the Luncher caught the red eye early morning plane to meet Acer in Amsterdam.
[September 13, 1997, 8:00]
Insider Dealings: All The Gossip That's Fit To Read
News Never rains but it pours, mused The Luncher as he slumped redux at the bar of his favourite pub. As one of them told The Luncher recently, "Yeah, it's true: they don't like us, we don't like them. A mystery bug seemed to have rendered The Luncher...
[September 6, 1997, 8:00]
Insider Dealings: All The Gossip That's Fit To Read
News Naturally, the Luncher pleaded ignorance. The Luncher learned that firewall firm Raptor's revenues were only $4m, with unknown losses, when it floated, valued at a humungous $350m. At a Mayfair press conference this week, an NC evangelist enthused...
[August 23, 1997, 8:00]
Insider Dealings: All The Gossip That's Fit To Read
News The Netscape job was just a chance for him to play up the big bad demon Microsoft thing,' a friend told the Luncher over a pint of Guinness in Soho's White Horse where anorexic supermodels mingle with local artisans and ne'er-do-wells.
[September 27, 1997, 8:00]
Insider Dealings: All The Gossip That's Fit To Read
News After all, The Luncher knows two Microsoft Research scholars who can't stand the sight of Big Green's software. everyone kept asking The Luncher. The poor chap was only just getting over paying £2.50 per pint of Guinness in his new office local...
[October 11, 1997, 8:00]
Insider Dealings: All The Gossip That's Fit To Read
News Sipping Compaq's white wine at the Penthouse suite of the Dorchester, the Luncher noted the Texans were about to step on the toes of new found friend Tandem with its set of mission critical servers. Not long ago it was lauded as the company that...
[August 15, 1997, 16:20]
Martin Veitch's Diary
News Have a drink with The Luncher - he drinks more Guinness than I write news stories. Who knows the truth but it's certainly the case that Digital boss Bob Palmer is one mean hombre and knows the value of a dollar.
[October 11, 1997, 8:00]
