Breaking
News -
1.
larta
Funded Over $5 Million
to Spin Off Research Arm
This
week larta secured over $5 million
in private and public investment to spin off
a separate, for-profit research division to
conduct objective analysis on the technology
industry.
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2.
White
House Technology Initiative a Success
Today,
White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer announced
that after extensive training, President Bush
finally understood what technology was. "After
two full day sessions of briefings and training
seminars, I am pleased to announce today that
the President understands technology," said
the gleaming Fleischer.
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3.
Sony
Product Owner Fatally Wounded
Aibo, the $2500 robotic dog released by Sony
in 1999 at the peak of the dot com boom, was
the premier toy for e-yuppies who wanted to
splurge a little of their newfound wealth.
A series of attacks have recently been reported
in Silicon Valley, Silicon Alley and West
LA areas, including a fatal assault upon a
laid off dot com executive in San Francisco.
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4. Foot
and Mouth Virus Traced Back to Source
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control
in London and US-based Symantec, who create
anti-virus software, have traced the source
of Britain's foot and mouth disease virus
to Microsoft's Outlook application, a popular
choice for spreading any virus rapidly. British
Prime Minister Tony Blair commended the team
for tracing the origins of the virus. "It's
good to know that an application we can normally
trust to propagate a virus as quickly as Outlook
has come through again."
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5.
Bezos
Suing Digiscents
When Jeff Bezos found out Amazon backers had
implemented a new Digiscents technology into
their conference calls, he wasn't happy when
the iSmell Bull*!@$ Personal Scent Synthesizer
interpreted and reproduced the aroma of bull
dung when the CEO talked about future profit
projections.
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6.
Employees
Auctioned on eBay
Gurus, some of whom commanded rather impressive
salaries in the past, are now going for starting
bids under $5. Failed start ups, Netscape
employees and shopping carts from e-tail sites
are now going for low figures unheard of a
year ago.
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