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Speaking in Tech: The worst PR in the tech industry

Huawei PR woot

Huawei hired the Propaganda Ministry who paid a lot of bribes to prominent lawmakers - problem solved.

Intel's chief chipman: '22nm better than expected, 14nm on track'

Re: Gullible hacks...

Why does Intel keep adding cores when the performance increase is so minor, like 5%? Any more than 8 cores is utterly pointless without a complete design review of the bottlenecks in the Intel architecture.

Champagne at CSIRO after WiFi patent settlement

Re: Greenback

Somebody please tell the book industry that the loonie and the buck are equal. On book covers they print vastly inflated prices for the Canadian dollar price.

Huawei banned from Australia’s NBN: reports

Downer as Mr Fixit

Yeah.. would that work. NOT!!!!!

Kim Dotcom seizures 'null and void'

NZ is US colony, FBI can do what it likes

It shows how the NZ authorities care less about rights of their own citizens than the opinions of the FBI, who had a plane to catch apparently.

HP's Whitman suggests Googorola may close Android

How Meg got her swagga back

1.9 million stock options would do it. I don't think she's that into webos

Sony confirms 'tough-minded' Hirai as new CEO, president

April Fool's Joke?

This is the guy who's in charge of the PS3 which has been completely neglected 4 years in a row, part of the cabal that has shrunk Sony to nothing, and now we hear he's being promoted April 1st? Surely its a good joke. There really is a plan to turn around Sony this century?

Former RIM Indonesia chief faces negligence charge over stampede

zero dollar RIM not exciting

I agree with YAAC, the market was not excited even when RIM recently wrote off their stock of Playbooks at zero, so half-off doesnt seem a bargain at all.

Jokes aside, my sympathies to those injured by some insensitive expats,

Pirated software hard drive on display as art

Waiting for Version 2.0

Is there no 0-day warez on it?

Seagate's Luczo: 'Expect a year of misery'

Vendors say 'watercooled', not 'soggy' drives

Why not convert a catastrophe into a plus? Drives with the 'optimal hydration' perhaps? or 'water cooled'? but not soggy , please!

China fires up homegrown petaflops super

low! power! without! Intel!

OMG, you mean SJ was right about power hog Intel not listening to the low power tune?

Rupert's MySpace mea culpa

Silly old codger!

His nepotism also screwed up myspace.cn, which was even cheaper way to make money.

HP dumps Apotheker for Whitman

Apotheker maybe EU President next?

Looks like the EU is going to take a dive, maybe -40% just like at HP and SAP

Forget China and India, Sweden is tech's superpower

Re: Readiness index?

Networking is practically a monopoly, and Canada will be ready for a modern internet experience when Rogers says it will be.

Mummy, mummy, there's a nuclear monster!

TEPCO high energy sports drink -now with Strontium90!

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TheReg's talent for understatement is really being stretched on this Fukushima story.

The cost to Japan's economy is only one or two trillion bucks, its nothing really.

-- insert TEPCO ad here --

Huawei invites US gov to investigate links to Chinese military claims

Huawei doth protest too much, methinks

Too much outrage, definitely. Who's doing their PR on this, Timothy Geithner?