The Bivings Group, a PR company contracted to Monsanto, invented fake citizens to post messages on internet listservers. These phantoms had launched a campaign to force Nature magazine to retract a paper it had published, alleging that native corn in Mexico had been contaminated with GM pollen
OzEmail has announced plans to launch its OzEdsl service, following a small-scale trial of its new broadband service which has been running since 20 May
Lindows has announced that a Seattle Judge has denied Microsoft’s appeal to shut them down, citing that Microsoft’s own use of evidence helped determined Windows
is a generic word
The full report, from Business2WWW and Interactive Bureau/Porter Research, isn’t due out until later this year. But some pre-released material warns that companies are spending large amounts of money on web sites that don’t work and are difficult to use
Microsoft could have to make radical changes to meet European regulatory concerns, changes that go well beyond what is being demanded of it in the US
The ACCC has called for a review of the Trade Practices Act to consider jail terms for executives found guilty of collusion
Microsoft was convicted of software piracy by a French court last year. The company was fined three million francs in damages and interest for violation of intellectual property because of the illegal inclusion of another company’s proprietary source code in SoftImage 3D, an animation package
World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc dropped its name on Monday and put down the famous logo. The new name will be World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE. The company said that the change was due in part to a losing battle with the World Wildlife Fund over the use of the initials and it more firmly entrenches the entertainment as violent theatre versus actual sport
Corporations can be found liable for deceptive advertising if they make misleading public statements about their operations and conduct. In its 4-3 decision, the California Supreme Court said Nike and other corporations are not protected by the First Amendment when they present as fact statements about their labour policies or company operations in advertisements, press releases, letters to the editor or public statements
Nokia won’t match compensation given to Australian owners of faulty 8210 handsets for neighbouring consumers in Asia
Bad software-buying decisions are costing Australian businesses millions of dollars a year. The losses are greater when the deployment of software fails to deliver the expected benefits
Nokia Australia has moved to appease angry customers and the NSW Department of Fair Trading after the mobile phone maker admitted to selling defective handsets to consumers
The ACCC has taken court action against domain name reseller Internet Name Group, alleging misleading and deceptive conduct. auDA has suspended ING’s provisional accreditation following the ACCC’s announcement that it is taking legal action against the company in the Federal Court
Increasing demand since the late 1980s and successful campaigns to rid farmlands of plague-proportion wild rabbits by introducing the rabbit calicivirus disease have forced Akubra to import pelts from Europe
The retarded monkey boy suffered a double-edged loss in the Senate yesterday over drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Lawmakers for the first time delivered a stinging rebuke to a core item in his domestic agenda, and his defeat was engineered by three of his potential Democratic challengers in 2004
A coalition of governments, businesses and public interest groups last week launched a global campaign to encourage companies to issue public reports on their impact on society and the environment. The Global Reporting Initiative is aimed at elevating such non-financial reporting
to the same level as the reports that public companies around the world periodically issue on their financial health
Some insurance companies recognise certain breeds of dogs as threatening, which causes homeowners problems in buying policies
In a perfect world, a list of the the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business would not exist. In a perfect world, businesses would be run with the utmost integrity and competence. But ours is, alas, an imperfect world, and if we must live in one where Enron, Geraldo Rivera, and Cottonelle Fresh Rollwipes exist, the least we can do is catalogue the absurdities
ComAURegister, a company that misled small businesses into believing it dealt with Internet domain name registrations, will be forced to cough up customer refunds, retract false information and contribute to legal fees, following action in Federal Court, Brisbane
Amazon.com said Wednesday that it has settled its long-running patent-infringement suit against Barnes&Noble.com over its 1-Click checkout system. The details of the settlement were not disclosed
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