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Las Vegas at 100: Why it's tech's kind of town
Comment The town's inception was to prove monumental but only facilitated by two events some 26 years later - the legalisation of gambling in Nevada and the building of the Hoover Dam as it is now known - both of which began in... [16 May 2005]
Public sector left behind as banks hoover up contractors
News If you're a contractor, you're now more likely to be working in financial services than the public sector, new research has found. The public sector, historically the biggest employer of temporary IT staff, has now ceded top spot to the... [24 Jan 2005]
Leader: Blackberrys and iPods - Hoover brands
Leader Both have become Hoover-like brands, defining and representing a whole category. December is the time of year not just for reviews of the past 12 months - and silicon.com is guilty as charged on that front - but when... [22 Dec 2004]
BT hits back at free flight delay claims
News When the initial delays hit the BT offer there were comparisons to the Hoover free-flights debacle in the 1990s when customers who spent over £100 were offered two free transatlantic flights - up to 100,000 people didn't... [05 Oct 2004]
Post Office blamed over free BT flight offer delays
News The situation has been compared to the infamous Hoover offer of the early 1990s when many people struggled to get a free flight to America. Rise Travel, the company handling BT's offer of free flights for new broadband... [10 Sep 2004]
BT free flights giveaway to boost broadband take-off
News BT must also avoid repeating the experience of Hoover, which in the early 1990s ran a promotion where anyone who spent more than £100 on a Hoover product got a free flight to America. But the promotion... [12 May 2004]
Microsoft backpedals on MikeRoweSoft threats
News Robertson gives Hoover as an example of a trademark that has become a generic word: "If you or I talk about hoovering our house, that is not an issue, but if Electrolux talks about hoovering, that is an issue," he said. [20 Jan 2004]
The silicon.com Weekly Round-Up: 30.05.03
Comment What if the cleaner unplugs the wrong lead when looking for a socket for the hoover? Jeff Goldblum is best known for three things: his voiceovers in the Apple ads, his long running Holsten Pils campaign and his portrayal... [30 May 2003]
Why Centrino really is big news
Comment They're also recognisable by having one eye on the approach of any Hoover-wielding cleaners. Walk around the departure lounges of a lot of airports these days and amidst the crying toddlers, holiday-makers and crashed... [13 Mar 2003]
eBoys serialisation - parts I to IV
News Serialisation: eBoys - Part 4 - Hoover Dam http://www.silicon.com/a52595 The anecdotes, the gambles, the billions and the bungles. All the excerpts, in one place. Serialisation: eBoys - Part 1 - Go Big or Go Home ... [11 Apr 2002]
Serialisation: eBoys - Part 4 - Hoover Dam
Comment This final excerpt from eBoys, the fly-on-the-wall story of the Benchmark Capital team, ends on the prospects for Webvan. Will it be worth $100bn or zero? See the end for that, and a chance to buy the book. [11 Apr 2002]
McNealy accuses IBM of 'fleecing' customers
News Speaking at the launch of Sun's latest server offering in New York, McNealy said: "IBM's strategy goes something like: 'If you've got a wallet, we've got a hoover. Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems' chairman and CEO, has... [26 Sep 2001]
Prize-winning UK start-up goes to the wall
News The company designed websites for French Connection, Hoover, Panasonic, Tango and the new Volkswagen Beetle. Deepgroup, parent company to multi-award winning web design agency Deepend, has gone into sudden liquidation,... [25 Sep 2001]
Hackers tear apart US sites - FBI issues public warning
News FBI officers claim that the expertise needed to exploit vulnerabilities in Windows NT yielded huge dividends, allowing hackers to hoover up enormous amounts of detailed information. The revelation emerged after a... [30 Mar 2001]
Virgin on the ridiculous? Well actually, no
Comment Certainly it failed to cover itself in glory over unmetered access - when its ntlworld service creaked into action in April, 131 customers complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (twice as many, incidentally, as those who... [30 Jul 2000]
