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News The best included a home DVD recording that definitely shouldn't have been broadcast at a family birthday party, an email blunder involving the sender's wife, a text insult to a follicly challenged baldy and a smutty... [11 Feb 2008]
HMRC data blunder to sink ID cards?
News There was also shock that the post was used to transfer the data, rather than a secure digital method of file transfer. The news two CDs containing the confidential personal details of 25 million child benefit recipients... [22 Nov 2007]
Heads roll at AOL after search data blunder
News Meanwhile, John McKinley, who is president of AOL Digital Services and served as chief technology officer from 2003 to 2005, will step in as interim CTO until a permanent replacement is found, AOL said. [22 Aug 2006]
Apple "fiasco" leaves customers out of pocket
News The fact Apple still offered the same camera elsewhere on its site led many to believe the company had actually cancelled the sales because the offer price was a blunder. Angry customers have rounded on Apple over its... [06 Jan 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.01.06
Round-Up The other, more reasoned defence of Apple is of course that there will have been shoppers who knew the price was too good to be true and looked to exploit it (some have since admitted trying to buy one for themselves "and one for eBay")... [06 Jan 2006]
Leader: Bungling Apple must explain itself
Leader Two years on we've seen Argos repeat its blunder and yesterday we saw Apple refuse to honour sales of a digital camera advertised at just under £100 which normally retails at closer to £600. There are of... [05 Jan 2006]
Apple pricing 'blunder' caught on camera
News Plus: Read our leader on Apple's camera pricing blunder. A number of customers shopping for a great bargain in the January sales thought they had found just that when they saw an Olympus digital camera... [04 Jan 2006]
Blunder in Word shows government terror doubts
News Fantuzzi said it is all the more incredible that this latest blunder shows the government didn't learn from the red faces it suffered over the infamous dodgy dossier. Steve Gottwals, senior product manager at Adobe, told... [16 Sep 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.02.05
Round-Up But Campbell has proven a Teflon opponent for any mudslingers in the past and has displayed more 'bouncebackability' than a whole 'dogfight' of Premiership football managers (to coin a new collective noun), so it's likely he'll come... [11 Feb 2005]
Blair's buddy Campbell commits potty-mouthed email blunder
News Tony Blair's former spin doctor-in-chief Alastair Campbell has committed a stunning digital blunder which saw him fire off a four-letter tirade in error to a journalist at the BBC. However, Campbell... [09 Feb 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.01.05
Round-Up But while most of us have suffered such tech glitches at no worse a moment than a presentation to a small group, Jobs was speaking live to hundreds of journalists and industry figures.and Mac fanatics who probably erased the... [14 Jan 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.02.04
Round-Up And finally this week, a spectacular party political digital blunder from the Liberal Democrats - the party that likes to click 'send' and then shriek "Oh buggery and damnation! Informed, media-friendly... [27 Feb 2004]
Digital blunder exposes 'dirty tricks' in RFID war
News A leading US retail trade group has been forced to apologise to an RFID activist after it mistakenly sent her an internal email about how it was trying to dig up her "juicy past" to use against her. A Grocery Manufacturers of America... [12 Jan 2004]
€28 PCs for sale in Dell web pricing blunder
News Dell has revealed that a pricing blunder at its Irish online store led to it inadvertently selling PCs for €100 or less. Last year in the UK, Kodak sold a number of digital cameras to consumers at an... [28 Nov 2003]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.10.03
Round-Up The lawyers surely couldn't commit the same blunder again. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a lobby group defending digital rights online, has leapt to the defence of the beleaguered web... [17 Oct 2003]
