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The Weekly Round-Up: 04.05.07

Round-Up The Round-Up is guessing his parents weren't the most imaginative souls, yet their failure to come up with a first name unique from their son's first name didn't stop young Griffith Griffith charting new territories and setting out for the wild... [04 May 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.03.07

Round-Up But when an email from Microsoft appears on the cyber horizon Outlook gets all 'your name's not down, you're not coming in'. Example one: Imagine the Round-Up's surprise when, perusing its junk mail folder in Outlook, it discovered an email that... [09 Mar 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 02.03.07

Round-Up Once the Sky channels were taken off air Virgin Media changed the name of Sky News to 'Sky Snooze - try BBC' and Sky Sports News to 'Old Sky Sports Snooze'. Neither party has emerged with any credit though the Round-Up can't help thinking Sky... [02 Mar 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 15.09.06

Round-Up Meanwhile, if you want your name to appear in the Weekly Round-Up send in your daft tales and quotes (preferably with an IT angle). A couple of years back one of the show's skits lampooned Apple CEO Steve Jobs for releasing and evangelising ever... [15 Sep 2006]

Weekly Round-Up: 30.06.06

Round-Up Imagine the Round-Up's surprise when during a moment of abject boredom this week (or Ukraine v Switzerland, to give it its proper name) some channel hopping on the television uncovered a rather magnificent gem of information right where you would... [30 Jun 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 20.01.06

Round-Up Apparently Chris Taylor, a computer programmer from Leeds, was alerted to his girlfriend's infidelity when his pet parrot, who shared their home, started to betray the name of Suzy Collins' secret 'bit on the side'. [20 Jan 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 25.11.05

Round-Up And there is nowhere we could start other than with Adobe whose name was dragged through the tabloid mud this week with revelations about a night out for their UK sales team, which has seen one female employee winning a £50,000 payout from an... [25 Nov 2005]

The Weekly Round-Up: 22.07.05

Round-Up What if I told you I can name everybody in the Ravenclaw quidditch team? Though the IT crowd does seem to suspect magic is involved in there somewhere, because they're all name dropping Harry Potter like it's going out of fashion. [22 Jul 2005]

The Weekly Round-Up: 27.05.05

Round-Up And except where the awfully contrived spelling of 'fone' in the name is concerned, who are we to argue with Retrofone? Retrofone offers many of our favourite handsets from yesteryear and upon quizzing by the Round-Up ('Yes, but battery life is... [27 May 2005]

The Weekly Round-Up: 04.03.05

Round-Up However, the Round-Up knows better than to criticise the Beeb too heavily as silicon.com readers tend to get fiercely protective whenever Auntie's name comes up.so heaven only knows quite what you lot will make of 'Brussels' telling the BBC what... [04 Mar 2005]

The Weekly Round-Up: 05.11.04

Round-Up For example, the silicon.com virtual postbag received an email from a firm called The Ideal Marketing Company - which is a bold name to live up to. Our reader, who also reported the alleged abuse to SpamCop, wrote: "At the end of last week... [08 Nov 2004]

The Weekly Round-Up: 24.09.04

Round-Up For the record the name of Dr Lecter had been changed to Dr Quinn.presumably NOT the Medicine Woman of the same name. Yeah, those legal reasons would be called "copyright" and "theft" - the Round-Up is pretty sure that's some legalese we're all... [24 Sep 2004]

The Weekly Round-Up: 14.05.04

Round-Up Buchan studies English at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon - which the Round-Up mentions for no other reason than the fact that it's probably the funniest University and place name combination ever. [14 May 2004]

The Weekly Round-Up: 21.11.03

Round-Up Those who went for 'my first pet's name' should have been fine.those who opted for 'surname of the Chelsea manager? First stop Paris where the largest credit card companies in the world were convening to talk chip and PIN and card security at the... [21 Nov 2003]

The Weekly Round-Up: 22.08.03

Round-Up Scanning the list of culprits, the Round-Up's eye was drawn to the name of Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida and big brother of justly elected President George Dubya. While wondering what the Dickens 'cyberstumping' is, the Round-Up was shocked to... [22 Aug 2003]

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