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By Tony Hallett, 25 October 2002 14:00

NEWS "I can now go for redundancy knowing I'll be financially secure."
Airport worker Michelle Black - P45 looming - on her record-breaking online casino win.
http://www.silicon.com/a56075 "I use a Blackberry and I can tell you that nothing has changed the way I work so much since I first picked up a mobile phone."
Charles Dunstone, CEO, Carphone Warehouse. See: http://www.silicon.com/a56104 for his thoughts on Vodafone. "We've already had an earthquake and storms this week, which have caused minor damage, but now this."
Malcolm Greenaway, director of IT and internet firm Aquae Vitae and silicon.com reader about arson attacks affecting BT's network in Manchester. See: http://www.silicon.com/a56074 "Some analyst firms, people like Jupiter and Forrester, did get too carried away [during the late 1990s boom]. It seemed like they were predicting every 'e' market would be worth a trillion dollars in five years."
Dale Kutnick, Meta Group founder and co-research director. See: http://www.silicon.com/a56097 "It's a big risk for them. They open up the file format, open up the data feed, open up the template format, and somebody can make a cheaper Office or a better Office. They're going to lose that lock on the file format they've had for 15 years."
Forrester Research analyst Ted Schadler on the new version of Office. "In the absence of Symbian products, they seem to be delivering quite a few press releases."
Ed Suwanjindar, a product manager for Microsoft's mobile division, downplays the Samsung/Symbian licensing deal. See: http://www.silicon.com/a56045 "The research identified some unusual patterns. For example, although IT issues were the number one reason given by CEOs for loss of sleep, the CIO is much more pessimistic about both the importance of their role, and the likelihood of failure. If the CEO knew how the CIO felt, then they probably wouldn't get any sleep at all."
Mark Slater, UK general manager at Serena Software. See: http://www.silicon.com/a56103