NEWS.com.au | PeopleSoft tackled over $28m blowout (June 29, 2004): BUILDING materials company Crane Group is trying to negotiate a settlement with software vendor PeopleSoft after 'significant cost and time overruns' in its ERP implementation, including a $28.8 million budget blow-out. Big is not necessarily better. Plus, delivering the product does not always mean success - if people lose jobs to pay for it, the business has not had an overall benefit.
NEWS.com.au | New spam laws ignored (June 30, 2004): '(Marketers) think of spam as junk emails. They don't see email marketing or public relations as falling neatly into (the definition of) spam.' ....which is amazing, really. They don't think spam emails and junk emails are the same thing?! Idiots.
NEWS.com.au | Snap pay for barely Barbie (June 30, 2004): An artist who photographs undressed Barbie dolls with kitchen equipment as a comment on the subservient role of women has been awarded legal fees of $US1.8 million ($2.5 million) after toymaker Mattel lost a five-year legal attempt to stop him. ... The judge said the case should act as a warning to companies who tried to intimidate individuals over minor infringements of copyright. Wow, the right of the artist wins over the right of the corporation...!
FOX SPORTS | League | Tallis gets all clear (June 30, 2004). In classic Fox Sports style, this article is actually mostly about contracts being signed at the Broncos (Lockyer is signed up for the rest of his career!). Good news, pity about the shithouse journalism.
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