[News] [Rival] Microsoft Buddies Spread the iPhone FUD; Promotional 'Articles' for Microsoft

[Roy Schestowitz]

Gartner: Businesses should be wary of iPhone

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| Analyst Gartner claims the iPhone could "punch a hole" through
| corporate security systems if workers are allowed to use the
| phone for work purposes.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6193856.html

See links below. IDC did this too. Here in Britain, one telephone company drew
a correlation between VoIP and terrorism. Microsoft, meanwhile, put labels on
Free software supporters and companies as well.

Have a look at C|Net any day.

Yuck. The media is filled with promotional Microsoft placements for 'servers'
and HPC. It's not even shown as adverts, but instead it appears to be
disguised as articles (just 'placements'). Terrible stuff. Blogs can't be
trusted either because Microsoft bribes bloggers.

Related:

Has IDC got the wrong number for iPhone?

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| IDC has poured cold water on Apple's iPhone just days after a previous survey
| led M:Metrics to talk up the new entry to the cellphone stakes. But are the
| new numbers sound?  
|
| [...]
|
| The most obvious difference is in the sample size. M:Metrics had
| 11,060 respondents, IDC just 456. The sample space was also different,
| with M:Metrics apparently sampling from mobile phone subscribers, while
| IDC looked at online mobile phone shoppers.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13036&Itemid=1054

IDC pronounces Linux unimportant to European economy

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34542

NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories

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| Part of the problem stems from the reticence of companies such as
| IDC and Gartner to reveal their clients. That should make everyone
| nervous, but it doesn't. So called objective technology publications
| keep publishing material bought by vendors without telling you this.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/15/nytimes_ms_ban/

See the article in full. IDC and Gartner are _very_ close to Microsoft.

[Mark Kent]

Roy Schestowitz <newsg...@schestowitz.com> espoused:

> Gartner: Businesses should be wary of iPhone
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Analyst Gartner claims the iPhone could "punch a hole" through
>| corporate security systems if workers are allowed to use the
>| phone for work purposes.
> `----
>
> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6193856.html
>
> See links below. IDC did this too. Here in Britain, one telephone company drew
> a correlation between VoIP and terrorism. Microsoft, meanwhile, put labels on
> Free software supporters and companies as well.

There is a genuine reason why this is done, though, which is about the
requirements of most governments to do "legal intercept". They're well
geared up to do this on mobile and fixed line telephone networks, and
also a well geared up for inspecting emails and such like on ISP's
networks, however, internet voice calls arbitrarily set up between
points are much more difficult for them to track, perhaps even near
impossible if the right kind of encryption is used.

>
> Have a look at C|Net any day.
>
> Yuck. The media is filled with promotional Microsoft placements for 'servers'
> and HPC. It's not even shown as adverts, but instead it appears to be
> disguised as articles (just 'placements'). Terrible stuff. Blogs can't be
> trusted either because Microsoft bribes bloggers.
>

Microsoft have brought competition to a new low, for sure.

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