“It makes a lot of sense, I think, for us to stipulate that we won’t do things that we both agree are wrong. From our side, we won’t do those things, we haven’t done those things, and therefore there’s no difference carrying forward.”
— During a conference call to discuss its $1.25 billion settlement with AMD, Intel CEO Paul Otellini says that by agreeing to abide by a set of “business practice provisions” Intel isn’t doing anything that it wasn’t doing already.
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size. 11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
