Andrew Orlowski

Collected Journalism

Category: Stories

  • Google to mobile phone industry: ‘Fuck you very much!’

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    "It’s Google’s autistic approach to relationships," one senior phone exec told me this week. "They don’t know what hurt they’re doing, and they don’t care." It’s nothing personal, guys. Today, some of the biggest tech companies in the world, who thought they were Google’s closest partners, will begin to understand how, say, copyright holders have…

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  • Google abandons Search

    Google abandons Search

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    It’s hard to explain to people new to the web since 2004 – the Digg kids – the effect that Google had on the internet at the turn of the decade. They can’t conceive the Before and the After. Google was miraculous, and so much better than the competition that they effectively gave up trying…

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  • On Climategate

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    at The Register This piece originally had a much longer section summing up the state of climate “science” – which the CRU leak has verified. The peculiar nature of the problem is why anecdote and modelling play such an important part in the persuasion business. Scientific theories fall by the wayside when they fail to…

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  • SpinVox: it’s up for sale. Official

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    A minor SpinVox investor says the beleaguered voice-to-text services company is up for sale. Invesco Perpetual says it’s cashing out, and it’s written down its investment by 90 per cent. In a financial statement this week, Invesco disclosed: More disappointingly amongst the unquoted investments, since the year end, the Company’s holding in SpinVox, the voicemail…

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  • “And you shall know us by the trail of our debt…”

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    SpinVox has four months to repay a £30m loan to hedge fund Tisbury. SpinVox put up the company as collateral; the fund’s director John Botts is now SpinVox chairman; Tisbury has already acquired some SpinVox intellectual property. The disclosure that America’s highest flying businesswoman (2005-2008) Patricia Russo came and left was another Reg scoop this…

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  • SpinVox: Patricia Russo joins, quits almost immediately

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Exclusive A form filed on Friday with Companies House show that Russo was appointed as a director of SpinVox Limited on June 2, 2009. No announcement was made to the press at the time. However, yesterday Spinvox disclosed that Russo was no longer a director of the firm. Russo left on August 10. Russo became…

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