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August 6, 2007

speculation

Faux Google, Gizmodo, and the Engadget audit

Posted Aug. 6, ’07, 5:19 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Apple » Speculation

Tom Oliveri Lazy Sundays are the domain of a big fat newspaper and rumors. Ok, not so much the second thing, but yesterday, it was. In case you didn’t know, Google employs a man named Tom Oliveri as Product Marketing Manager. Believe it or not, there’s also an Australian kid with the same name. Unbelievable.

Anyway the second Tom sent major gadget blogs a “hot tip”. Here is the email.

Macbooks - no cosmetic changes will be getting santa rosa chips

mac mini will receive a stock 120gb HDD total form change, all brushed aluminum 15% smaller

and the iMacs will be, as rumored brushed aluminum

new ipods will be rolling around mid September

I will update you on our phone later this month ( one week prior to announcement )

Cheers Tom

Tom Oliveri, Google Product Marketing Manager www.google.com

Yeah. As much as I like Gizmodo, I have to ask. This didn’t set off any alarms? Misspelling and dropped uppercase characters sure as heck yell “fake” to me. They ran with it and later retracted it.

Meanwhile, Engadget (their main competition) caught wind of the incident and decided, sans outright naming Gizmodo, to call them out for not checking their sources well enough. Oh. There’s a phrase pushing to the front of my brain. Something about a pot and a kettle. At any rate, Engadget is in a position to lecture with their perfect record. Right.


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