Senior Telstra Executive Quits
The controversial head of Telstra's communication division Dr Phil Burgess has quit and is returning to the USA.

CEDIA Australia Act Like Wallies
COMMENT: CEDIA Australia who are not the brightest guys off the block when it comes to PR and marketing have chosen to ban media from doing interviews on the CEDIA Expo show floor prior to the 2008 CEDIA Expo on the Gold Coast that is opening. This is not the first time that organisers have banned media from having access to vendors and new product information.

Fake Boobs And Story Stealing Land Fairfax Scribes In Hot Water
Fairfax journalists Vanda Carson and IT scribe Asher Moses have both found themselves in hot water recently, Carson for wrongly reporting that a former tech PR consultant Vivienne Dye had received a $20,000 payout for workplace bullying from her former employer Vodafone and had spent it on a "boob" job and Moses stands accused of ?Stealing? stories from other technology web sites.

Fake Boobs And Story Stealing Land Fairfax Scribes In Hot Water
Fairfax journalists Vanda Carson and IT scribe Asher Moses have both found themselves in hot water recently, Carson for wrongly reporting that a former tech PR consultant Vivienne Dye had received a $20,000 payout for workplace bullying from her former employer Vodafone and had spent it on a "boob" job and Moses stands accused of ?Stealing? stories from other technology web sites.

Weber Shandwick Screw Up First Job For Samsung
As exclusively reported by ChannelNews last month Samsung has officially flicked Edelman Public Relations and appointed Weber Shandwick. However Weber Shandwick appear to have little understanding of the technology and appliance channel with reseller news sites like Current and ChannelNews being deliberately isolated from the announcement of their appointment.

Siemens Sack PR Company As They Struggle To Get Traction
Siemens who late last bragged that they were set to become the #1 home phone vendor in Australia simply because they were ?European? up against Asian made brands like Uniden and Panasonic have sacked their public relations Company after only a few months and appointed an unknown Melbourne based Company Greta Donaldson Publicity in an effort to crank up exposure for the struggling European brand.

Edelman Decline To Re Pitch Samsung
Weber Shandwick is tipped to have snared the Samsung PR account following a review by recently appointed Samsung PR Manager Jesse James. Incumbent agency Edelman today resigned the account in light of a pending announcement of the new agency.

Three Tech PR Companies Facing Problems As BlueFreeway Freefalls
The Company that owns Spin Communications, Max Australia and Spectrum Communications all PR Companies that handle major technology clients has reported a $4 million dollar loss with directors now admitting that the Company Bluefreeway is up for sale.