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• Ambulance follows GPS 200 miles in the wrong direction
  Monday 4 December 2006 – 09:10
  We all know the pitfalls of blindly following your GPS navigation without doing a reality check, but a British ambulance crew must have broken a world record. The ambulance blindly followed their GPS system 200 miles the wrong way while ferrying a patient from the King George Hospital in Ilford to the Mascalls Park Hospital near Brentwood.
• Where Intel went wrong with layoffs - analyst opinion
  Thursday 7 September 2006 – 03:57
  This week Intel announced they were going to layoff over 10,000 workers and, strangely enough, the stock market reacted negatively to this news. This may have been one of the biggest blunders for a company having a great deal of difficulty this year.
• What Intel did wrong
  Thursday 5 October 2000 – 06:16
  PC World has produced a fascinating and relatively concise chronicle of what it calls the worst mistake Intel ever made.
• Compaq cops to posting wrong CPU info
  Saturday 6 February 1999 – 05:58
  Compaq has admitted to publishing misleading information on its Web site regarding the processor used in its Presario home notebook PC.
• Microsoft reminds Halo 3 fans that cheating is wrong
  Friday 2 November 2007 – 09:53 in Gaming
  With Halo 3 online in full swing, Microsoft is reminding users that any sort of tampering with the legitimacy of the game will result in a no-refund account closure
• Baby Dies After VOIP 911 Call Sends Ambulance To Wrong City
  Thursday 8 May 2008 – 10:30 in Networking
  An 18-month old toddler in Calgary, Canada, died after it took two ambulances 40 minutes to get to him after the VOIP phone used to make the call mislead the emergency services.
• Sony's crapware incident: The right idea gone terribly wrong
  Tuesday 25 March 2008 – 11:50
  Opinion - Given by the speed Sony reacted to the outrage over the company’s fee for removing crapware from one of its notebooks, I am pretty sure that the marketing folks are still trying to figure out what hit them...
• BBC airs 'expert' Apple analysis from man mistaken for pundit
  Tuesday 16 May 2006 – 08:14
  From CNN