2006's "101 Dumbest Moments In Business"

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»2006\'s \"101 Dumbest Moments In Business\"

Great read on <a href="http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0701/gallery.101dumbest_2007/index.html?cnn=yes">CNN's news site</a>. Here's a couple of tech related screw ups that caught my eye...

"In August, McDonald's runs a promotional contest in Japan in which it gives away 10,000 Mickey D's-branded MP3 players. The gadgets come preloaded with 10 songs - and, in some cases, a version of the QQPass family of Trojan horse viruses, which, when uploaded to a PC, seeks to capture passwords, user names, and other data and then forward them to hackers. "

"Defects in batteries made by Sony for portable computing cause a handful of notebooks to burst into spectacularly photogenic flames. The end result is the biggest computer-related recall ever, as Dell replaces the batteries in more than 4 million laptops. In short order, Apple (1.8 million), Lenovo/IBM (500,000), and others do the same. "

Here's to more idiocy in '07! I'm sure big business can top themselves.

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Sorry... #50.

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Mick Woods purchases a package of cooked ham made by British food processor H.R. Hargreaves & Son. After reviewing the complete list of ingredients, which includes "dog shit," he loses his appetite.

Hargreaves fires the employee responsible for the prank and begins a recall of the mislabeled packages.

Man, 50 is really great. I wonder what I would do if I saw that.

And yes, I often do read the ingredients on wrappers.