April Fool Gags Click

This year, Infosys plans to gift $1 mn, a Toshiba notebook,

and a foreign trip to all its employees on completing 25 years of existence!

This snippet of information, which was posted on Wikipedia until a few days ago,

has been doing the rounds through email forwards.

The posting, which may have been an April Fool's Day

prank, has been removed from Wikipedia. An Infosys spokesperson laughed away the

rather generous claim saying, “Its not true.”

Now, it looks like someone at Wikipedia also woke up to the rumor. A

search for Infosys on Wikipedia now throws up this message: “As a result of

recent vandalism, editing of this page by new or unregistered users is

temporarily disabled. Changes can be discussed on the talk page, or you can

request unprotection.”

While on the topic of April Fool's gags, search company

Google, which has been launching new products and services regularly, announced

Google Romance, a heart-warming new service for singles ready to mingle on All

Fool's day. The company even issued a press release that said: “Google

Romance is a new product that offers users both a psychographic matchmaking

service and all-expenses-paid dates for couples who agree to experience

contextually relevant advertising throughout the course of their evening.”

The new service also had an appropriate tagline that said:

“When you think about it, love is just another search problem.” The beta

release is still available at www.google.com/romance.

Unsuspecting, love-hungry users realized the hoax when they tried to post their

profile. Google had a hearty laugh over the hoax and said, 'Romance Not

Found!'

OpenOffice had a shocker of an announcement on April 1st.

It claimed that Bill Gates had bought OpenOffice in a deal worth billions of

dollars. The reason for Gates' decision: “He was sick and tired of

open-source eating away at his profits, and so the world's richest man decided

to put an end to the nuisance and simply buy OpenOffice.org.”

Who says techies lack a sense of humor?

Priya Padmanabhan,

CyberMedia News



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