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Telecom Italia shows startling honesty

Press release headline of the day

Drew Cullen

Tue 6 Aug 2002 // 15:29 UTC

Today we received a press release by email with the following headline.

Subject: Telecom Italia reduces operational efficiency by up to 20% using Micromuse based solution

The amend came shortly afterwards. Should have been 'increased'. We still haven't read the release. ®

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