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Newswireless Net fails to produce April 1st story

Faced with the excellence of rival Web sites, our Editors have decided to spike April Fool stories for this year.

You can't really e-compete with "Experts at the Juvenile Obesity Knowledge and Education Unit" which, according to the BBC has evidence that "children are fatter because they prefer to play computer games and watch TV rather than get out and exercise," and that this is slowing the rotation of the planet down.

And The Inquirer - now The Rogister, at least for a day, has been taken over by Carly: "The point is execution. Which is why I'm an honorary fellow of the London Business School, a director of the Kellogg Company, and now the proprietor of the INQUIRER, under its new name."

The Fresh Meat take is spookily similar to some real events in the IT world; who's the fool, the fool, or the one who follows him?

So NewsWireless Net and Guy Kewney's Mobile Campaign have thrown in the towel, and will not run the story about BT deciding that there are enough ADSL exchanges, or about NTL not having enough money to see out the day, or about wireless Ethernet access points being used to re-heat snacks. At least one of those must be true, and our reporters have decided that today isn't the day to try to work out which.

But we don't believe that Carly is behind the new title of the Inquirer. We think that's Mad Mike Magee again ... unless, of course, it's true?