While companies like to put their best face on show when it comes to advertising when it comes to behind the scenes they can be a nasty sneaky bunch.
What are some of the cheap tricks you know (or think you know) that companies have employed to get a leg up on the competition that could only be described at best as... "underhand".
Here in the UK as USB modem dongles were becoming more and more popular, one of the major mobile providers realised that no one had patented the term "Dongle"... so they did.
And then they issued legal warnings to the other major providers warning them that legal action would be taken against anyone trying to use their term without authorisation.
There was a lot of arguing behind the scenes and eventually a compromise was reached but nobody threw any stones in the press because nobody wanted to look bad.
What stuff do you guys know about?