teh Phantom goes poof???

**Mzo** · 18 Sep 2003, 11:33 AM

Maybe people can use it as an emulator and run Linux on it.

**epmode** · 18 Sep 2003, 12:37 PM

that's a great article, by the way. well-researched. the ceo is sleazy^2.

**PKBMax** · 18 Sep 2003, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by epmode

that's a great article, by the way. well-researched. the ceo is sleazy^2.

That article was quite naive if you ask me.

Why should it suprise anyone that a CEO has worked with several companies that failed? This is the norm, not the exception. It's also common sense that executives attach themselves to high profile positions in their relatives' companies without actually doing any work.

This is hardly a newsflash. Anyone who thought business worked otherwise needs to wake up.

FX · 18 Sep 2003, 01:38 PM

Welcome to last year.

I can't believe some of you actually thought it was a legitimate system.

Gullible.

**Videodrone** · 18 Sep 2003, 01:55 PM

i can't believe that some still think this is real.
props to that design team, way to draw attention to themselves.

**Blaine** · 18 Sep 2003, 02:00 PM

Slashdot has a new article today:

http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/07/09/2042207.shtml

I don't know if I think it's real or fake or whatever.

All I know is I think it's stupid. And that, my friends, is all that really matters.

**epmode** · 18 Sep 2003, 02:24 PM

Originally Posted by PBMaX

That article was quite naive if you ask me.

naive or no, the phantom's future isn't exactly promising. note the repeated insistence that the phantom is being worked on at a non-existant office, and the fact that infinium's only public mailing address is a po box. circumstantial, but telling.

while it's true that the majority of new buisinesses fail, there's other interesting information in the article. namely, the bit about eMed Hire.

According to Mr. Roberts' resume, he is currently the Director of the Missouri based eMed Hire.

Emedhire, LLC
Director 2000-current

According to Mr. Roberts' website, this company is owned by his mother Lora Roberts. Mr. Roberts is the registered contact on the eMed Hire website, as shown below.

A few months ago we called the offices of eMed Hire at the number listed on the contact page (1-866-363-3447) and spoke to a woman who identified herself as Laura Roberts. When we called, we asked to speak with Tim Roberts, the Director of the company. The woman politely corrected us and let us know that Lora Roberts (not to be confused with Laura Roberts) was the director of eMed Hire and Tim Roberts was Lora's son. I asked her again, explaining that I had believed Tim Roberts was Director of eMed Hire, and she again replied that he was not and added that he does not even live in the same state as the company.

Within the last two weeks, we called the same number and again spoke to a woman who introduced herself as Laura Roberts. We let her know that we were doing an article on Infinium Labs and that we would like to speak to Mr. Roberts. This time the woman's story was different and she referred to Mr. Roberts as the co-director of the company. We asked again to speak to Mr. Roberts, but the woman on the phone claimed she had no contact information whatsoever for Mr. Roberts. No e-mail address, no phone number, nothing. When we asked why she didn’t have any contact information for the Director of the company she worked for, she told us that he frequently changed phone numbers and that she did not have available his latest contact information.

shady^2.