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The five most spurious Valentine's Day press releases

By Rich Trenholm on 13 February 2009, 3:19pm

1: SpinVox

The product: Voice-to-text service SpinVox.
The pitch: Spinvox is a service that converts your voicemails to text and sends them to you by SMS or email. Rather than trying to explain exactly what the point of that is, Spinvox has opted to send out a release telling the world that "two thirds of men (65 per cent) are planning to make significant cuts in spending this Valentine's Day." C-c-c-call the cops! Apparently spending cuts translates to writing poetry, so SpinVox has "teamed up with Christopher Mulvey, emeritus professor of English at the University of Winchester to provide a helpful five-step guide for wannabe Wordsworths who don't know where to start." Well done, Chris: that's one in the eye for anyone who says an English degree won't ever pay off.
The kiss-off: This is what Outlook filters are for, frankly.

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