Keep your spying under wraps…

High jinks and low cunning aboard the Canberra. The Diary hears that while G-Force exhibitor Julie Hart was away from her stand at the Marketing Forum, rivals at HP:ICM began rewriting the rules of competitive advantage.

The HP:ICM boys were seemingly engaged in a touch of industrial espionage before being caught red-handed over Hart’s notebook PC by a suspicious delegate. Could this be a new and unorthodox approach to data capture in event production?

HP:ICM business development director David Hurst claims there is a perfectly innocent explanation.

“The lid of the PC just happened to slip open and we simply pressed a couple of buttons,” he says lamely.

Sounds entirely plausible, boys.

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