What can be the worst that can happen to anyone on April Fool’s Day? Well, making a fool out of themselves while trying to fool others comes pretty close to the top. What’s more, we have a winner for this year’s Fool’s Day Fool. 

The folks at AbleComm, the company that had yesterday announced plasma display for cellphones for Panasonic, seem to have slept through April 1 and decided to make up for the lost day by playing a prank the next day. They issued a press release claiming that Panasonic will be using their technology in miniature plasma displays for cellphones. As their luck would have it, many respectable media, including us, promptly reported the story. 

As things stand today, AbleComm has withdrawn the release and has replaced it with another that nullifies the earlier one as ‘false’. But what’s surprising is that neither Panasonic not AT&T denied reports yesterday. Nice try wise guys, now how about publishing pictures of yourselves sitting on a stool, wearing conical hats with ‘dumb’ written on them along with the release?

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