LAS VEGAS: Zealous hi-tech PR professionals this week came under fire from hi-tech journalists for using unnecessarily aggressive tactics at the Comdex conference in Las Vegas.

Leading computing title Computerworld ran a number of articles this week attacking computer and software PR people, thousands of whom attended Comdex, one of the biggest events of the year for the hi-tech sector.

'No one wants to call them wolves,' wrote senior editor Kim Nash in a piece called The Gatekeepers. 'But when ...