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RSS storeDixons enjoys profits boost
News Dixons Store Group announced a nine per cent jump in profits, as it unveiled its annual results The group enjoyed revenues of £3.15bn for the year to 1 May, with profits of £237.1m. PC sales grew by 27 per cent on the... [07 Jul 1999]
Imation boosts Ocean workflow
News The Leeds-based printer said it needed a system tailored to its store, access and reproduction needs, and decided Imation's product provided the best level of organisation and efficiency. The main benefit is that... [06 Jul 1999]
Thailand cracks down on software piracy
News In addition to the 18 month unconditional sentence, he was fined over £14,000 for selling over 350 counterfeit CD Roms at his store, located in a downtown computer mall in Bangkok. Thailand's intellectual property court... [05 Jul 1999]
Safeway takes the PC plunge
News Last month, Safeway launched in-store public Net access points, giving the uninitiated web user the chance to browse as they shop. UK supermarket chain, Safeway is to enter the PC market by selling cut-price Fujitsu... [25 Jun 1999]
Iomega targets optical storage market
News The ZipCD drive can store up to 650MB of data, and will be released by the company's newly-formed Optical Division - based in Longmont, Colorado - later this year. Iomega is to launch an assault on the optical storage... [21 Jun 1999]
easyEverything opens first Net café
News In a deal worth £5m, HP is providing a Vectra-based LAN environment with HP Netservers and the NClass Unix server for the 500 seat Internet store. The first of a chain of Internet cafés, easyEverything, opens in London... [18 Jun 1999]
Sequent to supply Comet with data warehouse
News Electrical retailer, Comet, has picked Sequent to provide it with a data warehouse to store and analyse information about its customers. The system uses a Sequent NUMA-Q enterprise server, kept on Comet's premises but... [11 Jun 1999]
High-street shops get digital music delivery
News The move will allow customers to go into a high-street shop, choose an album and have it delivered digitally via the Red Dot network to the store. The network is linked up to each store by the highest... [10 Jun 1999]
Mobile commerce moves into strong position
News The transaction technology we use is based on a store-and-forward mechanism, so you can create the transaction in a poor reception area and the transaction will be submitted automatically when the reception is restored. [04 Jun 1999]
Memory plays pop
News The system consists of three parts - a portable music store, capable of storing up to 100 CDs of data, a portable player and an 'audio Internet port', used to connect to ecommerce sites. PC components maker, Memory... [04 Jun 1999]
Si3 makes supply chain Progress
News Engineering store group, Si3, has become the first UK firm to buy a hosted application based on Progress Software technology. Si3 will use Mfour - a supply chain management system - across its 200 engineering stores in... [03 Jun 1999]
Iomega announces notebook storage drive
News PC Card Drive can store up to 40MB of data and has a transfer rate of 600KB per second. Iomega has announced a storage drive for portable notebooks. The Clik! Like most other PC cards on the market it is "hot swappable"... [03 Jun 1999]
In-store Internet access for Safeway shoppers
News UK retail chain, Safeway, has set up in-store public access points for the Internet which aim to give the Internet novice a chance to explore the Web. The access points will be located in stand-up booths and users will... [01 Jun 1999]
HP online push targets small firms
News It has created an online store, called Bstore, to sell Brio and Vectra PCs to small businesses, along with servers, notebooks and printers. Hewlett-Packard (HP) has launched the second phase of its online PC sales strategy. [01 Jun 1999]
Compaq and ICL offer one-stop-shop for retailers
News The two companies recently worked on an in-store project for Marks & Spencer and Compaq decided to focus on this vertical market. Compaq has teamed up with ICL's retail systems division offering retailers an... [26 May 1999]
