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RSS hmv'Shoulder-surfing' chip and PIN fraud fear dismissed
News Major retailers already on board include Safeway, HMV, Shell and Selfridges. Fraud fears over the new chip and PIN credit and debit cards have been dismissed by APACS, the card payment body behind the programme. [08 Nov 2004]
Leader: Are download services the new free ISPs?
Leader Now we're not about to name all the companies doing download offers, though Coca-Cola, HMV and Virgin spring to mind. When The Sun starts dabbling in tech you know it must be in an area that must have become totally ordinary. [23 Jul 2004]
UK online music gears up for a price war
News OD2, the online music shop which sells its technology on to resellers like HMV, has announced that it's clocked up its one-millionth download in the first quarter of this year and is showing earnings of over £1m too. [05 Apr 2004]
HMV Carries A More Profitable Tune with DB2 Backing Its E-Business
White Paper That's why when HMV Media Group started moving toward becoming an e-business, it surveyed the IT landscape for a scalable, reliable database that would seamlessly integrate into its existing stock and range infrastructure based on IBM DB2... [24 Feb 2004]
Microsoft music download suit resolved
News Last October, the small company sued a European division of Microsoft, along with the HMV Group, internet service provider Tiscali and digital music company On Demand Distribution (OD2), charging them with violation of a patent that covers the... [21 Jan 2004]
Leader: 'Grey import' row smacks of desperation
Leader The beauty of the internet for consumers over here in the UK is that they can now scour the web for cheaper and cheaper versions of a CD by their favourite artist without having to go into HMV and pay £15. [09 Jan 2004]
Leader: E-tailers can't quite get the hang of Christmas
Leader After all, if the queues were too long in HMV you'd probably go and try the Virgin Megastores up the high street. silicon.com today revealed the performance of 10 top e-tail sites and found that even the biggest and the best names in the market... [19 Dec 2003]
Will's Web Watch: Leave the file sharers alone
Comment Because it's a source of free music, it's readily available to download in an instant over broadband and I can find what I want to listen to any time night or day, without having to go down the high street to HMV or wait for orders to arrive from... [08 Sep 2003]
EMI plans 140,000 song online music sale
News Artists such as UK rockers David Bowie and Pink Floyd, as well as current darlings of the music scene Coldplay, are to be included in the service, which will be rolled out across the websites of 20 European distributors, including ISPs Wanadoo and... [23 Apr 2003]
E-tailers creaking under the Christmas rush
News Amazon, HMV, Play and Borders all showed much faster response times. Some of the UK's leading e-tailers are failing to cope with the seasonal rush, with the websites of CD-Wow, Currys, Debenhams and Dixons all creaking under the strain. [09 Dec 2002]
A digital brain courtesy of Microsoft, post-Napster music and guess who can't get broadband...
Comment Which is nice - but far from generous, as the company will be charging $0.99 per song - or approximately $15 for an album-worth of tracks (U2 and Eminem's last albums boasted a mighty 17 and 20 tracks respectively) which, when you take out the... [21 Nov 2002]
Legal music wins web popularity contest
Comment But for the online equivalent of the man who buys CDs four times per year and never troubles to look further than his local HMV, the legit sites - the ones with the means to make themselves known through marketing stunts such as Digital Download... [03 Oct 2002]
Music lovers: Today is digital download day
News Stuart Rowe, ecommerce director at HMV, which is joining in with the venture, said: "It is only right that the industry takes all appropriate measures to protect its copyright and its artists' interests. [03 Oct 2002]
Kylie Minogue: All yours for £4.99 per month
News High street music retailer HMV is to launch a download service, giving users access to the hits of acts such as Kylie Minogue, The Beatles and Elvis Presley for a monthly fee of £4.99. According to a spokeswoman for OD2 the HMV service offers users... [28 Aug 2002]
Yell on course for £2.3bn IPO bonanza
News Henk Potts, equity analyst at Barclays Stock Brokers, said: "We've seen quite a lot of weakness in the IPO market lately, like HMV that had a shocker of a debut. Directory service Yell looks on course for a record breaking IPO when it floats on the... [13 Jun 2002]
