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News Retail outlets that will stock the device include all 402 UK Orange shops, along with the operator's website and HMV concessions, plus mobile retailers Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U. The iPhone 3G and 3G S will go on... [02 Nov 2009]
Andrew Clarke
CIO Profile Before joining Arcadia, Clarke spent more than 11 years at HMV where he was also group IT director. At HMV he oversaw formulation and the delivery of the group's multi-channel IT strategy covering... [11 Jun 2008]
Gary Arthurs
CIO Profile Gary Arthurs has been CIO of HMV Group since 2007 where he heads up a tech team of 125, responsible for IT across the Group's 500 stores. At HMV the CIO's priority is to align IT with business strategy... [11 Jun 2008]
Online retailers rated on customer satisfaction
News The top traditional brand in the survey, HMV came fourth, behind Play.com, Amazon UK and QVC UK. Pure-play online retailers scored more highly on customer satisfaction than the web counterparts of traditional high-street... [02 Jan 2008]
Online cash payments on the cards?
News HMV is not alone in the retail sector in making it hard for the cash customers to purchase goods online. But when HMV ran an online promotion for the band McFly to its great surprise it failed to... [22 Oct 2007]
HMV spends £1.8m on voice services
News HMV Group has awarded AT Communications (ATC) Group a £1.8m contract to supply voice services for the next 24 months.silicon.com Retail & Leisure HMV has been undergoing a root and branch review of... [24 Sep 2007]
HMV adopts lean digital business strategy
News Music, video and games retailer HMV Group has set out its web 2.0 stall as part of an effort to offset flagging physical store sales, and which could also lead to redundancies in the IT department. The retailer, which... [28 Jun 2007]
HMV Brings Digital Music to a Wider Community With a Revolutionary New Service
White Paper Specialist music retailer HMV has more than 200 stores across the U.K.and Ireland and an online store, HMV.co.uk. The revolution in digital music prompted HMV to develop its own digital... [31 Mar 2007]
HMV must refocus in face of digital world - analyst
News HMV needs to put more emphasis on DVDs, games, ringtones and other new media if it is to keep its stores going during a "realignment of the music industry", according to experts. Mark Mulligan, JupiterResearch VP, told... [11 Jan 2007]
Waterstone's calls time on Amazon love-in
News The HMV-owned book chain has used Amazon as its online channel since 2001, which meant it was effectively redirecting potential customers to Amazon. A HMV Group spokesman said on Wednesday: "The market... [11 May 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.02.06
Round-Up In response to this research, HMV Digital has agreed to compile some developer-friendly playlists ready to download direct from its site. We just hope HMV knew that Microsoft only interviewed 100 people... [24 Feb 2006]
HMV and Virgin to do digital battle in days
News Both HMV and Virgin have announced they are to open the doors of their music download services in early September, with HMV to launch on 5 September and Virgin Digital UK to launch this Friday. Virgin... [31 Aug 2005]
Radioactive: Ready or not, here comes mobile music
Comment They, rather than iTunes, Amazon, Tesco or eBay will be the ones to pick up the mantle from HMV, Virgin and Woolworths as the nation's largest music retailers. Mobile operators believe they can be the biggest music... [14 Apr 2005]
HMV tunes up downloads with Microsoft
News HMV on Wednesday announced plans to launch a digital music service next year, using software being developed by Microsoft. Music downloads from the service will be compatible with the Windows Media Audio standard and... [23 Dec 2004]
'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]
