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Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost

News Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is to sell 50 per cent of its retail business to US retail giant Best Buy for £1.1bn - and plans to use the cash to grow its broadband business. Carphone Warehouse, which operates the 'free' broadband brand...

Tags: talktalk, broadband, carphone warehouse

[09 May 2008]

iPhone out of stock after £100 price cut

News An 8GB iPhone now costs £169, while the 16GB version costs £329 - but many O2 and Carphone Warehouse outlets have now sold out of both. Meanwhile, Carphone Warehouse - the only other retail outlet for the iPhone in the UK - confirmed it has sold...

Tags: carphone warehouse, o2, iphone

[02 May 2008]

Retail leaders will open up in tough times

Retail leaders will open up in tough times

Comment In his keynote, Carphone Warehouse boss Charles Dunstone talked of 'radical transparency'. Carphone now has a website that shows customers a warts-and-all view of his broadband business, a step-child that his customer services team didn't want in...

Tags: recession, john lewis partnership, carphone warehouse, supplier

[13 Mar 2008]

Laptops are the new mobile phone, says <strong>Carphone</strong> <strong>Warehouse</strong>

Laptops are the new mobile phone, says Carphone Warehouse

News These are the words of Carphone Warehouse founder and CEO Charles Dunstone. "The laptop is the new mobile phone. The retailer was addressing the Retail Week Conference in London about how to weather the continuing downturn in consumer spending.

Tags: dunstone, laptop, carphone warehouse, retail

[12 Mar 2008]

Grad IT training masterfully fast tracked

News Various companies are backing the IT PDP, including British Airways, the BBC, BT, Carphone Warehouse, Cable & Wireless, Cisco, EDS, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, LogicaCMG, Microsoft, Oracle and Vodafone. A new Masters level fast-track training programme has...

Tags: grads, jobs, skills, track

[24 Jan 2008]

Indian suppliers to double UK IT market share

News In the last 18 months, UK companies including Carphone Warehouse, DSG and Skandia have all committed to £100m plus contracts with Indian service providers. India's five largest IT services suppliers will double their market share in the UK by 2011.

Tags: india, deals, suppliers, tech

[23 Jan 2008]

Carphone Warehouse in data protection breach

News Carphone Warehouse has been warned it could face prosecution for exposing the personal details of thousands of customers online and, in some cases, inadvertently setting debt collectors on them. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said the...

Tags: carphone warehouse, privacy, data loss, ico

[16 Jan 2008]

Carphone Warehouse gears up for Christmas

News Demand for the Apple iPhone at the Carphone Warehouse (CPW) is nothing compared to the sort of demand for phones the retailer expects in the week before Christmas. CPW senior project manager Bhavesh Chavda told silicon.com, peaks in customer demand...

Tags: datawarehouse, iphone, carphone warehouse, apple

[22 Nov 2007]

Photos: Who's in the iPhone queue?

Photo Despite knowing they could walk into any O2 or Carphone Warehouse store and pick up an iPhone without having to queue, one person waiting in line said it's all about being part of "the event". Standing in line: The chilly winds of November may have...

Tags: iphone, o2, apple, credit

[09 Nov 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.11.07

Round-Up Apple will sell the phone through its smattering of UK stores, those of its telecoms partner O2, and The Carphone Warehouse. So, after much waiting, gnashing of teeth and an absurd amount of press attention the iPhone finally makes its UK debut today.

Tags: yahoo, google, iphone, round-up

[09 Nov 2007]

iPhone in the UK: Hands up who wants one?

News The iPhone will go on sale at 18:02(GMT) on 9 November across Apple's stores, O2's high street shops and The Carphone Warehouse stores - 1,300 outlets in all - as well as online via the trio's websites.

Tags: o2, apple, iphone, coverage

[05 Nov 2007]

Carphone Warehouse signs $200m Indian IT deal

News Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse has signed a $200m five-year deal with Indian IT company Patni. Carphone Warehouse CTO, Simon Post, told silicon.com Patni will do offshore support and maintenance and onshore application development.

Tags: offshoring, patni, carphone warehouse

[18 Oct 2007]

Charles Dunstone

AS Profile Always setting the agenda for shoppers on what the must-have handsets will be, Carphone Warehouse helped revitalise Motorola when it exclusively offered the Razr flip phone in pink two Christmases ago.

[12 Oct 2007]

Good and bad year for comms

AS Analysis Both BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse are wrapped up in broadband these days and the world is watching to see which models work. The striking absence of the heads of some of the biggest organisations in comms continues in 2007.

[12 Oct 2007]

TalkTalk Direct gets faster on its feet

Case Study The business process outsourcing division of Carphone Warehouse upgraded to Fujitsu Siemens Primepower servers to run its core systems - including CRM, billing and reporting apps - between August last year and January 2007.

Tags: carbon, speed, energy, fujitsu siemens

[11 Oct 2007]

Photos: The rise of the luxury mobile

Photo The range is due to go on sale at The Carphone Warehouse next month. Designer brands are falling over themselves to carve a niche in the mobile world - especially in the run-up to Christmas. The latest handset from high-end audio equipment maker...

Tags: mp3 player, camera phone, touchscreen, iphone

[10 Oct 2007]

Ofcom consults on next generation access

News BT's 21CN is the best-known and largest example but Colt's NGN is due to go live next year; Carphone Warehouse's TalkTalk NGN is a year old; and Cable & Wireless, Thus and BSkyB's Easynet are also joining in.

Tags: ngn, bt, broadband, fttc

[27 Sep 2007]

Photos: Steve Jobs and the UK iPhone launch

Photo Sale of the handset will be restricted to Apple's retail and online outlets, O2 stores and The Carphone Warehouse. Apple has confirmed O2 as the exclusive UK carrier for the iPhone, which will make its UK debut on 9 November.

Tags: o2, iphone, apple

[18 Sep 2007]

Dell: Plenty of room to grow in retail and consumer space

News So far Dell has announced retail relationships with Wal-Mart and Sam's Club in the US, Carphone Warehouse in Europe and Bic Camera in Japan. Dell CEO Michael Dell, at a San Francisco event to trumpet new storage products for small and medium-size...

[11 Sep 2007]

Carphone Warehouse Deploys Wyse Thin Clients to Its Stores Nationwide

whitepaper Carphone Warehouse Group plc (CPW) is Europe's largest independent distributor of mobile phones and related services in Europe. In February 2000, CPW made the decision to overhaul the point of sale systems at its hundreds of retail outlets with...

Tags: thin clients, readers, outlets, mobile phones

[31 Jul 2007]

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