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The Weekly Round-Up: 13.02.09
Round-Up According to a retailer Comet, Brits spent 26 hours watching TV each week last year and are upgrading to even bigger tellies as they cut back on going out because of the credit crunch. That short statement is almost... [13 Feb 2009]
Statistical Learning Techniques for Costing XML Queries
White Paper This paper proposes a new approach, called Comet, to modeling the cost of XML operators; to the knowledge, Comet is the first method ever proposed for addressing the XML query costing problem. As in... [04 Dec 2008]
Validation of Dynamic Behavior in UML Using Colored Petri Nets
White Paper Specifically, this paper describes an approach for integrating colored Petri nets with concurrent object architecture designs created with the COMET method and specified in the Unified Modeling Language (UML). [03 Dec 2008]
Password fatigue spells biometric PC boom
News According to Comet, PCs and laptops with fingerprint scanners made up around seven per cent of all May-to-July computer sales - a jump of 91 per cent on the preceding three months.silicon.com Retail & Leisure [15 Sep 2008]
Gary Arthurs
CIO Profile Prior to joining the retailer, Arthurs, who has a marketing degree from Lancaster University, spent seven years at electrical retailer Comet as head of IT - with an IT remit covering its stores, warehouses, after sales... [11 Jun 2008]
Online retailers rated on customer satisfaction
News Bringing up the rear were high street stalwarts B&Q, Comet UK, Currys, PC World and WHSmith. Pure-play online retailers scored more highly on customer satisfaction than the web counterparts of traditional high-street... [02 Jan 2008]
Woolworths to publish shoppers' reviews online
News Reevoo already provides similar services for Comet, Currys, Jessops and Orange. Mixed merchandiser Woolworths is to publish customer reviews of its products online in an effort to boost consumer trust. [03 Apr 2007]
Record breaking Xmas on the cards
News The top five e-tailers to emerge from the research are Amazon UK, Dell, Apple, Next and Comet. Royal Mail expects to deliver around 100 million Christmas presents bought online between now and 23 December - that's 30... [22 Nov 2006]
Gateway PCs: Back in the UK
News Gateway laptops and notebooks will be available through Comet stores around the UK. Four years after leaving the UK, US PC manufacturer Gateway is back. The company announced on Monday that its machines will soon be... [13 Sep 2005]
Leader: Retailers can't afford to ignore IT
Leader The retail sector was hit by yet another tale of IT woe this week, after a major upgrade of electrical retailer Comet's ecommerce website resulted in bungled orders for hundreds of online shoppers. Upgrading and testing... [26 Jul 2005]
IT glitch hits hundreds of Comet.co.uk customers
News A technical glitch has hit hundreds of online shoppers at electrical retailer Comet following a major technical upgrade to the store's ecommerce website. Others have been forced to reorder their goods using... [26 Jul 2005]
Northampton's chip and PIN 'high street of the future'
News Three in five cardholders across the UK have a chip and PIN card and retailers including Asda, Comet, Dixons and Tesco have now partially or fully rolled out the PIN terminals at their checkouts. The fraud-busting chip... [16 Sep 2004]
Leader: E-tailers can't quite get the hang of Christmas
Leader Empirix measured the performance of top retail sites such as Argos, Carphone Warehouse, Comet, Firebox.com, Sainsbury's, lastminute.com and several other big name players in the ecommerce world. silicon.com today... [19 Dec 2003]
E-tail sites failing the Christmas test
News For example shoppers accessing the website of electrical retailer Comet were kept waiting up to 29 seconds during peak times, while anybody looking for some booze from Virgin Wines ran the risk of a 28 second wait for... [19 Dec 2003]
5 years ago... Satellites steer clear of meteor damage
News Space agencies took no chances as thousands of tiny particles of debris from the Tempel-Tuttle comet rained into the earth's atmosphere at 71km per second. 18.11.98: Fears of cosmic catastrophe were avoided yesterday as... [18 Nov 2003]
