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News UK consumers spent £13bn online in the first three months of this year, the equivalent to £213 for every person in the country. Compared to figures for the first quarter of 2007, the spend marks an increase of 50.5 per cent, according to the latest...
[22 Apr 2008]
News Tom Delay, the chief executive of the Carbon Trust, also welcomed Vodafone's move, saying it was "what consumers expect and want to see from leading businesses in the UK and abroad". There are no simple solutions to what is a complex challenge but...
[22 Apr 2008]
News Barrett equated the current situation in educating consumers to the early years of the car industry when the benefits of rules of the road and safety had not been fully realised. According to Gartner, 3.3 per cent of the 124 million people who...
[11 Apr 2008]
News She sees increasing the use of broadband as key to boosting competition in the retail sector, offering consumers more choice and driving down prices. The European Commission wants to raise broadband internet penetration in the EU to 30 per cent by...
[20 Mar 2008]
News Yello Strom's managing director Martin Vesper demonstrated a "Yello-saving counter" - a Vista widget that lets consumers monitor their home power via a PC. The UK's Green Party has also criticised Vista for requiring "more expensive and energy...
[06 Mar 2008]
News Sol Trujillo, CEO of Telstra, said the network has changed the lifestyles of consumers and business users - giving an example of breast cancer screening trucks which are able to transmit screening data via HSPA, meaning women don't have to visit a...
[11 Feb 2008]
News Vodafone is hoping to ramp up mobile broadband uptake in the UK by waving the carrot of a £15 per month 3GB price plan in UK consumers' faces. But the 50 per cent price will only run for a limited 'promotional period'.
[01 Feb 2008]
Comment Speaking in a CIO Magazine interview, NFL CFO Barry Wolper sees this as a challenge "especially for our IT folks [who must] figure out how to make those links between what consumers want and the ways that they are accessing it".
[29 Nov 2007]
News According to a survey of 2,500 consumers across France, Germany and the UK conducted by online behaviour research specialist comScore, 76 per cent of French online shoppers plan to buy presents now and pay later on their credit cards.
[14 Nov 2007]
News Around 1.5 billion new mobile consumers are forecast to emerge over the next four years, with 65 per cent of these coming from the Asia Pacific region, according to mobile research company Portio Research.
[25 Oct 2007]
Photo BT is one of the UK's biggest electricity consumers, with an annual requirement of around 0.7 per cent of the nation's entire consumption. BT is planning to develop wind farms to generate up to 25 per cent of its existing UK electricity needs by 2016.
[19 Oct 2007]
AS Analysis I think blogging's definitely got to the point where there're enough mainstream consumers watching it for the top ones to be regarded as agenda setters," argues Michael Smith, founder of Second Chance Tuesday and Agenda Setters panellist.
[12 Oct 2007]
News Barbara Navarro, chair of the group, said most consumers and businesses are not in the habit of treating personal information as an asset - but they should be. More than 50 per cent of the UK's technology companies want legislation forcing...
[02 Oct 2007]
News The financial services industry has discovered that introducing self-service technology in bank branches can not only cut waiting times, it can actually alter consumers' perceptions for the better. The machines allow consumers to start a number of...
[16 Jul 2007]
News With two weeks to go until the US launch of Apple's much-anticipated iPhone, research suggests consumers are warming to the idea of touchscreen handsets. In a survey of 2,000 European mobile users conducted by research company Canalys, 23 per cent...
[15 Jun 2007]
News At the heart of the initiative is a push to get PC makers and consumers to adopt more efficient power supplies and voltage regulators. Roughly 50 per cent of the power delivered from a wall socket to a PC never actually performs any work, according...
[13 Jun 2007]
News Consumers want their email system to let them know which email is real and safe to open and act on. A certification service, such as CertifiedEmail, enables us to help restore that trust and makes it easier for consumers to identify legitimate...
[07 Jun 2007]
News Ask is expected to launch a new search site that has analysts impressed but it may not appeal enough to consumers to get them to keep coming back. Ask has struggled for years to compete against Google, which attracts nearly 50 per cent of all...
[05 Jun 2007]
News A spokesman told silicon.com the cost of the game affected how consumers viewed the content. In one such experiment advertising-sponsored Celebrity Big Brother clips were offered for free - which saw downloads soar by 50 per cent.
[18 Apr 2007]
News If it's approved, consumers using their mobiles while abroad can expect their bills to fall. The promise of 70 per cent cheaper roaming calls has moved closer after the European Parliament backed legislation that will enshrine the cuts in law.
[22 Mar 2007]
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