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White Paper The words capture the festive mood of the event, but that page of text looks lifeless and dull. Graphics can add interest and impact to one's Word documents. Suppose one has completed a letter telling friends about the great party one threw for the... [26 Apr 2008]
Chinwag Live: Xmas Futures, Crystal Balls
White Paper Bringing together leading experts and practitioners from Agency.com, CIMEX, Agenda 21, the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Lateral, it provided a fun and inspiring fix of festive futurology The future shape of digital marketing, advertising... [08 Apr 2008]
Retailers count the online Xmas coffers
News Retailers participating in the index found sales growth actually dipped in the run up to the festive holiday, but picked up from Christmas day. Online sales reached £15.2bn in the UK in the last quarter of 2007 and could account for half of all... [17 Jan 2008]
BBC iPlayer gets Christmas bonus
News The BBC's iPlayer website saw a 14-fold increase in traffic during the festive period. From 8 December 2007 to 5 January 2008 visits to the site rocketed following its full marketing launch on Christmas Day, according to web traffic monitoring... [10 Jan 2008]
Caption Competition: Jingle Bells
Photo The winning entry, from reader John Ray, was "Festive headwear makes Dino sore. This competition is now closed. Photo credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com [21 Dec 2007]
Xmas shoppers making merry in cyberspace
News And a significant proportion (18 per cent) said they will do all their shopping online - not something that will bring festive cheer to bricks-and-mortar retailers. So much for speakers blaring out decades' old Christmas hits and shop windows... [17 Dec 2007]
Customer service warning for Xmas retailers
News However, numéro is predicting the rise in the take up of broadband has not been followed by a beefing up of logistics and customer contact centre resources, which will be tested over the festive period. [03 Dec 2007]
Carphone Warehouse gears up for Christmas
News So the company is putting in place a data integration project to make sure its staff face no surprises in the festive season. Demand for the Apple iPhone at the Carphone Warehouse (CPW) is nothing compared to the sort of demand for phones the... [22 Nov 2007]
Online shoppers think plastic is fantastic for Xmas
News UK consumers are the most eager to kick off the festive spirit: 48 per cent of respondents had already started when the survey was held, between 22 and 28 October. Growth in overall spending over the festive period is likely to be static but the... [14 Nov 2007]
Photos of the month - October 2007
Photo Christmas is just around the corner and mobile makers are not about to miss out on the annual festive spending spree - so many manufacturers are adding designer or luxury phones to their standard fare. [31 Oct 2007]
UK to lead Xmas online shopping spree
News In contrast, just 30 per cent of Italian and Spanish web users will buy their festive gifts over the web. The UK will be Europe's biggest market for online shopping in the run up to Christmas with 27 million shoppers expected to generate €20bn in... [24 Oct 2007]
PC energy waste to cost £8.6m over Christmas
News David Smith, marketing director at Canon UK, said the figures show that "businesses that don't turn off their PCs and printers are literally throwing money away as well as damaging the environment over the festive period". [14 Dec 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 8.12.06
Round-Up From that subtle opening you'll have discerned the Round-Up is starting on something of a festive note this week. "Deck the halls with boughs of holly.fah-la-la-la-lah, la-la-la-lah" But before you too get high on seasonal cheer and start... [08 Dec 2006]
Wi-fi signals hate it when we...
News Hanging Christmas decorations in the office has become a thorny enough issue in these PC times but now companies are being warned festive trinkets can interfere with office wi-fi coverage. Though rarely considered in past years, a well-dressed... [06 Dec 2006]
Christmas to be marred by 'CrackBerry' addiction?
News But those findings contrast sharply with 26 per cent of respondents who said their BlackBerry would be on for the duration of the festive season and they would be checking it throughout. It seems you can add email addiction to problems such as over... [30 Nov 2006]
