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Cisco gifts conferencing tech to Middle East
News Cisco is to give away five sets of its top-of-the-range conferencing systems. The recipients will be the governments of five emerging nations: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. [29 Jan 2007]
OFT crackdown to target online scammers
News It has also halted online matrix schemes which promised people the chance of getting gifts such as mobile phones in return for purchasing a low value product. The UK government has launched a new 'scambusters' team to... [22 Sep 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Christmas shopping 2002
Comment It was the year when I purchased more gifts and spent more money (far more money) online than in physical stores. Is e-tail about to put real world shopping to shame, with far reaching consequences? Peter Cochrane... [02 Jan 2003]
Christmas set to smash all e-tail records
News You can do a grocery shop in half an hour instead of half a day, and it's great for Christmas gifts, because the retailer will wrap and deliver your presents for you. UK e-tailers can expect to enjoy the most successful... [16 Dec 2002]
Re:Viewing 2002: Whatever happened to the dot-coms?
News In fact, far more fitting on the 'gifts for Sarah' front would have been a T-shirt which read 'My boyfriend went to Greece and all I got was this lousy VD'. Remember Claire Swire? Ms Swire's most private of private... [01 Dec 2002]