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HMV spends £1.8m on voice services
News HMV Group has awarded AT Communications (ATC) Group a £1.8m contract to supply voice services for the next 24 months.silicon.com Retail & Leisure HMV has been undergoing a root and branch review of costs, following a strategic operational review in... [24 Sep 2007]
HMV adopts lean digital business strategy
News Music, video and games retailer HMV Group has set out its web 2.0 stall as part of an effort to offset flagging physical store sales, and which could also lead to redundancies in the IT department. The retailer, which operates the HMV and... [28 Jun 2007]
HMV Brings Digital Music to a Wider Community With a Revolutionary New Service
White Paper Specialist music retailer HMV has more than 200 stores across the U.K.and Ireland and an online store, HMV.co.uk. The revolution in digital music prompted HMV to develop its own digital offering with a different, more customer-focused approach than... [31 Mar 2007]
HMV Brings Any Time, Easy-to-Use Digital Downloads Service to Music Lovers
White Paper HMV is the largest music retailer in the United Kingdom, with more than 200 stores and a successful online store - www.hmv.co.uk. HMV was interested in taking advantage of the growth in digital downloading as a music and entertainment channel and... [22 Feb 2007]
HMV must refocus in face of digital world - analyst
News HMV needs to put more emphasis on DVDs, games, ringtones and other new media if it is to keep its stores going during a "realignment of the music industry", according to experts. Mark Mulligan, JupiterResearch VP, told silicon.com HMV needs to be... [11 Jan 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.02.06
Round-Up In response to this research, HMV Digital has agreed to compile some developer-friendly playlists ready to download direct from its site. We just hope HMV knew that Microsoft only interviewed 100 people before they went to any trouble in compiling... [24 Feb 2006]
HMV and Virgin to do digital battle in days
News Both HMV and Virgin have announced they are to open the doors of their music download services in early September, with HMV to launch on 5 September and Virgin Digital UK to launch this Friday. While some analysts have predicted an online music... [31 Aug 2005]
Radioactive: Ready or not, here comes mobile music
Comment They, rather than iTunes, Amazon, Tesco or eBay will be the ones to pick up the mantle from HMV, Virgin and Woolworths as the nation's largest music retailers. Mobile operators believe they can be the biggest music retailers in the country. [14 Apr 2005]
HMV tunes up downloads with Microsoft
News HMV on Wednesday announced plans to launch a digital music service next year, using software being developed by Microsoft. Music downloads from the service will be compatible with the Windows Media Audio standard and usable by more than 75 portable... [23 Dec 2004]
Leader: Are download services the new free ISPs?
Leader Now we're not about to name all the companies doing download offers, though Coca-Cola, HMV and Virgin spring to mind. So after what seems like dozens of launches for legal digital music download services over the past year, imagine our déjà vu this... [23 Jul 2004]
UK online music gears up for a price war
News OD2, the online music shop which sells its technology on to resellers like HMV, has announced that it's clocked up its one-millionth download in the first quarter of this year and is showing earnings of over £1m too. [05 Apr 2004]
HMV Carries A More Profitable Tune with DB2 Backing Its E-Business
White Paper That's why when HMV Media Group started moving toward becoming an e-business, it surveyed the IT landscape for a scalable, reliable database that would seamlessly integrate into its existing stock and range infrastructure based on IBM DB2... [24 Feb 2004]
Microsoft music download suit resolved
News Last October, the small company sued a European division of Microsoft, along with the HMV Group, internet service provider Tiscali and digital music company On Demand Distribution (OD2), charging them with violation of a patent that covers the... [21 Jan 2004]
Leader: 'Grey import' row smacks of desperation
Leader The beauty of the internet for consumers over here in the UK is that they can now scour the web for cheaper and cheaper versions of a CD by their favourite artist without having to go into HMV and pay £15. [09 Jan 2004]
Will's Web Watch: Leave the file sharers alone
Comment Because it's a source of free music, it's readily available to download in an instant over broadband and I can find what I want to listen to any time night or day, without having to go down the high street to HMV or wait for orders to arrive from... [08 Sep 2003]
