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News The decision to close easyMobile's UK operations was taken by TDC, a Danish operator which licensed the brand from Stelios Haji-Iannou's easyGroup. EasyGroup has since terminated its licencing agreement with the company, saying easyMobile was... [14 Nov 2006]
easyGroup IP under new leadership
News easyGroup IP, the company which owns and licenses the 15 'easy' brands has appointed a new managing director, Anthony Robb-John. The appointment is likely to be of interest to a number of companies that have locked horns with easyGroup in recent... [25 Sep 2006]
easyGroup wins easy.com fight with Easynet
News URL-hungry easyGroup has won the right to trademark its easy.com domain name after a legal tussle with Sky's ISP arm Easynet. Easynet had appealed a decision by the Trade Mark Registry to grant the easy.com trademark to easyGroup but lost its case... [19 Jul 2006]
Orange and easyMobile court case to start in November
News EasyGroup, however, has been using the colour since its inception and easyMobile says it is simply in line with its branding heritage. Orange and easyMobile will face each other in the courts this year to settle their spat over colour. [02 Mar 2006]
easyMobile: Help us poke fun at Orange
News The pair are currently at loggerheads over easyMobile's use of the colour orange in advertising - Orange says easyMobile is infringing its trademarks, easyMobile says companies in the easyGroup have always used orange branding and always will. [15 Nov 2005]
Dot-travel domain unleashed
News A spokesman for easyGroup, the company behind easyCruise and easyHotel, told silicon.com: "Having spent considerable time and effort establishing our dot-com and co-dot-uk domain names, it would seem to be a dilution to establish new ones... [04 Oct 2005]
CIO Forum: Are CIOs ready to take the next step up?
News Phil Jones, former easyGroup CTO and founder of the iStrategy consultancy, said CIOs have a unique insight across their entire organisation and that it is up to them to exploit that. Leadership skills and the ability to exert real influence on... [28 Sep 2005]
easyMobile takes brand to Germany
News easyMobile, the no-frills operator owned by easyGroup boss Stelios Haji-Iannou, is off to pastures new with the opening of a German arm, the company announced today. Germany marks the third territory for easyMobile, which opened its virtual doors... [19 Sep 2005]
easyMobile wins easiermobile.com domain
News According to a complaint filed with Wipo (World Intellectual Property Organisation), easyGroup claims the URL "is confusingly similar to its trademark easyMobile phonetically, visually and conceptually" and the website was a direct attempt by... [14 Jul 2005]
3G will mean more Virgins
News The sector has already seen some activity of late, with easyGroup boss Stelios Haji-Iannou launching his own no-frills offering to compete with similar offerings from Tesco and Virgin. With 3G now available from most of Europe's heavy-hitting... [08 Jun 2005]
easyMobile rages over Orange ads on easymobile
News In the meantime, Evans is splashing his easymobile homepage with ads for Stelios' rival operator Orange, which is also locked in a legal battle with the easyGroup boss. David Evans, who claims he has been using the name easymobile for "two years... [17 May 2005]
Orange and easyMobile go to war over colour
News The operator has followed the easyGroup trademark branding and stuck with orange. Barry said that easyGroup's history of using the colour orange isn't a defence in itself and that the case will come down to whether the shared colour creates confusion. [21 Feb 2005]
3GSM: easyMobile March launch to 'make unprofitable profitable'
News But the easyGroup founder, still best known for his easyJet budget airline, opened up on the venture's origins. He said he believes there are four things that will be crucial if easyMobile is to succeed: the easyGroup brand, the TDC/Telmore... [18 Feb 2005]
CIO Jury: Govt IT failures - should heads roll?
News Absolutely," was the most common response and Richard Yeo, CTO at easyGroup, said: "Private sector CIOs would either leave before they were pushed or be pushed. Richard Yeo, CTO, easyGroup The widely held perception is that private sector... [03 Feb 2005]
CIO Jury: Businesses underestimate spyware threat
News Richard Yeo, CTO, easyGroup Businesses are unaware of the full extent to which their corporate networks are exposed to the problem of spyware and its potential security risks, according to UK IT bosses. [27 Jan 2005]
