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RSS furniture in newsArgos online sales bolster stores
News Furniture and homewares continued to show declining sales in challenging market conditions. Despite stagnant sales at its bricks and mortar stores, retailer Argos is seeing strong growth in its online sales.silicon.com... [11 Sep 2008]
Now in Ikea's bargain corner: Cheap mobile PAYG
News The purveyor of oddly named ranges of flat-pack furniture has pulled a new product out of its bargain bin: a pay-as-you-go mobile SIM it claims offers the lowest price PAYG calls and texts in the UK - at a flat rate of... [04 Aug 2008]
Video app the highway to healthy roads
News It can identify road furniture, such as signage, street lighting, road markings bus lanes and speed cameras and can be integrated with existing asset management systems to provide performance benchmarks on road... [12 May 2008]
Record online sales in November
News We saw above target sales across larger items such as furniture, with home technology outperforming expectations as well. Online shoppers spent a record £5.4bn last month, underlining the steady growth in retailing via... [20 Dec 2007]
Businesses failing to safeguard sensitive data
News Nine disks were recovered that had belonged to a furniture warehousing company based in the East Midlands. Organisations charged with safeguarding sensitive data are not doing enough to ensure that information is... [25 Sep 2007]
Online shopping tops £10bn
News The furniture sector is one of those, because the traditional buying behaviour requires the product to be physically in front of the customer. Although high street retailers are in the doldrums, internet retailing is... [25 May 2007]
East 17 to big up the wi-fi massive
News BT will pay for and construct the network over the coming months by fitting wireless transmitters to lampposts and other street furniture. London borough Waltham Forest is to pilot a public wireless network after joining... [23 May 2007]
Wi-fi success in the City not all about Cloud density
News The mesh network covers London's Square Mile using 127 broadband nodes built into street furniture - such as lampposts and street signs - across the city. The City of London's wi-fi network, which launched today, is one... [23 Apr 2007]
No resurrection for BenQ Mobile
News The remaining assets such as furniture, machinery or factory buildings will now be sold with the aid of an auction house. There is to be no resurrection for BenQ Mobile - the former handset maker has announced would-be... [26 Feb 2007]
Wireless Westminster revs up
News According to Vertex's transition director, Robert Blackwell, the system will be a mesh network based on a core fibre backbone, and Cisco's mobile access routers - mostly fixed on to lampposts and other street furniture. [29 Nov 2006]
Microsoft aims to simplify software licensing
News Microsoft-type licensing tied to specific hardware gets my goat, where any hardware change is like moving house but being forced to leave all your furniture behind as it's not acceptable use to relocate it in your new... [01 Aug 2006]
Internet and TV shopping on the rise
News The research, published by Verdict Research, blamed this growth slump on consumer reluctance to make "big ticket" furniture purchases and a slide in sales at traditional mail operators. Internet and TV shopping continue... [30 Jun 2006]
CIO Jury: Software licensing 'too complex'
News Microsoft-type licensing tied to specific hardware gets my goat, where any hardware change is like moving house but being forced to leave all your furniture behind as it's not acceptable use to relocate it in your new... [16 Jun 2006]
QinetiQ gears up for £6.2m wireless pact
News QinetiQ's spokesperson pointed out that using "existing roadside furniture" such as lampposts eliminates the need to lay an expensive new infrastructure for the nodes. Defence technology company QinetiQ has signed a... [06 Jun 2006]
French road test cashless city
News Laurent Duchelet, furniture restorer and self-confessed non-techie, is one of Caen's citizens taking part in the trial, using NFC every day when accessing a car park and every week to pay for his groceries. [20 Apr 2006]
