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Smart phone battle: Qwerty vs touchscreen
News Dominic Cameron, technology director at lastminute.com, argued that most people will not need to use a smart phone for huge amounts of text input. Dominic Cameron, technology director, lastminute.com Two-thirds of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury... [22 May 2008]
Skills crisis? What skills crisis?
News After all the arguments had been put on stage, the Jury - which also included Transport for London Group CIO Phil Pavitt, Dominic Cameron director of technology at lastminute.com and Jane Kimberlin IT director Domino's Pizza - was hung. [15 Oct 2007]
CEOs: Understand IT better - or else
News Speaking at the launch of the report, Ian McCaig, lastminute.com CEO, said governance is key to getting much of the change - which he described as "accelerating, not steady state" - right. CEOs cannot afford to pass the buck on transformational... [05 Mar 2007]
Pixel millionaire makes his next move
News Already Tew has sold more than $120,000 worth of advertising space on the site, including the largest ad to date which was bought by Lastminute.com for $20,000. The site, launched this week, is called Pixelotto.com and as its name suggests it is... [07 Dec 2006]
UK retailers fail disability web access test
News The retail websites tested included Amazon, Apple, Argos, Carphone Warehouse, Dell, Expedia, lastminute.com, Marks & Spencer, Next, O2, Tesco and Thomas Cook. All but one website used graphical text that would be difficult for people wearing... [21 Sep 2006]
CIOs - not bean counters - our future leaders, says Lastminute.com CEO
News The boss of Lastminute.com has pointed to a bright future for those who have headed the IT function within businesses - though big changes in approach must still be made. Ian McCaig, Lastminute.com CEO, told delegates at The Economist's CIO and IT... [07 Jun 2006]
Lastminute.com offers jobs channel
News Lastminute.com continues to branch out into new areas with the announcement today that it has added a recruitment channel to its popular consumer website. Using back-end technology from partner jobs site New9to5.com, lastminute.com claims to be... [22 Dec 2005]
Re:Viewing 2005: The year in mobile and wireless
News Among the big names to join the roster of i-mode content providers was online bank Egg and lastminute.com. Stay tuned for more of silicon.com's 2005 sector wraps-ups over the coming days. Still, if silicon.com's readers and analysts are to be... [15 Dec 2005]
Lastminute slammed by watchdog over smutty ads
News Watchdog the ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) has rapped Lastminute.com over the knuckles after receiving complaints that its ads were too saucy. The ASA received complaints from several members of the public across the country about the... [20 Jan 2005]
easyJet wants CRM ROI right here RightNow
News Besides easyJet, its clients include BA, Lastminute.com's Holiday Autos and Opodo. It sells around 98 per cent of its seats over the web and counts 1.5 million visitors to the www.easyjet.com site every week. [15 Dec 2004]
5 years ago: Orange signs-up content providers for WAP phone
News Other providers include Lastminute.com, Sporting Life and Thomson Directories. 24.11.99 Orange has announced a deal with a raft of content providers to offer information services to the UK's first ever WAP-enabled (Wireless Application Protocol... [24 Nov 2004]
Ecommerce sites: 'Long live... the catalogue'?
News Since the widespread adoption of shopping services such as lastminute.com and Amazon.com you could be forgiven for thinking the 'catalogue' was a ghost from a bygone age, but more and more e-tailers are revisiting the paper-based past of the... [23 Nov 2004]
Lastminute.chairman quits.com
News Allan Leighton, non-executive chairman of lastminute.com, is to stand down from his post with the pioneering UK e-tailer after four years with the company. During Leighton's time with lastminute.com the company has grown its revenues from £34m to a... [26 Oct 2004]
Hilton moves to stop online booking rip-offs
News As a first step, Hilton has signed a deal with lastminute.com to protect customers which it plans to extend to all its online dealers, distributors and other agents. Hilton plans to roll out new agreements - like the one with lastminute.com - to... [28 Sep 2004]
CIO Forum: UK businesses - 'innovate or die'
News It's not hopeless in the UK, though, with mentions for innovative UK businesses such as Lastminute.com and Betfair.com as well as giants such as Vodafone. Speaking during a panel discussion at today's silicon.com CIO Forum, Allan Timpany, CEO of... [27 Sep 2004]
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