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RSS online in newsOnline shopping reaches £4.8bn
News Online shopping revenues in the UK rose, month-on-month, by 11 per cent to £4.8bn in July. According to the latest IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index the amount spent online rose, despite a shrink in disposable income, to the equivalent of £79 for... [20 Aug 2008]
Mobile shoppers hunt high street bargains
News For a growing number of savvy shoppers, the online and in-store worlds have merged. The ease with which customers can go online to price comparison sites to inform their buying decisions puts added pressure on high street retailers to offer the... [18 Aug 2008]
Hackney Council in £1.9m IT overhaul
News Online services allow citizens to put in maintenance requests and enquire about rent balances. Hackney Council is set to overhaul the entire IT operation supporting its housing department in a £1.9m deal with local government software specialist... [15 Aug 2008]
Tech jobs and budgets defy economic gloom
News The surprising figures contrast drastically with more ominous research by online recruiter Monster, which showed that IT vacancies advertised had decreased by 23 per cent since February and three per cent between June and July alone. [15 Aug 2008]
Brits spending record time online
News Brits are more comms obsessed than ever, according to Ofcom. The telecoms regulator has released its fifth annual communications market report, which shows people in the UK are spending more time than ever consuming a variety of comms and media... [14 Aug 2008]
Are your 'frolleagues' ruining your career?
News Workers risk damaging their career by mixing professional and personal contacts online, it has been claimed. Business networking site LinkedIn is warning about the growing phenomena of "frolleagues" - a colleague who requests you as a friend online. [14 Aug 2008]
OpenID at risk due to DNS flaw
News OpenID is a shared, online identity service that lets people create one single login to use on multiple sites. Robin Wilton, a corporate architect for federated identity at Sun, described OpenID's reliance on the integrity of the Domain Name System... [14 Aug 2008]
£68m 'snooping' database: Little impact on serious crime
News As of last September telecoms providers must keep all text and phone call records between six months and two years under an EU directive, and this is to be rolled out to include all online traffic by 2009 at the latest. [13 Aug 2008]
Glitches hit Downing Street website launch
News The revamped version of the Prime Minister's website has suffered a number of glitches following its launch on Tuesday. Users trying to access number10.gov.uk received a '404 Page Not Found' error page when trying to access some parts of the site... [13 Aug 2008]
Carphone Warehouse does workforce management
News The first roll out was completed last June in Ireland and other countries will come online by 2010. Carphone Warehouse has started the roll out of a workforce management system in a £1.5m project across it's European store estate. [13 Aug 2008]
Google sites pick up popularity points
News The latest figures from research firm Nielsen Online show a slight lift to Google's audience from June to July, up by about one million visitors to an estimated 129 million, the largest population for a parent company of websites in the United... [13 Aug 2008]
UK spam mountain just got bigger
News We have developed significant security processes to protect against this type of threat, including sending more than two million card reader devices to our customers with the specific purpose of protecting them from online fraud such as phishing. [12 Aug 2008]
Europe's art needs cash to land at digital fingertips
News Europe's online cultural library - a digital repository of countries' books, music, paintings, photographs and films, accessed through a single digital archive - is set to go live this autumn, according to the Commission. [12 Aug 2008]
Consumers reluctant to give financial details online
News Most consumers are still reluctant to enter their personal financial details online, even though most actually willingly do so when asked, despite the fear of fraud online being greater than the chance of becoming a victim of it. [12 Aug 2008]
Online sales top high street by 2026
News Comparison site uSwitch has predicted that online shopping will account for more than half of all consumer sales by 2026, amassing more than the high-street, mail order and telephone revenues put together. [12 Aug 2008]
