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News Grocery giant Tesco has reported strong sales for its food and non-food online arms in its latest half-year report.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Tesco.com grew sales by 20 per cent in the 26 weeks to 23... [30 Sep 2008]
C&W pays £30m for FMC
News Back in May, C&W announced Tesco as its first FMC customer. Ericsson said the network will provide indoor fixed and mobile coverage for C&W's enterprise users, including Tesco. Telecoms kit company... [12 Sep 2008]
Supermarkets serve up varied pace online
News In the same test, Tesco.com came close behind with 8.3 seconds and Sainsburys.com's grocery site landed in third at 10.5 seconds. As online retail captures a growing share of the consumer spend, customer service on... [27 Aug 2008]
ASDA to kick start mobile pay-as-you-go price war?
News Similar MVNO deals include partnerships between Ikea and T-Mobile and Tesco and O2. Supermarket chain ASDA says it is to slash its pay-as-you-go (PAYG) mobile phone rates from the start of September, potentially sparking... [21 Aug 2008]
Experian checks in new global CIO
News Prior to that he spent 17 years at Tesco, where he became deputy to the IT director. Credit checking and information services company Experian has appointed its first ever global CIO. The appointment is an internal one,... [18 Aug 2008]
Tesco.com vans cut fuel bills with telematics tech
News Tesco.com has upped delivery rates and reduced fuel consumption of its delivery vans - by 10 per cent in both cases - using new telematics technology. Tesco.com has struck a multimillion-pound deal with... [25 Jul 2008]
Icann opens a can of worms
News He added: "If you go beyond the brand, it's [slogans like] 'Every little helps' from Tesco. The decision to allow custom top-level domains will be a "nightmare" for brand managers, analysts and lawyers have warned. [30 Jun 2008]
Broadband speed: ISPs accept 'code of practice'
News But retail giant Tesco, which offers home broadband at various price-points, appears to be one absentee - along with mobile operator Vodafone, which offers its mobile customers a home broadband package. [05 Jun 2008]
Tesco spends £100m on network overhaul
News Tesco is about to embark on a five-year £100m overhaul of its telecommunications network that is expected to save the retail giant up to £10m per year. The contract with Cable & Wireless (C&W) is intended to free office... [28 May 2008]
Kids flocking to Blyk to bag free calls and texts
News Rival MVNO Tesco Mobile recently announced it is forging ahead with mobile advertising after attracting hundreds of thousands of unique visitors to a WAP advertising portal it was trialling. An ad-funded mobile network... [25 Apr 2008]
Who is the UK's IT hero of the year?
News On the user side the big awards are CIO of the Year - won last year by Tesco's Colin Cobain - and new awards for IT Team of the Year and IT Community Hero of the Year. Entries for the prestigious CNET Networks UK... [22 Apr 2008]
Tesco to launch iTunes challenger
News Tesco is launching an online music service next month with more than three million tracks available to download and more content to follow. Tesco Digital will initially offer all of the tracks in Window... [15 Apr 2008]
Tesco Mobile users hungry for ads
News Tesco Mobile has embraced mobile advertising after concluding its customers are hungry for ads on their phones. The mobile virtual network operator has been trialling a WAP advertising portal since May 2007, which... [09 Apr 2008]
Retailers count the online Xmas coffers
News Tesco head of corporate communications Trevor Datson said: "In a mature market like grocery, to have 24 per cent growth is an extraordinary figure. If Tesco.com was listed on its own, its revenues would... [17 Jan 2008]
Tesco nears £200m online Xmas sales
News Leading UK grocer Tesco grew sales at its online businesses Tesco.com and Tesco Direct by 24 per cent over the six Christmas-shopping weeks up to 5 January 2008. Tesco... [15 Jan 2008]
