online sales
RSS online salesOnline shopping reaches £4.8bn
News 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 every person in the UK and continued to outstrip high street sales. [20 Aug 2008]
Brits spending record time online
News Between February and June 2008, the number of dongle sales to consumers nearly doubled from 69,000 to 133,000 per month, the report found. Brits are more comms obsessed than ever, according to Ofcom. The telecoms regulator has released its fifth... [14 Aug 2008]
Carphone Warehouse does workforce management
News The application, supplied by Kronos, will be used to analyse historical trading data; projected sales figures; labour rules; and employee availability to create optimum staffing schedules for each of the mobile phone and consumer electronics... [13 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]
Semantic web breaking out of the lab
News BT is already using this tech in its sales and billing departments and plans to roll it out to its business customers in the near future. In the long term, Davies says semantic web tech could be applied to service oriented architecture and used to... [11 Aug 2008]
Switch from oil to silicon
Comment For them the internet offers worldwide distribution, a low-cost sales channel and even access to the untapped potential of creative suppliers if you follow the model through to web 2.0 and user-generated content. [31 Jul 2008]
Dell to launch iPod killer?
News This time, if the company goes ahead with the music player, the strategy is different, Michael Tatelman, Dell's vice president of consumer sales said, according to the paper. It would connect to online music services via a wi-fi internet connection... [31 Jul 2008]
Amazon unveils online-payments service
News The Seattle-based company describes it Checkout by Amazon as a "complete checkout solution" with features such as Amazon's "one-click" payment option and tools for managing shipping charges, sales tax and promotions. [30 Jul 2008]
Kwik Fit Insurance drives up website performance
News The insurance distribution arm of vehicle maintenance chain Kwik Fit has implemented website tracking software from Tealeaf to help it improve sales conversions on its site - and identify potentially fraudulent applications. [28 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Bogus brands face web crackdown
Comment Clearly, counterfeit sales dilute the value of brands but they also undermine the integrity of auction sites and ultimately cost the economy millions of pounds in lost income. While in pure money terms luxury brands may have the most to lose, it's... [22 Jul 2008]
Domino's online sales pass 20 per cent
News Fast food takeaway chain Domino's Pizza UK has broken the 20 per cent mark in online sales for the half year ended 29 June - meaning one in five of its pizzas are now ordered over the web. Online purchases now represent 21.8 per cent of all... [21 Jul 2008]
Online retail takes 20p of the shopper's pound
News According to the IMRG Capgemini E-Retail Sales Index, UK shoppers spent more than £26.5bn online in the first six months of 2008, up 38 per cent from the same period last year. Online shopping is poised to take 20p out of every UK consumer pound by... [18 Jul 2008]
Latin America's Printer Online Outperforms the Competition With WebEx
White Paper With a minimal investment, WebEx made it possible for them to provide both pre- and post-sales support to customers without having to leave their office. Founded in 1998, Printer Online is a leading provider of full-service printing solutions in... [18 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone - the business perspective
News Corporates buying through O2 Business Sales - or through the operator's B2B reseller partners - are not limited on the number of iPhones they can buy (subject to stock availability). O2 has warned consumer customers intending to purchase an iPhone... [10 Jul 2008]
Securing a Virtual Private Network With Smart Card Technology
White Paper Traveling employees, business partners, contractors and offsite sales offices all require a way to remotely and securely access enterprise applications and sensitive or confidential data that resides on the corporate network, and organizations are... [10 Jul 2008]
