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RSS petrolTesco online sales continue to grow
News Grocery order volumes rose by more than 10 per cent to £7.5m, against a growth of 9.7 per cent for store sales, including petrol. Grocery giant Tesco has reported strong sales for its food and non-food online arms in its... [30 Sep 2008]
The McCue Interview: Ian Cramb, COO, Citigroup
Comment Ian Cramb is one of the increasing number of IT chiefs moving up the corporate ladder into wider operating roles, rising from CIO to become COO of the Citigroup's consumer business in 2006. It's a huge job, with responsibility for an... [10 Sep 2008]
Criminals hack chip and PIN terminals
News According to police the tampered chip and PIN terminals are installed in retail outlets and petrol stations either by someone working on the inside or by threatening staff. Criminal gangs are hacking chip and PIN... [14 Aug 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.08.08
Round-Up Also, it runs on petrol, which at the time of writing is about as valuable as platinum. The Round-Up has never been a big fan of DIY. At least, not since that incident with the electric drill and the very large plumber's... [08 Aug 2008]
Fast, Flexible Connections Cut Repsol YPF's Networking Costs
White Paper Repsol YPF is an international oil company and Spain's leading petrol retailer. To support its expansion plans, Repsol YPF decided that it needed an up-to-date network infrastructure that would connect all of its... [04 Aug 2008]
Blowing up hard drives, stinky broadband and super cars
Photo Get revved up for more petrol-headed fun here. The Tesla Roadster, a sporty variation on the electric car, was one of the many high powered and eco-friendly cars on show at the British International Motor Show in London. [01 Aug 2008]
Photos: The jet pack blasts off
Photo Forty years later a New Zealand inventor Glenn Martin shot skyward using a 200HP water-cooled piston engine running on petrol. Martin says the machine can stay up for 30 minutes on a 19 litre tank of... [01 Aug 2008]
Photos: Welcome to Satyam's R&D labs
Photo Satyam is also developing its own in-car networking and car domain system - dot auto - that promises social networking, mapping of nearby shops and services and the ability to pre-pay for goods such as food and petrol. [19 May 2008]
The Naked CIO: Identity crisis
Comment On my way to work I stop off for petrol and pay using my credit card. Like most IT directors, the Naked CIO is extremely careful with other people's data. So why as a consumer does he blithely share his own personal... [25 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tax crash, mobile driving, eBay feedback, Vista woes…
Comment You don't wait until your car runs dry of petrol to pay your fuel tax do you (sorry fill up with petrol). What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the... [07 Feb 2008]
Tesco nears £200m online Xmas sales
News Growth in online sales outstripped total UK sales growth for the period, which increased by 3.1 per cent in like-for-like sales, excluding petrol. Leading UK grocer Tesco grew sales at its online businesses Tesco.com and... [15 Jan 2008]
Why must IT go green?
Comment The long term trend for oil, gas, electricity and petrol costs is up, up, up. Green IT is not about compliance or coercion. It is about efficiency, says Stewart Baines. And that should make it more sustainable than any... [03 Dec 2007]
Torex Retail looks to future
News His business, which has a revenue of £10m per year, gets revenues from convenience store sales and petrol sales, which means his POS system is critical to the running of the business. Torex will lose the Retail part of... [13 Nov 2007]
CIOs 'lack vision and fail to innovate'
News There's a lot of exciting stuff going on out there - banks using Second Life to design branches, energy companies using it to design petrol stations, financial services companies sharing internal blogs with customers. [26 Apr 2007]
Remote Surveillance of Vapour Recovery System for Fuel Dispensers
White Paper Malte Products AB has developed a wireless system for remote surveillance of fuel handling information for petrol stations. The system runs the applications for Price signs and Tank Inventory. The new system provides a... [24 Apr 2007]
