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Play.com gets 1,000-order-a-minute Xmas
News Online entertainment retailer Play.com has revealed 24 per cent year-on-year growth in sales over the Christmas holiday 2008.silicon.com Retail & Leisure... [02 Jan 2009]
Play.com purchasing system boosted bumper Christmas
News A new purchasing platform helped online entertainment retailer Play.com to bumper sales this Christmas. According to Rowe, because Play.com's product range has expanded,... [27 Jan 2009]
Dear silicon.com... work and play, mobiles on planes, data leaks...
Comment So not far from his idea, but could do with being a bit more plug and play and user friendly for the average home user before we see wide spread use. Terms like "plug and play", "pay as you go" and "on... [25 Oct 2007]
SILICON.COM ANNOUNCES WINNERS TO WORLD MATCH PLAY GOLF COMPETITION
News Silicon.com and Sterling Software Applications Development Group are pleased to announce the winners of tickets to the Cisco World Match Play golf tournament on Friday 15 October at Wentworth. The lucky... [08 Oct 1999]
silicon.com e-tail survey: Seasonal cheer for pure play dot-coms
Comment Working with Mercury Interactive, silicon.com assessed ten leading UK e-tailers, and although the current resurgence of household names - recast as clicks and mortar players - is undeniable, we found them trailing... [05 Jan 2001]
Online Retailer Adopts Software-Plus-Services to Connect With Customers
White Paper Play.com is the fourth largest online retailer in the United Kingdom.the company has been investigating new ways to interact with its customers. Having successfully incorporated customer reviews into the... [16 Apr 2008]
SIM-free iPhones now available in the UK
News Play.com has begun listing brand new unlocked iPhones for sale on its website - both the original and 3G models - SIM-free, opening up Apple's smartphone for use on any UK mobile network.... [25 Mar 2009]
Leader: Consumer tech is changing the enterprise
Leader So, you might say, he got to look at some cool gadgets and play a bit of blackjack - how's that relevant to enterprise computing exactly? Analyst Gartner has also suggested CIOs and IT directors need to do things like... [11 Jan 2007]
IT suppliers: Size does (and doesn't) matter
Comment Matthew McGrory, IT director at Fulham Football Club, said small IT suppliers "tend to be better at pulling out the stops to meet deadlines" while Graham Benson, IT director at Play.com, said they are... [06 Jul 2006]
Dell's secret to riding out the recession
Comment I have seen that play out in multiple companies in my career," Robin Johnson tells silicon.com. The Dell CIO is seeing it play out right now - with revenues dropping $3.7bn year on year... [04 Sep 2009]
Re:Viewing 2005: CIO quotes of the year
News If you want to be a 'CxO' then you have to play with the big boys and be prepared to go to jail. How do we play the same game that the car industry does - Volvo, Mazda, Ford, one platform. JP Rangaswami,... [21 Dec 2005]
LiMo targets the business mobile
News Check out silicon.com's latest mobile photo stories here… Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008 Photos: Bling up your BlackBerry Photos: When art meets tech - Nokia phone Morphs into... [15 May 2008]
CIOs face tough on-demand choices
News On the one hand there are the on-demand pure-play start-ups such as NetSuite and Salesforce.com, with their sales force automation and CRM tools, up against the traditional big vendors such as Microsoft,... [20 Sep 2007]
Government IT spending to come under scrutiny
News An OFT spokesperson told silicon.com's sister site ZDNet UK that IT is likely to play a significant part in the study, but at this early stage she could not be specific. Spending on hardware and software... [09 Feb 2004]
Mobile phone Subbuteo puts footy fans to the test
News Users of the Orange, Virgin Mobile and Vodafone UK networks can already play Millionaire, Trivial Pursuit and Zobmondo! Subbuteo will test football trivia and use a scale of increasing cash prizes as consumers... [14 Mar 2002]
