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RSS hmvHMV Carries A More Profitable Tune with DB2 Backing Its E-Business
White Paper That's why when HMV Media Group started moving toward becoming an e-business, it surveyed the IT landscape for a scalable, reliable database that would seamlessly integrate into its existing stock and range infrastructure based on IBM DB2... [24 Feb 2004]
HMV must refocus in face of digital world - analyst
News HMV needs to put more emphasis on DVDs, games, ringtones and other new media if it is to keep its stores going during a "realignment of the music industry", according to experts. Mark Mulligan, JupiterResearch VP, told silicon.com HMV needs to be... [11 Jan 2007]
HMV and Virgin to do digital battle in days
News Both HMV and Virgin have announced they are to open the doors of their music download services in early September, with HMV to launch on 5 September and Virgin Digital UK to launch this Friday. Virgin will be offering around 1.2 million songs at... [31 Aug 2005]
HMV tunes up downloads with Microsoft
News HMV on Wednesday announced plans to launch a digital music service next year, using software being developed by Microsoft. Music downloads from the service will be compatible with the Windows Media Audio standard and usable by more than 75 portable... [23 Dec 2004]
HMV Brings Digital Music to a Wider Community With a Revolutionary New Service
White Paper Specialist music retailer HMV has more than 200 stores across the U.K.and Ireland and an online store, HMV.co.uk. The revolution in digital music prompted HMV to develop its own digital offering with a different, more customer-focused approach than... [31 Mar 2007]
HMV Brings Any Time, Easy-to-Use Digital Downloads Service to Music Lovers
White Paper HMV is the largest music retailer in the United Kingdom, with more than 200 stores and a successful online store - www.hmv.co.uk. HMV was interested in taking advantage of the growth in digital downloading as a music and entertainment channel and... [22 Feb 2007]
HMV adopts lean digital business strategy
News Music, video and games retailer HMV Group has set out its web 2.0 stall as part of an effort to offset flagging physical store sales, and which could also lead to redundancies in the IT department. The retailer, which operates the HMV and... [28 Jun 2007]
HMV spends £1.8m on voice services
News HMV Group has awarded AT Communications (ATC) Group a £1.8m contract to supply voice services for the next 24 months.silicon.com Retail & Leisure HMV has been undergoing a root and branch review of costs, following a strategic operational review in... [24 Sep 2007]
HMV and Waterstones to launch free ISPs
News Music seller, HMV and bookstore, Waterstones are the latest retailers to become free Internet service providers (ISPs), after signing partnerships with Yahoo! From 29 March, users will be able to access the services by collecting a free CD from the... [24 Mar 1999]
Gary Arthurs
CIO Profile Gary Arthurs has been CIO of HMV Group since 2007 where he heads up a tech team of 125, responsible for IT across the Group's 500 stores. At HMV the CIO's priority is to align IT with business strategy to gain more value from it. [11 Jun 2008]
Waterstone's calls time on Amazon love-in
News The HMV-owned book chain has used Amazon as its online channel since 2001, which meant it was effectively redirecting potential customers to Amazon. A HMV Group spokesman said on Wednesday: "The market was very undeveloped [five years ago]. [11 May 2006]
Kylie Minogue: All yours for £4.99 per month
News High street music retailer HMV is to launch a download service, giving users access to the hits of acts such as Kylie Minogue, The Beatles and Elvis Presley for a monthly fee of £4.99. According to a spokeswoman for OD2 the HMV service offers users... [28 Aug 2002]
Online cash payments on the cards?
News HMV is not alone in the retail sector in making it hard for the cash customers to purchase goods online. But when HMV ran an online promotion for the band McFly to its great surprise it failed to generate the expected revenue because it had not... [22 Oct 2007]
'Clicks and mortars' lick wounds after Xmas thrashing
News Gennario Castalto, a spokesman for HMV UK, said: "You would expect dot-coms to focus on service availability, this is their raison d'être, if they're not getting this right then you have to ask why are they doing it at all? [08 Jan 2001]
Music lovers: Today is digital download day
News Stuart Rowe, ecommerce director at HMV, which is joining in with the venture, said: "It is only right that the industry takes all appropriate measures to protect its copyright and its artists' interests. [03 Oct 2002]
