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News The online arm of the UK's leading supermarket chain has a fleet of 2,000 vans operated by 6,000 drivers making more than 70,000 deliveries per day.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Tesco.com has upped delivery rates and reduced fuel consumption of its... [25 Jul 2008]
Oyster outage hits London again
News The problem was resolved by mid-morning with card readers progressively coming back online. Have your say on the state of tech skills in the UK. London's Oyster travel smart card system has failed for the second time in a fortnight with many... [25 Jul 2008]
Microsoft, Yahoo! talks: In the "off-again" phase
News Ballmer's comments followed an earlier discussion of the continued investment that Microsoft expects as it spends money in its online business. Have your say on the state of tech skills in the UK. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday that its... [25 Jul 2008]
ISPs join file sharing crackdown
News ISPs are obliged to work with the music industry and rights' holders to bring about a "significant reduction" in illegal file sharing through education and by developing legal online services. UK internet service providers have joined forces with... [24 Jul 2008]
London: Card fraud hotspot
News Security analysts The 3rd Man looked at 30 million online and mail order card transactions from high street retailers and pinpointed the card fraud blackspots. The UK's top card fraud hotspots have been revealed in a report that shows the crime is... [24 Jul 2008]
Charity Commission saves a bundle with online returns
News The Charity Commission has revealed an online service to handle the submission of annual returns from 169,000 charities is saving the body £425,000 per year. The Commission, which acts as a regulator and registrar for charities in England and Wales... [24 Jul 2008]
Flight booking checks into mobiles
News The company, owned and operated by Online Retail Travel Group (ORTG), offers consumers the ability to search, book and pay for flights through their mobile phone. Justtheflight.co.uk, a flight booking website based in the Isle of Man, claims to be... [23 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Bogus brands face web crackdown
Comment Recent research we conducted with online intellectual property specialist Commercial Security International estimates the value of counterfeit goods passing through online shopping sites in the UK to be as much as £800m. [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. The growth in online sales for Domino's is in line with the... [21 Jul 2008]
Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo And the centre faces a growing threat, with a 140 per cent increase in the amount of malware being deployed online over the past six months. Symantec has four security operations centres worldwide in India, the UK and the US. [21 Jul 2008]
Has Barclays stamped out fraud with PINsentry?
News Barclays claims to have reduced online fraud to zero among users of its two-factor authentication system, PINsentry. Take-up of the devices has been higher than expected, exceeding 30 per cent of the online user base, Barclays said. [18 Jul 2008]
Online retail takes 20p of the shopper's pound
News Online shopping is poised to take 20p out of every UK consumer pound by the end of the year, a landmark milestone that analysts believe will make the channel a critical business for many high-street retailers. [18 Jul 2008]
iPhone 3G, terrorists and tech, file sharers vs ISP
Comment I tried several times to upgrade online. G iPhone up for grabs online - or is it? Online strife EU law to end file-sharers time online? Such a law would force ISPs to warn, then disconnect those customers they think have been sharing copyrighted... [15 Jul 2008]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News The survey also found nearly a third (30 per cent) of consumers now watch TV or video online.uSwitch added that international broadband rankings put the UK's 4Mbps average to shame, with Japan boasting an average connection speed of 64Mbps, Korea... [14 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: silicon.com - what a difference a decade makes
Comment Of course, as well as the sparkling copy, one of the things that set silicon.com apart from the rest of the business press - even the few other online pioneers out there at the time - was the enthusiasm for video. [11 Jul 2008]
