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Photos: Top iPhone apps for business
Photo The Yell.com application uses the iPhone's in-built GPS to provide directory information on local businesses and service providers. Yell.com Apple's iPhone might be seen by many as largely a consumer... [27 Oct 2009]
New CTO provides Devine inspiration for Yell
News Yell has appointed a new UK chief technology officer. Yell's new CTO, Rorie Devine (Photo credit: Yell) Devine heads up Yell's tech function with responsibility for the... [11 Aug 2009]
Netbooks: "cramped keyboards, terrible software and junky hardware"
News Cook can't say outright that Apple doesn't care about Mac market share; one, because it isn't entirely true, and two, because his marketing team will yell at him. Coming off the best quarter in the company's history that... [23 Apr 2009]
Minority Report: A greener Apple
Comment You yell 'Shark' and we've got a panic on our hands. You yell 'Barracuda' and everyone says 'huh? Apple is singing a new, greener tune - thanks in part to pressure from Greenpeace. A good result, says... [23 Aug 2007]
Technology gives couriers the edge on the street
News They take all their bookings by phone, they have controllers sitting by radios who yell and scream when an order comes in and the first courier to call back gets the job. Couriers have held a strange fascination for... [16 May 2006]
BT CIO Al-Noor Ramji
Comment He says: "In an investment bank they'll either yell at you anyway even if you didn't ask them or you can walk around and see them. BT is an organisation in transition. The move to reinvent itself from an old-fashioned... [28 Oct 2005]
Opinion: Online security school now in session
Comment With the help of BBC Top Gear's Richard Hammond, Cabinet Office Minister John Hutton and the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit's Sharon Lemon, the initiative will be a public-private partnership supported by the likes of eBay, HSBC, Lloyds TSB... [24 Oct 2005]
Security education: Too little too late
Comment In this case, the generosity of Dell, eBay, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Microsoft and Yell will match a £150,000 grant from the government. What is government doing to educate end users about online threats such as viruses and... [22 Aug 2005]
Google offers UK maps and local listings
News The local business information is supplied through a new partnership between Google UK and the online arm of the Yellow Pages, Yell.com. Google UK has finally introduced the local search and mapping tools that were... [20 Apr 2005]
Opinion: How broad is broadband?
Comment The reaction to the DTI survey from Eddie Cheng, ebusiness director at the Yell Group, was to ask: "What about bandwidth? Broadband may be widely available in the UK - but how fast are these connections? [23 Feb 2005]
Greg Dyke joins VC firm
News Recent successes for the equity group include the float on the UK stock market of classified phone directories business Yell. Greg Dyke, who left his post as director general of the BBC in January, has accepted a... [12 Oct 2004]
Yell set to launch £2bn float plans
News Yell will reveal plans for a £2bn stock market flotation this week, according to reports in the weekend papers. Although an earlier float, valued at around £2.3bn, was pulled last year because of the poor state of the... [30 Jun 2003]
BT moves back into directory services
News The move marks a re-entry to the directory services business BT left when it sold off Yell for £2.1bn to a consortium of venture capitalists. BT's plans still see it building a much smaller business than... [06 Aug 2002]
Yell flotation is off
News The flotation of online directory service Yell has been called off. The Yell flotation was expected to be launched sometime in the next week, with the application period for shares closing on 3 July. It... [01 Jul 2002]
BT swoops for £5m Scoot
News BT has bought directory outfit Scoot for £5m just a year after selling its own business directory operation Yell for £2.1bn. The move coincides with the expiry of a one-year undertaking from BT that it would not launch... [27 Jun 2002]
