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Consumers refuse to let hackers win
News The study -- conducted by business advisors Ernst & Young -- found 10 percent of UK households bought products online. While supermarkets rush to make their groceries available online, stores like Tesco and Sainsburys remain far down the list...
[February 23, 2000, 14:27]
E-business leaders say 'watch your customers'
News Monitoring user experience and investing heavily in customer service is a vital part of successful e-business, according to senior managers from some of the UK's leading online brands. Because online businesses lack the physical contact with their...
[September 28, 2004, 12:50]
Bank customers 'becoming more phishing-savvy'
News Speaking to ZDNet UK on Wednesday, an APACS spokeswoman said that although last year's figures for online fraud were high, only a few people were hit. The Association of Payment and Clearing Services (APACS) has claimed that banking customers are...
[March 23, 2005, 17:20]
Quality, not Quantity will be the key
Talkback The advantage of the agreement is that it opens up another content consumption stream for UK consumers wanting to watch BBC programming online. With the traditional licence fee model, the BBC has an obligation to make its content available to the...
[March 5, 2007, 12:34]
Five years ago: AOL launches version 3.0, passes 100,000 users
News AOL has launched version 3.0 of its online service, and passed 100,000 UK subscribers. New features of AOL 3.0 include a 'buddy list' indicating which members are online at any time, better control over e-mail look and feel, and chat rooms which...
[December 12, 2001, 6:30]
UK heading for a record e-Christmas
News Online retailers can look forward to a particularly merry Christmas, with latest research predicting a record breaking season for UK Internet shopping. IMRG predicts that 24 million UK citizens will spend a total of £5bn online between them.
[November 24, 2005, 16:40]
AOL to close 'free' ISP
News AOL UK has announced the closure of its pay-as-you go Internet Service Provider (ISP) Netscape Online, in order to focus on its more successful flat-rate service. Netscape Online was to be AOL's big foray into "free" Internet access in the UK, and...
[September 11, 2001, 10:57]
E-commerce minister proposes online voting
News The e-commerce minister Douglas Alexander yesterday (Thursday) announced his intention to make online voting a reality within the UK. Online voting has never been used for a public election in the UK.
[October 26, 2001, 7:30]
MSN UK partners with gambling site
News Microsoft's UK portal has inked a two-year marketing deal to provide advertising and promotions for an online casino, Web-based gambling company Gaming Internet said Friday. Under the agreement, MSN.co.uk is expected in mid-June to begin linking to...
[June 11, 2001, 9:32]
Vodafone and BT under threat from m-commerce upstarts
News A new wireless portal, which will offer free online content and messaging, announced its UK launch on Thursday, even as a report emphasised the bright future ahead of such portals in the mobile-commerce (m-commerce) future.room33, a so-called...
[February 17, 2000, 14:34]
Stark warning as UK faces cybercrime boom
News A government report on serious criminal threats to the UK has warned of the growing danger from international gangs of online and credit card fraudsters. It says the criminal market for stolen data has boomed with the growth of the internet, with...
[June 9, 2008, 8:49]
World Online goes freeish
News World Online, the Dutch ISP which burst onto the UK scene in January, launches an unmetered service Monday. Since coming to the UK with an aggressive marketing strategy and plans to go head to head with the UK's number one ISP Freeserve, World...
[April 10, 2000, 12:40]
Home Office may criminalise chatroom 'grooming'
News Home Office backtracks on its argument that UK laws exist to protect children online The proposal contradicts previous government claims that UK legislation is technology-neutral, with existing laws being sufficient to deal with the online...
[May 9, 2001, 14:25]
UK expert calls for entrapment of paedophiles
News Williams questions whether UK law is sufficient to deal with those who show intent to try and contact a child online, irrespective of whether they commit a crime offline. Franklin Sinclair, senior partner at Tuckers Solicitors, says Britain should...
[October 25, 2000, 11:07]
Q&A: What next for Xbox?
News On the agenda was the European launch of the console and plans for the subsequent introduction of online gaming on Xbox. GSUK: Do you see a shift towards PC-style gaming on Xbox with an accompaniment for online?
[March 13, 2002, 16:39]
Britain to appoint head of e-government
News Speaking at the launch of the UK Online annual report for 2003, Pinder explained that the priority for the future is to create effective online public services that are tailored for particular users, not just getting departments onto the Internet.
[December 15, 2003, 13:55]
Brits get online safety savvy
News People in the UK have become more safety aware when online, according to the British Computer Society (BCS). Ninety percent of UK computer users now take action to protect themselves from online threats, a survey conducted on behalf of the BCS has...
[August 9, 2006, 16:45]
Retail Internet fraud is rife: survey
News Internet credit card fraud as high as 40 percent is crippling British retailers' online efforts, according to one of the UK's biggest ever retail surveys, released Thursday. The survey, by credit and business information company Experian, is based...
[September 14, 2000, 7:49]
Online shopping reaches record high
News Online shopping jumped in January, with sales reaching a record high of £4.5bn in the UK over the month. Anthoula Madden, head of Capgemini's UK consumer products and retail team, said online growth is happening despite sluggish sales on the high...
[February 25, 2008, 8:00]
MSN Spring clean adds online car buying
News Autolocate allows all visitors to the Web-based online service get data, plan test drives, and order cars from a 500-plus UK dealer database. MSN plans to launch its Expedia online travel booking service next month.
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