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Corner Shops To Get Wired
News The Internet moves to the corner shop Tuesday as Littlewoods signs a Web deal with convenience store owners T&S. Online kiosks will be installed in six of T&S' One Stop stores in the new year. Customers will be able to order goods from Littlewoods...
[November 23, 1999, 13:14]
Pre-paid 'credit' Card For The Web
News UK consumers will be able to buy the cards from their local corner shop in fixed face values of £5, £10 or £15. Internet service provider World Online has launched the first credit card for children that can be used to shop on the Web.
[September 4, 2000, 14:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog When I'd fought my way to the corner and worked out what was going on, I was hit by a mighty obsession. In the corner was a ZX81: the rest of the place was packed by its acolytes. Then I wandered into WH Smith in Plymouth one day, and wondered why...
[January 16, 1999, 6:28]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News When I'd fought my way to the corner and worked out what was going on, I was hit by a mighty obsession. In the corner was a ZX81: the rest of the place was packed by its acolytes. Then I wandered into WH Smith in Plymouth one day, and wondered why...
[January 16, 1999, 6:28]
Jane Wakefield: Dark Side Of The Net
News Imagine a future where the Big Brother screen in the corner of the room is the least of your worries. As you stumble into the bathroom with a raving hangover, don't be surprised to hear a little voice from the corner: "Well, if we will pour vodka...
[February 28, 2000, 11:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In the red corner, Rupert Murdoch and his band of merry Sky men: in the blue corner, British Satellite Broadcasting. In the red corner, Rupert Murdoch and his band of merry men: in the blue corner, ON Digital.
[April 27, 2001, 17:51]
Online Ad-blocking Attacked
News You'd go to your local corner shop and buy the daily paper, and you'd have these large holes where the ads were. The end of free Internet content will come when Web browsers start blocking online advertisements by default, a DoubleClick executive...
[June 23, 2005, 10:05]
Time Computers Denies Tales Of Woe
Talkback The company, for as long as it has been open, has been run like a corner shop. Well I can see that HSBC may decline to process anymore payments. Plasma CS are currently advising customers that the scheduled deliveries are not going to take place...
[July 25, 2005, 20:55]
Gartner: Printer Ink Costs More Than Perfume
Talkback Has all mod cons goes like a rocket ( you do need a rocket to get you to the corner shop ) , is exuberantly luxurious and comes with umpteen give aways worth more than what you pay for it - the mere cost of a trolley full of groceries.
[October 30, 2004, 17:47]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There is every chance that by the time 3G turns up and starts to offer the couple of hundred kilobits/second, we'll all be gallivanting about getting 11 megabits from the corner shop. Wednesday 20/03/2002
[March 26, 2002, 10:11]
Lacey's Paper Round - The Week's Best IT Coverage In Print
News And even early front runners are not certain successes - "Amazon could yet become a $10 billion business with the profits of a corner shop. By far the best story of the week, is The Economist's detailed examination of the rise, and rise, and...
[February 5, 1999, 14:03]
Fresh Calls For Data-breach Law
News Data breaches run from the corner-shop owner who loses customer notes, right through to corporations losing data. A member of a prominent House of Lords committee has repeated calls for a data-breach notification law.
[September 14, 2007, 10:08]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Especially since the Web's got to the point where one's slightly surprised if one's local corner shop doesn't have a home page somewhere. "The next generation of Windows CE will be real-time", announces Microsoft.
[April 11, 1998, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Especially since the Web's got to the point where one's slightly surprised if one's local corner shop doesn't have a home page somewhere. "The next generation of Windows CE will be real-time", announces Microsoft.
[April 11, 1998, 7:00]
BIBLE: Internet Startup Culture - The UK Versus America
News It will be another three years or so before the corner shop firms will be able to gain access to adequate funding in the UK. The rash of coverage in the national press recently, with surveys of those 20-something 'Internet Millionaires' may have...
[November 11, 1999, 8:33]
Online Cannabis Shop Goes Up In Smoke
News Detective Superintendent, Mick Deats, deputy head of the NHTCU, said the arrests prove that the dealers will be caught, whether online or offline: "Whether drugs are being sold on a street corner or over the Internet, we are committed to work...
[December 22, 2003, 14:45]
Jane Wakefield: On Sexism And Bugs
News Nowadays such books are banned from schools and teachers spend their time making sure the boys play in the home corner and the girls play their fair share of footie. Women are also spending more, although one study found that women prefer to window...
[December 20, 1999, 9:14]
Analysis: Experts Agree Napster Cannot Be Stopped, Part II
News It's just around the corner," she told ZDNet. With the advent of broadband across the UK, Westwood asks "would you just download your software from the Internet, or go and buy it for £500 from a shop?
[March 24, 2000, 12:30]
3G Handsets Get Prototype Fuel Cell
News For many years the IT industry has been told that fuel cells are just around the corner, and that's where they still are today. Each methanol cartridge would only provide enough power for one recharge, so users would either have to carry a number...
[September 30, 2004, 17:00]
Macworld Expo Showcases Paraphernalia
News Most of the teen and younger set gravitated to a far corner of the convention hall, where there was a huge setup of Power Macs running the latest games for the Mac. Meanwhile, New York-based Apple shop Tekserve went retro with an iMac painted beige...
[July 20, 2001, 15:09]
