Dixons pulls out of VoIP
News Citing incompatibility with the changing face of the Dixons brand — Dixons Stores Group (DSG) recently renamed its high-street retail stores as Currys.digital — the company insisted it had not given up on the technology.
[September 7, 2006, 13:30]
An idea worthy of support
Leader DSG, owner of the Dixons, Currys and PC World retail brands, has had a bright idea. Not that DSG should adopt the quasi-FBI uniforms, badges and command structure of the Squad: something closer to the AA would be an easier fit with our culture.
[September 5, 2006, 16:30]
Techies sought for IT support service
News Technology retailer DSG announced on Monday that it is looking to hire 2,000 technically knowledgeable people for a new IT customer support service. It was launched this week, offering home visits, advice from DSG's PC World stores and 24-hour...
[September 4, 2006, 15:10]
Dixons moves on from Logica fiasco
News High-street electrical retailer Dixons Group (DSG) International is to outsource IT infrastructure support and software development to Indian IT company HCL Technologies in a deal believed to be worth around £150m.
[January 20, 2006, 15:00]
An idea worthy of support
Talkback DSG owns PCWorld as far as i am aware, the people at PC world are the biggest group of idiots i have ever seen in the IT world.i really would not trust DSG to put my plug into the socket! They wouldn't know a screwdriver from a hole in the ground!
[September 8, 2006, 17:44]
Techies sought for IT support service
Talkback I think its time to sell my shares in DSG! I think the sevice is needed but am not sure how much home users will pay for it and whether DSG can make money at it.
[September 5, 2006, 12:17]
Currys £16.99 USB cable rip-off.
Blog Comment I spoke too soon - here's the response from DSG/Currys: I will enquire of DSG again and see what they come back with. First, can we apologise for the delay in replying but also that you were not properly informed at the time of purchase that a USB...
[December 12, 2007, 15:32]
Dixons ditches high street for the Web
News Electrical goods retailer DSG said that it will rebrand its high street Dixons stores as Currys.digital, and move the Dixons brand completely online in the UK. The changes are expected to deliver annual savings of £3m in central costs, according to...
[April 5, 2006, 12:50]
BT cuts prices as VoIP market hots up
News DSG, which owns high street electronics firms including Currys and Dixons, has unveiled a VoIP venture, under the brand FreeTalk. FreeTalk will sell 'adapters' in DSG-owned stores that give users free UK fixed-line calls for a year over VoIP as...
[September 28, 2005, 18:05]
PC World pulls Linux netbooks from stores
News PC World is owned by the electronics giant DSG International, which also owns the Currys electrical chain. A spokesperson for DSG International told ZDNet UK that Currys stores would also stop stocking non-Windows netbooks.
[June 3, 2009, 13:32]
PC World links poor profits to Vista sales
News Poor sales of Windows Vista-related products have hit the profits of PC World, according to its parent company DSG International. In an interim trading statement issued on Thursday, DSG International said that a 0.6 percent drop in its group profit...
[October 18, 2007, 15:45]
Mitsubishi plans retail hook for micro businesses
News Mitsubishi marketing director Chris Buckham said the company is currently in talks with the Dixons Stores Group (DSG) about its new approach and is optimistic that the firm will maintain a strong presence in UK retail.
[March 11, 1998, 14:20]
Denver Solutions Group and IBM Put Year One's e-Commerce Engine Into Overdrive
White Papers DSG) of Englewood, Colorado. DSG recommended rebuilding the system with five IBM eServer xSeries servers supported by VMware ESX Server, which uses virtualization technology to consolidate and partition single enterprise servers into multiple...
[August 25, 2009, 10:14]
O2 snaffles The Link in shopping spree
News Dixons parent group DSG International, which also owns Currys and PC World, decided to get out of the mobile market by selling its 60 percent share in The Link to O2, who already owned the remaining 40 percent, for £30m.
[June 21, 2006, 13:15]
Charity funds IT training for disadvantaged groups
News AbilityNet was one of four beneficiaries of DSG International's community-investment programme and will receive £600,000 over the three-year life of the project. The scheme initially kicked off in July 2006 when DSG International, the parent...
[February 29, 2008, 13:29]
Windows 7 (E) - don't pre-order at these prices.
Talkback A discount Window of three weeks was cut short to a day in some cases (Amazon.co.uk) and a week for the likes of DSG Group/Dixons. Windows 7 initially launched at £44.97 for Home Premium, and 89.97 for Professional here in the UK.
[July 30, 2009, 15:53]
Dell still gets thumbs up
Blog Comment I speak from experience I previously was Head Engineer at a DSG Techguy workshop and at any one time we would have as many paid repairs for dell (including machines inside warranty proving poor customer service) as we had our own machines.
[October 15, 2007, 15:14]
Currys £16.99 USB cable rip-off.
Blog Comment Anyway -- at least HP have got back to me, which is more than Currys or DSG have bothered to do. So have finally heard back from HP over why they are opting not to put USB cables in with their printers anymore.
[December 12, 2007, 8:51]
Indian IT services to double UK market share
News In the past 18 months, UK companies including Carphone Warehouse, DSG and Skandia have all committed to £100m-plus contracts with Indian service providers. India's five largest IT services suppliers will double their market share in the UK by 2011.
[January 24, 2008, 7:30]
'Carbon neutral' PC uses more wood, fewer watts
News But this is going to have the same sort of power as one of the average units on sale at Christmas — and it will cost about the same, too," Peter Lyons from DSG International, PC World's parent company, told The Independent.
[July 20, 2007, 17:31]
