Buying Christmas presents online? Check your dates first
News As for more tangible gifts, most online retailers will be accepting orders up until the final few days before Christmas this year. At Dixons' online store, last orders for pre-Christmas delivery is 17 December, but in this case the bricks-and...
[November 27, 2001, 10:24]
Online Christmas to cost £154m
News Take Christmas, add a related few e-cards, throw in some "general festive chit chat", and we have a recipe for 22 million lost working hours in the UK, costing medium-sized businesses alone around £154m.
[December 17, 2002, 12:19]
Online Christmas shopping soared in 2001
News More than 10 million Britons visited e-commerce Web sites over Christmas -- an increase of three million on the number of online shoppers in December 2000. This was an increase of nearly one million over the number of purchases made online during...
[January 24, 2002, 17:03]
E-commerce booms in UK
News Over £1bn was spent by UK online shoppers last month, as Britain gets ready for its biggest ever e-Christmas. You can do a grocery shop in half an hour instead of half a day, and it's great for Christmas gifts, because the retailer will wrap and...
[December 13, 2002, 16:45]
Santa’s Secret Software Solutions
Blog At a packed press conference this morning, Santa Claus briefed a crowd of journalists and elves on his new technology-driven Christmas programme designed to bring presents to children around the world using a more tightly managed infrastructure.
[December 21, 2007, 19:50]
Christmas Super Frog
Downloads Now it is up to you to recover all the missing presents before Christmas arrives. Recapture memories of playing arcade games as a child, enjoy a rainy day, or just have a little Christmas fun. Christmas Super Frog is one of the best free christmas...
[October 21, 2009, 3:12]
Christmas e-shoppers undaunted by security fears
News Consumers wishing to avoid the high street this Christmas are determined to shop online even if they have suffered a security breach on their PC, according to a survey of 250 consumers conducted by security vendor Kaspersky.
[December 11, 2006, 15:48]
Merry Christmas! E-commerce set to soar
News The research, commissioned by ISP and portal service Freeserve, found that 71 percent of those surveyed found online shopping appealing for Christmas purchases such as presents and food and drink. New research has backed up previous predictions...
[November 15, 1999, 12:52]
E-Christmas may not live up to promise
News This Christmas is predicted to be the breakthrough point for e-commerce in the UK and we know our listeners are regular online shoppers. Online retailers will be selling more than last year but its not going to be an e-Christmas," he said.
[November 15, 1999, 16:39]
'Tis the season to be spending... online
News One thing the online world definitely has in common with its three dimensional cousin is the Christmas sale boom, which brings in a significant proportion of the years revenue. In terms of when their peak sales periods are, there's no doubt that...
[December 6, 2002, 15:25]
Hot e-commerce picks; AMD about-face
News PaineWebber analyst Jim Preissler said early reports suggest the past Christmas shopping season raked in between $10bn to $12bn (£6.2bn to £7.44bn) for e-commerce companies, meaning those companies providing the nuts and bolts to make online...
[January 10, 2000, 10:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Bacchanalian Diary
Blog I prepare for these last days before Christmas with dreams of three-legged elves wrapping presents containing other elves wrapping presents containing. To have your say online click on TalkBack and go to the ZDNet forums.
[December 21, 2001, 15:45]
Sun and the North Pole Net
News Worldwide Internet sales are predicted to more than double in the lead up to Christmas this year, indicating that parents and children around the world are embracing the Internet as a convenient, easy way to source presents.
[December 30, 2002, 9:56]
2001: It's not too late to buy that last-minute present
News You may feel that downloading software onto someone's PC and then telling them "it's there" lacks some of the ceremony that is supposed to go with Christmas presents. See ZDNet UK's Christmas & New Year Special for our look at the tech world in...
[December 25, 2001, 6:31]
Gadgets, gizmos top techies' holiday lists
News On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me.a PC in a pear tree. Those may not be the original lyrics to "The Twelve Days of Christmas," but technology industry professionals plan to give and receive laptop, desktop and handheld...
[November 15, 2001, 10:30]
Amazon chief: We'll make $1bn a quarter
News I predict that people will still buy presents this Christmas," he laughed. Christmas is traditionally a key time for e-tailers and often helps boost their sales, as it did for Amazon last year - but again, when asked whether he is expecting a...
[October 8, 2002, 8:37]
Little shop of horrors
Leader I was saving for the children's Christmas, but thanks to Mr Arthur's marvellous offer of three books for the price of two, I don't have to worry! Christmas was coming and she couldn't decide what to buy her three children.
[October 24, 2006, 17:45]
Use the Internet to demand good Christmas presents
News Worried you won't get what you want this Christmas? The SF Cody "Wish List" gives hopeful consumers the chance to let their nearest and dearest know in precise detail what they want for Christmas. Hey, drop a cyber hint to ensure you get what you...
[November 29, 1999, 10:03]
