WHSmith Opens EBook Store
News WHSmith on Thursday opened an eBook shop, timed to coincide with Microsoft's launch of PocketPC 2002, which includes an updated version of the eReader software. Ross Beadle, commercial director at WHSmith.co.uk, said the decision was taken because...
[October 4, 2001, 17:26]
WHSmith Predicts And Plans For Demand With ALG Software
White Papers WHSmith High Street is one of the UK's leading retailers selling a wide range of newspapers, magazines, stationery, books and entertainment products. One of WHSmith's benchmark studies comparing the staff costs and trading patterns of comparable...
[October 11, 2008, 1:22]
WHSmith Sets Up Shop On The Net
White Papers WH Smith launched its first branded web site in January 1998. During that year a number of other UK booksellers including Heffers, Blackwells and Waterstone's also launched transactional web sites. WH Smith knew that it had to act quickly to take...
[November 29, 2006, 0:00]
High Street Stores Fail Web Test
News Leading high street stores, including WHSmith, PC World and Dixons, have been accused by the Consumers' Association of providing a significantly inferior Internet service to online-only retailers. PC World came next with 32 percent, while less than...
[November 7, 2001, 17:24]
TechTrader: W H Smith Hoping Everything Clicks
News The first "clicks and mortar" store, called WHSmith books.co, will launch in Leeds station, with further shops to open in US airports in the spring. Terminals in the shops will let users order books from WHSmith Online, and check email through the...
[October 29, 1999, 12:25]
Government Not Doing Enough To Wire Schools
News In a bid to help cash-strapped schools, Time Computers is joining forces with The Times newspaper, and newsagents John Menzies and WHSmith, to give away £35m worth of hardware and software. From now until January 2000, tokens will be given away in...
[October 1, 1999, 16:58]
Leading U.K. Retailer Uses Pocket PCs To Reduce In-Store Queuing Times
White Papers As part of an initiative to improve customer service measures, WHSmith wanted to drastically reduce in-store queuing times. Working with solution providers NSB Retail Solutions and 1-2-1 Euro Technology, WHSmith issued around 100 Microsoft Windows...
[November 29, 2006, 0:00]
Time Computers To Donate Computers To Kids
News The initiative, organised with the help of The Times Education Supplement, WHSmith and John Menzies, will allow schoolchildren to collect tokens by surfing the Net using Time's newly-launched ISP, Netline, and exchange the tokens for techno-goodies.
[September 29, 1999, 10:23]
UK E-shopping Site Gives Cash-back
News Users who buy items through GreasyPalm.co.uk will get a cash rebate when they buy items from a range of 150 Internet retailers, including Carphone Warehouse, bol.com and WHSmith.co.uk. A UK Web site launched this week is giving surfers a relatively...
[July 25, 2003, 13:26]
UK Sites Hit By SQL Worm
News Sites that suffered less damage, but were still seriously affected, included whsmith.co.uk, dixons.co.uk, amazon.co.uk and msn.co.uk. Several major UK e-commerce Web sites were heavily affected by the so-called "SQL Slammer" worm that struck...
[January 27, 2003, 12:09]
Business Knowledge For IT In Investment Banking
Talkback Bizle publications are available to buy on www.amazon.co.uk, www.tesco.com, www.whsmith.co.uk. A docklands-based company has released a ground-breaking publication that addresses the misalignment in terms of business knowledge between IT and...
[January 15, 2007, 11:22]
Screaming Net: Localtel Who?
News The number of free access ISPs gets bigger by the day with WHSmith and the Mirror newspaper the latest converts. The service, launched by electronic retailer Tempo, goes one step further than other free models by offering free calls at weekends and...
[May 4, 1999, 8:22]
Cutting Connection Costs
News When WHSmith decided to roll out new warehouse management and forecasting tools in 2000, it was one application too far. WHSmith opted for an EAI suite from SeeBeyond. It's taken Barclays almost three years to get to this stage.
[December 16, 2003, 10:55]
Survey: Shopping Trolleys Are Wobbly Online, Too
News The best performers included John Lewis, WHSmith and Figleaves. Too many online shopping carts are proving as unreliable and erratic as their real-world counterparts, according to new research. One fifth of online shopping carts did not function...
[June 4, 2004, 16:00]
Interactive TV Is Open For Business
News From today services available with Open include shopping with Woolworths, WHSmith, Dominos Pizza, Carphone Warehouse, Dixons, Manchester United, Kitbag Sports, music and video from Yalplay, and Somerfield.
[October 12, 1999, 15:26]
Poor Performance 'cost E-tailers £300m' Over Christmas
News It took up to a minute to download a page from the Gadget Shop's Web site while the best performer was the WHSmith site, which took around 12 seconds. Internet retailers missed out on an estimated £300m of trade over the Christmas period because...
[January 15, 2004, 16:25]
Wednesday
Blog I think it's the feeling deep within the soul of every true-born hack that information wants to be free -- or at the most, available for £3.95 a month from WHSmith. Wednesday 31/07/2002Mondays come and Mondays go.
[August 5, 2002, 11:18]
