21 Dec 2005
| by by Julia Pearlman
LONDON – Mblox, the ringtone service behind the Crazy Frog ringtone phenomenon, has been fined £40...After a long hearing, Icstis, the premium rate telephone services regulator, ruled that ads run by Jamba up until July 2005 misinformed the public as to the type of service they were buying.
As a ...
for a one-off product, unaware they were actually signing up to a subscription service that would cost ...
21 Dec 2005
| by by Sam Matthews
LONDON – British Airways is looking to use SMS for marketing and customer services in the future...as an instantaneous way to keep its customers updated about services and flights.
As such, throughout 2005, BA has ...
addition of the mobile channel to marketing and customer service functions brings substantial enhancements ...
21 Dec 2005
| by Ben Carter
Yahoo! is to open up its broadband music-video service to third-party advertisers for the first...The internet giant already sells ads on its US music service; more than
200 advertisers have ...
it will promote the use of the service as a platform for
30-second ads. Yahoo! UK commercial director Blake Chandlee said the service's success
in the US demonstrated there is a viable market for the video ads ...
21 Dec 2005
| by by Julia Pearlman
online service and press ads in industry publications in the New Year.
Users will be given tips on how ...
illegally. Only 15% of people have followed the right side of the law and used legal download services and just over half had only used illegal download services.
Consumers who download illegally are being ...
21 Dec 2005
. Though cases were limited to a handful of products,
the predictable public over-reaction ensured ...
20 Dec 2005
| by by Julia Pearlman
of goods and services, including mail order, financial, publications, travel and a wide range of leisure ...
The file will contain postal and email addresses of customers of Tiscali UK, one of the largest internet service providers in Europe with more than 4.5m active users.
Karen Grant-Bond, B2C list ...
14 Dec 2005
| by by Joe Lepper
', the first full version of a book the publisher has made available via its fledgling service....."
Since Penguin's podcasting service launched last month it has featured exclusive interviews and extracts ...
14 Dec 2005
, the internet turned out to be fool's gold.
ITV has behaved differently, developing its own online services ...
enjoyed massive public investment, or with the deep pockets of portals
such as Yahoo! and MSN. So ITV has ...
for converged TV services, such as programmes
delivered via broadband or by mobile phone. In this changing ...
14 Dec 2005
Although NTL ranked bottom in the survey of six companies, its cable
rival Telewest, which it is in the process of acquiring, was ranked
top. AOL was second behind Telewest in the survey of more than 900 UK
consumers, ranking highly for its image, service and offerings. BT, the biggest broadband provider, came ...
14 Dec 2005
| by Greg Brooks
it provides an in-store online service, through
its tills, that allows customers to order any product ...
-tailer, which has been operating in the UK for eight years, says
it is providing excellent customer service ...