Woolies is now offering mobile phones online

Rating: Iconic British brand re-emerges for handset sales
Just when you thought a classic British High Street retailer was dead and buried, Woolworths is back and selling goods online. Just in times for the Xmas period. This is fine until you look at the wide range (168) of handsets it is selling amongst other electrical goods. [...]

Apple bows to UK’s OFT over online terms

Rating: terms and conditions changed for iTunes et al
Naughty Apple Inc has agreed to change its iTunes – that is the terms and conditions which it offers to consumers thanks to the UK’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT).  Significantly this agreement extends to the online iTunes stores as well as its hardware sales.
Amongst the [...]

Orange texts incentive to its broadband users

Rating: Vast improvement on mobile bill visibility discovered
Orange has been texting its fixed broadband customers with an incentive of the chance to win £1,000 of M&S shopping vouchers if they reply with their real email address.Why discuss fixed broadband here? Easy. If you are a long established Orange customer – and given my account number [...]

Dialogue First To Take payforIT Initiative Online

NEW MICRO-PAYMENT MECHANISM AVAILABLE TO ONLINE VENDORS
The UK mobile payment initiative payforIT is expanding onto the World Wide Web with the help of leading mobile interactive specialist Dialogue Communications. The payforIT payment mechanism will offer shoppers an online payment alternative and enable internet merchants to reach new customers.

payforIT allows consumers to pay for content, goods [...]

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