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22 August 2002

  • £2.5m extra funding for ZBD

    22 August 2002

    ZBD Displays, a company developing new display technology for mobile phones and PDAs, has raised a further £2.5m. The investors included Prelude Trust, a previous investor which put in a further £910,000, QinetiQ Ventures, The Dow Chemical Company and TTP

  • Ad Watch

    22 August 2002

    Maurice Wheeler, operations director, Digital Outlook

  • Adobe announces version 6.5 of Premiere video package

    22 August 2002

    Adobe has unveiled the latest version of its digital editing software package Premiere. Version 6.5 will enable authoring of CD-ROM, DVD and Web content. New features of the package include real-time previews, title design tools and support for MPEG-2 app

  • Adventures Overseas

    22 August 2002

    Expanding your business into Europe can be a daunting - not to say risky - move. But there are also many advantages, not least a whole new customer base of some 320m people. So what are the considerations involved? Dominic Dudley asks those who have been

  • Affinity launches one-bill fixed phone and Web access

    22 August 2002

    Communication service provider Affinity has launched the first in a range of bundled services offering fixed telephony and Internet access charged through one bill. Affinity is showcasing the new service through its Breathe ISP and will initially market t

  • Age Concern surveys older people's Internet usage

    22 August 2002

    A new survey by Age Concern and Barclays has shown sharp differences in how older people use the Internet. While most men aged over 55 (78%) tend to go online to pursue hobbies and find information, 86% of women in this age group are more likely to use th

  • Agency Royale

    22 August 2002

    Her name is McQueen, Catherine McQueen.

  • Agency Wins

    22 August 2002

    Interactive agency Bloc has won a five-way pitch to create an exclusively licensed interactive Web-based game for the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB). The game will form part of the CITB's soon-to-be-launched youth marketing campaign designed

  • AOL considers move onto iTV by reworking services for Sky

    22 August 2002

    AOL UK is attempting to become the first major Web portal to launch the full range of its services on iTV.

  • AOL considers move onto iTV by reworking services for Sky

    22 August 2002

    AOL is attempting to become the first major Web portal to launch the full range of its services on iTV, reports Ben Carter.

  • AOP takes on BT as partner to help develop content charging

    22 August 2002

    The Association of Online Publishers has struck a deal with BT to help in the development of the new BT Click&Buy service, reports Greg Brooks.

  • AOP takes on BT as partner to help develop content charging

    22 August 2002

    The Association of Online Publishers (AOP) has struck a deal with BT to help in the development of the new BT Click&Buy service.

  • Arkemedia to develop BFI online archive

    22 August 2002

    The British Film Institute (BFI) has taken on Arkemedia to develop a digital asset management system that will power a Web-based archive due to launch in early 2003.

  • Attenda launches heavy-duty site testing service

    22 August 2002

    Web hosting specialist Attenda has launched a new service which will allow its clients to test large Web sites before they launch. This will enable them to ensure that they don't crash under the pressure of massive amounts of traffic. Attenda has partnere

  • BA uses Be Free affiliate tools

    22 August 2002

    British Airways is using Be Free's affiliate marketing technology to handle registration and login to its online booking service for travel agents Trade Fare Explorer. Carl White, European MD of Be Free owner ValueClick, said, ""BA is a good example of how Be Free is moving beyond traditional affiliate marketing."" befree.com/europe.

  • Barnes&Noble faces ejection

    22 August 2002

    Bertelsmann's online book retail strategy has taken a further retrograde step with the warning that Barnes&Noble.com faces ejection from the Nasdaq stockmarket.

  • BBC MediaArc promotes BBC Technology/Hutchison tie-up

    22 August 2002

    BBC MediaArc has produced an animation sequence to promote the partnership between BBC Technology and Hutchison 3G. The animation, commissioned by BBC Broadcast, will demonstrate the process of taking content, editing it, applying commentary and transmitt

  • Bid-up.tv backer I2S slashes value of its portfolio

    22 August 2002

    I2S, the investment company behind Bid-up.tv, made a loss of almost £1m last year, after making just one new investment in the period.

  • Blazin' debut supported by Habbo push

    22 August 2002

    East West Records is running a month-long push on animated teen chat and games site Habbo Hotel to support 'Crossroads', the debut album from Blazin' Squad.

  • Cambridge Broadband and Danske Telecom to team up

    22 August 2002

    Cambridge Broadband has teamed up with Danish telco Danske Telecom to provide the Scandinavian operator with high-speed wireless access capabilities. Danske is evaluating Cambridge Broadband's VectaStar 3500 wireless access system, which allows DVD-qualit

  • Camden Council

    22 August 2002

    While the Government has set a target of 2005 for providing online access to its services, some local councils are well ahead, offering a host of services today. Alastair Ray looks at how Camden is leading the way, and asks if e-government will be a cost-

  • Carnivorous club

    22 August 2002

    It's the great unanswered dotcom mystery: where do the finest minds of the digital world chill out these forlorn, brow-beaten days? Surely the ilk of Nutopia, Imagination Gallery and Denim are all just so 1999? Gadfly would never be seen blagging his own

  • Case study: legal music downloading with Wippit

    22 August 2002

    How do you get it? Go to http://wippit.com, download the software and start your subscription. Pay online by credit card and choose a payment plan, either £30 for a year or £3.99 a month.

  • Casino Atlantis to run first print ad campaign

    22 August 2002

    Casino Atlantis Online runs its first offline ads this month. Parent firm Kerzner Interactive Online will run ads in The Times and The Observer, along with an online push on sites including MSN and BT Openworld. MD Alex Czajkowski said, ""We'll take our property offline to reach casino players who don't trust anyone enough to play online."" casinoatlantis.com

  • Centaur Conferences employs Harvest Digital to grow email

    22 August 2002

    Harvest Digital, the specialist email agency, has been taken on by business conference organiser Centaur Conferences to expand its email communication channel. The initial task for Harvest is to concentrate on creative executions, in order to drive increa

  • Clockworx looks for merger to compete with larger agencies

    22 August 2002

    E-business agency Clockworx is looking for a possible merger partner to enable it to compete on a level playing field with large agencies.

  • Datacq offers VR race position software to UK bookmakers

    22 August 2002

    Positional information firm Datacq is targeting UK bookmakers with a new product that will enable them to broadcast virtual reality images of live sports events on the Web.

  • Department of Health looks to UK Online for iTV tie-up

    22 August 2002

    The Department of Health (DoH) is considering a tie-up with UK Online for the launch of its long awaited iTV services next year.

  • Department of Health looks to UK Online for iTV tie-up

    22 August 2002

    The Department of Health is considering a tie-up with UK Online for the launch of its iTV services next year, reports Greg Brooks.

  • Department of Transport launches drink-drive site

    22 August 2002

    The Department of Transport has launched a spoof job site as part of a campaign to inform 17-24-year-old men about the consequences of drink-driving. Badjobs.co.uk is aimed at illustrating the difficulty offenders might have in getting a job without their

  • Diary

    22 August 2002

    29 August 2002 Summer Introductory Class London +44 (0)20 7970 4770 centaur.co.uk/public/conf/sic/overview.asp

  • Digit installs Digital Aquarium at Design Museum

    22 August 2002

    The Design Museum has unveiled an interactive installation called The Digital Aquarium, designed by interactive agency Digit. The installation is constructed out of 150 Motorola mobile phones suspended inside the Design Museum Tank. Together, the phones c

  • DMD to handle Opodo email ads

    22 August 2002

    Travel site Opodo has appointed Digital Marketing Direct (DMD) as its email marketing agency as it begins to segment customer data in a step towards targeted campaigns.

  • Downloading music does not affect CD sales, says Forrester

    22 August 2002

    Contrary to protests from record labels, music piracy is not to blame for the 15% downturn in music sales in the past two years, according to a new report from Forrester.

  • Ease of use makes for top shopping Web site

    22 August 2002

    HMV, Amazon and Ryanair are the best Web sites according to UK consumers, with Ticketmaster and Tesco named as the worst, in a new survey of shopping habits.

  • EC will use law to help Wi-Fi roll-out

    22 August 2002

    The European Commission is considering legal action against five European Union countries which it says are obstructing the roll out of Wi-Fi technology.

  • Emblaze signs up to join Open Mobile Alliance

    22 August 2002

    Emblaze has announced that it has joined the wireless open standards organisation, the Open Mobile Alliance. 200 firms already belong to the Alliance, including Nokia, Microsoft and Vodafone. Its main objectives are to develop, deliver and promote open st

  • Esat BT employs Ericsson to roll out Irish DSl solution

    22 August 2002

    Ericsson has been taken on by Esat BT, the Irish arm of BT's business services division BT Ignite, to deploy Ireland's first DSL solution specifically catering to the business market. The €25m (£16m) contract will allow Esat BT to offer Irish corpora

  • EU plans Europe-wide privacy law

    22 August 2002

    A leading privacy group has issued a warning that several EU governments are drawing up confidential plans to force ISPs and telcos to hold onto email data and telephone logs for as many as two years.

  • Ex-Ladbrokes offshore MD sets up UK-focused e-gambling firm

    22 August 2002

    The former MD of Ladbrokes' offshore arm Ladbrokes International has set up an online betting and gaming company with plans to roll out a range of interactive products.

  • Ex-Ladbrokes offshore MD sets up UK-focused e-gambling firm

    22 August 2002

    The former MD of Ladbrokes' offshore arm has set up an online betting and gaming company with plans to roll out a range of interactive products, reports Ben Carter.

  • Future communications set to enmesh us all

    22 August 2002

    Because adding a device to a mesh network effectively increases its size, the greater the devices, the cheaper the network becomes to sustain.

  • GA Corporate designs site for Man Booker prize for Fiction

    22 August 2002

    Brand and communications consultancy GA Corporate Marketing has designed, built and is managing a new site for literary award The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2002. The site acts as the definitive source of information for the award and features an email

  • Gaining permission doesn't give free reign

    22 August 2002

    Just because a customer gives you permission one day doesn't mean they'll give you a second glance in six months' time.

  • Gay.com becomes partner to 24-7Electrical

    22 August 2002

    Gay and lesbian portal Gay.com has launched a shopping channel after taking on 24-7Electrical .co.uk as a partner The channel will feature buying guides linked to 24-7Electrical's range of more 3,000 products.

  • General Electric helps PrePay in shift to offline

    22 August 2002

    PrePay has partnered with one of the world's largest industrial conglomerates to launch its first solution for high street retailers, reports Jonathan Webdale.

  • General Electric helps PrePay in shift to offline

    22 August 2002

    Pre-paid online shopping specialist PrePay Technologies, formerly Splash Plastic, has partnered with one of the world's largest industrial conglomerates to launch its first solution for high street retailers.

  • Getting in tune with music buyers' needs

    22 August 2002

    As the music industry continues to crack down on P2P download sites, Yinka Adegoke finds it could be doing more to provide legal alternatives.

  • GLA: an e-government Model

    22 August 2002

    Now happily ensconced in its Foster and Partners-designed headquarters, the Greater London Authority is the very model of local government in the 21st Century.

  • Global Internet penetration

    22 August 2002

    One-tenth of the world's population now has Internet access, according to a new consolidation of global Internet penetration figures from Nua. The site claims that at the end of May 2002 a total of 580.8m individuals had access to the Web. This equates to

  • Go runs big search marketing push on BT Looksmart

    22 August 2002

    No frills airline Go is running a six-figure search marketing push on the BT Looksmart site network. Angelina Demetri of agency More Media said, ""BT Looksmart has worked well for Go so far this year. It performs well both in driving volumes of traffic to the Go site, but more importantly in providing quality traffic that converts."" btlooksmart.com go-fly.com

  • Government faces criticism from William Hill over Betfair

    22 August 2002

    The chief executive of high street bookmaking giant William Hill has slammed the Government for failing to stop what he claims is a blatant breach of the law by P2P betting exchange Betfair.com.

  • Government faces criticism from William Hill over Betfair

    22 August 2002

    Ben Carter reports that the chief executive of the high street bookmaking giant has slammed the Government for failing to stop what he claims is a blatant breach of the law.

  • Hong Kong far ahead in high-speed internet connections

    22 August 2002

    Two-thirds of Hong Kong Internet users have high-speed access, dwarfing the rate at which surfers in 10 other major Internet markets have adopted high-speed access, according to research from Nielsen// NetRatings. The majority of the world's 553m people w

  • HSBC promotes investments opportunities to expats

    22 August 2002

    HSBC Bank International has launched a banner campaign to promote its expat mortgage products. The campaign, devised by marketing agency DraftWorldwide, aims to raise awareness of the buoyant UK property market and highlights the investment opportunities

  • Icann names ISOC to inherit .org rights

    22 August 2002

    The organisation responsible for managing the Internet's central domain name system has made a preliminary choice over which company should take on operation of the .org domain.

  • I-level's new arms near to profit

    22 August 2002

    Independent digital agency i-level says that both the new divisions it launched in 2002 will be profitable in their first year of operation.

  • Intelliplus buys PNC's Web arm

    22 August 2002

    Intelliplus, the AIM-listed telecoms and Internet company, has bought the Web division of PNC Tele.com in its latest effort to act as a consolidator of business Web services.

  • ITV Digital replacement Freeview to launch in autumn

    22 August 2002

    The BBC, BSkyB and Crown Castle have announced that their soon-to-launch digital terrestrial TV service, set to replace ITV Digital, will be called Freeview. The service, expected to launch in the autumn, will offer a range of DTT channels, digital radio

  • iVillage enters the dating arena with Match.com

    22 August 2002

    Women's portal iVillage is launching a dating centre this week after signing an agreement with online romance giant Match.com.

  • JJ creates central marketing site for UK Volvo dealers

    22 August 2002

    Car company Volvo Car UK has implemented an online central marketing tool for all its UK dealers to co-ordinate their marketing campaigns. The application, called Territory Marketing System, was designed and built by Oxford based agency JJ Interactive. It

  • Job Channel signs two iTV clients

    22 August 2002

    Digital recruitment firm The Job Channel has signed up rail maintenance recruitment firm SkyBlue and driver training company BSM for its iTV job recruitment service.

  • J-Phone reports 88% growth for photo-handsets

    22 August 2002

    Japan's third largest mobile operator, J-Phone, has exceeded 6m users of its photo-phone handsets. The company said last week the number amounted for almost half of its total subscriber base. The company, jointly operated by Japan Telecom and Vodafone, sa

  • Kewill warns of first-half loss

    22 August 2002

    Listed software firm Kewill Systems has admitted it will make an operating loss in the current half-year period which ends on 30 September. The company blamed lower-than-expected revenues, especially in the US, along with restructuring costs at its US e-c

  • KPN writes off £770m from UK 3G operations

    22 August 2002

    Troubled Dutch telco KPN has written E1.2bn (£770m) off the value of its UK stake in Hutchison 3G as part of a E9bn (£5.8bn) write-down of its mobile operations.

  • Ladbrokes signs to supply all Arsenal and Liverpool e-betting

    22 August 2002

    High street bookmaking giant Ladbrokes has agreed a deal with Premier League football clubs Arsenal and Liverpool to supply their betting and gaming services for the next three years. The deal, which will take the form of a global marketing alliance, will

  • Leisure Link makes paid mobile distribution deal

    22 August 2002

    Mobile entertainment services firm Inspired Technology has partnered with pub leisure giant Leisure Link to form a joint venture that will distribute pay-per-view gaming and content to out-of-home devices.

  • Library House to help VCs find best Cambridge investments

    22 August 2002

    VCs are to get a helping hand finding investment opportunities in Cambridge from next month, with the launch of a new service covering tech start-ups.

  • Lycos counters weak market with massive cut in losses

    22 August 2002

    Lycos Europe cut its losses sharply in the first half of the year as revenues fell by almost a quarter. The company reported that revenues across its 13 European portals were down 24% from €81.9m (£52.4m) this time last year to €62.1m (£39.7m),

  • Lycos to promote Viral Chart via cross-media

    22 August 2002

    Portal Lycos is launching a second cross-media campaign to promote its Viral Chart early next month.

  • Macmillan launches SMS club with Flytxt

    22 August 2002

    Macmillan Children's Books is launching its first SMS initiative on Tuesday (27 August) with its Princess Diaries Princess Club.

  • Marketwatch

    22 August 2002

    The August gains continued over the past week, although at a rather slower pace. The FTSE 100 was up just 8 points to 4,330, while the TechMark All Share managed a barely noticeable gain of just 1 point to end the week at 855.

  • MIB2 SMS games hit O2 network

    22 August 2002

    Digital Bridges has launched two SMS games on the O2 mobile network to promote the film Men in Black II. Back In Black is an adventure game in which the player hunts aliens. Field Agent Training is a multiple choice quiz, with questions on the film and ge

  • MMS to bring in £1bn more for operators

    22 August 2002

    MMS will give mobile operators an extra £1bn in revenues a year, according to new research from Spectrum Strategy Consultants.

  • MMTV and Nomensa launch iTV lab

    22 August 2002

    Interactive TV company MMTV has joined forces with user experience consultancy Nomensa to launch an iTV usability lab that will provide measurement and management services for businesses delivering content and services across iTV platforms.

  • Mobile operators told to give up on 3G

    22 August 2002

    A controversial new recommendation from Datamonitor is advising mobile operators to cut their losses and abort their 3G plans, or find themselves losing more in trying to keep a sunken market afloat.

  • Moneyfacts charts best buys

    22 August 2002

    Financial data firm Moneyfacts has signed a deal to provide personal finance site AboutYourMoney with 'best buy' chart data. The charts, updated daily, will cover mortgages, savings, current accounts, loans and credit cards. AboutYourMoney is run by Dot Z

  • MoneySupermarket pushes rival to take links off Google

    22 August 2002

    MoneySupermarket, the online financial aggregator, has promised to continue pursuing legal action against a rival mortgage site after succeeding in getting the site's ads removed from Google.

  • Mook to develop Web site for MTV European

    22 August 2002

    Creative digital agency Mook has won the contract to develop a new site for MTV European, one of MTV's eight channels which is broadcast to 21 countries across Europe.

  • Moves

    22 August 2002

    Wheel Group, the digital communications agency, has promoted Deborah Keay to MD of Wheel: Financial. Keay joined Wheel Group in 1999 and was previously responsible for the management of key projects in the Wheel: Retail division, including the acclaimed r

  • MSN takes on Trafficmac for ad management services

    22 August 2002

    MSN UK has appointed the advertising management company Trafficmac to provide all its ad trafficking, management and reporting requirements. Trafficmac will be providing the day-to-day running of MSN's ad management services and will also be responsible f

  • MTV UK launches music show around interactive SMS bingo

    22 August 2002

    MTV UK & Ireland has this week unveiled its latest SMS-interactive TV music show, Blingo.

  • NEC trials pre-pay hotel services

    22 August 2002

    Communications giant NEC has joined with hotel chain Travelodge to roll out the first pre-pay Internet, telephony and film service.

  • Nettec develops Editor for PC content management systems

    22 August 2002

    Content managed corporate portal agency Nettec has developed a Web site Editor that lets any PC user rapidly update and edit content. The application allows users to update content and imagery in a WYSIWYG environment and can be integrated with any XML-ba

  • Netvest turns its focus to Far East

    22 August 2002

    Early-stage VC Netvest.com has outlined a new investment strategy after recently selling off its stake in Israeli VC Tecc-IS.

  • New Media people Jo Hagger

    22 August 2002

    Job title: Business development manager, Glue London.

  • NWYH designs MeetingZone site

    22 August 2002

    Design agency Now Wash Your Hands (NWYH) has designed and built a site for new conference calling company MeetingZone. The new site provides information about the company's services in the conference call market.

  • OD2 upgrades WebAudioNet with new acts

    22 August 2002

    Digital music delivery specialist OD2 has unveiled the latest version of its subscription service, adding a raft of new artists.

  • Online social care with hertfordshire council

    22 August 2002

    Hertfordshire claims to be the first council to enable people to access its social care services through an integrated Web site and call centre.

  • OS makes deal with legal rival Getmapping

    22 August 2002

    Getmapping has signed a deal with Ordnance Survey to provide it with colour aerial photographs, despite an ongoing High Court dispute between the two firms.

  • OTC strengthens Australian position with Sydney buyout

    22 August 2002

    Online Travel Corporation has strengthened its position in the Australian market, where it claims to operate the third most popular network of travel sites. The listed travel firm has bought Australian travel agency Sydney Travel Centre for A$725,000 (£25

  • PA launches online breaking sports news service

    22 August 2002

    The Press Association has launched an online breaking sports news service called PA Sportsfile. The service gives access to news and results from competitions and events around the world. It's the online version of the main PA Domestic and International S

  • Popularity of Dream Team crashes site

    22 August 2002

    The Sun's Dream Team online fantasy football game proved so popular during the first weekend of the football season that it crashed the site.

  • Preaching to the converted?

    22 August 2002

    Blogging has become something of a phenomenon, with some in the marketing industry seeing it as a way of reaching niche markets. But Nic Howell finds it's not something every brand could use.

  • Putting the sector under scrutiny

    22 August 2002

    Over the last 5-10 years we must all have heard terms like 'lifelong learning, the 'skills agenda' and 'human capital' many, many times from government, its agencies, academics, senior business people and so on. What does this tell us? Well, for one it me

  • Revival of enterprise search sector put off

    22 August 2002

    ""Real vigour"" won't return to the enterprise search market until 2004/05, according to analysts at Ovum.

  • Shazam debuts music naming on all networks

    22 August 2002

    Wireless entertainment firm Shazam has finally unveiled its music-recognition service on all four UK networks.

  • Site Inspection

    22 August 2002

    ::Diesel Jeans diesel.com Owner: Diesel Agency: EHS Brann Content 20/25 Usability 22/25 Branding 24/25 ,BMonetisation/a Total 66/75

  • Sugababes get virtual makeover

    22 August 2002

    Universal Music has teamed with desktop avatar firm Skinkers Communications to launch downloadable avatars of girl band Sugababes.

  • Sunbeach makes debut on AIM

    22 August 2002

    Sunbeach Communications has become the second new media company to list on AIM in as many weeks. Sunbeach raised £1.4m through a joint listing on AIM and the Barbados Stock Exchange last week. The firm claims to be Barbados's largest dial-up ISP and has b

  • Surpriseyour sites use funds for first catalogue

    22 August 2002

    Gift e-tailer Surpriseyourwoman releases its first print catalogue this week after raising funds from an original investor earlier this year.

  • Swiss Radio International relaunches Web site

    22 August 2002

    Swiss Radio International has relaunched its Web site, Swissinfo.org. The revamp includes the extension of the site's multimedia functionality, now providing services in nine languages including English.

  • Taking care when picking investors

    22 August 2002

    At a time when early-stage technology companies are struggling to simultaneously hit their monthly revenue targets and secure investment in a hostile market, it may be perverse to suggest the idea that they should set about choosing investors.

  • TBG to run test campaigns to drive traffic to Time Life

    22 August 2002

    AOL Time Warner subsidiary Time Life has signed a deal with online ad agency TBG to run two test campaigns targeting UK e-shoppers to increase the customer base of Time Life. The campaigns will push registrations to two micro-sites from banner ads and tar

  • That was then...NMA 21August 1997

    22 August 2002

    J Walter Thompson in the US becomes the first big ad agency to use advertising management software for its Web media planning. JWT picked NetGravity's AdServer 3.0 to extend its t3 (thompson total targeting) service to the Web. JWT will use it to serve ad

  • The boy who cried 'spam'

    22 August 2002

    What is it with hosting companies? They seem to think they can play judge, jury and executioner when it comes to countering spam.

  • Time for ISPs to take moral responsibility

    22 August 2002

    It has been a bad couple of weeks for ISPs. First the disappearance of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells sparked a frenzy of media criticism of the Internet industry's laxity over online paedophiles, despite little evidence of its role in the situation.

  • Times Online relaunches crossword club with charges

    22 August 2002

    Times Online has relaunched its crossword club introducing a two-tier membership fee. For £19.99 a year, users can gain access to interactive and printable cryptic, concise and jumbo crosswords from The Times and The Sunday Times, an exclusive monthly cro

  • Totpools signs up Hansen as official pundit

    22 August 2002

    Online football pools operator Totpools has signed up former Liverpool footballer Alan Hansen as its official football pundit. Hansen will provide match predictions on a weekly basis for UK matches as well as the less-frequent Champions League games. His

  • Traffic to Big Brother 3 site had direct impact on TV audience size

    22 August 2002

    Research out this week shows for the first time how the Internet can serve as a key driver of TV audiences.

  • TUC attempts to unionise new media

    22 August 2002

    The TUC will for the first time try to unify the movement to unionise the UK's new media industry with the launch of a major online initiative at the end of this month.

  • TUC attempts to unionise new media

    22 August 2002

    The TUC hopes it will invigorate interest in unions among new economy companies, reports Jonathan Webdale.

  • US record labels unite against ISPs over access to P2P sites

    22 August 2002

    Five major record labels are suing four ISPs in the US, demanding that they take action to block access to a Web site which they claim is the home of ""massive"" copyright infringements.

  • Vodafone reconsiders launch of 3G in Ireland

    22 August 2002

    The world's largest mobile operator, Vodafone, has dealt a further blow to Europe's 3G mobile hopefuls with news that it's reconsidering a launch in Ireland.

  • WAP finds its niche at last

    22 August 2002

    Simon Buckingham, CEO, Mobile Streams

  • What's your tipple?

    22 August 2002

    Rowan Gormley, MD of Virgin Wines, has gone from advising people on financial services to helping them choose their favourite wines. He tells Robert Venes there are surprising similarities between the two.

  • Wippit reveals new commission-based partnership

    22 August 2002

    P2P music subscription service Wippit has unveiled its first partners' programme to enable partner sites to refer customers to Wippit for 10% commission. CEO Paul Myers said Wippit was well positioned because smart consumers are shifting towards a demand

  • World Travel Holdings achieves profit

    22 August 2002

    There was more good news for the online travel industry last week when World Travel Holdings, owner of Deckchair.com and other travel sites, announced it had broken into profit for the first time.

  • You need trust to forge relations

    22 August 2002

    I don't believe the mobile marketing research study findings that suggest ""most would prefer their operator to remain in control of all marketing messages sent"" (Trends, NMA 8 August). I question the sample of respondents used; were they representative

  • Zentropy plans Domestos ads

    22 August 2002

    Interactive communications agency Zentropy Partners has planned and bought the integrated online campaign for Lever Fabergé's new Domestos ads, starring Big Brother 3 runner-up Alex Sibley.