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29 November 2001

  • Upmystreet to use WML

    29 November 2001

    Local information provider UpMyStreet has become the first of Sky's content partners to harness the Wireless Markup Language (WML) developed by NDS for satellite broadcasting.

  • 12snap to boost offer through Avesair tie-up

    29 November 2001

    Mobile marketing firm 12snap has bolstered its business proposition by tying up with US-commerce specialist Avesair to develop an enhanced customer database and a platform for planning market-ing campaigns.

  • Agency Wins

    29 November 2001

    moonfruit.com Ware Anthony Rust, the integrated marketing communications agency, has won three new clients. The agency has picked up Big Wide World, the youth lifestyle portal; Pursuit Dynamics, the marine propulsion systems manufacturer; and Daeja Image

  • Agency.com iTV arm offers enhanced World Cup viewing

    29 November 2001

    Agency.com Interactive TV, the iTV division of the full-service agency, is in talks with European broadcasters about providing enhanced TV services for coverage of the World Cup 2002.

  • Alba leaves Web TV to ITV Digital

    29 November 2001

    Brown goods giant Alba has stalled production of its Internet TV products and transferred the Bush Internet portal into ITV Active, which will continue to support the 170,000 Bush Internet user base.

  • Anti-terrorism bill to face House of Lords

    29 November 2001

    The controversial data retention proposals within the anti-terrorism bill were passed by Parliament on Monday, but could now face opposition in the House of Lords.

  • Are planner/buyers the future of new media?

    29 November 2001

    Two themes emerged from last week's NMA Congress. The first was that, as discussed in this column last week, public perceptions of the health of the industry are off the mark. Both keynote speaker Professor Jim Norton, executive chairman of Deutsche Telek

  • Asda admits to delay on Sky Active

    29 November 2001

    Asda's plans to launch home shopping on iTV have been set back by an entire year after the company admitted there was no chance of going live on Sky Active before Christmas.

  • Asda delays iTV launch as Tesco increases lead

    29 November 2001

    Tesco.com is pulling further away from its competitors ahead of an anticipated bumper-Christmas thanks to other online supermarket operations foundering.

  • B2B exchanges a failure say majority of users

    29 November 2001

    Companies that joined B2B exchanges in a bid to cut out inefficiencies from their procurement process have been disappointed with the results, according to a report by Booz Allen Hamilton and Giga Information Group.

  • BBC increases iTV offering

    29 November 2001

    The BBC will further its interactive TV presence over the seasonal period with the launch of two new services on UK digital TV.

  • BBC site plugs cartoon series for Christmas

    29 November 2001

    The BBC is to launch a site to promote its new Christmas animation show Hamilton Mattress.

  • Benchmark Capital invests in Openet

    29 November 2001

    Irish mobile network software provider Openet Telecom has closed a $20m (£14.1m) second round of funding.

  • Big Brother will get back to you

    29 November 2001

    Graunt Kruger, Web producer, Sunday Times SA

  • BIPA and the BBC are to meet for the first time

    29 November 2001

    The British Internet Publishers Alliance (BIPA) and the BBC are set to meet for the first time to discuss important issues in the run up to the launch of new regulatory body Ofcom.

  • Brainstorm to cash in on festive messaging with Merry Mobile

    29 November 2001

    The burgeoning wireless data industry has made its first move onto the high street with the launch of pre-packaged services in the run-up to Christmas.

  • Breaking new ground

    29 November 2001

    Nigel Sheldon finds that those who push boundaries to the limit are often unwilling to share the results

  • Brought to book

    29 November 2001

    Contrary to popular belief, Gadfly is a cultured chap. He reads the arts sections of the Sunday papers, although the salt and vinegar sometimes makes it tricky.

  • Building on a sense of wonder

    29 November 2001

    Word of mouth (or word of email) is, after money, the Web's most desired and elusive commodity. Get it on your side and the rewards can be enormous.

  • Building on good customer relations

    29 November 2001

    Ambrose McGinn reports on Abbey National's strategy for successful iTV banking

  • Can Nokia set the standard?

    29 November 2001

    Nokia's recent 3G platform initiative has gained cross-sector support. But, asks Mark Mayne, will this be enough to shut out Microsoft?

  • Cartoon Network moves into iTV

    29 November 2001

    Cartoon Network makes its first foray into the UK iTV market with the launch of a dedicated games channel available on the Sky Digital platform, writes Ben Carter.

  • CheekyMonkey faces job cuts

    29 November 2001

    CheekyMonkey.com, the competition site that launched in May 2000, is to restructure this week, with some job cuts likely.

  • Classic studio houses mobile's cutting edge

    29 November 2001

    From a base in the world-famous Ealing Studios, mm02 is developing the next generation of mobile applications and technologies through its Expidas forum. Mark Mayne looks at its efforts to create a unified 3G and GSM development facility.

  • Comet to reward store staff for local Web sales

    29 November 2001

    Electrical retailer Comet is planning to reward its high-street staff for online sales that occur within their stores' postcode area.

  • Companies looking wrong way for source of security breaches

    29 November 2001

    Executives from the world's largest companies are generally ill-informed about the vulnerability of their computer network and-commerce systems, tending to misjudge the real source of most security breaches.

  • Deal Focus

    29 November 2001

    Who's involved? Broker and corporate investment house Durlacher and troubled incubator firm Brainspark.

  • Diary

    29 November 2001

    30 Nov-1 December 2001 b.tv 01: The International Celebration of Creative Use and Abuse of Cross-platform Media Sheffield convergence-arts.com

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Ezoka reveals three new products for clients B2B exchange Ezoka has unveiled three new products and tied up a number of pan-European clients. The new products are part of Ezoka's focus on developing B2B and co-buying technology for clients. It has develop

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Channel 4 makes job cuts as it folds sites into channel4.com Channel 4 interactive has made nine redundancies as a result of merging with the broadcaster's pay-TV unit. Channel 4 has also all but admitted that its E4.com Web site has failed, as its conten

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Tivo ties up with sony and at&T as part of new strategy Personal video recorder (PVR) specialist TiVo has unveiled a new business strategy which will see its technology deployed as a proprietary service in set-top boxes globally. The new strategy follows

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Affinity internet teams with tiny in pre-pay phone deal The telecom division of Affinity Internet has teamed up with high-street computer giant Tiny to launch pre-pay mobile phones. The phones, which include Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens handsets, have been

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Gopublic-it chooses 29 ipo-ready firms to showcase Organisers of the first GoPublic-IT event have chosen 29 IPO-ready firms to be showcased in London next week, out of 45 applications. The event on 3 and 4 December, which is being produced in partnership

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Pentech ventures confirms a further £5m investment Pentech Ventures, the Glasgow-based VC fund, has confirmed it has secured a further £5m investment from Scottish Widows Investment Partnership for its first fund. The extra finance, as revealed in NMA 1 N

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Wmi to distribute music on od2 Warner Music International has made a deal with Peter Gabriel's OD2 digital distribution service which will see the record firm license the use of its content on OD2's WebAudioNet subscription platform. Music from WMI will b

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Nevrax completes £4.4m second funding round with viventures French online games developer Nevrax has completed a second financing round of €7m (£4.4m) from Vivendi Universal's VC arm Viventures and PartCom. The money will be used for further developm

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Terra mobile withdraws iobox from finland and sweden Terra Mobile has shut down Iobox operations in Finland and Sweden. This leaves Iobox-branded mobile portals in just Germany and the UK. Iobox was acquired by Terra Mobile, a joint venture of Telefonica

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Fish4 prepares for first email advertising campaign Property and cars portal Fish4 is set to launch its first email marketing campaign. Sales and marketing director Jonathan Lines said the firm would email 100,000 addresses. Fish4 has also launched fish4l

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    L'oréal launches student game Cosmetics company L'Oréal is inviting teams of students from around the world to take part in a Web business strategy game in order to source new recruits. In the game, teams must run their own virtual cosmetics fir

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Music choice thinks full-screen ads will boost sales Digital TV music channel Music Choice says it's confident of winning big-brand advertisers since it launched full-screen ads on 8 November. Director of media sales Dominic Trigg said the channel was mar

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Clickatell launches bulk sms sending tool SMS applications provider Clickatell has launched the latest version of its Web-based bulk SMS tool. The tool will enable businesses hoping to cash in on the text message boom to send bulk SMS to customer's phones

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Black ink media streams videos for ft.com Black Ink Media, the streaming media agency, has launched a set of streaming videos about Silicon Valley for FT.com. The videos, which have been filmed by the agency, are stored within the agency's video content m

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Underwired launches site for missing persons helpline Underwired, the new media creative and marketing agency, has launched a Web site for the Missing Persons Helpline. The site provides a hub where people can go if they're looking for a missing person or

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Thebox.co.uk uses sitemaker 3.0 from moonfruit Moonfruit, the new media application developer agency, has added its Sitemaker 3.0 Web site building toolkit to Emap's music site Thebox.co.uk. For a fee of £3.99 monthly or £34.99 annually, users will be able to build fan-based interactive Web sites with Flash technology without any prior technical knowledge.

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Telegraph.co.uk In Site Inspection last week (NMA 2 November) the URL for the telegraph.co.uk shopping section was wrong. It should be shopping.telegraph.co.uk.

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Christmas to boost 2001 sales European online retail spending will grow this Christmas season to 160% of 2000 levels, to total E4.1bn (£2.56bn), say new figures from Forrester Research. It claims that this December alone will see almost a quarter of all E

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Corporate sites failing to implement security policies Many corporate sites are still vulnerable to hacker attacks and don't conduct regular analysis of security risks, according to a poll by Computer Sciences Corporation. CSC said companies should appoin

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Global mobile handset sales down on 2000 The global market for mobile handsets fell sharply in the last quarter, according to Europemedia. Just 94.4m mobiles were sold in Q3, 10% fewer than the 104.6m that were sold in the equivalent period in 2000. Europ

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Net Searchers, the online brand-protection company, has appointed David Brackin as operations director. Brackin's experience includes providing strategic advice at McKinsey & Co and operational analysis at LookSmart.

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Versata, the provider of software and services that automate the business logic and processes, has appointed Rocco Quaglietti as VP of sales. He was previously VP of channel sales.

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Jerome Moisan has joined London-based digital consultancy Majorband as consultant. He joins from the UK branch of Adcore, the Swedish e-business agency, where he was senior strategy consultant.

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Mobile company Orange has appointed Alex Batchelor as VP of worldwide brand. He moves from Interbrand where he was joint MD.

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Simon Harrison has been appointed as UK MD at Netscalibur, the pan-European provider of Internet communications services to businesses. Harrison is a former sales and marketing director of Highway Corporation. Also appointed is Micaela Cook as UK marketing director and Mary de Sausmarez as UK sales director. Both Cook and de Sausmarez move from Thus.

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Framfab denmark taken on by coca-cola for Powerade site Framfab Denmark, the Danish office of the Swedish Internet agency, has been appointed by Coca-Cola to create a site for the European launch of Powerade, a new sports beverage. The site will go live a

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Aretae signs asia-pacific deal with metametrix South East Asia-based Internet solutions provider Aretae has signed an exclusive distribution deal with US-based Metamatrix for Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Taiwan. Metamatrix provides scalable r

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Roller promoted to md of bol germany BOL Germany has promoted Arndt Roller to the position of MD. Roller moves from marketing and business development at BOL Germany and replaces Eckhard Südmersen, who moves to Bertelsmann's Direct Group to take on a

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Terrence higgins launches first interactive ad campaign Aids charity the Terrence Higgins Trust is making its first foray into interactive ads with an online quiz to publicise World Aids Day on 1 December. Emails promoting a 'Remember the 80s?' quiz will

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Esquire launches auto site Esquire, the men's magazine published by National Magazines, has launched a new site to provide readers with information about cars, motorcycles and bicycles. Users can search for vehicles from a number of dealers across the UK.

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Building society offers money-back mortgages via iTV Chelsea Building Society has launched an iTV campaign on NTL and Telewest. Launching on 3 December for three months, the campaign is to push the building society's cashback mortgage. Viewers can enter t

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Decode to launch Hoobs portal Decode Interactive, the interactive arm of TV company Decode Entertainment, has teamed up with The Jim Henson Company to launch a portal for its hit children's TV show The Hoobs. Hoobnet will go live in February featuring ani

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Intrade does deal with Yahoo! Intrade, the sports betting exchange, has teamed up with Yahoo! as its first UK portal partner, supplying it with sport trading content. Intrade offers a new type of sports gambling based on the concept of trading contracts.

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Abattia raises £150,000 more than originally planned Abattia, a UK membership relationship management firm, has raised £500,000 in second-round funding - £150,000 more than it was planning to. Abattia's Web-based software, WebAlumnus, allows peer-to-peer

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Controlp buys up documedia and plans for profit next year AIM-listed ControlP has bought up the assets of Documedia, an online document management firm that went into receivership last month. ControlP paid £1.65m in cash for the assets but says it may try

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Abbey road recording studio celebrates 70th birthday Abbey Road Interactive, the interactive design and digital video arm of the famous recording studio, has created a game to celebrate the recording studio's 70th anniversary. The game, which is available

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Emi signs five-year deal with newsplayer for sub service EMI has signed a five-year deal with Newsplayer in its first deal with an online video subscription service. Newsplayer will gain non-exclusive access to EMI's video catalogue for a new online video

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Ryanair to give away 300,000 seats to boost air travel Ryanair is giving away 300,000 free flights on its Web site in December and January, claiming it wants to boost consumer confidence in air travel following the attacks in the US on 11 September. Sales

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Text messaging traffic sees 100% annual rise Text message traffic has more than doubled since last year, according to the Mobile Data Association (MDA). 1.2bn chargeable person-to-person text messages were sent last month. These were sent over the four UK

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Bertelsmann shuffles pixelpark stake to arvato Bertelsmann, the German media giant, has announced that it will transfer its 60.3% stake in troubled Web agency Pixelpark to its printing unit Arvato. The reshuffle comes after Pixelpark said last week that i

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    italian operators to clamp down on piracy Drastic measures may be on the cards in Italy to remove Seca/Mediaguard pay-TV piracy. Italian pay-TV operators Stream and Telepiu are reported to be planning a new software tool to be remotely deployed to all rented and purchased Goldbox set-top boxes in Italy. The program will only allow viewers access to the two operators' encrypted platforms and general free-to-air services.

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    29 November 2001

    opera browser to be used by canal plus Web-browser developer Opera Software has agreed to develop a browser to be used by Canal Plus Technologies, the digital TV software subsidiary of multimedia and utilities conglomerate Vivendi Universal. Under the terms of the deal, Canal Plus has contracted to use Opera's technology for STB development for the next five years. The Web TV software should be ready by the end of next year.

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Peoplesound, the new music Web site, and its media and brand marketing consultancy Protein have appointed Tony Smith as new business director. He was previously MD of his own companies Bi-Media, Deceptive Records and Deceptive Music.

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Kathryn Wayman has been appointed as business development manager at Habbo Hotel, the graphical chat and gaming environment for teenagers online. She moves from Dotmusic.com where she was sales director.

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Jakob Widerberg has been appointed as product manager at OtherObjects, The OtherMedia's proprietary data management system. Widerberg joined The OtherMedia in January 2000.

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    ICL, the IT solution company, has appointed Roger Leek as its group human resources director. Prior to joining ICL, Leek set up his own consultancy business working on integration and restructuring issues.

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    29 November 2001

    Teltier Technologies, the provider of innovative, standards-based mobile network infrastructure platforms, has appointed Jim Brooks as VP of marketing. His previous experience includes strategic consulting for CMG Wireless Data Solutions and the position of VP of marketing for Europe at VIA Net.Works.

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Manjit Bedi has been appointed by Zinc, the full-service digital marketing agency, as Interactive TV producer. Bedi joins from Codecell and his portfolio includes development of games for interactive channel TwoWay TV.

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    29 November 2001

    Kitsite, the London-based content management vendor, has appointed Danny Sofer as a member of the board, with a remit to oversee the sales and marketing effort and develop Kitsite's partnership programme. He was previously the project manager on MAD.co.uk at Centaur Communications.

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    The board of InterX, the internet software company, have appointed David King as an executive director and COO. He was previously director of operations, Northern Europe, for Akamai Technologies.

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    29 November 2001

    Millo Magnocavallo has been appointed as technical team leader in the Barcelona office of Good Technology. He previously worked in the technology department of the London office as a front-end developer.

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    29 November 2001

    StreamServe, the business communications software company, has appointed Sheila Gibson as chief marketing officer. Gibson previously held senior positions with RightWorks Corporation, Baan and the CODA Group.

  • Digest

    29 November 2001

    Sports.com gets early start for world cup coverage Sports.com has kick-started its coverage of the forthcoming World Cup by launching seven new dedicated sites. These will chart the progress of England, France, Germany, Spain, US, Ireland and Italy throug

  • Digital success

    29 November 2001

    The outlook for digital TV might not be as gloomy as predicted. Yes, ITV Digital is experiencing phenomenal losses. The fundamental mistake it made was giving away set-top boxes for free and only charging for the service itself. This would be like petrol

  • Dixons to move away from ISPs

    29 November 2001

    Dixons has signalled its intention to move further away from the ISP sector by selling some of its Wanadoo shares and buying into an Italian offline retailer.

  • DoubleClick moves into iTV

    29 November 2001

    Digital marketing specialist DoubleClick has agreed with Liberate to apply it's experience with targeted Web ads to the iTV arena. The firm's Adserver software will be integrated with Liberate's TV Navigator STB middleware, allowing operators to stream ad

  • DoubleClick predicts profit in Q2 2002

    29 November 2001

    Interactive ads firm DoubleClick says selling its European media arm to AdLink will have little impact on its core ad-serving business.

  • DTI to boost online buying

    29 November 2001

    The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has confirmed that it'll launch a nationwide leafleting campaign today (Thursday) intended to boost-commerce in the run-up to Christmas.

  • Ebookers growth may mean more jobs

    29 November 2001

    Ebookers says it could take on up to 400 new staff as it pushes to expand its B2B offering, delivering ticketing and fulfilment needs for travel providers in Europe.

  • Energis offers new streaming email to direct-mail market

    29 November 2001

    Energis has launched a new streaming email service which it claims could become a more cost-effective substitute for traditional direct mail campaigns.

  • Espotting Media looks to staff up for European expansion

    29 November 2001

    Pay-for-placement search results network Espotting Media says that it plans to take on up to 40 staff before the end of January, supporting its expansion in France and Germany next month.

  • Firm's brand strategy is vital to City perceptions

    29 November 2001

    A coherent brand strategy will gain a company far more credibility with City institutions than what technological capacity it may possess, indicates research by branding and design consultant Corporate Edge.

  • Follow the DMA's cookie recipe

    29 November 2001

    I scoured this week's NMA (22 November) for comments and perspectives on the recent European Commission amendment to the Privacy in Electronic Communications Directive, effectively proposing to outlaw the use of cookies. The DMA's Save Our Cookies campaig

  • FSA invokes stricter controls over online financial advice

    29 November 2001

    ISPs and Web sites that don't apply for prior permission to advertise or give advice on financial services could face heavy fines and criminal proceedings when tough new laws come into effect at midnight tomorrow (30 November).

  • Gaining SMS permission

    29 November 2001

    I saw your piece in the 15 November issue on the Advertising Standards Agency taking its first action against an SMS ad. I understand from the article that concern was raised over the message content and that the sender ID was indistinct. Those of us who

  • Gambling advertising up by half in last year and still rising

    29 November 2001

    Online advertising from the UK gambling sector has increased by over 50% in the last year, according to online ad monitor LemonAd.

  • Gameplay's shares dive

    29 November 2001

    Shares in Gameplay have fallen 35% over the last week to just 0.73p after it said that talks with a potential buyer had ended and there were no other offers around.

  • Get nowhere with a little help from your friends

    29 November 2001

    Gadfly was especially impressed this year by the inventive way in which certain individuals tried to boost their nominations for inclusion in our list of the top 50 key players in the new media industry.

  • Habbo appoints sales director

    29 November 2001

    The animated online chat environment site for teenagers, Habbo Hotel, has appointed the former Dotmusic sales director Kathryn Wayman to help it develop its offering to advertisers.

  • High growth forecast for corporate portals

    29 November 2001

    The Butler Group has predicted healthy growth in the market for enterprise portals over the next five years, in spite of a general reduction in corporate spending on IT.

  • Hypnosis offers desktop Robbie

    29 November 2001

    Hypnosis Media has developed an interactive desktop application to promote Robbie Williams's album Swing When You're Winning.

  • Insurers take to Web but will customers?

    29 November 2001

    Up to 90% of insurance industry managers see the use of the Web as central to improving customer service and saving costs.

  • Interactive football quiz kicks off on ITV Sport

    29 November 2001

    ITV Sport has taken the wraps off its interactive quiz game, which will revolve around its live football coverage.

  • Interactive sector still strong according to industry experts

    29 November 2001

    Use of interactive media is growing strongly, despite the dotcom boom and bust, according to key industry figures speaking at this year's NMA Congress.

  • Irish Tourist Board set for email brochure drive

    29 November 2001

    The Irish Tourist Board is using personalised email brochures as a part of its strategy to drive up hotel bookings.

  • Jude Ball, creative director, Digital Leonardo

    29 November 2001

    Not long ago Christmas meant waiting for a jolly fat man to drop down your chimney. Now, in the 21st Century, stuff just falls into your emailbox.

  • Keeping the Web a democracy

    29 November 2001

    Icann's authority will only last if it embraces consensus building as the key to developing an Internet for the benefit of the many rather than the few, argues Andy Duff.

  • Keeping the Web a democracy

    29 November 2001

    Andy Duff, director of policy and marketing, New.net

  • Kids to become iTV target

    29 November 2001

    The young iTV gaming sector will get a timely boost this month when two of the leading satellite broadcasters for children launch dedicated iTV games services.

  • Ladbrokes moves into Sweden with Sportal buy

    29 November 2001

    UK bookmaking giant Ladbrokes has bolstered its presence in Scandinavia with the acquisition of Sportal Sweden by its strategic partner Sponsio.

  • Lastminute now unsure of hitting breakeven goal

    29 November 2001

    Holidays and gifts site Lastminute .com may not hit its previously stated target of operating break-even in the UK and France in the first half of its new financial year.

  • Learn to keep ahead of the game

    29 November 2001

    In a recent report from SportBusiness, Juliana Koranteng discusses the future of European football in the wake of hi-tech developments and a wider demographic appeal

  • Learning to play a different tune

    29 November 2001

    Music TV has been an ever increasing market over the last 20 years, but as James Porch reports, the main rivals seem to have very different views for its future in the iTV age

  • Marketwatch

    29 November 2001

    A fairly steady week for the stock market, with the FTSE 100 barely budging over the five days. It ended the week at 5,293 points, just 2 points up overall. However, the technology stocks fared less well, especially the larger stocks. The TechMark 100 was

  • Metrius's future up for discussion with KPMG

    29 November 2001

    The future of Metrius, the spin-off agency from KPMG Consulting, will be decided at the group board meeting in two weeks.

  • Mobile content owners set to ring the changes

    29 November 2001

    Downloadable ringtones and icons are one of the few surefire sources of mobile revenue. But, as Charles Rudkin discovers, not all content owners are happy with their brands gracing your mobile.

  • Mobile portal Iobox faces up to competition from all sides

    29 November 2001

    Iobox owner Terra Mobile insists that the recent closure of its Finnish and Swedish operations doesn't spell danger for Iobox UK, which still has some ambitious plans, learns Justin Pearse.

  • Mobile shipments in decline

    29 November 2001

    Mobile phone shipments are falling around the world.

  • Multimedia messages rewrite the SMS rules

    29 November 2001

    I believe the transition from SMS to MMS is as important to the mobile market as the shift from DOS to Windows was for the PC market.

  • MyOffers in online club deal

    29 November 2001

    Online rewards scheme MyOffers.co.uk has agreed a £1.25m deal with a company called Web-Clubs, which is aiming to roll out a network of online communities.

  • Netvest.com posts pre-tax loss

    29 November 2001

    Andrew Balcombe, chairman of Netvest.com, admitted that its annual results ""are not what we would have wished for"" after the investment company posted a pre-tax loss of £2.6m.

  • New Media people Kathryn Wayman

    29 November 2001

    Title: Business development manager, Habbo Hotel Email: kathryn@habbogroup.com What did you do before? I was sales director of Dotmusic.com.

  • New Media Player James Booth

    29 November 2001

    Last week NMA reported that specialist marketing and technology agency Tangozebra had been rescued from closure by the Incepta Group. James Booth, director at Tangozebra, now has to adjust to life managing the agency from within a large group and not as a

  • Nokia reveals MMS partners

    29 November 2001

    Nokia has announced its multimedia messaging service (MMS) content partnerships.

  • NTL offers an i-Christmas

    29 November 2001

    Ostensibly to celebrate the festive season, NTL has offered its subscribers what it calls a 'Christmas channel' free until the new year.

  • NTVS Database

    29 November 2001

    Each month New TV Strategies provides a listing of emerging digital TV platforms in the UK and Europe. If you would like to provide any information for the Database please write to New TV Strategies, 50 Poland St, London W1V 4AX or email fredt@centaur.co.

  • Omne receives go ahead from ITC

    29 November 2001

    The ITC has awarded a non-exclusive local delivery service licence to nascent network operator Omne Communications. The move gives a green light to the emergence of a new iTV triple play platform from a previously neglected subscriber-base in South West S

  • OneSaturday enters profitable area

    29 November 2001

    Online dating agency OneSaturday has vowed to continue with its iTV service, despite poor uptake to date, as the group moves into profit for the first time.

  • Pace and Open TV in partnership to offer iTV solution

    29 November 2001

    Pace Micro Technology and Open TV have announced a partnership, which will enable the companies to offer a fully integrated iTV solution to cable operators.

  • Paybox picks up hungry users

    29 November 2001

    Mobile payment provider Paybox has tied up its first UK offline deal by offering diners at a central London restaurant money off their meal if they sign up to the service.

  • Perhaps it's time to stop blaming the operators

    29 November 2001

    Edward Orr, vice president, UCP AG

  • Piecing together the mobile content puzzle

    29 November 2001

    Perhaps success isn't about new technologies, but creating good feedback among users, content providers and carriers.

  • PlayStation rally game adds online crossover

    29 November 2001

    Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is adding an Internet element to its latest game for the PlayStation 2 console.

  • Prime movers

    29 November 2001

    The top 50 key players in the UK new media industry

  • Quester halves prior targets for fifth venture trust launch

    29 November 2001

    Investment firm Quester is launching a fifth venture capital trust (VCT) in early December, but only plans to raise half as much as it did for its previous VCT.

  • Reed canvasses views on-business

    29 November 2001

    Nearly half of businesses in the UK claim to have benefited from cost reductions since they invested in-business projects, according to a straw poll carried out at this year's-business Expo.

  • Rivals and 365 face job losses

    29 November 2001

    Employees of Rivals and the 365 sports network face an uncertain future with the creation of a new joint venture by their parent firms.

  • Scient moves into the financial arena following iXL merger

    29 November 2001

    Digital consulting group Scient has restructured its business to focus purely on the financial services and enterprise sectors, following its absorption of iXL this month.

  • Seeing off the competition

    29 November 2001

    Chris Dillabough talks to Carl White, now European head of ValueClick, about the high-profile closure of 24/7 Media Europe and what DoubleClick's retreat means for the ad sales sector.

  • Sky to promote 'red button' shopping via gift ideas show

    29 November 2001

    Sky has begun its first iTV shopping push since replacing its shopping platform Open with its interactive brand Sky Active last month.

  • SMS takes European mobile data use above that of Japan

    29 November 2001

    Adoption of mobile data services is now slightly higher in Europe than it is in Japan.

  • Specsavers pulls plans to look overseas

    29 November 2001

    Specsavers has postponed plans to expand its Lensmail online contact lens home delivery business outside the UK, less than a month after the site was launched.

  • Static hopes to pull in the punters

    29 November 2001

    New media agency Static 2358 has had solid success with its first digital games channel PlayJam but, as Neil Gillespie asks, can it repeat this with new venture YO-YO?

  • Strategy Vizzavi

    29 November 2001

    Timing: 7 October-4 November Background: Vizzavi commissioned Way To Blue, the digital promotions agency, to promote Sting's latest album ...All This Time, released on the 5 November, and its pan-European Webcast of Sting's recording of this live album. V

  • Strong Bluetooth uptake predicted

    29 November 2001

    Research company Frost & Sullivan remains positive about the uptake of Bluetooth technologies, despite the global economic slowdown and the subsequent revision of original growth projections.

  • Success of email helps Emap to get print advertisers online

    29 November 2001

    Publisher Emap is seeing 'cross fertilisation' of its online and print advertisers for the first time since its registered user numbers trebled after an email marketing drive.

  • Taking BT out of the loop

    29 November 2001

    The real benefactors of the Government's announcement of its strategy for encouraging the adoption of broadband should be those living in rural areas, says Michael Nutley.

  • Teamtalk sees losses deepen

    29 November 2001

    Sports media group Teamtalk has insisted that it's still on target to reach profitability by 2004, despite seeing its pre-tax losses rise for the first time.

  • That was then... ...NMA 28 November 1996

    29 November 2001

    Newspaper publishers are warned that their greatest revenue stream, classified ads, is just three years away from serious damage from Web competitors. A report 'Online Classifieds: The impact of New Electronic Technologies on Newspaper Advertising', publi

  • The way we surf now

    29 November 2001

    Contrary to press reports of boom and bust, the UK-commerce market has been growing steadily over the last two years, reveals research by Jupiter MMXI, presented exclusively at last week's NMA Congress. Bryan Porter reports on the surprising results.

  • ThinkNatural's CEO departs

    29 November 2001

    ThinkNatural founder Carol Dukes has stepped down as CEO of the company following its merger with Greenfingers, first revealed by NMA (NMA 1 November) and confirmed by both companies this week.

  • Thomas Cook to push TV channel

    29 November 2001

    Travel agent Thomas Cook's digital TV channel could offer flight and late package deal booking via handsets as early as the middle of next year.

  • Time to convince the traditionalists Tiny Computers

    29 November 2001

    In the third installment, Morelia Bueno looks at the iTV ad opportunities within the digital cable market, with case studies on Tiny Computers and The Job Channel

  • Time to make investments

    29 November 2001

    Dr Hermann Hauser, director, Amadeus Capital Partners

  • Tiscali offers subscription music

    29 November 2001

    Tiscali will next month launch what it says is Europe's first commercial digital music subscription service, Tiscali Music Shop.

  • TotalJobs plans £2m digital ads in bid to attract new users

    29 November 2001

    Recruitment site TotalJobs is spending £2m on digital marketing up to the middle of next year as it shifts its focus from brand-building to the strategic targeting of online jobseekers.

  • Tough at the top

    29 November 2001

    'The substitute is about to come on. He's a player left out of the starting line-up today.' - Kevin Keegan.

  • Tune in for the latest restructuring episode

    29 November 2001

    The BBC and Channel 4 are regrouping their interactive divisions into single units. Yinka Adegoke looks at the reasons for this consolidation.

  • Two Way TV in deal with Flextech

    29 November 2001

    Interactive TV games specialist Two Way TV is to try and cash in on in-game sponsorship after appointing Flextech Sales as its first ad sales house.

  • UK has second highest number of adults online in Europe

    29 November 2001

    Up to 40% of UK adults are online, according to the latest report by Forrester Research, making them Europe's second largest online group in absolute terms.

  • Understand the cookie before you cripple it

    29 November 2001

    Cookies are covered in existing privacy policies, so why is permission being sought again if a user agrees to a site's privacy policy?

  • Virtual talk

    29 November 2001

    The worlds of premium rate chat and instant messaging are beginning to converge, says Mike Butcher.

  • Virtual talk is going to be anything but cheap

    29 November 2001

    Will people realise that more and more often they'll be texting a computer and not the fantasy object they envisage? Sadly, I doubt it.

  • Wap Top 20

    29 November 2001

  • What is bbci?

    29 November 2001

    BBCi replaces BBC Online, BBC Interactive TV and BBC Text, and has been designed to make it easier for audiences to find the content they want. The aim is to encourage more people to try the Web or interactive TV.

  • Zinc escapes Havas reshuffle

    29 November 2001

    Zinc is now the only interactive agency within Havas Advertising not aligned to one of the group's three major brands following the recent reorganisation.