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By Maria Halkias, The Dallas Morning News Jul. 24--Best Buy Inc. admits at least one weakness: wireless. The largest U.S. consumer electronics retailer had been dissatisfied with a 2 percent market share in cellphones, while holding an enviable 20 percent in TVs, digital cameras and DVD players, and selling more laptops than any other chain. But now the big-box behemoth believes it has the ticket to a larger wireless share, even as Fort Worth-based RadioShack Corp. struggles in the...
More than one in 10 UK youngsters aged 11 to 18 have had sexually explicit conversations online, according to a new report. The annual Mobile Life survey for the Carphone Warehouse found 27 per cent had interacted with strangers online and 10 per cent had met someone in person that they originally met on through the internet. The worrying statistics emerged just days after parents were warned of the dangers of social networking websites by a city father whose 14-year-old daughter was...
By Martin Hickman Consumer Affairs Correspondent Shoppers will flock to 1,250 stores across Britain today in search of the new 3G iPhone, Apple's combined music player, phone and internet browser. Many will be disappointed. The mobile phone shop Carphone Warehouse and the network O2, which have exclusive rights to sell the gadget, expect to sell out in nearly all of their shops. Both sold out of their online allocations within hours on Monday, with unexpectedly strong demand crashing 02's...
JDSU, a provider of communications test and measurement solutions, has entered into a contract to provide service assurance test solutions to The Carphone Warehouse Networks. According to JDSU, its service assurance system, NetComplete, will support the design, implementation and management of the next generation network for The Carphone Warehouse Networks (CPWN), covering both its residential and business customers via local loop unbundling. JDSU has also been awarded an expansion contract...
MILPITAS, Calif., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- JDSU today announced it has entered into a contract to provide service assurance test solutions to The Carphone Warehouse Networks (CPWN), one of the largest and most advanced telecom networks in the UK, and a wholly-owned division of the fixed line and broadband business of The Carphone Warehouse (CPW) Group plc. The JDSU service assurance system, NetComplete, will support the design, implementation and management of the Next Generation...
Speculation linking mobile phone giant Vodafone to a takeover bid for Italian broadband business Tiscali look to be over. Tiscali had received at least one offer this week, but a report said that Vodafone would not be making a proposal. Tiscali, which has broadband operations in Britain and Italy, had been seen as an attractive match for Vodafone, which is focusing on fixed line broadband to offset slowing growth in the saturated European mobile phone market. Reports in Italy earlier this...
One of Britain's largest Internet Service Providers have refused to disconnect users who ignore requests to stop sharing music, telling the music industry it's not their job to police the internet.The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the trade body for UK music, asked ISPs to disconnect so-called "˜internet music pirates' who refuse to stop sharing files.But Charles Dunstone of Carphone Warehouse, which runs the TalkTalk broadband service, is refusing to comply with their demand.Dunstone...
By Jeffrey Goldfarb LONDON (Reuters) - British consumers are set to be the first in the world able to buy songs instantly as they listen to them on digital radio, using a download service announced on Monday by UBC Media. The London-based radio programming producer said it would begin testing the technology on Chrysalis Group's Heart station, with plans for a full roll-out by December. It added that digital-radio-enabled mobile phones would be available later this year. Korean handset...
