Wireless email has boosted the amount of time that employees can put into their work and its effect will become increasingly obvious in the next few years, according to a new study from The Radicati Group. The report claims that despite the shaky economy and relatively unstable carrier networks, almost 2 million business professionals will… Continue reading Wireless Email To Benefit Productivity
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Independent News & Media has announced the sale of its stake in a Portuguese newspaper group as it continues to dispose of non-core assets. The publisher has sold its 19.1% stake in Lusomondo Media to the Lisbon-based Cofina Group for £17 million. Cofina owns several of the biggest titles in Portugal including Correio da Manha,… Continue reading INM Accepts Offer For Portuguese Stake
ITV has unveiled a wide-ranging seven point plan for growth that will help it stave off any American take-over through the launch of a series of new digital channels and a new commitment to produce more format-based television programmes. The strategy has been unveiled in an interview in the Sunday Times with Charles Allen and… Continue reading ITV Unveils Growth Plan And Vows To Fight Off Takeover Bid
A new poll has found that more than two-thirds of broadband users would happily pay a premium for a guaranteed quality of service (QoS) from their provider. The survey of Broadband4Britain members commissioned by the network platforms company net.com found that 79% would like a new service that promises a minimum bandwidth performance level and… Continue reading Broadband Users Willing To Fork Out For Quality Services
Online shopping is becoming a way of life for an increasing number of UK consumers and the Interactive Media in Retail Group estimates that more than £4 billion of goods and services will be bought over the internet in November and December. Royal Mail and Parcelforce, which deliver 60% of all goods ordered online, expect… Continue reading E-Tailers Look Forward To Bumper Christmas
Global shipments of camera phones are set to climb from 19 million in 2002 to almost 300 million in 2007 but wireless operators will only extract full potential from these devices if they address subscriber wants and needs, according to a report from IDC. New handsets with embedded cameras have galvanised the mobile market with… Continue reading Camera Phone Suppliers Crave Customer Satisfaction
ITV has unveiled its new board and management structure following the Competition Commission’s decision to allow its £4 billion merger with limited behavioural conditions (see ITV Cleared To Merge With Sales Houses Intact). Upon completion of the merger, Michael Green, who currently heads up Carlton, will become chairman, while Charles Allen the chairman of Granada,… Continue reading ITV Unveils New Board
Having gained approval for their much anticipated merger (see ITV Cleared To Merge With Sales Houses Intact) SMG has called on Carlton and Granada to sell their controlling stake in GMTV. The Scottish media company, which owns Grampian and Scottish TV, has a 25% stake in GMTV and has expressed a desire to increase its… Continue reading ITV Giants Urged To Sell GMTV Stake
The US private equity firm Hellman & Friedman has bought a 19.5% stake in Axel Springer from Deutsche Bank in a deal worth Â350 million. Axel Springer is the largest newspaper group in Europe and publishes the German dailies, Bild and Die Welt. Deutsche Bank acquired a 40% stake in the company last year after… Continue reading Deutsche Bank Finds Buyer For Springer Stake
Despite the admission that “predicting media inflation is not unlike forecasting the weather a year ahead”, David Fletcher, head of Mediaedge:cia‘s MediaLab, has decided to have a go at calling the next couple of years in MediaLab’s latest Adstats report. Taking ‘life in one hand and a cup of tea leaves in the other’, Fletcher… Continue reading UK Media Inflation Forecasts From Mediaedge:cia