European Weekend Breaks Threatened By Ryanair Bag Charge
Travellers have been left reeling after Ryanair last week announced plans to charge passengers £100 per bag they check in next summer. While consistently offering cheap flight deals, the low cost airline has in the past come under fire for some of the extra costs it expects passengers to pay.
In the announcement, the company explained [...]
CSR Announces It Is Ending Investment In HD And Digital TV
UK based computer chip and wireless technology company CSR has announced that it is ceasing investment in digital television systems on a chip, known as DTV SoC, to focus on areas of technology where they have an existing market lead such as GPS, bluetooth and wifi chips.
The company, which is based in Cambridge, stated in [...]
Regions in Britain Prepare for Extreme Weather
Winter has officially arrived in Britain, with forecasters predicting snow and high winds for parts of northern England and Scotland in the coming weeks. It is recommended that motorist in these areas of the country look at breakdown recovery deals on price comparison website, such as www.breakdownchoices.co.uk for example, before the conditions take a [...]
Everything Everywhere Moves to Improve Mobile Coverage
UK mobile network provider Everything Everywhere has recently announced plans to invest over £1.5 billion in the next three years to improve mobile coverage and prepare for the launch of a 4G mobile network.
As part of the plans, users of both the Orange and the T Mobile networks should experience increased signal strength and [...]
Confidence In Thomas Cook Will Be Revealed During New Year Booking Season
While announcing healthy trading figures for the year up to September, Peter Long, the head of Europe’s largest tour operator Tui, took time to express his belief that the next three months are going to be key in determining the confidence customers have in Thomas Cook.
When asked if he thought Thomas Cook’s recent financial [...]
Thai Floods Expected to Effect Price and Supply of Server and Computer Parts to UK
Industry commentators warn that floods which have effected production of computer components in Thailand since July this year will have serious implications for computer manufacturers and parts suppliers in the UK and around the world.
Unseasonably heavy rains that began to fall in July this year have caused widespread flooding in Thailand, resulting in the South [...]
Unique Domino’s Field Marketing Solution
Pizza delivery business Domino’s has teamed up with US firefighters in an inventive and original field marketing exercise. People who ordered Domino’s pizza were surprised to find their meals delivered by volunteer firefighting personnel and arriving on a fire engine.
After arriving on the premises, the firefighting delivery team proceeded to check pizza recipients’ homes for [...]
Christmas Tree Tax Could Lead to Field Marketing Jobs
Barack Obama’s administration took some commentators by surprise when it announced that it will impose an additional tax on sales of Christmas trees. Funds raised by the new tax will be spent on the creation and funding of a new Christmas Tree Promotion Board, with the remit to conduct a “program of promotion, research, evaluation, [...]
Small Businesses Save On Landline Charges
Small and medium-sized businesses can benefit from a new set of packages from Vodafone to help curb the cost of phone usage. Among the available services are flexible data, voice and text schemes as well as access to Microsoft Office’s 365 and BT’s OpenZone UK.
Office 365 can provide a small business with email via a [...]
Kingpin-SEO adjusts to Facebook’s UK growth
While the majority of web marketing efforts from top UK search engine optimisation firm Kingpin-SEO continue to focus on web site optimisation for Google, the company has recently devoted more time and staff energy to promotional opportunities for clients via social networks. Meaning in particular Facebook. The United Kingdom leads the world in percentile of [...]