The Consumers' Association (CA) has launched an online car sales arm as part of its campaign against "Rip Off Britain". The Web site - www.carbusters.com - offers price cuts of up to £3,000 per car, if the consumer is prepared to wait three months...
Car manufacturers are too slow in delivering the goods. This is the conclusion drawn by the International Automotive Conference in Sunderland yesterday. Experts say that the industry needs to re-invent itself and embrace the Internet in order to...
According to a survey of almost 2,000 iMac buyers by research firm Audits and Surveys, 29.4 per cent of those who bought the brightly coloured computers were first time buyers, while 12.5 per cent had previously owned Wintel machines but never a Mac.
I'd taken advantage of my accident to send the car to be MOT-ed. Meanwhile, US airline South West has used XML to link their its with Dollar Rent-a-Car so customers can book a plane ticket and a car simultaneously.
AltaVista, now owned by Yahoo, was among the first to take a stab at desktop search, but its product failed to catch on. Consumers would likely be the primary audience for such a tool, but it could easily infiltrate workplaces, too.
The bank was aware that some customers may potentially be put off from using the technology due to its unfamiliarity and employed "greeters" to encourage people with suitable transactions to leave the queue and use one of the self-service machines...