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The enterprise is being run in association with Nokia.
Fans who use the service will be sent tickets direct to their mobile and the phone will then act as a ticket which will be scanned at entry to the gig.
"This is the first time a gig will be sold purely by mobile" claimed Nokia marketing manager Richard Sandford.
"The idea behind this service is that it is a convenient way for our customers to purchase tickets."
The gig will take place on June 7 at the London Hammersmith Apollo a venue the band last played in October 1987.
Sandford added: "Eventually we want the technology to progress so users register at ticketrush with their credit card details and music genre preferences. Then we will text them when a gig is coming up and they can just reply to say they want to attend and receive tickets.
"What´s great about ticketrush is that our customers get tickets to these gigs before anyone else so they don´t miss out."
The tournament at Roland-Garros from May 28 to June 11 is regarded as the world´s greatest clay-court tennis tournament and is watched by millions of viewers worldwide.
"We want to support a sport that lets us meet our users. This tournament is an opportunity to demonstrate our skill in combining technology ease-of-use and leisure" said Sagem CEO Thierry Buffenoir.
The retail chain is supporting the seventh series of the show with idents produced by Clemmow Hornby Inge based on the company´s mascot Mowbli.
The theme of the idents centres on the concept of star treatment. 40 idents will be aired over the 13 weeks of the series.
Carphone Warehouse marketing director Tristia Clarke said: "we are confident that this year´s series will be a huge success. We´re continuing a theme which will mirror o number of in-store initiatives."
This is the first time the Carphone brand has been associated with the main series of the show. The retailer sponsored Celebrity Big Brother at Christmas. It sponsored the last two series under the Talk Talk.
According to a creditors´ letter sent out on April 13 £1.4 million has been released to the company by Customs which has withheld £604000 for VAT charges. An outstanding legal case may reduce the VAT realisations by £464000. The company may be able to carry back £770000 against corporation tax.
Money collected from Daleri customers amounted £520000. However £312000 of this went to Ernst & Young as commission.
The liquidation has now been handed over to Kroll. Liquidator Andrew Pepper said payment would go first to office-holders´ fees and expenses then to preferential creditors such as employees.
The balance will then be divided equally between remaining creditors.
Unique went into administration in March 2005 after it is believed to have failed to secure enough credit to operate. The holding company Daleri sold Unique´s assets including the trading name to Land Investments at that time which resumed trading as Unique in the summer of last year. Unique continues to trade as a going concern under the new holding company.
Hugh Symons business manager Bob Sweetlove said: "LG handsets will be big over the next couple of months following the launch of the Chocolate phone."
Another contender keen to knock Nokia off the top spot is the Samsung D800. "If it does anywhere near as well as the D500 or D600 then it will be big." said Fone Logistics head of marketing Julian Parven.
T-Mobile´s Flext 35 is top consumer tariff but Avenir marketing manager Andy Chilton added: "The Business1 plan is also doing well."
Both HM Revenue & Customs and mobile phone traders claimed a victory following the European Court of Justice ruling on joint and several liability last week.
The court upheld the principle of joint and several liability but added a series of caveats to the legislation. Dass Solicitors which represents the claimants said this represented a victory of sorts for traders.
The court ruled that presumption of fraud was not valid on the grounds that a trader sells goods on for less than they had purchased them for. "That presumption is rebuttable on the proof that the low price payable for the goods was attributable to circumstances unconnected with failure to pay VAT" said the court.
It added that if a trader takes every reasonable precaution against fraud then he cannot be jointly and severally liable. The court ruled: "Traders who take every precaution must be able to rely on the legality of those transactions without the risk of being made jointly and severally liable to pay the VAT due from another taxable person."
The court also threw out the securities provision that enabled Customs to hold security from traders for VAT elsewhere in the supply chain.
Dass Solicitors partner Alias Dass said: "It has gone better than expected. The claimants were justified in taking the case to the court."
A Customs spokesman said: "The Government welcomes the ECJ´s firm and final confirmation that member states may legally prevent abuse of the VAT system and protect revenues by applying joint and several liability.
The claimants´ solicitors fees for the case amount to more than £200000.
The Security Matters conference will be held in central London on June 28. It will discuss every aspect of mobile telecoms crime and fraud and its effect on the industry.
NMPCU founding officer DI Kenny McDonald will be talking about products most likely to be targeted by violent robbers and security precautions to defeat them. Delegates will also hear about weaknesses in the current GSM/3G billing infrastructure.
See more details and register at
mobilenewsconferences.co.uk or call Nicky Croke on 0207 324 3500.
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This issue´s Mystery Shopper feature indicates that most store staff are unaware of initiatives such as the National Mobile Phone Crime Unit´s (NMPCU) Immobilise database on which consumers can register their phones so that they can be returned if stolen and recovered.
But some prefer to push their own company´s insurance offerings.
DI Kenny McDonald of the NMPCU urged retailers to exploit every opportunity to educate and advise people on how to protect themselves from theft.
He said: "We are disappointed with the standard of crime prevention advice given at the point of sale. There are clearly some individuals who have a reasonable knowledge of the Immobilise register while others have not."
We had hoped the poor results of the previous mystery shopping exercise in Bond Street were isolated as we continue to work very hard with service providers to promote the huge advantages of Immobilise. However it seems much work still needs to be done."
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MoCo which has specialised in business connections on O2 and Vodafone now connects five networks. The 3 deal will help it boost consumer connections which now make up around 30 per cent of its business.
MoCo managing director Ian Robinson claimed MoCo´s reputation in the B2B dealer channel would also help 3 establish itself in the enterprise space.
"We are expanding further into the consumer side of things" said Robinson. "It also suits 3´s ambition to enter the B2B market."
MoCo is setting up a B2B dealer club which will reward its top B2B dealers with extra support.
At the same time a German court also issued two injunctions against trademark infringement and design infringement to stop exhibitors showing and selling the fake products.
Ericsson says it found a substantial amount of counterfeit accessories including batteries front panels and cases.
The company says counterfeit products such as chargers antennas and batteries often do not meet Ericssons quality and safety standards and that this can adversely affect talk and standby times.
At CeBIT it is easy to identify companies who market counterfeit products or use our trademark in an illegal way said Niclas Almgren manager of trademark and design protection at Ericsson.
Our activities are ongoing. We follow up the observations made at CeBIT to see whether we need to take legal action.
We want to ensure infringements are dealt with and the number of pirate products minimised.
Plans are in hand to make it easier for consumers to recognise fake Ericsson products.
New-generation Ericsson phones will include a verifying feature to ensure that Ericssons original battery chargers supplied with its new phones are able to sense whether the battery being charged is an Ericsson original or a third party unit.
According to Ericsson if the battery is non-Ericsson supplied and the battery is not authorised (ie not licensed by the company) then the charger will only charge the battery at half the normal rate.
Using this approach will the company says ensure that the battery operates within normal company parameters.
Ericsson carried out similar raids at last years CeBIT show.
The company says it also fights against counterfeiters with other activities such as training and education and running campaigns to warn consumers against counterfeit manufacturers.