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The initiative encourages people to shoot everyday experiences and share them with the Nseries online community.
Nokia vice president for sales and channel management Mads Winblad said: "It´s an opportunity to explore the camcorder part of the N93 so people can start to be their own movie stars."
There will be competitions on the site to encourage usage.
Winblad added: "We want to create an experience that allows the consumer to see what they are capable of producing on their multimedia devices."
Oldman is shooting mobile videos for the web site based on the theme open your eyes´.
He said: "I am fascinated by the potential of mobile video devices. They allow us to catch the fleeting moments we observe in our daily lives and share them as they happen. The possibilities for film-making are endless."
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Traders are hoping to bring claims against Customs for withholding VAT repayments and causing damages such as cashflow interruptions and consequent loss of profits fees incurred in seeking professional advice financing costs and costs for liquidations.
The High Court issued a preliminary ruling that these claims should be grouped together under a group litigation order (GLO).
London legal firm DLA Piper has been appointed by the High Court as lead solicitors to administer the GLO.
Customs claims that a total of 157 traders have had VAT withheld.
Michael Anderson an associate at DLA Piper said: "There are at least that many potential claimants out there. Whether they all have the appetite to bring damages claims is of course a different matter."
DLA Piper is currently agreeing the terms of the GLO with Customs before seeking final approval.
After that at least one claim will go forward as a test case with the other claimants sharing the costs of litigation. It is likely that there will be a cut-off date for traders to join the GLO.
A Customs spokesman said: "HM Revenue & Customs did not act unreasonably and we will rigorously contest any claims for damages and/or compensation.
"It is part of HMRC´s responsibilities in the care and management of tax to undertake legitimate verifications of VAT claims prior to payment. These claims total many millions in an area of significant fraud. We would be failing in our duties to taxpayers in general if we did not take adequate steps to ensure traders were entitled to this money before we repaid it."
The advert dubbed Silk´ focuses on core areas of mobile TV music and Internet services. The company describes it as having a ´50s Americana feel.
"The ad features two lovers entwined in a stream of silk that binds them together on their separate journeys emphasising the communication strand in 3´s strategy" the company said.
The ad first aired on May 1.
3 marketing director Graeme Oxby said: "This campaign communicates 3´s offer to a broad audience in a distinctive 3 style."
The MVNO will have a presence across Comet´s entire 250 store estate. Easy will be offering the Nokia 2600 for £4.99 if bought with £30 airtime. EasyMobile sales and marketing director Mike Lewis said: "This is only the latest part of our ongoing roll-out of the brand across retail distribution."
Kidner has been involved in the development of Airwave the nationwide digital TETRA network for the UK emergency services since its inception in 1994.
Kidner takes over from John Cox who is retiring.
The move is part of a wider strategy to differentiate the Nseries from ordinary mobile phones which includes selling the devices through other channels including specialised camera and music stores.
Nokia vice-president of sales and channel management Mads Winblad commented on the move at the Nseries conference in Berlin.
"We are now standing in the middle of a transition of change for retail" he said. "We cannot sell these devices as mobile phones because they offer so much more."
Winblad said the devices "need to be played and experimented with in store so people can really hear the quality of music and see how clear the photos are."
He called on retailers to create dedicated sections in store specifically for what he termed these "multimedia computers".
He also explained Nokia´s plan for the Nseries to be sold through specialist retail shops such as camera stores.
"From day one we will be selling the Nseries through independent channels. That way we can roll the handsets out quicker without relying on the old pattern of network testing before the mobile stores decide to stock them."
Winblad added. "We are hoping to implement this strategy in the next 12 to 18 months."
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His remit will be to develop new channels to market for the company´s new stereo headsets and help manage the growth of the company´s existing mono headset portfolio.
Toms will report to Jabra UK and Ireland country manager Andrew Doyle and will play a key role in managing the company´s relationships with its current partners including high street retail and network accounts.
He spent the past 11 years in sales and was previously national account manager at O2 where he managed the indirect business channel relationship with 4U Business.
The figures are even lower for Germany and the US at 2.5 per cent and 2.7 per cent respectively. First-time downloaders throughout the month didn´t even reach one per cent of users in any of the three countries.
Among the top reasons for not bothering to download a game in the month was that users found the cost of doing so too expensive 40 per cent of German users 24 per cent of UK users and 21 per cent of US users cited cost as the main block.
"Despite the growing selection of games on operator portals consumers are still not able to find games that appeal to them and are complaining that prices are too high" commented M:Metrics senior analyst Paul Goode.
"Faster networks and devices with larger screens will help improve the discovery process but operators and games publishers must do a much better job of marketing and merchandising mobile gaming content."
"The phone does everything a BlackBerry does but its smaller than my D600" said MicroRiver sales director Tony Blacklock.
Blacklock hopes to recruit a dedicated mobile phone distributor and three to 12 dealers.
"Initially I was sceptical" said Eurocom managing director Gary Kay. "But at the end of last year we felt there was little to lose so we replaced our manual method of customer prospecting."
The company chose the Contact Centre Suite from call handling systems specialist Amcat. It manages inbound and outbound calls through self-service call routing.
"Since then our business has exploded and we have increased our staff from six to 27" he added.
The solution also helps produce productivity statistics. "The information is like gold dust" said Kay. "We can identify the best days and time of day to call."
Kay claimed the company would be able to recover its £100000 investment within six months.