Articles about Christmas

Comet staff should be for life, not just for Christmas

Dixons to recruit 2,000 for festive peak season

Online Christmas orders from retailers go titsup

IT glitches at Fortnum & Mason and Sainsbury's hamper operations

Channel players hit the pub for Christmas... it's been a long year

Conferences, closing deals - anytime is pub 'o clock

Dixons warns on crap Christmas

Shares fall on profit warning

Carphone Warehouse has peachy Christmas quarter

Those happy chaps at Carphone Warehouse are reporting the last three months of 2010 were top, with earnings at the high end of expectations and US expansion going well. An interim statement from the group reports UK sales rising more than two per cent compared to the Christmas period 2009, contributing to a more modest 0.7 per …

Dixons warns of tough Christmas

Dixons Retail Group - better known as PC World - has warned of a tough and competitive Christmas season. Tech retailers, along with the rest of the High Street, are heavily reliant on the big boost given by Christmas to bring in the profits. Dixons said sales in the first half of the year had been flat, or up one per cent, at £ …

Christmas shoppers hit by BT fire

Exchange blaze cuts off London's retail heart

Apple still top for slab-fondlers despite FLOOD of Xmas tablets

Samsung up, ereaders down in IDC quarterly figures - IDC

Bite us, Apple: Samsung hauled in $8.3bn in Q4

Samsung Electronics has released its pre-earnings guidance ahead of revealing its full figures for 2012, and the topline figures for the quarter show that money has been pouring in for the South Korean tech titans. Sales for the last three months of 2012 brought in approximately 56 trillion won ($52.7bn) for Samsung with an …

Dixons celebrates shiny Christmas

DSGi - the group behind PC World and Currys - has updated the City on trading over the crucial Christmas period. For the 12 weeks ended 9 January group sales were up eight per cent with only UK computing sales showing a slight fall - down three per cent in like-for-like terms. The retailer said that Windows 7 provided a bit of a …

Amazon to create 5,000 UK jobs in Kindle Fire hire

Web souk can't wait for Christmas

Tough luck, lappies: Brits favour fingersome fondleslabs, phones

Can notebook sales survive the clamour for touchscreen tech?

Tablets BEAT DOWN laptops in 4-to-1 Xmas bloodbath - analyst

Jingle bells, notebook hells

Dixons returns to profit in UK, rubs hands as Comet circles drain

Losses overall down to crazy Pixmania, penniless 'peans

BlueArc wants IPO for Christmas next year

Comment It's like engines and cars, see

Invasion of the Killer Slablets: How BYOD can be good for channel

Consumerisation of IT needn't be a problem

Microsoft plans big licencing price hikes, shifting to per-Device model

Merry Christmas you turkeys

Dixons feasts on corpse of Comet, chortles over 'slab bonanza

Pixmania and southern EU remain sore boils on bottom line

Think Xmas bashes in your biz are scary? Try partying with the Channel

Microsoft Surface Pro launch: It's easy to sell out of sod all stock

What can save the Xmas PC market? Not Windows 8, say analysts

Microsoft: Windows 7 ready for Christmas 2009

eBay opens real-world UK tat bazaar for Xmas greed peak

HMRC hops back into bed with Microsoft, finds purse £10m lighter

Cash-strapped Comet sheds ANOTHER 735 staff

Dixons steps over Comet's bloodied body to nab bonus Xmas sales

Asda tempts technophobes with cheap PCs and broadband

John Lewis agrees to flog Microsoft's Surface RT tablets

Microsoft has brought in premium retailer John Lewis to flog its Surface RT slablet just days after shooting down its pure direct sales strategy. Redmond confirmed on Wednesday that it was enlisting a network of retailers to push its device in Europe from next year, claiming it was ramping production to meet demand. This is …