Best Buy and Carphone Warehouse have entered into a joint project to launch the US brand in Europe. But getting Best Buy into the UK isn't just about sticking a big yellow tag on everything.

Carphone Warehouse is selling a 50 per cent stake in its mobile phone retail business to US electronics retailer BestBuy, setting the stage for a heavyweight fight in the UK's retail electronics market.

Computacenter has rejected the possibility of adding Dell to its vendor lineup as it launched a revamped effort to reel in SME customers yesterday.

DSG International (DSGi) shares fell nine per cent this morning following the retail giant’s second profit warning in under four months.

The firm’s CEO John Browett issued a statement today in which he admitted that customer demand in the UK and Ireland has been “lower than expected, with a negative impact on margins”.

Ofcom wants to make mobile network operators responsible for their resellers, reporting that a voluntary code of practice for the industry has failed to reduce complaints.

Horizon Technology Group - the Irish reseller company - told the Stock Exchange this morning that it has been approached by a possible buyer for the firm.

Computacenter today said its customers are yet to feel the pinch from the credit crunch as it reported its first revenue growth in five years.

It saw adjusted pre-tax profit of £47.2m for the year ended 31 December 2007, an increase of nearly 28 per cent.

An American software internet piracy ring destroyed, and for once eBay is absent from the story. Two middle-aged brothers have been sent to prison for selling "massive amounts" of pirated software from Adobe, Autodesk and Macromedia, at huge discounts.

Game Group yesterday released an optimistic trading statement in an attempt to halt its tumbling share price.

The gamble appears to have paid off, with shares in the video retailer rallying some four pence this morning, currently trading at 190p on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

The founder of a company set up to re-sell Microsoft software licences claims he will still be able to do so, despite changes made by Microsoft to its software licences which appear to be designed to stop the re-sale.

Analysis Earlier this month, word got out that Microsoft was funding its own intellectual property rights curriculum in schools.

The reaction was understandably negative.

Dell is gunning to sign up a select bunch of channel resellers to the certification part of its two-tier programme over the next few months.

The firm's new UK channel director Andy Dow said Dell no longer thinks of the channel as simply being “something on the side”.

Ron Sandler has quit his non-executive chairmanship at Computacenter with immediate effect following his decision to run Northern Rock while it is under public ownership.

Adobe and Symantec have unleashed legal attack dogs on nine individuals accused of selling pirated software on eBay.

The former boss of Dixons Store Group International (DSGI) says he was surprised at the European Commission raids on retailers earlier this week.

Dell is to offer its nascent EMEA channel a pricing structure that it claims won’t pit partners and its internal sales team against one another.

The company’s PartnerDirect programme kicked off Stateside in December last year, and now it's being launched in Europe, the Middle East and Africa too.

Apple's retail expansion into Glasgow has claimed a casualty - an Apple retail outlet operated for 10 years by Scotsys.

John McAleenan, Scotsys managing director, told The Register that the firm couldn’t compete against the might of Apple, which opened its desirable "destination shop in a class A location" a year ago.

UK IT services company Computerland has appointed two new directors for sales and service directories.

A British man who was selling £12,000 software for £12 on eBay faces up to 10 years in prison. He pleaded guilty to copyright infringement and will be sentenced in February.

Online retailer Play.com has admitted that some of its customers received the wrong graphics cards before Christmas.

The Jersey-based firm said it had sold the graphics cards to a number of people because its supplier, Zotac, had passed on inaccurate information which was then used on Play's website.