Tesco should have paid Universal £984 for the six Muddy Fox Suspension Bikes, which it purchased in August this year. But some poor incompetent in Tesco’s finance department managed to overpay by a factor of one thousand! We can be thankful that the individual responsible for the major cock up isn’t manning a till.. my household expenses budget couldn’t stand the extra.

The plot thickens.. although Universal have refunded most of the overpayment, it’s alledged that they have retained £120,000 to cover other oustanding debts. Unsurprisingly Tesco is disputing this and the relationship between Universal and Tesco is looking somewhat strained.

You have to smile at the irony when Tesco keep telling us that “Every little helps” when overpaying almost £1 million is hardly a “little” oversight.

O2 is also planning to purchase Be Broadband. The strong Be Broadband brand is likely to be retained to take advantage of its current market reach.

The marketing of the products will be brought into the SME, broadband, consumer and corporate mobile teams by way of the mobile network operator.

Sally Cowdry, the marketing director, said that, though O2 is gaining in the broadband market, the market is still a challenging one. Change is one of the only few constants and they have to evolve, said Cowdry. She added that they have moved into offering multi-products and that the changes that they are making are such that they will align themselves to these multi-products.

As far as the mobile phone part is considered, the Pay As You Go and contract marketing teams will be brought in as a single division during restructuring and, rather than focusing on the package that the customers purchase, the focus of marketing will be on particular segments of the market.

They have set November as the month for completing their restructuring and Cowdry said that the staff affected by the restructuring can apply for the newly created roles.

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Selected by InfoWorld’s editorial and test center staff, other winners this year in the enterprise category include world class offering from vendors such as Jaspersoft, Compiere, SugarCRM and Open Source analytics engine Piwik.

Congratulations Magento on another great award and another successful year and thanks to all of you who made it possible!

The transition to the new name takes place over the weekend of August 29th and 30th.

To date TweetLater has been focusing on providing productivity solutions for Twitter users. They decided to change their name to allow for future expansion into other social media solutions, and to ensure that their brand does not conflict with any current or future legal rights of the Twitter organization.

A spokesman from TweetLater said “This is an unsolicited, proactive and preemptive action on our side”.

The email marketing strategies series called Inboxed is now uploaded to iTunes every week.

The WebmasterRadio.FM show outlines how marketers can deliver email marketing campaigns more effectively,  it is aimed primarily at online business involved in operating their own marketing strategies.

“We cover topics for the advanced marketer as well as the novice or beginner.” Said show Host Jon Fondy.

Fondy went on to say: “Our expert industry guests provide informative real time tips on legal Issues, list management, marketing for the retail establishment and more”.

WebmasterRadio.FM is a business to business organisation that tries to bring the business community together to work on issues through the medium of radio broadcast.

The Office of Fair Trading will be looking into how ecommerce and pricing practices affect customers, as well as the use of personal data in campaigns focusing particularly on information taken from observance of users’ online activities.

Aimed at encouraging an industry code of practice and any voluntary action on the part of firms as a result of the work, the market study could lead to recommendations being made by the COI to sector regulators or the UK government.

Senior director of the OFT’s consumer market group Heather Clayton has asked for consumer groups, businesses and organisations to suggest areas to focus on.

Clayton said:

“The way that businesses advertise and price goods and services constantly evolves and we need to keep up to date on how consumers view these adverts”.

The site, which ITV acquired for £175m in 2006 and has lost market share to the likes of Facebook, is being acquired by DC Thomson-owned Brightsolid, the owner of genealogy website Findmypast.com.

That was the only bad news for ITV today as they also reported a pre-tax loss of £105m in the first six months of 2009 as revenues fell 12pc to £909m.

Despite the success of shows such as Dancing On Ice and Britain’s Got Talent, the recession sent the ITV’s advertising revenues down 12pc, with revenues generated from its TV channels falling 15pc. Michael Grade, the company’s executive chairman, has responded to the downturn by cutting costs and ITV said today that it’s on track to cut costs by £155m this year.

On2 creates advanced video compression technologies that power the video in today’s leading desktop and mobile applications and devices; and its customers include Adobe, Skype, Nokia, Infineon, Sun Microsystems, Mediatek, Sony, Brightcove, and Move Networks.

Whatever the reasons behind this advert, it certainly provokes a smile!

With over 40 million active daily users around the world who use Skype for business or to keep in touch with friends and far-flung relatives. The loss of the Skype service, which carries about 8 per cent of all international voice traffic, would have a major impact on global communications.

eBay the online auction powerhouse bought Skype from entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis for $US2.6 billion in 2005, but this did not include a core piece of peer-to-peer communications technology that powers the software.

eBay has since been licensing the technology from the founders’ new company, Joltid, but the pair recently decided to revoke the licensing agreement.

The matter is now the subject of a legal battle in the English High Court of Justice, with eBay trying to force Joltid to let it continue using the technology.

eBay said in no uncertain terms that if it lost the right to use the software it would most likely have to shut Skype down. The company also said it was working on developing ‘‘alternative software’’ to that licensed through Joltid, but this ‘‘may not be successful, may result in loss of functionality or customers even if successful, and will in any event be expensive’’.

‘‘If Skype was to lose the right to use the Joltid software as the result of the litigation, and if alternative software was not available, Skype would be severely and adversely affected and the continued operation of Skype’s business as currently conducted would likely not be possible,’’ eBay wrote.

In the filing eBay also said that, even if it was successful in developing alternative software, the technical challenge of assuring backward compatibility with older versions of Skype’s technology ‘‘may be difficult to overcome’’.