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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The picture, showing employees sitting around a desk, appeared unaltered on the firm’s US website.

But on the website of its Polish business unit the black man’s head was replaced with a white face, although the colour of his hands was unchanged.

Microsoft said it had pulled the image and would be investigating who made the changes. It apologised for the gaffe.

The altered image, which also featured an Asian man and a white woman, was quickly circulated online.

We’re much more interested in the questions..

How the heck did an Apple Macbook get into a Microsoft Advert?

Shouldn’t the monitor be plugged into something?

Will heads roll over this gaff? (Sorry!)

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”.

Budget hotel chain Premier Inn seems to be taking advantage of the current credit crunch by offering a £58  ($96) honeymoon deal in an effort to tap into an underutilised leisure market.

Premier Inn’s special offer, which is about $5,000 cheaper than the average honeymoon package, comes after the company–which usually caters to business travelers–found in its own research that 73% of newlyweds are stressed about the cost of their postwedding break, with 52% planning to shun a honeymoon altogether this year in order to save money.

The deal provides the newlyweds with two nights stay, including dinner, bed and breakfast, rose petals with a bottle of sparkling wine, strawberries, luxury chocolates, a spa hamper, glamorous nightwear and deals on some sightseeing trips and excursions.

Premier Inn, which is owned by Britain’s largest budget hotel operator Whitbread, usually provides deals for business travelers, but the company said on Friday it wants to “replicate this success in the leisure market.” “This promotion for honeymooners, together with larger scale deals like our £29 ($48) Premier Inn rooms offer, are designed to appeal specifically to those price-conscious families, couples and friends who want to take a short break holiday in the U.K.,” said Tabitha Aldrich-Smith, communications director at Whitbread.

We are wondering just how memorable a honeymoon at a Premier Inn will be? It’s not the kind of honeymoon that many will want to tell their children and grandchildren about!

However that turned out to be untrue.  The only change mentioned in those announcements was Paypal’s decision to allow its customers with premium accounts to make personal transfers for free.

Charlotte Hill, PayPal’s PR manager said.

“We didn’t want to make a huge formal communication out of this pricing change, because we weren’t really adding any fees, and we were hoping it would be a more useful experience for people.”

We happen to think that it’s scandalous that PayPal should make changes without at least communicating with their customers and giving them a reasonable amount of notice.

Tazeen Ahmad, an investigative journalist signed up as a Sainsbury’s Checkout Girl where she spent 6 months in the job and the book describes her experiences during that time.

She talks about the pleasant customers and the obnoxious ones as well as the feeling of team spirit and camaraderie which is unexpectedly there amongst the staff. They have a good manager and they all try and do their best for him.

Importantly, she also notices how the recession alters the behaviour of the people who shop and the people who work at the store. Tazeen Ahmad realised that the supermarket checkout was the perfect place to gauge how the nation was coping with increasing job cuts, sky-high food prices and a billion pound hole in our economy.

The answer, it turns out, was with white bread, ice cream and lots and lots of potatoes. Sworn at, flirted with and at the receiving end of endless customer rants, The Checkout Girl is the deliciously gossipy memoir of life on the supermarket conveyor belt where each one of us has unwittingly had a walk-on part. Reading her story will change the way you shop forever.