Advertising FUBAR of the year

HP pays Gary Glitter £100,000 to use his track Do You Wanna Touch Me.

Someone at the ad agency should be given a sound kicking for this, and HP needs to add another step to the ad review process.

Amazon.co.uk now has FREE delivery on orders over 5 pounds

I got an email this week from Amazon.co.uk with details of their new Super Saver Delivery option:

"We are excited to announce that we are significantly reducing the minimum purchase for Super Saver Delivery, our FREE delivery programme. Starting today, you only need to add £5 worth of eligible items to your basket to get free delivery. That's a two-thirds reduction from the previous minimum of £15. And best of all, it is just in time for Christmas shopping."

Start shopping now!

'Unbreakable' encryption unveiled

'Unbreakable' encryption unveiled: "Perfect secrecy has come a step closer with the launch of the world's first computer network protected by unbreakable quantum encryption at a scientific conference in Vienna."

HP plans 1,400 job cuts in Germany

HP plans 1,400 job cuts in Germany

"Some 1,150 of the cuts are expected at the subsidiary Electronic Data Systems, while 250 jobs will likely come from the main company, said spokesman Norbert Gelse.

HP, whose German base is near Stuttgart in Boeblingen, will work out a plan for the cuts with labor representatives over the coming weeks, Gelse said."

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