Thorntons Solicitors

As at December 2008, it was reported that 70.9% of the UK population has access to the internet either in the home or in the workplace. It is therefore of no surprise that the internet is fast becoming the most convenient and popular way for consumers to shop.

Legislation has been in place for a considerable period to ensure that consumers are not at a disadvantage when purchasing goods or services online as opposed to engaging in face to face transactions. Unfortunately not all online traders (”Sellers”) are adhering to these mandatory provisions, and consumer confidence can be affected by this.

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Comments (0) Apr 23 2009

Blue Square are delighted to offer their customers something a little different. We have over 90 metres exclusive LED advertising at the televised SPL matches listed below. This is the fastest growing medium in Scotland and so if you are interested we urge you to get in touch with us quickly!

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Comments (0) Feb 15 2009

Since the advent of digital printing, short run print campaigns are now more cost-effective than ever. This is definitely true with Billboard advertising.

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Comments (0) Feb 15 2009

As the snow once again caused chaos in Dundee City centre this morning, brave Blue Square employees battled their way to work! Although some were late, all were present! A big thanks to Stuart for clearing the carpark (not a small task).

Comments (0) Feb 12 2009

As Blue Square launch their latest E-Commerce website (Archturus) we have been closely studying our e-ommerce clients and the online shopping market uas a whole.  Over the Christmas period our long established e-commerce clients reported at worst static levels of sales turnover compared to last year with several reporting increases, one of up to 6%.

Accross Britain the story was the same with research showing a massive 14 % increase in online shopping in December 2008 compared to the same period a year before. 

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Comments (0) Feb 12 2009

The online user-generated encyclopaedia Wikipedia is considering a radical change to how it is run.

It is proposing a review of the rules, that would see revisions being approved before they were added to the site.

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Comments (0) Jan 27 2009

Dell is closing its Limerick manufacturing facility, with the assembly plant’s functions due to be transferred to a Polish plant in Lodz.

The Limerick plant assembles notebooks, desktops and servers for all of Dell’s Europe, Middle East and Africa customers. About 1,900 jobs will be cut, starting in April and completed by January, 2010. Sacked employees will receive a severance package and some assistance in finding a new job.

Comments (0) Jan 11 2009

In todays pre-budget report the Chancellor introduced a reduction in VAT rate from 17.5% to 15% to help kick start the economy and increase consumer spending.

VAT has been set at 17.5% since before ecommerce was invented and this latest change is going to cause a huge headache for ecommerce websites.

Some systems are likely to have VAT hard coded into the ecommerce systems but even advanced programs will still need to be adjusted to reflect the new rates.

A number of retailers without a retained website development company will be unlucky enough to have the VAT rate hard-coded into their CMS. This makes price changes before next Monday almost impossible.

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Comments (0) Nov 27 2008

Introducing Passclicks

Passclicks is a new way to login to websites without users having to remember their old style textual password.

Studies have revealed that humans are better in remembering visual things than textual things.

With passclicks your normal textual passwords are replaced with a sequence of clicks on an image.

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Comments (0) Nov 25 2008

The closure of a web hosting firm that is believed to have had spam gangs as clients has led to a drastic reduction in junk mail.

Two US internet service providers have pulled the plug on the firm McColo following an investigation by the Washington Post newspaper.

Anti-spam firm Ironport has seen junk mail levels drop by 70% since McColo was taken offline on 11 November.

But, it warned, it will be a temporary respite from the menace of spam.

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Comments (0) Nov 18 2008