If you’re planning on ordering a UK train ticket online today, you’re out of luck, by the looks of it.
Business
Changes to business digitisation brings
UK National Rail Booking System Down
Palm: The End Is Nigh?
Struggling smartphone maker Palm is slashing its workforce numbers as it continues to lose market share to rivals Apple and Blackberry (Research in Motion).Employees are already being ejected at a rate of knots, with spokeswoman Lynn Fox positively spinning the workers’ misery thus: “The goal is to consolidate resources and focus our efforts more effectively.”
Palm currently employs around a thousand employees but has seen their bite of the smartphone market shrink, despite the success of the Palm OS Centro smartphone and their well received Windows Mobile handsets.
Sky UK Raising $600m In Private Bond Issue
We’ve just had notice that the UK side of Sky’s operation, British Sky Broadcasting Group plc, are raising around $600 million through a private Bond issue.They’ll be paying 9.5% interest, it will mature in 2018 and they hope it to close on or about 24 November 2008.
The full statement is below.
Ashley Highfield Jumps Out Of Kangaroo For Microsoft
It’s only been four months that Ashley Highfield has been with Project Kangeroo, the UK independent TV answer to the BBC’s iPlayer, but it’s been reported that he’s leaving – before it’s even publicly launched.Sky & Virgin Kiss And Make Up: Carry Each Others Channels
Finally Sky and Virgin Media are holding hands again following their bust up dating back to Feb 2007.
The overview? Sky will carry some of Virgin’s channels on their service and Virgin will carry some of Sky’s channels – both agreements last until 2011. They’ll both drop the outstanding High Court actions against each other.
Below is the press release from Sky in full …
IT Spending Forecasts Splits Analysts
Pencil-scratching fisticuffs are expected to erupt amongst rival groups of boffins who are forecasting quite different outlooks for technology spending trends next year.Gartner Research reckon that next year’s information technology spending will go from a modest increase to a virtual blip, while the soothsayers at UBS Securities are predicting a grimmer outcome.
Average Brit Dishes Out £50k Electrical Goods; Carphone Warehouse Expansion
New research from Reevoo claims that the average Brit spends just under £50,000 on electronic gizmos, gadgets and devices over their working lives.Spotify Mini Review: (91%): Public Launch of Serious iTunes Competitor
For a long time, one option for the music business to save themselves has been to offer an ‘all you can eat’ option for music – pay a monthly fee and listen to all of the music you fancy.First Loyalty Points For Music Service Launched In UK
A new way of getting music has launched in the UK.As Nokia launches their ‘music with phones’ offering today and T-Mobile/Google offered music for the G1, we’ve heard of another company using music to tempt people towards their product.
Nectar, who provide a loyalty card which gives points against purchases, have launched Nectar Music Store in the UK. We understand that it’s the first in the UK using loyalty points as track-buying currency.
Struggling smartphone maker Palm is slashing its workforce numbers as it continues to lose market share to rivals Apple and Blackberry (Research in Motion).
FOM (Future of Mobile) is an event run by Carsonified who also run 
We’ve just had notice that the UK side of Sky’s operation, British Sky Broadcasting Group plc, are raising around $600 million through a private Bond issue.
It’s only been four months that 
Pencil-scratching fisticuffs are expected to erupt amongst rival groups of boffins who are forecasting quite different outlooks for technology spending trends next year.
New research from Reevoo claims that the average Brit spends just under £50,000 on electronic gizmos, gadgets and devices over their working lives.
For a long time, one option for the music business to save themselves has been to offer an ‘all you can eat’ option for music – pay a monthly fee and listen to all of the music you fancy.
A new way of getting music has launched in the UK.