Tesco moves into software market
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Tesco is to sell own-brand PC software, pitching the supermarket giant against the likes of Microsoft.
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Supermarket group Tesco is launching itself into the world of digital music with an online download service designed to take on the might of Apple&#39;s iTunes.
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Will also handle knicker giant's WEEE issues Computacenter Services has won a Â£19m managed IT contract with UK retail behemoth Marks &amp; Spencer (M&amp;S).â¦
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UK supermarket chain Tesco  launches an online music service it hopes will rival Apple's market-leading iTunes.
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Company hopes to attract users who will later upgrade to its small business software.
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In a global economy where consumers   are holding back, Britain's biggest food retailer Tesco   TSCO.L is gearing up for increased competition with its U.S.   rivals, a senior executive said on Wednesday.
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By Manfreda Cavazza, Daily Mail, London  Feb. 8--Tesco is feeling bullish about its foray into the US and has set  an ambitious target of opening more than 100 stores on the other side of the  pond.
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TESCO will go head-to-head with Apple&#39;s iTunes as the supermarket giant launches its own music download service today. Already a top three UK music retailer from CD albums sold in its stores, Tesco is the
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Pile-high sell-cheap squared Tesco has clasped Dell to its sizeable retail bosom, and will begin punting the firm's computers from next month.â¦
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Key investments are starting to pay off for the enterprise software operator.
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Tesco, Britain's biggest supermarket chain, opened an Indian software development and accounting office that will employ 770 people within a year, the head of the office revealed.
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Britain's biggest retailer Tesco on Tuesday reported surging sales over the Christmas period, driven by its international arm, but experienced flagging growth in its home market.
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(InfoWorld) - U.K. supermarket chain Tesco Stores will launch six PC software applications under its own brand, including a word processor and antivirus software, later this month. The software packages will sell for under Â£20 ($37), and will include free online support via e-mail. British "white label" software distributor Formjet will supply and support the software, through its subsidiary Formjet Innovations. Formjet holds the U.K. rights to distribute Panda Software's antivirus tools and Ability Plus Software's word processor and office applications, among others. It founded the Innovations subsidiary to sell versions of the software under other companies' brands. Formjet has software partners in 16 countries, and is looking for other sales outlets, company spokesman Graham O'Reilly said on Monday. "At the moment we're concentrating on the U.K., and we are talking to other retail partners," he said. For Tesco, Formjet has branded the software's packaging, code and online help with the supermarket chain's name, O'Reilly said. In a market where technical support is increasingly outsourced to offshore destinations with lower labor costs, Formjet has set up its support team south of London, in Crawley. "It's become quite a feature, these days, to say it's U.K.-based support," O'Reilly said. The company keeps support costs down by handling everything by e-mail. Customers "get an automated reply with the top ten answers based on the subject line of their e-mail," O'Reilly said. Typically, that's enough to deal with around half the questions the company receives: staff deal with the other half, he said. The antivirus and security software packs will include one year's e-mail support and software updates, he said. After that, customers can renew their subscription online or buy another pack at the supermarket. Formjet will impose no time limit on e-mail support for the other applications, he said. Even at such a low price, it's doubtful that Tesco will gain much market share, one analyst said, pointing to Microsoft's continued dominance of the office software market, despite the availability of competing applications for much lower prices, or even for free. "Many low-cost or free packages exist in each category, yet products that are many times the price of the cheapest option continue to dominate," David Mitchell of Ovum wrote in an e-mail. If it is to win customers, Tesco must make sure its applications can read and write files compatible with Microsoft's Office suite, he said. The software won't look out of place on Tesco's shelves: the supermarket already sells mobile phones, and is an Internet service provider, Internet telephony operator, and mobile virtual network operator.
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Leading supermarket chain Tesco has launched a music download service, entering a market dominated by Apple Computer&#39;s iTunes.
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Supermarket group Tesco, the country's biggest retailer, has said that its sales increased by 9.6 percent during the third quarter, helped by solid growth in non-food items.
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Tesco is to start selling budget own-brand PC software, pitching the supermarket giant against the likes of Microsoft.
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With its recent acquisition, the software maker may have found something its customers are looking for.