Revolution articles from March 2003

Revolution archives from March 2003

Letter from the Editor.
March 1, 2003... With few things more exciting than the possibilities offered by new digital channels, we make no apologies as we peek into the world of mobile marketing, which may well be transformed by picture messaging and mobile MMS. March's cover-star...

DEALS: Pepsi plans viral pinball game to reflect Wild West TV theme.(campaign developed by Abbot Mead Vickers BBDO)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Pepsi is backing its latest off-line ad campaign with exclusive online content and a viral game, which it plans to offer media-owners as a co-branded service. The online pinball game, to launch in March, will combine elements of the Wild...

DEALS: BA integrates web in its flat bed campaign.(British Airways online advertising campaign)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... British Airways is using online advertising as part of its pounds 3 million through-the-line campaign to boost business travel. The sales drive is spearheaded by the national TV push with the message: 'The only truly flat bed to 44...

DEALS: ITV takes interactive services to BSkyB.('Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?')(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Viewers will be able to take part in a fully interactive TV version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? after ITV agreed to launch a range of services on BSkyB. More than six million SkyDigital customers will be able to play the quiz,...

NEWS IN BRIEF: BT strikes deal.(a deal with Yahoo! Europe )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... BT has struck a deal with Yahoo! Europe to offer BT Broadband customers access to a personalised internet package. The service, called Yahoo! UK Plus, will offer a spam-control feature, instant messaging, and family features such as multiple...

NEWS IN BRIEF: Espotting Media strikes agreement.(two-part European agreement with Fast Search & Transfer)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Espotting Media, the pay-per-click ad network, has struck a two-part European agreement with Fast Search & Transfer, a developer of search and real-time alert technologies. Espotting will offer Fast web-search results with its paid listings,...

NEWS IN BRIEF: DatingDirect.com signs partnership.(revenue-sharing partnership with telegraph.co.uk)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... DatingDirect.com has signed a revenue-sharing partnership with telegraph.co.uk. Accessed from the newspaper's home page, Dating.telegraph.co.uk provides a secure, branded channel.

NEWS IN BRIEF: 3 UK seals Reuters deal.(for the supply of news and financial data to customers of 3's third-generation mobile multimedia and communications services)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... 3 UK has sealed a deal with Reuters for the supply of news and financial data to customers of 3's third-generation mobile multimedia and communications services. Users of 3 will have access to breaking stories, archives, company and market...

NEWS IN BRIEF: Freeserve and Personal Loan Express sign.(two-stage agreement)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Freeserve and The Personal Loan Express have signed a two-stage agreement worth in excess of pounds 500,000 over the next 11 months. The Personal Loan Express will run a series of campaigns to boost customer acquisitions - the Freeserve Today...

NEWS IN BRIEF: Lufthansa and octopustravel.com join forces.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Lufthansa UK and hotel booking site octopustravel.com have joined forces. Lufthansa UK customers can now reserve hotel accommodation in most Lufthansa destinations via a co-branded web site, accessed from www.lufthansa.co.uk.

NEWS IN BRIEF: Virgin.net agrees deal.(with Ticketmaster)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Virgin.net has agreed a 12-month deal with ticket vendor Ticketmaster. Customers will be able to access Ticketmaster via the virgin.net entertainment channel, view tickets and book online.

NEWS IN BRIEF: STA official site sponsor.(for Accommodation for Students)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... STA Travel, the specialist for students and young people, has become the official site sponsor for Accommodation for Students. Under the terms of the deal, the STA logo and links on the site will take visitors direct to www.statravel.co.uk,...

NEWS IN BRIEF: Betfair betting partner of CricInfo.com.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Betfair has become the official betting exchange partner of CricInfo.com in a 12-month deal. A Betfair ad banner and odds ticker has been integrated across the CricInfo network of sites.

NEWS IN BRIEF: Press Association to supply www.pga.info.(Professional Golfers' Association)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... The Press Association has agreed to supply The Professional Golfers' Association's web site, www.pga.info, with daily golf updates. Reporters from the PA will provide coverage of major tournaments on both the professional and amateur scene.

NEWS IN BRIEF: Classic Comedy teams with BT.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Classic Comedy, the humour web site, has teamed up with BT to bring users the BT Broadband Comedy Lounge. Visitors to www.classiccomedy.net/btbroadband can view a selection of free clips from shows like Monty Python. The Lounge streams a...

MSN bans ads for prescription drugs.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... MSN has banned firms selling prescription-only drugs from the 'featured sites' of its European search results pages. The ban is a result of a review of advertising regulations at the portal and was prompted by a request from a...

Good month, bad month.(online industry briefs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... A great month for the paid-for search engine Overture, signing several high-profile agreements, including a pan-European deal with AOL covering its search directories in the UK, Germany and France, and its Netscape Germany and Netscape France...

Brands battle for Revolution Awards 2003.
March 1, 2003... The AA, Google, Egg and Opodo, are among the big names battling it out to be a winner at the Revolution Awards 2003 on the 21 March, held at Le Meridien Grosvenor House, London. The full shortlist for the Awards, held in association with...

Shell GeoStar closes as parent firm sells some assets to rival.(ViaMichelin)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Shell has closed down its pan-European consumer travel site Shell GeoStar and sold some of its assets to rival ViaMichelin. Users visiting the GeoStar site (www.shellgeostar.com) will be directed to ViaMichelin's service via a pop-up page...

JUST BREAKING: Top 10 Breaking Banners by Impressions (1 - 31 January 2002).(Reed Exhibitions is number one)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
March 1, 2003... 1 Reed Exhibitions Protect your business 2 Dial-a-Phone Nokia 8310 3 Cassava Enterprises Pacific Poker 4 Match.com Find your perfect match on MSN.co.uk 5 BSkyB Sky installation slashed...

Levi's unveils Type 1 microsite as it rethinks online strategy.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Levi's has temporarily replaced its pan-European Levi's Europe web site with a microsite promoting its Levi's Type 1 Jeans. Accessible via www.levi.com or www.boldnewbreed.com, the microsite was created by the firm's outgoing digital...

John Lewis site to say it with flowers.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Johnlewis.com has launched a flowers section on its web site. Flowers are delivered free and customers can choose next-day or named-day delivery. The service will be promoted through a variety of marketing drives, including emails to new...

Rivals rolls out SMS alerts for F1 giant.(Rivals Digital Media, Jacques Villeneuve)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Online sports network Rivals Digital Media has launched its first pan-European SMS alert service for fans of Formula One driver Jacques Villeneuve. Fans can sign up to it on the JV World site (www.jv-world. com), produced and managed by...

KP to support Hula Hoops ads online.(KP Foods)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... KP Foods is supporting its latest series of Hula Hoops TV ads with an online push. The TV ads, launched at the start of February and created by integrated agency Publicis, continue the saga of Steve Threlfall, the apparently reluctant...

ACCOUNT WINS.(various companies, agencies)
March 1, 2003... Unilever has chosen digital communications agency Wheel Group to support its corporate communication initiatives and redesign its site (www.unilever.com). It won the brief after a four-way pitch. IPC ignite!'s digital sales department has...

OWEN ON DIGITAL MEDIA: Advertisers need ad impression auditing that can be trusted.
March 1, 2003... Ask any advertiser and you'll find that accountability is at the top of their list of priorities when evaluating new-media opportunities. Ever since the dotcom boom went bust and the ad recession kicked in, digital tomfoolery has ceased to...

Philips goes digital for European push.(promoting its Home Entertainment products )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Electronics giant Philips is promoting its Home Entertainment products with a pan-European digital campaign. Philips has used the drive, which ran across 18 countries, to boost its brand in the sector, introduce its product range and drive...

Direct marketing fair opens doors online.(by Reed Exhibitions )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Reed Exhibitions is to launch the International Direct Marketing Fair online as a year-round event for global exhibitors. The event management company will run the show in partnership with Haymarket, which publishes Revolution, and generate...

TRACKER: Politics web sites, January 2003.(traffic to UK sites)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Traffic to UK sites 49.2% Average session duration 5 mins 6 secs Data produced by Hitwise, which claims to monitor more than 40 per cent of all UK internet traffic through its ISP partnerships (www.hitwise.co.uk)...

P&G unveils iTV and web push for Fairy.(Procter & Gamble advertises Fairy Liquid and Fairy Non-Bio)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... P&G has launched an interactive TV ad for Fairy Liquid and Fairy Non-Bio. Designed by Grey Interactive, it supports Fairy's promotion with Disney's new blockbuster, Treasure Planet. Interactive TV users watching on Sky will have access to...

Muller ad campaign targets valentines.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Dairy giant Muller is aiming to repeat the success of last year's Valentine's Day campaign with a pounds 350,000 follow-up. Carlson Marketing Group created the online element of the two-week 'Love Louder' campaign, which launched on...

Bango unveils new WAP text payment offer.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mobile company Bango.net has signed content providers such as Emap's Parker's Cars Guide and showbiz site 2dayUK to its payment service, Txt Trigger. Launched in February after a two-month trial, phone users pay for WAP content by sending...

GRIFFITHS ON MOBILE: Popularity of SMS soars as it gives TV audiences a voice.
March 1, 2003... This is the year that 'SMS TV' will come of age. When I left the iDTV business three years ago, it was seen as the way ahead for TV interactivity yet, in some ways, SMS is already more successful. Take Big Brother 3, which had 24 per cent of...

Time thief.(music industry)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... 35% Planning and implementation We plan for the whole year, and by quarter, as there are certain events you know are coming up, such as new releases and tours. This year we have a number of developing acts that are a big priority for us....

MP3.com Europe ties with EMI for dance remix comp.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... MP3.com Europe has linked up with EMI dance label Prolifica Records to offer budding remixers the chance to win software, CDs and a one-off record deal. From mid-February until midnight on 21 March, visitors to MP3.com Europe's six main...

Vogue.com streams Feria ads in L'Oreal sponsorship deal.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... L'Oreal is pushing its Feria hair care brand in a five-figure sponsorship of Vogue.com's London Fashion Week coverage. Ads for L'Oreal Feria are being streamed on Vogue.com's London Fashion Week backstage webcam every five minutes. 'We...

Saab unveils Arctic prize draw on web.(online promotion from firm)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Car manufacturer Saab GB aims to gain new prospects and capture user data through an online promotion to win an Arctic trip. Saab Ice Experience runs until the end of February. Online activity was designed by DraftWorldwide London, with...

Cartoon Network to make eTV debut.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Cartoon Network is adding its first enhanced TV service to its raft of interactive games on the Sky digital platform at the end of February. The Skatoony game, developed by iTV development agency Digital Interactive Television Group (DITG),...

PERFORMANCE INDEX: 2 January - 31 January 2003, 8am - 8pm.(20 representative Web sites)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
March 1, 2003... The Revolution Keynote Performance Index measures the performance of 20 representative sites from across the digital economy in terms of speed of loading and site availability. The top 10 are featured each week, and the worst performing web...

AOL can get back on its feet by serving its clients, not dictating.(attracting marketers)
March 1, 2003... The name game is over at AOL. Ted Turner is riding into the sunset. Buh-bye, Steve Case. Here's more work, Richard Parsons. So now the once-vaunted power player of the internet is left with its business and its business problems. And anyone...

PEOPLE: Appointment at Emap.(GiGi Dryer, new head of ticketing )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Emap has hired GiGi Dryer as head of ticketing to relaunch its online ticket sales business, aloud.com. Reporting to Andrea Kilbourne, managing director of Emap Performance Interactive, Dryer will work across all Emap brands to develop...

PEOPLE: Appointment at mmO2.(David Chance, new non-executive director)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... David Chance has become a non-executive director of mmO2. He was formerly deputy managing director at BSkyB until June 1998 and holds non-executive directorships at Granada Media, Modern Times Group and Sunderland AFC.

PEOPLE: Appointment at Haygarth.(Sophie Daranyi and Robert Goldsmith, new joint managing directors)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Marketing communications agency Haygarth has made Sophie Daranyi and Robert Goldsmith joint managing directors. The agency's remit includes digital and direct marketing, and clients include Columbia TriStar and Tropicana. Goldsmith joined...

PEOPLE: Appointment at toptable.co.uk.(Fiona Lonsdale, new partnerships and promotions manager)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Fiona Lonsdale has joined the restaurant booking service toptable.co.uk in the newly-created position of partnerships and promotions manager. She will look to maximise business through existing and new partners, besides finding new channels to...

PEOPLE: Appointment at Guardian Unlimited.(Carrina Gaffney, new sponsorship executive; James Wallman; new agency sales executive; Annie Wilson, new online promotions manager)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Guardian Unlimited is making a series of appointments. Carrina Gaffney, who previously worked at Emap Advertising as broadcast innovations executive, joins the company as a sponsorship executive. James Wallman joins as agency sales executive...

PEOPLE: Appointment at Lastminute.com.(Andrew Windsor, new head of sales and marketing)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Lastminute.com has hired former managing director of thomascook.com Andrew Windsor as group head of sales and marketing. He will focus on global marketing and commercial deals. Most recently he was managing director of the Thomas Cook...

PEOPLE: Appointment at TBG.(Neil Eatson, new head of business development)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... New-media advertising agency TBG, which counts Britannia Music and Vauxhall among its clients, has hired Neil Eatson as head of business development. He joins the agency from above-the-line agency Marketing Drive Worldwide where he headed up...

PEOPLE: Appointment at Asserta.(Nik Heath, new sales director)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Asserta has recruited Nik Heath to the newly-created position of sales director. His responsibilities include expanding the membership of portals assertahome.com and propertyfinder. co.uk. Heath joins asserta with 10 years' experience of...

PEOPLE: Appointment at Nightfly.(Tony Skeggs, new commercial development manager)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Nightfly, the Diageo-backed mobile marketing company, has appointed Tony Skeggs as commercial development manager. Previously commercial category manager at Yahoo! UK & Ireland, he will aim to add value to Diageo brands such as Smirnoff and...

PEOPLE: Appointment at Freeserve.(Caroline Thomas, new portal strategy and marketing director; Dave McCall, new ad sales director)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Freeserve has made two senior appointments. Caroline Thomas becomes portal strategy and marketing director. She joined Freeserve two years ago to create an access product management team and oversee the ISP's portfolio of narrowband and...

PEOPLE: Appointment at Aqueduct.(Guy Timewell, new business development director)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Guy Timewell has become business development director and a board member of independent design and advertising agency Aqueduct after leaving online ad shop Unique Digital. He will focus on business generation and development. Aqueduct's clients...

PEOPLE: Appointment at Yahoo! UK & Ireland.(Fru Hazlitt, new managing director)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Fru Hazlitt is the new managing director of Yahoo! UK & Ireland. Her predecessor, Martina King, has been appointed managing director of country operations for Yahoo! Europe. Previously director of sales and marketing for Yahoo! Europe,...

RBS eases access to information online.(Royal Bank of Scotland)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... The Royal Bank of Scotland has relaunched its web site (www.rbs.co.uk) to make it easier for visitors to access information. The site has been updated to make information clearer and more concise for personal finance, small business and...

O2 boosts MMS with cross-network deal.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... O2 customers can now send picture messages to Orange and T-Mobile subscribers following a deal struck by mmO2 that brings full cross-network MMS a step closer in the UK. The UK deal, called MMS Interconnect, means that O2 customers are...

Times Online links with BT for CRM guide.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Times Online has teamed up with BT to provide its business audience with a guide to customer relationship management. The CRM Special (www.timesonline.co.uk/crm) is being backed by a co-branded ad push across the site in a deal brokered on...

PANKHURST ON DOT COM LIFE: Sell-off talk, a new site and album sales make for a quiet life.(Friends Reunited)(Column)
March 1, 2003... It's been one of the quieter months at Friends Reunited. Of course, anyone who has been reading the national press will know that's totally untrue. One minute we were confirming that we were reviewing the future of the site and looking for new...

Virgin Cars in promo to push registrations.(to its web site)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Virgin Cars has launched a digital test campaign to increase user registrations to its web site. Users have the opportunity to win a Ferrari or Porsche driving day by answering a question during the sign-up process on www.virgin.com/cars....

Canadian authority drives tourism online.(Canadian Tourist Commission targets France, the UK and Germany)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... The Canadian Tourist Commission (CTC) is using its online presence to target three European countries together for the first time, including the UK. CTC has combined the CRM initiatives of its three main European web sites and their...

MY INBOX: Carl Christensen.(managing director of Domino Systems discusses marketing e-mails)(Interview)
March 1, 2003... Carl Christensen managing director of digital agency Domino Systems, says marketing emails should be both visually pleasing and to the point How many of the emails you receive are marketing-related? It's about 20 per cent, the vast...

Air France improves web site experience.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Air France has relaunched its UK web site with an improved booking engine to make the experience more user-friendly. The site (www.airfrance.com/uk), which has been redesigned in-house, now displays fares by price, with the lowest available...

Reader's Digest to offer diet tips online.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Publisher The Reader's Digest Corporation has launched a paid-for global personalised diet programme online. ChangeOne.com, powered by CRM company Art Technology Group, offers members personalised diet programmes and recipes based on...

VITAL STATISTICS.(memorable campaigns)
March 1, 2003... This month - More firms are adopting online marketing, but how memorable are their ads, asks Charlotte Goddard If you consider the marketing campaigns that you may have come across recently, do any stand out as being particularly creative...

ANALYSIS: Agencies focus on new business.(digital agencies)
March 1, 2003... In these belt-tightening times, it is good to know that digital agencies are continuing to invest in new business. According to the second annual new-business survey carried out by independent agency selection service the AAR towards the...

ANALYSIS: Marketers ready MMS strategies.(multimedia messaging)
March 1, 2003... Compared with the billion pound auction for 3G licences in the UK, the possibilities presented by multimedia messaging have had less fanfare. But the steps bringing full cross-network MMS compatibility closer, such as the recent agreement...

ANALYSIS: Buyers act on internal priorities.(new media)
March 1, 2003... The New Year sales may be over but for several new-media businesses the buying goes on. Rank Group has splashed out pounds 65 million on betting giant Blue Square while ebookers has spent some pounds 55m, mostly in cash, on UK travel agency...

VOX POP: Why is the performance ad model starting to take off?
March 1, 2003... What are the principal drivers in the rise of performance-based deals? The online ad sales business has come a long way since the super-charged CPM deals of 2000. As ad budgets suffer, digital direct marketing is often seen as a...

EDITORIAL: Will users pay the price for MMS?(multimedia messaging)(Editorial)
March 1, 2003... There are few greater signs that something is on the way to popular acceptance than to have David Beckham advertising it. If he's not exploiting a trend, he's starting one. But this time he has not only got Vodafone's hopes - in one of its...

COMMENT: Big brand backing helps but it isn't everything.(Opodo)
March 1, 2003... Anniversaries are important and we're celebrating Opodo's first year in the UK. Although the company was set up with the backing of nine European flight operators - Aer Lingus, Air France, Alitalia, Austrian Airlines, British Airways, Finnair,...

SHOPPING: Review - Just the ticket - but where is it?(online ticket booking for Royal Academy art exhibit)
March 1, 2003... As an irregular visitor to the many museums and galleries across the capital, it takes something special - or, more accurately, populist - like Picasso or the latest Britart sensation to get me out of the house. One problem with this...

SHOPPING: Statistics - Standard Life tops online banking offers.(web site usability survey)
March 1, 2003... Standard Life Bank won out over seven rivals in a survey into web site usability. Online banking services have to tread a fine line between ease of navigation and security when designing their web sites. While customers expect to be able...

SECTOR CHECKER: Thomas Cook's broadband site offers a diverting time.(travel industry)
March 1, 2003... Virgin Group's Richard Halstead is impressed by Thomas Cook's site - when he can access it - and looks at what its rivals in the travel sector have to offer Web www.thomascookbroadband.com Developer enteraction tv I am the kiss of...

REVOLUTION AWARDS 2003: Are you in line for a prize?(Revolution Awards for the Digital Economy )(Illustration)
March 1, 2003... This year's Revolution Awards, in association with Yahoo! UK & Ireland, will take place on 21 March at Le Meridien Grosvenor House, London. So are you one of the shortlisted candidates? Check out the list below The shortlists have been...

MOBILE CONTENT: Phones just wanna have fun.(Samsung Fun Club)
March 1, 2003... Samsung wanted to differentiate itself from rival handset-makers with its content, so it built a Fun Club, Imogen O'Rorke tells Charlotte Goddard Content may be king on the worldwide web, but in the wireless arena, it wields even more...

SMS TV TEXTUAL RELATIONSHIPS.(text messaging)
March 1, 2003... TV broadcasters are using SMS as a short cut to effective interactivity and to engage audiences with their shows, writes Lisa Simmons On the same January night that Blind Date introduced live viewer SMS voting, Cilla Black announced she...

SHOW PREVIEW: IDMF show preview.(International Direct Marketing Fair)
March 1, 2003... Tamsin Bishton finds out what exhibitors at the 25th International Direct Marketing Fair will have to interest digital marketers For many marketers, direct marketing conjures up images of Tom Champagne signing a big cheque on behalf of...

HEALTH CLUBS: Digital.(Holmes Place Web site)
March 1, 2003... Holmes Place wants to keep people fit by interacting with them online, Ian Takats tells Caspar van Vark It's Boxing Day and you're on the sofa with an empty tin of chocolates. Never mind - you'll join the gym. New year, new you. Except...

PHOTOGRAPHY: The big picture.(multimedia messaging services)
March 1, 2003... How will the rise of picture messaging affect the way film and camera firms do digital business? Multimedia messaging services (MMS) are a big step forward for the mobile phone industry. Vodafone live!, Vodafone's interactive services and...

PAID CONTENT MASTERCLASS: The Revolution Masterclass on Paid-for content.
March 1, 2003... Site owners wanting to make content pay must decide what to charge for, how much it's worth and what payment services work, says Charlotte Goddard In the past few months, companies introducing paid-for digital content have ranged from BT...

TRAILBLAZER: The inside track.(Mediahawk)
March 1, 2003... Harry Bott explains how marketers can use response rate information from Mediahawk to track and alter campaigns more efficiently. 'When I say I'm launching a start-up into both the media and telecoms sectors, people look at me with pity,'...

OPINION: Interactivity should motivate TV viewers.(making interactive TV campaigns stand out)
March 1, 2003... Just using red-button technology is not enough to make a brand stand out, says Weapon7's Simon Smith. As viewers become more used to iTV ads, marketers have to work harder to get their campaigns noticed The now-familiar 'press red' call to...

CAMPAIGN OF THE MONTH: Overload.(Which? Online campaign by Profero)
March 1, 2003... Campaign: Overload Client: Which? Online Agency: Profero Background: In April 2002, digital agency Profero was picked by Which? Online (www.which.co.uk), the web resource that publishes reports and information on thousands of products...

TERMINATOR 1: BTopenworld's red connection may still leave it feeling blue.(marketing deal with Liverpool Football Club)
March 1, 2003... Children and chocolate. Builders and birds. Fans and football. Some partnerships are guaranteed to work. And as far as marketing goes, they're no-brainers. Which is why BTopenworld's tie-up with Liverpool Football Club made me smile - it's such...

TERMINATOR 2: Where's Davina? Noah's leaving Big Brother Ark.(Ship of Fools to run Internet reality game show)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Terminator was temporarily left befuddled when a picture of a white-bearded seafaring type dropped into its inbox - and even more confused when closer inspection revealed it not to be kiddie favourite Captain Birdseye, but that Old Testament...

TERMINATOR 2: Crimes against ISPs brought to head at awards.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... As this copy of Revolution hits your desk, news will be breaking of the winners of the ISPA's annual awards for the ISP industry. Nominees for the internet villain category can be found at www.ispa.org.uk, and include the BBC's Watchdog...