The mobile phone industry plans to introduce a universal charger as part of a drive to improve its previously patchy environmental record. The plan from industry body the GSM Association (GSMA) is just one of a raft of "green" announcements at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Not only will it mea...

The government sparked a trade union backlash today after awarding a £7.5bn train contract to a Japanese-led consortium and admitting that some of the 12,500 jobs created or safeguarded by the deal will be based outside Britain. The news came in the wake of a wave of wildcat strikes over the use of...

The depth of the global recession was glimpsed yesterday when almost 80,000 jobs were lost or put under threat in the UK, Europe and US, making it one of the bleakest days in recent memory. Household names, including electronics retailer Philips, construction equipment maker Caterpillar, and drug gr...

The growth in internet usage and the arrival of nationwide digital television in 2012 means there may no longer be any reason for Teletext to have any public service remit, according to Ofcom. Losing its public service protection would mean Teletext would have to pay for the television signal which ...

Online video technology firm Blinkx has developed an integrated advertising system it hopes will help generate revenues from the growing amount of video on the web. Internet users are increasingly using their connections to watch videos. Research house comScore reckons four out of every five British...

Virgin Media is taking a massive bet that Britain's appetite for surfing the web and watching online TV will continue to grow, despite the recession, by rolling out the UK's fastest-ever broadband service. Speed-mad internet users hoping to download songs in seconds and movies in minutes, however, w...

Morrisons, Britain's fourth-biggest supermarket chain, yesterday announced a better than expected 8.1% leap in third-quarter sales, in stark contrast to the poor performance of bitter rival Tesco. The company, also one of the UK's largest food manufacturers, has successfully attracted cost-conscious...

Many shoppers found yesterday that the price at the till was less than the one on the label, as the cut in VAT came into effect. Alistair Darling announced last week that standard value added tax would be cut from 17.5% to 15% for 13 months, to raise consumer confidence. The reduction would cost the...