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Nokia app feedback (and time for a commercial break)
Well now it’s been quite a week. The Tesco Groceries app for Nokia appeared on the OVI store and now we have several thousand customers...
Nick Lansley
Aug 13, 20102 min read
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Who are Ribot, and why did we make them our mobile partner?
Our grocery home shopping application for Nokia phones (and soon, iPhone) was designed and built for us by a Brighton-based company...
Nick Lansley
Aug 6, 20103 min read
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Why have we snubbed iPhone by launching grocery on Nokia?
I have lots of interesting feedback from readers wondering why we we went for Nokia first and (as GoMo News put it, “Tesco snubs iPhone...
Nick Lansley
Aug 6, 20102 min read
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Are the best CIOs from non-technical backgrounds?
This was the question posed to me by Kenny MacIver, editor of “I: Global Intelligence for the CIO” magazine. When I responded, “No I...
Nick Lansley
Jul 12, 20103 min read
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HD England World Cup Football at Tesco.com HQ – R&D style!
Today R&D is hosting the crucial England vs Slovenia World Cup game in the atrium on a 65″ (165cm diagonal) HDTV. This TV is fed by an...
Nick Lansley
Jun 22, 20101 min read
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Mobile Monday and Living in a Multi-platform World
Yesterday evening I joined a panel of ‘thinkers’ at a session of Mobile Monday London, hosted at Microsoft’s Victoria offices in London....
Nick Lansley
Jun 15, 20103 min read
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Tesco home shopping on an iPad?
Today we met with the designers who are building our grocery mobile apps so we could review progress and think about what we wanted to do...
Nick Lansley
Jun 3, 20101 min read
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iPad fans disrupt Tesco.com
Tesco.com HQ has been disrupted by colleagues with iPads who seem to create groups of people who gather around them whenever they carry...
Nick Lansley
Jun 2, 20101 min read
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Tesco Finder gets barcode scanner / remote support from remote countryside
I’m just back from one of my splendid ‘cycling and cider’ holidays in Cornwall – mountain biking through the fantastic trails set up...
Nick Lansley
Jun 1, 20102 min read
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Square barcode showing on screens at Tesco.com HQ today
I wanted to see how many people 1) noticed and 2) decided to see if they could decode it. If it works, this means that people are taking...
Nick Lansley
Apr 26, 20101 min read
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Mobile Phone App Stores – Handset Manufacturers vs Cellular Operators
The following post is my own opinion, not necessarily the opinion of my colleagues or anyone else at Tesco. I should also point out that...
Nick Lansley
Mar 26, 20105 min read
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Apple iPhone adverts double Tesco Finder download rate
Tesco Finder, our store and product finder app for iPhone, has been featuring in Apple advertising on the back of the Sunday papers over...
Nick Lansley
Mar 24, 20102 min read
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A future TescoPlex? Headline thoughts from a visit to Microsoft and Google’s HQ campuses.
Forgive me; currently I’m suffering from brain-fade. I’ve just completed an intensive week at the headquarters of Microsoft (Redmond, WA)...
Nick Lansley
Mar 15, 20103 min read
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Living with Google Nexus One / Going to Microsoft MIX?
I’m taking a long weekend out to visit Dublin (it’s my (Irish-born) hubby’s 50th birthday, bless him!) and, as I already have an...
Nick Lansley
Feb 26, 20101 min read
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What do we think of the Apple iPad?
The launch of Apple’s new tablet computer, the iPad, certainly caught my attention for 3 reasons: I enjoy spending an hour each evening...
Nick Lansley
Feb 1, 20103 min read
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Nexus One arrives…
The Google Nexus One has arrived on my desk and it is about to get a programming it’ll never forget! SDK being downloaded right now:...
Nick Lansley
Jan 18, 20101 min read
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Tesco.com at CES 2010
There are people far better than me who have blogged and written news articles about the International Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in...
Nick Lansley
Jan 14, 20105 min read
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Seasons Greetings and thank you
May I take this opportunity to wish you and your family Yuletide Greetings. I also wish to thank you for helping make this blog a...
Nick Lansley
Dec 23, 20092 min read
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Tesco Wine Finder now in App Store – take a photo of a wine and we’ll tell you about it!
We’ve just added a great new application under the Tesco.com R&D Team account to the Apple App Store for iPhone – if you are reading this...
Nick Lansley
Dec 17, 20093 min read
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Let it snow! News on Tesco Finder, Beta 1 API lockdown and Tesco.com HQ festive decor.
So now it’s snowing outside Tesco.com HQ and suddenly I feel Christmassy. It adds to the warm glow that we’ve now exceeded 50,000...
Nick Lansley
Dec 16, 20091 min read
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