| ITV programmes named and shamed
The Jiggy Bank competition featured a contestant chosen to ride a giant mechanical pig. Each week the pig visited a difference location. But each week the production team drew up a shortlist of 20-30 entrants who lived within an hour of the location, meaning entrants from other areas of the country had no chance of winning. The production team then routinely used "editorial judgment" to select the winning contestant. A final shortlist of five was then drawn up and all were visited by a researcher who then selected the eventual winner. The terms and the conditions of the competition said that the winner was chosen at random. The review also found that the production team used "editorial and geographic discretion" to select winners for the Grab The Ads section of the show.
Struggling to keep up with snow
Because of the continuing snowfall, the Garfield County Road and Bridge Department may have to go back to the county commissioners to request more money - used to pay for expenses like "IceSlicer" that is used to break ice on area roads - than was requested for 2008, said Marvin Stephens, the county's road and bridge director. According to the county's 2008 budget, there is $35,000 appropriated for snowplowing and ice removal.
That budget does not include money for labor or truck maintenance, Stephens said.
"It has bit into my snowplow budget pretty good," Stephens said of the constantly falling snow. "If it keeps going, we will have to go back to (county) commissioners and ask for more money."
A figure for how much the county has spent on recent snow removal was not immediately available.
NetSuite Hikes IPO Price Target Again
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Online shoppers get savvy in run-up to Xmas
The vast majority (86 per cent) of online consumers suffer some sort of difficulty in making their purchase. A survey of more than 2,000 UK consumers, aged 16 or older, showed 37 per cent of those who experience problems with an online transaction prefer to abandon it altogether. Two in five said they would never go back to a retailer if they received poor customer service from its call centre when calling about a website problem. silicon.com Retail & Leisure Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. Sign up for the R&L newsletter today! The survey, conducted by Harris Interactive for customer service software specialist Tealeaf, also found 88 per cent of online shoppers expect to get the same level of service on a retailer's website as they would in the store.
Intel Feels Fury of OLPC Scorned
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