The Widget UK Blog

Comments on products, promotions and activities at Widget UK Ltd, a UK based distributor of mobile computing products.

Category: General

Of Management and Millbands

There was an item on Radio 4 yesterday morning, pointing out some of the oddities in the Labour Party election process. All members of the Labour Party and all members of affiliated organisations, such as trade unions, or the Fabian Society, get a vote. As a paid up member of the Labour...

Byte Night 2010, October 8th 2010

As for the past 5 years, I will be sleeping rough this autumn to support Action for Children. Along with 700 other people from the technology industry, I will spend the night of October 8th in a sleeping bag on the streets. The Widget team joins Byte Night London, and w e sleep on the...

Widget in the FT

 As part of an article on credit control, headed "Measures to keep bad debt demons at bay,"  FT Enterprise Correspondent mentioned one of the payment methods which Widget offers to its customers.   "Widget, a Stevenage-based distributor of consumer electronics...

DAB Radio: Chronicle of Death Foretold

When I first moved to London in the 1980s, I used to buy a Sunday paper when going home through Kings Cross station on a Saturday night. I loved the idea that I was getting tomorrow’s paper today, because I was in London, where it all happened. This thrill at being at the...

Writing Blogs and Writing Hymns

Thomas Power from Ecademy waves to the crowd I am still ruminating on Thomas Power's Ecademy course on social media. The key recommendation I took away fromit was that a blog must have a personal rather than a corporate identity, because no-one trusts corporate blogs, and they are...

Using Social Media tools in Marketing Technology

Following satellite navigation to the  Warren House conferencing centre  on the Coombe Estate in Kingston, I ended up facing a closed white gate, of the sort exclusive urban communities put up to obstruct non-belongers. While TomTom assured me that my destination ,...

Pogoplug makes impact at new price point of £79.99

At the new average selling price of £79.99, down form £99.99, the Pogoplug device is catching a lot of attention online.    According to Linux User, even at the old price " What’s not to love about a £99 Linux-based device that requires little time to set...

Mio updates its Navman range of GPS devices

The new Navman range for 2010 includes simplified opening screens, IQ Routes which selects the best route for time and day of week, and many other new features.  The new models are    M305 and M405 entry level GPS devices         Spirit...

Opportunity for more channel involvement in Byte Night, the IT industry annual sleep out.

The Widget team prepare for Byte Night - from the left  Rob Sparrow, Mark Needham, Bart Hoorntje, Liza Childs, Alexis Bridge and Darren Gray.     Channel organisations, such as consumer electronicsdistributor Widget UK Ltd, have joined vendors and end users from across the...

BBC's Working Lunch reviews the Vexia Econav Satnav

The BBC's Working Lunch reviews three current sat navs and admires the economical features of the Vexia Satnav.  Vexia is distributed exclusively by Widget in the UK. The video of this BBC TV programme i snow more than 7 days old and can no longer be accessed from iPlayer. ...

Widget UK “works exclusively with retailers, identifying the best products for them and making sure that the deal on the table represents a win-win for both supplier and retailer.” Financial Times 8th May 2010

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How to turn an iPod and a PogoPlug into a PogoPod..

  The PogoPlug is without a doubt one of the most fascinating products Widget is distributing here in the UK. The standard way to use it is to plug a USB drive into it -but across the internet people are demonstrating that it can be used with all sorts of devices. For example, ...

Entrepreneurs asked "What do you want from the next government"

This month Real Business magazine asked a number of entrepreneurs what they would like to see from the next government.  Widget chairman and founder Mark Needham  joined the founders of Expansys, Adam St Private Members Club, Great Guns Marketing and Notion Capital in offering...

Widget MD featured in CRN, published 12th April 2010

TomTom introduces Start 2 and new version of IQ Routes Edition 2

  TomTom continues to offer incremental improvements to its GPS range with new versions of the TomTom Start and the TomTom IQ Routes out now. New part numbers here 1EY001300 TomTom Start 2 UK & ROI     Download the full sales sheet. ...
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