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If you comment on any article in this blog more than a couple of weeks old, it goes into an “approval” queue which I check and process...
Nick Lansley
Jul 19, 20102 min read
Tesco Friday Frenzy and power of Social Networking
One Friday a few weeks ago, the Clothing at Tesco (C@T) team decided to launch a campaign to increase their Facebook fan base. The team...
Nick Lansley
Jul 16, 20103 min read
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
Tesco.com has its own private cloud computing service
A short time ago I responded to our leadership team’s concerns that the grocery API, still very much an R&D project (and on its own...
Nick Lansley
Jul 5, 20102 min read
Credit where credit’s due: well done Ocado!
Last week our grocery home shopping competitor Ocado won the BT Retail Week Technology Award for their iPhone and Android Ocado on the Go...
Nick Lansley
Jun 26, 20101 min read


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
Spare a fiver for the 2010 British 10K London Run
Listen, dear reader, I haven’t asked you for money in the last 18 months so when I do, you know I’m being deadly serious. It’s a rare...
Nick Lansley
Jun 21, 20101 min read
Why we all need a Hero (Device)
As you know, at Tesco.com we targeted iPhone first. Yet if I was to draw a Venn diagram containing two circles – one representing the...
Nick Lansley
Jun 18, 20103 min read
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
New features in Tesco API and just 7% of customers to be transferred
Today I have written to our 809 registered Tesco API developers telling them about an update that took place this lunchtime. Dear API...
Nick Lansley
Jun 10, 20101 min read
Happy retirement Sir Terry – and thanks for choosing the IT guy!
Sir Terry Leahy announced his forthcoming retirement today; from next March his role will be taken by Philip Clarke, who is currently...
Nick Lansley
Jun 8, 20101 min read
I’ve just bought an iPad.
It’s the 16gb Wifi only version and I’m sat in the garden typing this entry on it. Enough said. #Uncategorized
Nick Lansley
Jun 5, 20101 min read


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


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
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
UPDATED: Tesco Clubcard iPhone Competition / App Download Stats
The iPhone Clubcard application has now reached just under half a million downloads and the new improved version of the application which...
Nick Lansley
May 16, 20101 min read


UPDATED: Tesco Clubcard app for Blackberry launches / download stats
The Tesco Clubcard application, first launched on iPhone, has just become available to owners of RIM Blackberry smart phones. The...
Nick Lansley
May 16, 20101 min read


Frankly, Tesco, we’re getting bored with your iPhone-only apps
It’s OK: message received loud and clear. Both customers and colleagues have been emailing / commenting that there are now three Tesco...
Nick Lansley
May 9, 20103 min read
Original API closes tonight after changing the game at Tesco.com
Tonight at 6pm (17:00 UTC), the original API that we launched privately back in October 2008, then to external developers two months...
Nick Lansley
May 4, 20102 min read


New version of Tesco Clubcard iPhone app submitted
We’ve submitted a new version of the Tesco Clubcard app to the Apple iTunes App Store. As well as continuing to feature the on-screen...
Nick Lansley
May 4, 20102 min read
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