3 March 2010 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
In our last update we talked about some of the new responsibilities we’ve inherited and what our plans were for the next few months. We wanted to give you all an update on what we’ve been up to since then and what we’ve still to do. Consumer Focus Corporate Website In October we announced that [...]
19 October 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. 1 Comment.
We’ve been really quiet on the public front lately, but there has been a lot going on internally. This is an update on everything that we’ve been up to and what we’ve got planned for the next few months. Our work on the Stay Private project has continued amongst our other duties. We now have [...]
11 September 2009 by Joe Cicero. No Comments.
We like data at CF Labs – indeed we’d be nothing without lots of lovely data to build our apps around. So it’s logical that we’re committed to opening up and sharing data that we feel is in the public interest but is withheld unnecessarily or unfairly – think raw, infinitely useful data idling on [...]
21 August 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. 2 Comments.
Work has begin on our next project – StayPrivate.org. The aim of the project is to make it easier to opt out of receiving unwanted marketing communications from organisations registered with the Direct Marketing Association. The first stage of our work involved planning out what we wanted the site to do. We did this a [...]
13 August 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
At midnight yesterday the Digital Switchover began in Wales with the switch off of BBC 2 in the Swansea area. Over the next few months, the rest of Wales will be converted, finishing in March 2010. Prior to the start of the switchover in Wales, our parent organisation Consumer Focus Wales conducted a mystery shopper [...]
7 August 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
On Wednesday (5th August 2009) I attended TJam – a Tesco event to unveil the latest version of their experimental API. The event was hosted at Microsoft’s London offices, and was attended by developers from all over the UK. The aim of the event was to show off the latest beta of their API and [...]
29 July 2009 by Joe Cicero. No Comments.
Just a quick heads up. Later today, the Product Recalls site will move to its own dedicated domain, recalledproducts.org. If you are a registered user, you don’t need to do anything at your end, but email alerts and RSS feeds will reflect the name change. The old domain should redirect all requests automatically.
15 July 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Following user feedback over the last few weeks, we’ve been working on a number of changes to the Product Recalls website. These changes were pushed out to the server yesterday, so let us know what you think. Categorisation This was a big request from the early users of the website and something we wanted to [...]
22 June 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. 5 Comments.
We’ve been talking for a while about the first project that we’ve been building, and today we’re pleased to be able to switch on the Product Recalls website. The issue of product recalls is a tricky one. Some companies publish notices in the national newspapers or display a poster in their shop window. Some of [...]
3 June 2009 by Joe Cicero. No Comments.
Big thanks to everyone who took the time to submit their ideas to this site. We spent time last week going through all the the ideas and singled several out for development. The selection criteria was pretty simple, taking account of factors such as: Is the idea within our consumer remit? Does the idea offer [...]
Consumer Focus is the independent champion for consumers across England, Wales, Scotland and (for postal consumers) in Northern Ireland. We operate across the whole of the economy, persuading businesses and public services to put consumers at the heart of what they do.
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