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Mobile network Three has unveiled an extraordinary new sales tool: live video customer service. ‘It’s like advanced video calls, but so much smarter and with more interaction, around a custom built touchscreen’ say B-Reel, the Scandinavian digital gurus who built the bizarre-yet-brilliant tool.

Imagine a Skype video call – except that the sales person on the other end can drag or drop photos of the latest Three phones onto the screen, using a specially-made, multi-touch display. It’s all very Minority Report, you really have to click through and see the video….

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Christoph Hartmann, global president of 2K Games, has criticised UK games retailers for slashing games prices too early and warns that they may be making the same mistakes as the music business. While Hartmann has praised the country’s retailers for creating a good buzz around key launches, he believes that games sellers are too quick to relegate month-old titles to the bargain bin instead of giving them a chance to prove themselves over time.

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The demise of long-serving high street chain Woolworths was a shame, but we’re really not going to miss all those pick-n-mix sweets, the shelves full of one hit wonder chart singles and the many teen angst mags. What we’d definitely like to see is Woolies stores being turned into giant video game emporiums instead. And that might actually happen; US games retail giant GameStop is believed to have made a bid for roughly half of the 815 defunct stores.

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