Q&As

LG Mobile Phones will be the featured sponsor of Olympus Fashion Week to be held this month in Manhattan. To kick off the week’s events—Sept. 18-15—LG is sponsoring a contest for designers from the Katherine Gibbs design school in New York City. …

Hewlett-Packard is on the road touting its new digital entertainment initiative featuring the Apple iPod +HP music player. Three tricked-out Cadillac Escalades will participate in more than 500 You Rock HP Tour events throughout North America until Dec. …

Settlements with three companies and Greg Abbott attorney general of Texas have been reached in the District Court of Travis County Texas involving violations of state telemarketing law, which prohibits companies from calling consumers on the state’s no-call list.

Joy Global Inc. of Milwaukee has signed a five-year contract to outsource the teleservices help desk used by its employees to TechTeam Global Inc., based in Southfield, MI, for undisclosed terms.

Financial services companies experience a 65% turnover in customers because of poor service provided by call centers.

PR savvy Vermont Teddy Bear Co. scores product placements for its toy bears on television and in the movies.

Salisbury, MD-based Data Services Inc. has begun offering list hygiene services online for Canadian records in accordance with certification and national change of address standards established by Canada Post. The technology for transferring files via the Internet for updates was developed in-house.

ClubPlanet Inc. the nightclub and entertainment promoter has released a universe of 1.8 million e-mail records.

EBay has opened a college bookstore and is taking the news to students on campus as well as at concerts, movies and the mall. The College Superstore at www.ebay.com/college offers 45% off the list price of textbooks. Thirty campus screenings of Will …

Visa USA targets young inventors with an online contest dangling seed money to produce their inventions. The essay contest, dubbed Ideas Happen, fields entries from 18- to 29-year-olds who describe their big idea (in 250 words or less). A panel of …