Blow your mind with mega bass February 8, 2012 Headphones are about more than sound quality – make a statement with some of the most stylish musical headgear on the planet AKG REFERENCE HEADPHONES £499 akg.com If you want to stand out in a crowd, these mean, green sound machines are the headphones for you. SKULLCANDY HESH NBA THUNDER £55 uk.skullcandy.com Good sound quality [...]
Sending armed cops to arrest a hacker is like shooting gnats with a bazooka February 8, 2012 When police in New Zealand arrested suspected online pirate Kim Dotcom, they were accompanied by a dog unit and a SWAT team armed with automatic weapons. Could there be a better visual representation of the gulf between the people attempting to police the internet and those suspected of corrupting it? The man is even named [...]
TECH TALK February 8, 2012 APPLE ITV PRICE AND SPECS LEAKED Apple hasn’t even come close to confirming there will be an Apple TV – dubbed iTV in the US – but that hasn’t stopped its specs and price being leaked. Retailer Best Buy carried out a survey asking its customers if they would be interested in a 42-inch, 1080p [...]
Beijing rents outstrip NY February 7, 2012 BEIJING office rents have soared over 75 per cent over the past year, making China’s capital more expensive to locate an office than New York’s Midtown district, new research shows. Cushman & Wakefield, a property consultant, said Beijing experienced the steepest increase and now ranks as the fifth most expensive office market in the world [...]
Profits fall as CBRE starts to feel the heat in the Americas February 7, 2012 STRONGER revenue from sales and outsourcing helped global commercial property agent CBRE to surprise Wall Street last night despite leasing revenue falling in the Americas. The group posted a 16 per cent fall in fourth-quarter net income fell to $79.8m (£50.2m), or 25 cents per share. Earnings excluding charges rose 29 per cent to $149.3m, [...]
Bellway sees resilient UK market ahead February 7, 2012 BELLWAY said the UK housing market remained “resilient” ahead of the key spring selling season, but warned that the growth rates were set to slow. The housebuilder sold 2,455 homes in the first half of the year – up five per cent on the same period in 2010 – while the average selling price climbed [...]
House sellers knock £20,000 off prices to drum up interest February 7, 2012 OVER a third of properties for sale in the UK have been reduced in price at least once since coming onto the market, research from Zoopla showed yesterday, as owners struggle to sell. The average discount now stands at £19,580, or 7.5 per cent of the asking price, and more than £1,000 higher than the [...]
A feast fit for a king to raise money for our real heroes February 7, 2012 The City’s hottest dinner ticket – the Square Mile Salute – is almost upon us again: and this year the organisers are hoping even to surpass last year’s fantastic evening. The charity event will see a bakers’ dozen of the country’s finest chefs prepare amazing canapés and caviar and an unbeatable six course feast accompanied [...]
PICK OF THE AUCTION LOTS February 7, 2012 Skiing with Franz Klammer Four days skiing next winter in the premier skiing locations in Italian, German and Austrian Alps, hosted and personally guided by Olympic Champion Franz Klammer. Five Nights on Albany in the Bahamas Trip of a lifetime. The resort that is the vision of Tavistock Group and golfing legends Tiger Woods and [...]
Give your face a winter’s break with a super-facial February 6, 2012 BATTLING the cold requires all sorts of snuggly warm vestments. The only bit of skin left literally in the cold is your face. The effect is dryness, redness and lost luminosity. Panic not, though, if a week at a Maldives spa is not on the cards this Februrary. There are two new facials in London [...]