Tube to get wi-fi before Games January 23, 2012 London Underground passengers will be able to use wi-fi at 120 stations in time for the Olympics, a Transport for London boss has said. TfL oversaw a successful trial at Charing Cross last year, but there were fears of delays after telecoms firm Huawei pulled out of a deal to provide the network. But a [...]
Huawei sales rise 11 per cent as it gains ground on rival Ericsson August 15, 2011 CHINA’S Huawei Technologies, the world’s number two network equipment maker, posted an 11 per cent rise in its first-half sales yesterday as it closes in on market leader Ericsson. Huawei, one of China’s best-known names in the technology sector, faces a weak global economy due to US and European debt woes that could hamper telecom [...]
Huawei sales rise 11 per cent as it gains ground on rival Ericsson August 15, 2011 CHINA’S Huawei Technologies, the world’s number two network equipment maker, posted an 11 per cent rise in its first-half sales yesterday as it closes in on market leader Ericsson. Huawei, one of China’s best-known names in the technology sector, faces a weak global economy due to US and European debt woes that could hamper telecom [...]
OPERATIC DUET FOR MITIE BOSS AND HUBBY February 26, 2012 WHAT connects Mitie, the FTSE 250 support services company, with opera? It isn’t just that Mitie is responsible for managing the facilities at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. The £19m contract, which sees Mitie providing cleaning and security services to the 2,256-seater venue, is certainly important to chief executive Ruby McGregor-Smith – but [...]
Taiwanese firm is caught in pincer February 6, 2012 THE demise of Nokia happened in slow motion. Apple released its first iPhone in 2007 but it took almost four years before Nokia admitted it was “standing on a burning platform”. Even now, some believe Nokia’s new Microsoft Windows smartphone, the Lumia, could snatch the Finnish handset maker from the jaws of defeat (for the [...]
Taiwanese firm is caught in pincer February 6, 2012 THE demise of Nokia happened in slow motion. Apple released its first iPhone in 2007 but it took almost four years before Nokia admitted it was “standing on a burning platform”. Even now, some believe Nokia’s new Microsoft Windows smartphone, the Lumia, could snatch the Finnish handset maker from the jaws of defeat (for the [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING January 24, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES WATCHDOG TO PROTECT IRRATIONAL INVESTORS Investors cannot be counted on to make rational choices so regulators need to “step into their footprints” and limit or ban the sale of potentially harmful products, the head of the UK’s new consumer protection watchdog said yesterday. In his first big interview since starting work last autumn, [...]
ORANGE LAUNCHES NEW TABLET January 10, 2012 ORANGE has released its first own-branded tablet, which is, of course, named after the largest island in the Windward group of the French Polynesian Society Islands. The Tahiti is manufactured by Chinese telecoms giant Huawei – a strategy that has already worked out quite nicely for Orange with its San Fransisco smartphone (which was made [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING December 11, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES TNK-BP WARNED ON LEGAL ACTION Two of the independent directors in TNK-BP, the Russian joint venture of BP, warned the board that legal action by the company against either set of shareholders could destabilise the group, according to a letter seen by the Financial Times. In the letter addressed to Mikhail Fridman, TNK-BP’s [...]
CHANCELLOR COURTS CHINESE CASHFLOW AT BUSINESS AWARDS November 8, 2011 GEORGE Osborne didn’t exactly say “give me all your money” to the assembled business leaders at the Orange National Business Awards. No, he phrased it rather more elegantly than that. “We need to see cash coming out of corporate balance sheets and into real investment prospects,” if The Capitalist’s memory serves correctly. So no prizes [...]