Apple has a little something for you October 24, 2012 Great things come in small packages As the name would suggest, the mini is small. How small? Try 7.9-inches. It’s 1.3-inches smaller than its older sibling and while it’s still larger its competitors, the bigger size allows for 67 per cent more screen usage compared to the Google Nexus 7 when browsing the web in [...]
The top five 7-inch tablets on the market October 24, 2012 Amazon Kindle Fire HD The HD version of Amazon’s original design is ideal for people who use their tablet for watching movies and online shows. Considering the affordable price, the features on offer provide great value for money and the speakers are pretty good too. Google Nexus 7 by Asus Despite it being made of [...]
McQueen sets up shop on Savile Row October 24, 2012 The highly-anticipated store is open for business Stylish. That’s the word that springs to mind when stepping into the new Alexander McQueen menswear store. The label is big — even more so since its creative director, Sarah Burton, designed Kate Middleton’s wedding dress last year — so you might be surprised, then, to hear that [...]
Facebook cashes in on mobile October 23, 2012 FACEBOOK showed signs of putting its many troubles since May’s botched flotation behind it yesterday, as Mark Zuckerberg’s company beat expectations and displayed impressive growth in selling adverts on mobile phones. The social network’s earnings release last night showed that Facebook’s turnover had risen to $1.26bn (£790m) in the third quarter of the year, up [...]
Apple’s iPad mini fails to impress investors October 23, 2012 APPLE yesterday unveiled the much-anticipated iPad mini in a bid to protect its lead in the tablet market against threats from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. The company also announced an updated, fourth-generation iPad just seven months after the previous version was unveiled, along with a host of updates to its computer lineup. However, Wall Street [...]
Easy money cannot last forever, warns Bank of England chief King October 23, 2012 LOW INTEREST rates and money printing may fail to help the UK in the long run, as the loose policies act to postpone a very necessary readjustment of the economy, Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King said last night. He told a business audience in Cardiff that his record low interest rates might have [...]
Why Mervyn King’s defence of the politics of QE fell short October 23, 2012 MY biggest worry about quantitative easing (QE) is that it has blurred the distinction between monetary and fiscal policy. The Bank of England is financing a substantial share of the government’s expenditure – and the majority of its budget deficit – by buying gilts using freshly-minted money. There was a time when the monetisation of [...]
Incomes are 13pc below pre-crisis high, ONS says October 23, 2012 PEOPLE in the UK are even worse off than the economy’s slump in GDP suggests, according to official data published yesterday that aims to measure our economic wellbeing. Net national income (NNI) per person – an alternative measure to GDP – has crashed by 13.2 per cent since its peak in early 2008, the Office [...]
What the other papers say this morning October 23, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES Bidders say rail flaws spotted in 2011 The Department for Transport was alerted to errors in the bid documentation for the West Coast main line franchise as long ago as May of last year, suggesting there were problems from the outset with the handling of the tender scrapped by the government earlier this [...]
Firms cheer delay to EU’s board quotas October 23, 2012 LAW FIRMS and industry bodies yesterday welcomed the decision to delay a vote on the EU’s plan to force firms to give 40 per cent of board seats to women. Viviane Reding, EU commissioner for justice, citizenship and fundamental rights, was scheduled to officially launch the initiative today, but her peers on the Commission decided [...]
