Most expensive cities in the world: Londoners work longer than people in New York, Los Angeles, Luxembourg and Geneva to buy an iPhone 6 (and a Big Mac) September 17, 2015 We all know that London life can be expensive, not least when you factor in the cost of housing, but it turns out we have to slog it out at work to afford that most prevalent possession: our iPhones. Londoners have to work an average of 41.2 hours to be able to buy an iPhone [...]
Jeremy Corbyn: Leadership lessons from Corbyn’s first five days September 17, 2015 The first few days are rarely simple for a new leader. If you’re appointed chief executive to turn around an ailing company, your ideas may be met with a hostile reception. A Labour MP for more than 30 years, the party’s new leader Jeremy Corbyn is hardly an external appointment. But he is [...]
Crowdfunding and the third age of finance: Why banks are now seriously taking note September 17, 2015 Crowdfunding has titillated a lot of people. Armchair investors can pile into funding rounds alongside VCs, lending to or taking stakes in promising businesses. People can raise money for unwell relatives and community projects nearby – or across the globe. And SMEs turned away by banks can borrow from the crowd, issue equity, or [...]
Apple iOS 9 release: Here’s how to download the latest update to the iPhone and iPad operating system – and why it isn’t working for some September 16, 2015 It’s update time for iPhone users: iOS 9 is here. Apple released the latest version of the operating system running on iPhones and iPads at 6pm UK time – and you should get a friendly phone reminder from Apple when it's ready to download. As always, servers are overheating as every single iPhone user worldwide [...]
Apple Watch software update watchOS 2 delayed due to bug – iOS 9 release not affected September 16, 2015 Apple has postponed the release of new Apple Watch software watchOS 2, expected to be made available today, because of a bug. The software update would have been released to Apple Watch owners today. How long it will now be delayed is unclear, a company spokesperson said to the Financial Times: We have discovered a [...]
The five biggest announcements from Apple’s September 2015 event September 16, 2015 Last week’s Apple media event saw the company unveiling what it repeatedly called the “most advanced iPhone we’ve ever made”, just in case anybody suspected they might take the radical step of announcing a less advanced phone. Nope, instead of regressing, Apple instead marched boldly into a shimmering, rose gold future with two more iPhones, [...]
ARM share price rises after sales of new Apple iPhone 6S and Morgan Stanley note September 16, 2015 Chipmaker Arm Holdings yesterday saw its share price rise almost 3.5 per cent, helped by news of strong first-weekend Apple iPhone sales, and by recommendations from brokers including Morgan Stanley. Yesterday was the the first analyst day for new chief financial officer Chris Kennedy, who was poached from easyJet. Morgan Stanley noted that ARM has [...]
iPhone 6s sales on track to beat Apple’s records September 15, 2015 Apple said yesterday that sales of its new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus are on track to beat last year’s record-breaking iPhone 6 and 6 Plus sales on the first weekend they hit the shops. “Customer response to iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus has been extremely positive and pre-orders this weekend were very strong [...]
FTSE retreats as Morrisons and Glencore drop – London Report September 15, 2015 BRITAIN’S top share index fell yesterday, with miner Glencore and supermarket group Morrisons underperforming as weak Chinese data and the possibility of a US rate rise weighed on markets. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index had initially risen but then lost ground to close 0.5 per cent lower at 6,084.59 points as caution crept in before [...]
From the momentous to the mundane, smartphones are making life unmissable September 15, 2015 The most important of events, from that first step to walking down the aisle, must be recorded and remembered, and today that’s what we use our smartphones for. From nature photography to wedding photography, these are all places where people use their smartphone cameras that you would never have believed or expected just a few [...]