The best iPhone 6S alternatives: The latest range of Android phones are worth ditching Apple for October 9, 2015 Fingerprint scanners belong on the back of the phone. That’s the loud and clear message from the latest slew of Android hardware to hit the shelves. Google’s own Nexus 5X and 6P have shifted the ‘print-sensor round the rear, as has the latest Huawei phone, the Honor 7. And it makes a whole lot of [...]
Elon Musk: Apple hires the engineers Tesla fires October 9, 2015 Elon Musk has lashed out at Apple, suggesting the company is the “Tesla graveyard” which hires his company's rejects. The outspoken chief executive and billionaire investor has hit back at suggestions Apple has been pinching Tesla’s engineers as it pushes into the car sector, saying in an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt that Apple is where you go [...]
Dow crosses 17,000 for first time in weeks – New York Report October 8, 2015 Signs of dovishness in the Federal Reserve September meeting minutes which shed light on its decision to keep interest rates near zero helped to maintain an upward momentum in US stock markets. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 137.86 points, or 0.82 per cent, to 17,050.15, the S&P 500 gained 17.56 points, or 0.88 per [...]
Samsung reassures customers after hack of Samsung Pay provider LoopPay is uncovered October 8, 2015 Samsung has reassured customers after it was revealed that the company’s new mobile payment system’s provider was hacked for months. LoopPay, the company that provides integral technology to Samsung’s mobile payment system, was infiltrated by Chinese hackers in February, the New York Times revealed yesterday. The hackers had access to the network since at least [...]
The Earth Index: How much does nature add to the global economy? October 8, 2015 The Earth's natural resources are a crucial part of the world's economy, helping to drive agriculture, tourism and the production of man-made objects. Today, BBC published its “Earth Index”, which shows how the contribution of these vital resources compares to other parts of the economy. It turns out the financial value of nature is huge, [...]
Google AMP, Facebook Instant Articles, Apple News, Medium API: Is this the end of news websites as we know them? October 8, 2015 News publishers could be forgiven for thinking it’s all very end-of-days at the moment. On one side, ad-blockers may be about to strangle a primitive monetisation model and, on the other, Silicon Valley giants seem intent on controlling the distribution of content, arguably calling the very existence of individual news websites into question. Apple upped [...]
Rise of mobile ad blockers has advertising industry worried October 8, 2015 Digital advertising is the industry’s fastest growth area, but it’s threatened by a rapid rise of ad blockers that has industry experts worried. The advertising industry is struggling to handle new options for users to filter out unwanted content online, and publishers have just been dealt a hard blow, as Apple has approved the first-ever [...]
Google AMP: “Instant Articles”-style mobile news plans unveiled – an open source standard for publishers’ content to be immediately in search October 7, 2015 Google has unveiled ambitious plans for the mobile web which will show readers news articles from the world's top publishers in an instant. The search giant said it wants to "make the web great again" with an open source project called AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) that will bring together publishers and technology companies to collaborate on [...]
Samsung’s share price leaps as it unveils profit boost October 7, 2015 Korean electronics giant and Apple arch-nemesis Samsung said today that it expects sales of 50-52 trillion won (£28.1bn-£29.2bn) in the third quarter of this year. Shareholders reacted with enthusiasm to the trading update, pushing the company's Korean-listed shares up 8.7 per cent. The company added that it expects operating profit for the quarter to be in the [...]
Microsoft mega launch: Where to watch the live-stream as three new Lumia phones, Surface Pro 4 tablet and new Microsoft Band to launch – plus more details on Windows 10 October 6, 2015 Microsoft is planning a raft of announcements today in what it describes as “our next chapter”. “We have some exciting news to share about Windows 10 devices,” the group has said. The firm is live-streaming the event from 10am EDT (4pm in the UK) and users will be able to watch it here. As [...]