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 [...]
iPhone 6s Vs iPhone 6 pre-order sales: Apple share price ticks up after revealing it’s on track to break first weekend record September 14, 2015 Apple has said that it's on track for sales of the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus to beat last year's record-breaking iPhone 6 and 6 Plus sales on the first weekend it hits the shops. "Customer response to iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus has been extremely positive and pre-orders this weekend were very [...]
Shot on iPhone: How smartphone cameras are changing the world September 14, 2015 If you've travelled on the underground in the last couple of months you might have seen some gorgeous sweeping landscapes, tumbling waterfalls and stunning vistas, all ‘Shot on iPhone 6’. A few years ago if the world’s biggest technology company wanted to do a global marketing campaign it would have hired the best photographers [...]
One chart showing that people cared more about Microsoft than iPhone 6S or iPad Pro at the Apple launch September 11, 2015 Tim Cook said “everything had changed” again when unveiling Apple’s new products earlier this week – but how were they received by the public? Looking at hundreds of thousands of social media mentions give us a pretty good clue of how people felt about the new iPhone, iPad Pro and Apple Watch. Some 179,000 tweets [...]
Apple iOS9 release: How businesses can make the most of the latest iPhone software from Siri and ad-blocking to Spotlight and split screens September 11, 2015 Are you ready for iOS9? Apple is making some major changes to its flagship operating system over the next few weeks, but what do these updates mean for businesses? A nail in the coffin for search and display? The new operating system iOS 9 will include a significantly enhanced Spotlight search functionality, the [...]
From the Apple iPhone 6s launch and Labour’s mayoral race to the refugee crisis and Sports Direct: Here’s what got us talking this week September 11, 2015 There was a record breaker. There was some space whisky. And somewhere in the heart of the City, there was a good old-fashioned knees up. Here's what got us talking this week 1) The bus driver's son won Sadiq Khan beat favourite Tessa Jowell to become the Labour candidate for London Mayor in 2016, [...]
Apple and Shell’s Eurozone bond bonanza: Corporate giants set to cash in on cheaper rates and a lower euro September 11, 2015 Two mammoths of the corporate world, Apple and Shell, stepped on to a crowded bandwagon yesterday when they decided to tap the Eurozone’s bond market to raise billions of euros. More than €53bn (£39bn) have been raised using bonds – interest-paying IOUs – by US companies so far this year, according to figures from [...]
Apple is core to Wall St rises – New York Report September 10, 2015 US STOCKS ended higher yesterday, supported by gains in Apple and biotech shares, but nervousness ahead of a much-anticipated Federal Reserve meeting next week limited the advance. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 77.63 points, or 0.48 per cent, to 16,331.2, the S&P 500 gained 10.2 points, or 0.53 per cent, to 1,952.24 and the [...]
Apple’s iPhone 6s Upgrade Program is its secret weapon to get people buying the latest model release September 10, 2015 At a company event in San Francisco yesterday, among new hardware announcements, Apple introduced a new iPhone financing plan called "iPhone Upgrade Program" This new instalment plan is a direct response to the sudden prevalence of equipment instalment plan (EIPs) in which devices are paid for via instalments rather than through subsidies embedded in fixed-term [...]