Capitalists: the real revolutionaries October 17, 2011 ONCE again, Apple, the world’s most successful company, has pulled it off: it has sold 1m of its latest iPhone in its first 24 hours, smashing all the records. But this statistic should be of interest to more than tech geeks: it says a lot about how fast economies can evolve, especially in times of [...]
Microsoft flashes cash to promote WP7 October 17, 2011 MICROSOFT will hand £28m to Nokia and Samsung to spend marketing handsets running the latest version of its Windows Phone mobile software. The move is Microsoft’s latest attempt by to force its way into the smartphone market, with Windows Phone 7 (WP7) languishing in an industry increasingly dominated by Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. It [...]
Steve Jobs was an amazing businessman – but Einstein’s the genius behind the iPod October 17, 2011 THE recent death of Steve Jobs is a timely moment to step back and reconsider what innovation is really for. Reading the obituaries and testimonies posted across the internet, you would not be alone in assuming that Saint Jobs had cured the world of cancer and is now in heaven, reconfiguring God’s messaging system from [...]
BlackBerry brand seriously hurt by outages, according to our panel October 16, 2011 THE BlackBerry brand has been seriously damaged by the recent outages that left users with no data services for three working days, according to the City A.M. / PoliticsHome Voice of the City Panel. More than half of the 355 people surveyed said it will take longer than six months for BlackBerry to restore its [...]
The quiet diplomat who is fighting on behalf of the real squeezed middle October 16, 2011 IT is always hard to fill someone else’s shoes, especially if they belong to a larger-than-life figure such as Lord Digby Jones or Sir Richard Lambert. That was the position that John Cridland found himself in when he took the reins at the CBI just under a year ago. The mild-mannered, softly spoken 50-year old [...]
G20 and US earnings set to be positive catalysts October 16, 2011 AREVIVAL in hopes that the Eurozone crisis can and will be contained will continue to spur stocks higher this morning. The mood of the market certainly seems to be leaning towards the positive, and that will likely be reinforced by news from Paris at the weekend that the G20 have agreed that the IMF should [...]
A journey to the promised land of New World wine October 16, 2011 It was a few years ago, on an evening near Christmas in a neon-lit office boardroom, that I set my heart on South African wine. Until that night, I’d floundered when faced with supermarket wine sections and restaurant lists. Nothing tasted worth the money. And yet wine played an almost daily role in my life. [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING October 13, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES INSURERS BLAME APPLE AS LEVEL OF FRAUDULENT CLAIMS RISES The readiness of Apple to replace blocked or faulty iPhones with new smartphones is helping to fuel a big rise in fraud, insurers warn. Specialist mobile phone insurers say fraudulent claims have risen sharply amid the recession, especially related to smartphones. They estimate between [...]
Apple wins ban on Samsung Tab October 13, 2011 A COURT slapped a temporary ban on the sale of Samsung Electronics’ latest computer tablet in Australia yesterday, handing rival Apple another legal victory in the two firms’ global patent war. Resolution of the case could take months, which, in the fast-moving industry, could mean the new Galaxy tablet is never launched in Australia.
CRISIS MOUNTS FOR BLACKBERRY October 12, 2011 BlackBerry maker Research In Motion’s (RIM) crisis deepened yesterday when services in the US and Canada also collapsed. Customers in the UK were forced to cope without data services on their beloved handsets for a third day, with no sign the misery is about to end. Analysts told City A.M. the latest breakdown means between [...]