Boston’s calling July 10, 2011 CAPE ANN: SMALL-TOWN BEAUTY MANCHESTER-by-the Sea is a little town about 30 miles north of Boston. It’s got white picket fences, a harbour, a tiny train station, two ice cream shops and an old diner called the Coffee Cup that’s recently been bought by a plucky, Italian-American mother and daughter called Christine and Kathy DeSalvo, [...]
Apple climbs as App Store sales hit 15bn July 7, 2011 APPLE customers have downloaded more than 15bn applications in the past three years, the company said yesterday, releasing figures that suggest the rate of downloads is sharply accelerating. The latest figures from Apple show that customers have downloaded around 5bn apps so far this year, as the company said in January that it had just [...]
Profits fall at Samsung as TV sales drag July 7, 2011 PROFIT at Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest maker of memory chips and televisions, fell by a quarter as weak earnings at its flat screen unit dragged, underlying the conglomerate’s struggle to return to last year’s record profit. A bleak outlook for computers and TVs and a wobbly global economy is overshadowing robust sales of Samsung’s [...]
Want to enjoy work? Become the office Elvis July 5, 2011 OVER 60 per cent of people admit that they are not engaged at work, according to a Towers Perrin/Gallup poll. Chris Barez-Brown, a career coach, says this need not be the way. All the bored and frustrated need to do to bring office work to life is “Up their Elvis.” “When Bono, the U2 star, [...]
HACKERS TAKE A BITE OUT OF APPLE July 4, 2011 The Internet vigilante group Anonymous claimed to have broken into an Apple server and published a small number of usernames and passwords for one of Apple’s websites. Anonymous said on Twitter that Apple could be a target and released the data as part of its Anti Security campaign. Apple, led by Steve Jobs (pictured), did [...]
THE RISE OF ST PANCRAS: WHERE TO EAT AND DRINK July 4, 2011 GILBERT SCOTT BAR London’s rise as a cocktail destination is everywhere apparent: and no more so than in the opening of brilliant restaurant bars that are destinations in themselves. The Gilbert Scott has one of these: it’s airy and antique, with buttery popcorn served in pewter chalices as a free snack, and cocktails from ages [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS July 4, 2011 EXQUISITE CHAMPAGNE FEAST AT THE LANGHAM HOTEL: TONIGHT What are you doing ce soir? If you’ve got a bit of cash burning a hole in your pocket and you consider yourself a foodie (who likes champagne), you should be at the Langham Hotel’s “Evening with Roux” dinner at its fine dining restaurant, the Landau. Michel Roux [...]
Coming soon: the Fearne Cotton app July 3, 2011 Festivals ain’t what they used to be. Back in the day, your parents would smear their naked bodies with healing mud and take so much acid their eyes melted. Now, in a resounding victory for progress, people can huddle in their tents, feverishly watching the events on the blinking screen of an iPhone. Even in [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING June 30, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES MAD MEN PARENT EYES STARDOM The dapper, hard-drinking, advertising executives of Mad Men made the show one of the big television hits of recent years. Now Mad Men’s parent company is vying to be a star on the stock market. Shares in AMC Networks will begin regular trading on the Nasdaq today, following [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING June 27, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES MICROSOFT LAUNCHES CLOUD OFFICE Microsoft is set to place one of its biggest bets yet on cloud computing with the launch of Office 365, an online version of its most widely used business software. The software company’s belated push online with one of its core businesses comes more than four years after Google [...]