FORLORN FERNANDO February 14, 2011 FULHAM (0) vs CHELSEA(0) Torres subbed again after another limp display Ancelotti defends his record purchase Title gone for good despite Cech penalty save CHELSEA manager Carlo Ancelotti defended another tepid display from Fernando Torres but admitted his side’s hopes of retaining their Premier League crown are over after frittering away two points against their [...]
Analysts pan Microsoft and Nokia tie-up February 14, 2011 NOKIA chief executive Stephen Elop defended his firm’s partnership with Microsoft yesterday after the deal sent its shares tumbling a further five per cent. Shares in the Finnish firm have now lost a staggering 19 per cent since the deal was announced on Friday, knocking €6bn (£5bn) off its market value. Elop said Nokia will [...]
Apple plots cheaper iPhone to fight Google February 13, 2011 APPLE is developing a low-cost version of the iPhone as its battle with Google to control the smartphone market heats up. Steve Jobs’ company is said to be working on a “nano” version of its premium product which will be around half the size of the iPhone 4. Mobile carriers could sell on the product [...]
Nokia chief denies split loyalties February 13, 2011 NOKIA CEO Stephen Elop yesterday dismissed insinuations that his loyalties were still with his former employer, Microsoft, because he owned shares in the software company and did not hold any Nokia stock. “I am not a Trojan horse,” Stephen Elop said ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The decision to partner with Microsoft [...]
Don’t trust everything people say February 13, 2011 TRADERS short on oil suffered a brief shock last Thursday. In early trading, a rumour began circulating, originating from a relatively minor Arab news site that the King of Saudi Arabia had died. Despite the implausible nature of the story – it was reported that King Abdullah died during a heated phone debate with Barack [...]
Nokia teams up with Microsoft to take on Apple February 11, 2011 Nokia and Microsoft have teamed up to take on Google and Apple in the fast-growing smartphone market using Windows Phone as the software platform for its smartphones as part of new chief executive Stephen Elop’s overhaul of the world’s biggest cellphone maker. Nokia has rapidly lost share in the higher-margin smartphone market to the likes [...]
Nokia leaks Doomsday memo February 9, 2011 A leaked memo sent from Nokia’s chief executive Stephen Elop yesterday painted a vivid picture of the threat facing the company. The email warned that Nokia’s failure to keep pace with rivals such as Apple has left it “standing on a burning platform” needing to change. Elop said in the past two years Nokia had [...]
Smartphone sales rocket as Apple bites February 9, 2011 GLOBAL smartphone sales grew an astonishing 72 per cent, with next-generation handsets now making up almost a fifth of receipts, according to new research by Gartner. BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) and Apple crept ahead of industry stalwarts Sony Ericsson and Motorola in total phone sales, with both claiming close to three per cent of [...]
Scents to make the one you love (or like) swoon February 9, 2011 FOR HER FEMME FATALE: LOVE IN BLACK BY CREED Dark, powdery and seductive – the silent screen siren of scent. Florentine iris, glorious pure Damascus rose and a violet encore. Love In Black by Creed £142/75mls from www.creedfragrances.co.uk SENSUAL: SKIN PETALS BY ILLUMINUM Succulent apple blossom and wild berry, mellows into a duo of fragile [...]
WHAT’S NEW IN GADGETS AND TECHNOLOGY February 9, 2011 ALL NEW IPAD ON THE WAY Get those sleeping bags, thermos flasks and cagoules ready and prepare again for the kind of ultra-queuing hardship that occurs only with the release of a new Apple gadget. According to reports in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere yesterday, the iPad 2 is now in production. Thinner, lighter [...]