Suits’ fave spot for a helping of glam September 6, 2010 Aqua Nueva Fifth Floor, 30 Argyll Street, W1B 3BR Tel: 020 7478 0540, www.aqua.com.hk FOOD SERVICE ATMOSPHERE Cost per person without wine: £50 LONDON’s love affair with the shamelessly glam has been hotting up for several years and Aqua Nueva, the Spanish side of a double rooftop restaurant off Regent Street, fits the bill perfectly. [...]
Irresponsible strikes will hit London September 5, 2010 BARRING a last-minute reprieve, commuters will be subjected to much chaos from 5pm tonight as Underground workers go on strike. Tomorrow will be especially tough. This strike is irresponsible. It is being caused by selfish militants who cannot face losing some of their privileges at a time when everybody else in Britain is being forced [...]
Samsung joins the queue of iPad killers September 2, 2010 Samsung’s first tablet computer will go on sale in two weeks, it said yesterday, joining the hunt to challenge Apple’s iPad. Global handset vendors and PC makers including Nokia, LG and Hewlett-Packard are moving into the new category of devices, between traditional PCs and smartphones, taking a cue from Apple. Dell said last month it [...]
DSG nets a World Cup boost September 2, 2010 DSG International said yesterday its total group sales were up three per cent after a boost from World Cup TV purchases and the success of the iPad. In an update on trading for the 12 weeks to 24 July the company, which owns Currys and PC World, said its online sales had surged by 12 [...]
CITY VIEWS: HAS APPLE SPREAD ITSELF TOO THIN BY MOVING INTO TV PRODUCTS September 2, 2010 BARTOSZ WOJTOWICZ | NOMURA “I’m perfectly happy with Apple expanding, and think they get it right a lot of the time. I would love to have an iPhone, but my mobile phone network won’t offer them for another three months, so I’m stuck with my old phone.” JIMMY SMALES | COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA “I [...]
TV wars loom as Apple takes aim September 1, 2010 Apple last night launched a revamped on-demand TV service it hopes will help it smash into the online rental market. Apple TV allows users to rent episodes of hit US shows like Glee for as little as 99¢ (64p) and play them through their TV. The device could catapult Apple into a market currently dominated [...]
THE ART OF PEACEFUL PROTEST (IN SWINDON) September 1, 2010 IN an age where Facebook protests can reach hundreds of thousands of members within a few hours, often for the most spurious reasons – the lynching of women who put cats in bins being a recent example – it’s nice to see a good old fashioned show of dissent. One-man-army Paul Slennett, owner of three [...]
Google and Skype face India woes September 1, 2010 India yesterday launched a clampdown on major internet communications firms, including Google and Skype, and began accessing some BlackBerry traffic in a campaign driven by security fears. Home secretary GK Pillai said notices were being sent to Google and Skype asking them to set up servers in India and allow access to web data that [...]
THE TIPSTER September 1, 2010 TECH stocks struggled towards the end of last month. China’s weaker growth, including the announcement that it will be drastically reducing its output of rare earth metals, suggests that the future could be fairly bumpy for the sector. Apple’s share price rose immediately following yesterday’s launch event, but with consumer confidence still weak and its [...]
Wall St surges as confidence picks up September 1, 2010 WALL Street posted its best day in eight weeks yesterday as investor mood brightened after better-than-expected factory data from the United States and China. Investors jumped on stocks across the market, with more than six shares rising for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange, while on the Nasdaq, nearly five stocks [...]