Nokia slashes smartphone price July 15, 2012 Nokia has cut the US price of its flagship smartphone in half, barely three months after its launch, in an effort to staunch losses in market share to rivals such as Apple and Samsung Electronics. The cost of the Lumia 900 Windows phone has been reduced to $49.99 from $99 with a two-year agreement, Nokia [...]
BBC iPlayer topples Marks & Spencer as digital brands dominate UK’s top three July 10, 2012 The latest YouGov BrandIndex bi-annual league table reveals that Amazon, Google and BBC iPlayer have managed to beat 850-plus brands to become the most highly-rated brands in the UK. The 2012 bi-annual league table, compiled using the Index score (a composite of six key image attributes – general impression, value, quality, satisfaction, recommendation and corporate [...]
Nokia continues to crumble July 10, 2012 Troubled phone maker Nokia hurtled along its downwards tumble yesterday as it shares sank a further three per cent to a 17 year low. The Finnish company, which once dominated the mobile phone market, has failed to keep up with newer offerings from smartphone giants Apple and Samsung and posted in April a €1.34bn (£1bn) [...]
Samsung wins Apple battle by not being cool July 9, 2012 SAMSUNG Electronics defeated Apple in the latest spat in the rivals’ patent wars yesterday as a British judge ruled Samsung’s Galaxy tablets did not infringe the U.S company’s designs for the iPad because they were “not as cool”. In the High Court judgment Judge Colin Birss said that Samsung’s Galaxy tablets belonged to the same [...]
Samsung forecasts profit surge July 6, 2012 Samsung said it expects to see a profit surge of 79 per cent in the second quarter of 2012 due to the new Galaxy range of smartphones. The firm has predicted an operating profit of 6.7 trillion won (£3.5 bn) for the three-month period, the highest since 2008. Whilst overtaking Nokia as the world’s biggest [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING July 2, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES Heatwave threatens US harvest An intense heatwave is threatening havoc with this year’s US grain harvest, burning up hopes of blockbuster yields and sending prices soaring. Even a modest reduction in crops could send ripples through global food commodities markets, as the US is the world’s top exporter of corn, soyabeans and wheat, [...]
Games consoles meet a chainsaw massacre July 2, 2012 WHAT would you rather do: harvest corn, or chainsaw a zombie in the face? That’s the question asked by the Facebook app for Gaikai, the cloud gaming company just bought for $380m (£242m) by Sony, which clearly believes the chainsaw is mightier than the scythe. It’s probably right, too. Just a few minutes of experimenting [...]
Five years old: iPhone hits the grand old age June 28, 2012 CELEBRATING its fifth birthday today, the world’s most iconic smartphone continues to dominate its rivals according to data from Ipsos MORI. Revealed to the world by Steve Jobs in January 2007, the first iPhone was scanned through the till on 29 June of the same year. British fans of Apple will be able to celebrate [...]
Samsung banned from selling Galaxy Tab 10.1 device in the US June 27, 2012 APPLE has triumphed in the latest round of patent battles with its archrival Samsung after a US judge yesterday backed the iPad maker’s request to halt sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 device. “Although Samsung has a right to compete, it does not have a right to compete unfairly, by flooding the market with infringing [...]
Judge halts sale of Samsung Galaxy Tab in US June 27, 2012 A US judge backed Apple Inc’s request to stop Samsung Electronics selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the United States, giving the iPhone maker a significant win in the global smartphone and tablet patent wars. Samsung’s Galaxy touchscreen tablets, powered by Google’s Android operating system, are considered by many industry experts to be the [...]