Yahoo battles for licensing fees as it launches patent war with Facebook February 28, 2012 THE ever-growing string of patent lawsuits between technology firms has branched out to social media companies as Yahoo and Facebook scrap over intellectual property. Waning search site Yahoo has asserted claims on a variety of mechanisms used by Facebook, including the way it operates its adverts, privacy controls, news feed and messaging service. The list [...]
The new kids February 27, 2012 ALL eyes were on Nokia yesterday morning, as delegates at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona waited with bated breath for its latest release. Some were hoping for a long-rumoured tablet, which never materialised. What we got was a cheaper handset in Nokia’s Lumia range, the 610. It’s a solid enough device, with enough curves [...]
Olympic Media Buzz LONDON 2012 PARTNERS February 26, 2012 IN ASSOCIATION with Repskan.com, the media monitoring and analytics platform, City A.M. is measuring the relative Olympic media buzz around the partners for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, week by week. The leaderboard, right, reflects their ranking over the past week, in this case from Wednesday 15 February to Wednesday 22 February. Maintaining [...]
OPERATIC DUET FOR MITIE BOSS AND HUBBY February 26, 2012 WHAT connects Mitie, the FTSE 250 support services company, with opera? It isn’t just that Mitie is responsible for managing the facilities at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. The £19m contract, which sees Mitie providing cleaning and security services to the 2,256-seater venue, is certainly important to chief executive Ruby McGregor-Smith – but [...]
Samsung shifts to new TV tech on LCD spin-off February 20, 2012 SOUTH Korea’s Samsung Electronics, the world’s biggest maker of televisions, officially marked a shift in its focus towards new generation OLED display technology, and said it will spin off its loss-making LCD flat-screen business into an affiliate. The announcement comes after weeks of speculation, with the outlook for liquid crystal display televisions grim as shoppers [...]
Barclays unveils cash-free payment app in bid to poach bank customers February 15, 2012 BARCLAYS has launched a mobile app that could see the bank poach thousands of customers from rivals by giving them the ability to pay without cash. The app, called Pingit, is aimed at boosting Barclays’ brand by linking the lender to a convenient service. It lets users link their mobile number to their bank account [...]
Apple shoots past Samsung to nab top smartphone spot February 15, 2012 APPLE is again the top smartphone vendor in the world after selling 35.5m smartphones in the fourth quarter of last year and growing its market share to 23.8 per cent, according to research from Gartner. Samsung was hot on Apple’s heels, selling 34m out of the total 149m smartphones sold in the quarter. Around 472m [...]
The revolution is now being televised… but will it be 3D? February 15, 2012 If I had a pound for every year I’d been told 3D was going to hit the mainstream, I’d have £3. And that’s not to be sniffed at in these troubled times. Last week George Lucas was the latest big name to throw his weight behind the format, saying the difference between 2D and 3D [...]
Apple iPad rumour mill whirls despite problems in China February 14, 2012 THE HUNGRILY-AWAITED iPad 3 could run on fourth generation networks when released in the US later this year, with top American wireless providers AT&T and Verizon vying for the carrier deal. Apple is expected to announce details of its latest tablet offering in the first week of next month, with some sources pointing specifically to [...]
Sibling rivalry: Samsung boss sued by brother for inheritance sum February 14, 2012 THE CHAIRMAN of Samsung is being sued by his brother for 700bn Korean won (£397m) over an inheritance of company shares from their father. Lee Maeng-Hee, 80, is suing Lee Ken-Hee, the 70 year old chairman of the South Korean electronics company, over eight million shares in Samsung Life Insurance and 20 shares in the [...]