The Kodak Ektra half-asses two things when it should have just whole-assed one thing December 7, 2016 Approximately one hundred years ago, back when it was extremely novel and cool to have a mobile phone with a built-in camera, we would call such contraptions ‘cameraphones’. Nowadays we live in the future and we expect everything we own to have some type of camera embedded in it, but the new Kodak Ektra feels [...]
PlayStation VR review: An affordable entry into the world of virtual reality entertainment December 7, 2016 The PlayStation VR has made a right mess of my living room. Sony’s new headset requires the use of roughly seven thousand bits of cable, which snake and coil around your TV and your console and your neck like rubbery snakes. Truly, I have never felt more at risk of accidental self-strangulation than when reviewing [...]
John Lewis sales bolstered by final Black Friday promotions December 6, 2016 John Lewis' sales over the past week received a boost from the final Black Friday promotions on offer. Sales for the week to 3 December increased 3.9 per cent year-on-year, the department store said, reaching £172.1m. Read more: Nespresso is teaming up with John Lewis to open two new boutiques Year-on-year, fashion and home sales [...]
Samsung Vs Apple: US Supreme Court rules in favour of the South Korean giant December 6, 2016 The US Supreme Court has backed Samsung in the latest round of its patent bout with Apple. The decision to throw out an appeals court ruling means the South Korean company won't necessarily have to pay the $399m (£313m) penalty to Apple for copying the design of the iPhone. The US justices were unanimous in their decision, ruling eight to zero in [...]
17 years sleeping, a year in the pub, seven months queuing: How a British adult spends their lifetime November 30, 2016 Ever wondered quite how much time you spend binge-watching series after series on Netflix? Well, wonder no longer as Samsung has surveyed 3,000 UK adults to assess just how Brits spend their time in 2016. The average British adult will have spent 17 years and 41 days sleeping, 13 years and three months working, eight years [...]
Sky dives into mobile market with “flexible” contracts but steers clear of content offers November 29, 2016 Pay-TV operator Sky has unveiled details of its long-awaited mobile service. Available to Sky staff already and rolling out gradually to pre-registered customers and then to the wider market early next year, the service is aiming to offer what the company has called a "flexible" mobile subscription plan. Sky will then begin offering handsets to users [...]
Samsung’s thinking of splitting in two and pledges to boost 2016 dividend to reassure investors November 29, 2016 Samsung Electronics has confirmed it's weighing up dividing the firm into two separate companies. It has been under pressure from some investors to break itself into a holding unit and an operating company to bolster shareholder value and said it will be outlining plans to investors in Seoul today to boost just that. Samsung said it [...]
Shut your mouth! Noisy eaters are costing the nation’s economy November 28, 2016 Time is money, as they say, and it turns out office annoyances are costing us hours of wasted time… won't someone think of the lost productivity? To put a number on it, research by Samsung suggests 5.5 hours of our working week go on griping, such as complaining over crashing computers and even colleagues who eat too loudly. Where [...]
Black Friday 2016: Customers of this lender are spending £32,000 a minute November 25, 2016 Nationwide card holders are spending £32,000 a minute in the Black Friday sales. The building society said that between midnight and 8:30am today customers had shelled out £16.3m, an increase on last year's spend. Read more: The best Black Friday deals on consoles and games More than 400,000 transactions have taken place – up 50 per cent [...]
Black Friday: These are the top selling items at John Lewis right now November 25, 2016 John Lewis opened its stores at 8am this morning and has been selling items at Black Friday prices since midnight – here are the products people are loving: Sonos Play 1 is the biggest seller in tech The Legos Simpsons house is the best-selling item by value Marc Jacobs perfume has had the most units [...]