Samsung forecasts first annual profit drop in three years January 8, 2015 The world's biggest electronic company Samsung as predicted its first annual profit drop since 2011. The South Korean smartphone maker forecast operating profit of 5.2 trillion Korean won (£3bn) for the three months to December, down from 8.3 trillion won a year earlier. Despite this it beat an earlier estimate of 5 trillion won from [...]
Fitbug starts to flex its muscles January 7, 2015 The founder of the British fitness tracking group tells Oliver Smith in Las Vegas that he is already thinking about the next big thing PAUL Landau has had an interesting six months. In July he was the founder of a wearable fitness tracker firm whose share price had hovered around 1p for over two years, [...]
CES 2015: The good, the bad and the ugly – from QuitBit’s novelty lighter to Sony’s Walkman reboot January 7, 2015 The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is in full swing and the gadgets on display are as wacky as ever. Here are a selection of our favourites so far… Sony's tiny Action Cam FDR-X1000V SONY FDR-X100V CAMCORDER £TBC sony.co.uk Usefulness: ★★★★☆ Novelty value: ★★★☆☆ Sony is pulling out all the stops to make up [...]
CES 2015: The internet of things is coming soon says Samsung’s UK boss Andy Griffiths January 6, 2015 Samsung’s UK boss tells Oliver Smith in Las Vegas that self-controlling central heating and self-parking cars are around the corner Will internet-connected devices change your life over the next five years? Samsung, along with most of the other tech giants in the convention halls of Las Vegas where the global tech industry has amassed this [...]
CES 2015: Samsung unveils SUHD TV and new content store Milk to rival Netflix and iTunes January 5, 2015 With its next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S6, only reportedly making an appearance behind closed doors at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, Samsung last night instead chose to double down on its position as the world’s largest manufacturer of TVs. Samsung’s flagship product was its SUHD TV, a 88-inch screen [...]
CES 2015: Samsung reveals SUHD TV and Tizen smart TV platform January 5, 2015 Samsung has revealed a new line of ultra high-definition curved TVs it's calling SUHD which run on the new smart TV platform Tizen. In an event at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) the firm revealed it already had a 60 per cent share of the UHD market, with its curved screens making up half of [...]
Xiaomi: Everything you need to know about the world’s most valuable technology start-up and third-biggest smartphone maker January 5, 2015 Despite not having any products on sale in the UK, smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi can't keep out of our business headlines. Just a week after being named the most valuable technology company in the world, the Chinese company has announced a mammoth increase in sales in 2014. Xiaomi is now said to be the third-biggest [...]
CES 2015 in Las Vegas: The greatest show on earth January 4, 2015 This week 3,500 of the world’s biggest tech giants are coming to Sin City. Las Vegas will be transformed from a gambling hub in the middle of the desert into the nerve centre of global technology as Samsung, Sony, LG as well as hundreds of smaller tech firms come to the annual Consumer Electronics Show [...]
CES 2015 preview: 3 things to expect at the biggest technology show of the year January 4, 2015 It's not even a week since the wrapping was ripped off the latest tech gadget gifts given over Christmas, but a wave of new devices, inventions and trends are already set to sweep the market. The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), brings together the biggest electronics brands, and many upstarts looking to disrupt their business, [...]
Which were the best and worst investments of 2014? December 22, 2014 This year low interest rates have seen investors who bet on traditional investments receive returns tantamount to chickenfeed. Perhaps we should have given up before we'd all even started? Perhaps not. Investors who plumped for chocolate, property, the US dollar and Aim-listed company Fitbug would have watched as their money practically grew on trees. Conversely, [...]