Apple iPad Pro UK release date 2015 and price: When will iPad Pro go on sale and how much will it cost? The new 12.9-inch iPad will launch in 40 countries on Wednesday 11 November November 9, 2015 Apple fans, start your engines: the US tech giant has just announced the launch date of its monster, 12.9-inch iPad Pro. And you've only got a couple of days to wait… In a statement today the company said the iPad Pro will go on sale in stores and be available to order in 40 countries – including [...]
It’s official: Google is now Alphabet as restructuring process comes to an end October 5, 2015 Google's transition to Alphabet is now complete, the company confirmed last night. In a statement posted on its investor relations site, it said the restructuring process was due to be finished by the end of the day, and that on Monday Google shares will be traded under Alphabet for the first time. Google [...]
Tour de France winner Chris Froome pulls out of Vuelta a Espana with foot injury after crash September 2, 2015 Briton Chris Froome’s hopes of becoming only the third man to win the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana in the same year look to be over after he crashed in Andorra yesterday. Froome went to hospital for X-rays after struggling to walk following stage 11 of the Vuelta, which left him seven and [...]
Elon Musk: Apple hires the engineers Tesla fires October 9, 2015 Elon Musk has lashed out at Apple, suggesting the company is the “Tesla graveyard” which hires his company's rejects. The outspoken chief executive and billionaire investor has hit back at suggestions Apple has been pinching Tesla’s engineers as it pushes into the car sector, saying in an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt that Apple is where you go [...]
WWDC 2015: Apple Music, iOS 9, Apple TV and a new OS X – but no selfie sticks – what you need to know about Apple’s developer conference June 2, 2015 It’s that time of year, and no sooner have we been offered a host of goodies by Google, than Apple’s developer conference WWDC will be dropping even more juicy tidbits about what tech toys we’ll soon be playing with. Fresh from huge success with the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch, Monday 8 June will see [...]
TFL’s Tube “etiquette poetry” competition: X of the best submissions February 27, 2015 Mind the rap Let people go Move down The platform end Rumbling wind
Christmas adverts 2015: John Lewis, M&S, Curry’s PC World, Asda or Argos – which retailer gets the gold star for best ad? November 6, 2015 The retailer race to be top of the tree this Christmas is on. Retailers including John Lewis, Marks & Spencer and Iceland have been teasing their Christmas advertising for weeks, but now the majority of the campaigns are officially launched, who will be sitting pretty at the top of the Christmas list? This year it’s clear than [...]
Crown Estate sitting on £800m of vacant London properties December 11, 2015 The Crown Estate is sitting on over £800m worth of empty properties in London alone, a City A.M. investigation has revealed, exposing the scale of the developer’s property footprint in the capital. The monarchy’s portfolio of property and land includes 312 vacant properties in the Greater London area, according to a Freedom of Information request, [...]
UK house prices: The property market is mired in uncertainty – brace for higher prices and polarised demand September 30, 2015 It is time for a big think about UK house prices. Does anybody know which way they will turn? Whether we’re looking at the short term or the long term, a tremendous amount of uncertainty abounds. Looking at the short-term outlook, latest figures from the Halifax show prices rising by 9 per cent year-on-year, [...]
Falanx Group’s John Blamire talks listing a shell company, intelligent fridges and going from army officer to entrepeneur February 15, 2016 I think I’d just been given one too many orders,” laughs John Blamire, founder of Falanx Group. The entrepreneur spent the first chunk of his career as an officer in the British Army, serving in Northern Ireland, Iraq and the Falklands. In 2001, he was responsible for creating a strategic-level intelligence unit in a high-risk [...]