Mario Draghi knows about the tie guesses May 8, 2014 Earlier today, Mario Draghi’s numero uno press man Michael Steen caused a storm on Twitter by posting a photograph of Mr Draghi ahead of his European Central Bank policy decision meeting, because it revealed the colour of his tie ahead of time. To the uninitiated it might sound a bit loopy but each month [...]
Not convinced? March 31, 2014 CHECK OUT THESE ALTERNATIVES… BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT V8 S PRICE: £139,000 0-62MPH: 4.5 secs TOP SPEED: 192mph CO2 G/KM: 246g/km MPG COMBINED: 26.8mpg THE VERDICT: DESIGN Three Stars PERFORMANCE Four Stars PRACTICALITY Three Stars VALUE FOR MONEY Two Stars FERRARI FF PRICE: £227,142 0-62MPH: 3.7 secs TOP SPEED: 208mph CO2 G/KM: 380g/km MPG COMBINED: 17.0mpg THE VERDICT: DESIGN Two [...]
Watch out for wearable tech at MWC 2014 February 26, 2014 Keep your friends close and your technology closer: the latest wrist-friendly gadgets Mobile World Congress is a phone geek’s dream – a time when the great and good of the mobile industry showcases what we can look forward to for the rest of the year. While recent years have been somewhat thinner on the ground [...]
How could Marks & Spencer improve its website? The web developer’s view July 8, 2014 Marks & Spencer announced today that the new M&S website has failed to perform, with a fall in online sales of 8.1 per cent, and with the development project going over budget by 50 per cent. Since the new site launched in February, customers have taken to the company's Facebook page, Twitter and web forums [...]
City & Gild: Has Gary Barlow shattered a dream brand? May 16, 2014 When I was a child and believed in Father Christmas, I bought into the whole “Ho ho ho” thing hook, line and sinker – to the point where I would lie awake on Christmas Eve, terrified that a complete stranger was going to come down the chimney and pad about the house. (To be honest, [...]
The new machine age: Britain must not miss out on the robot revolution June 23, 2014 MORE and more people are concerned about a wave of robots stealing their jobs. But for Britain, there’s a more pressing concern: what if the robot economy doesn’t arrive here at all? For a while now, pundits have been speculating that robots, self-driving cars and clever algorithms will take many of the jobs now done [...]
New York Report: Slump in tech shares weighs on the Nasdaq April 7, 2014 US STOCKS fell yesterday, with the S&P 500 posting its biggest three-day drop in two months, as investors bid down internet stocks and rotated into defensive names to protect against further declines. Internet stocks were among the day’s biggest decliners with Amazon down 1.6 per cent and Yahoo off 3.5 per cent. The Global X [...]
Upwardly mobile technology February 19, 2014 Melissa York talks you through what to expect from the big-hitters at this year’s MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS THE TECH world will gather on Monday in eager anticipation as some of the biggest players in portable technology unveil their latest creations at the GSMA Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014. The four-day conference in Barcelona, currently in [...]
Not convinced? March 10, 2014 CHECK OUT THESE ALTERNATIVES… AUDI RS Q3 PRICE: £43,000 0-62MPH: 5.5 secs TOP SPEED: 155mph CO2 G/KM: 206g/km MPG COMBINED: 32.1mpg THE VERDICT: DESIGN One Star PERFORMANCE Four Stars PRACTICALITY Two Stars VALUE FOR MONEY Two Stars BMW X3 XDRIVE 35D PRICE: £42,900 0-62MPH: 5.8 secs TOP SPEED: 149mph CO2 G/KM: 162g/km MPG COMBINED: 46.3mpg THE VERDICT: DESIGN Two [...]
Review: Watch Dogs on Xbox One June 11, 2014 ★★★☆☆ I can’t remember the last game I anticipated quite as fervently as I have Watch Dogs. It's a title that places cyber crime and state surveillance at its heart, making its protagonist’s weapon the connected world; a world it doesn’t take a spectacular mental leap to imagine us all living in. And, for the [...]