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Video made nice and easy (17 October 01:00) |
| Video, in its various forms, has become the signature communication medium of the past few years. Think of YouTube, internet-based television and web-based services such as Joost (www.joost.... |
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Science Briefing: Food for thought (17 October 08:15) |
| Study finds food for thought |
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A writer for troubled times (17 October 02:35) |
| It is 3am in New York but Mohamed El-Erian is not sleeping the contented sleep of a man who, only hours earlier, collected a prestigious prize for his book on world markets. He is up and pre... |
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Nokia profits suffer as rivals cut prices (17 October 12:15) |
| Nokia reported a sharp fall in third quarter profit on Thursday after being caught by competitors slashing their prices and consumers cutting spending. |
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Nokia profits tumble as crisis bites (16 October 04:35) |
| Nokia, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, reported on Thursday a sharp drop in third quarter profits, offering an early glimpse into the way the global financial crisis is feeding t... |
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Downturn hits IT operators' spending plans (16 October 03:05) |
| A handful of London-listed software and hardware companies admitted to a tough September as the global financial crisis hit corporate spending plans. |
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Break free from folly (16 October 02:50) |
| Everyday SurvivalWhy Smart People Do Stupid ThingsBy Laurence GonzalezWW Norton $25.95, £15.99As Wall Street struggles to find some respite from the carnage, the international financial sys... |
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A matriarchal leadership (16 October 02:50) |
| Carmen Riu was on a flight back to her base in Majorca recently when she spied two fellow chief executives also from the Spanish island: the heads of Air Europa and Sampol. Nothing noteworth... |
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Carphone upbeat over ambitious new venture (16 October 01:15) |
| At a Best Buy store in downtown Chicago, Charles Dunstone, chief executive of Carphone Warehouse, is being given a tour by shop manager Pablo. |
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Outlook upbeat for Autonomy (15 October 10:35) |
| Mike Lynch, chief executive of Autonomy, predicted business for the search software company would remain strong for the rest of the year in spite of the economic slowdown. |
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Paralysed limbs could be controlled by thought (15 October 10:30) |
| Neuroscientists in the US have shown for the first time that an electronic connection between brain and muscles can restore movement to paralysed limbs. |
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Bids submitted for Daewoo Electronics (15 October 05:10) |
| Ripplewood, the US private equity firm, and a Russian manufacturer have both submitted bids to acquire Daewoo Electronics, the South Korean's group's main creditor said on Wednesday. |
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Telecom NZ issues second profits warning (15 October 02:10) |
| Telecom NZT New Zealand has issued a second profits warning in just over two months after announcing it would spend NZ$574m (US$356m) on its next generation mobile network during the next tw... |
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Apple slashes MacBook prices (15 October 04:25) |
| Apple on Tuesday cut the price of its most popular laptop line by $100 ahead of the holiday shopping season, taking its starting price in the US below $1,000 for the first time. |
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Intel expects to withstand worst of crisis (15 October 03:30) |
| Intel INTC comforted Wall Street on Tuesday as it forecast a limited effect on its fourth-quarter earnings from the fallout of the credit crunch. |
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Why public ownership is a failed model (15 October 02:50) |
| There is another victim of the credit crunch: the publicly traded model of ownership. The near-collapse of many of the large banks in perhaps a dozen countries shows that such corporate stru... |
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Persistence amid prejudice (15 October 02:50) |
| If Kiran Mazumdar Shaw had had her way, she would have been a brewer. Inspired by her father, a brewmaster at United Breweries, Ms Mazumdar Shaw qualified as a master brewer at Ballarat Univ... |
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Pitch battle starts as BT eyes BSkyB's net gains (15 October 02:10) |
| The head of BT's retail division is candid enough to admit he is a customer of British Sky Broadcasting, the satellite television operator. |
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Search for chapter and verse on e-prices (15 October 02:05) |
| Want to know how to silence a book publisher? Ask him about his pricing strategy for electronic books. It is a subject guaranteed to send a shiver down the spine of an industry suffering fro... |
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BT pledges to improve 'damaged credibility' (15 October 02:05) |
| The credibility of BT's management has been "damaged" by its disappointing first-quarter results, according to the head of the company's retail division. |
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Best Buy and Carphone link up (15 October 12:55) |
| Best Buy of the US and the UK's Carphone Warehouse are planning to open up to 200 large consumer electronics stores in Europe by 2013. |
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Hard-won career in crossover music (14 October 10:55) |
| Kanya King has a fantastic laugh. It is halfway between witch's cackle and end-of-the-pier saucy chuckle. It has a habit of breaking out during any extended conversation with the 38-year-old... |
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Carphone rolls out Best Buy expansion plans (14 October 06:30) |
| Carphone Warehouse on Tuesday outlined an initial £90m investment plan for its joint venture with Best Buy of the US to build a European chain of shops selling consumer electronics goods un... |
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Well read and well led (14 October 12:50) |
| Earlier this year, the steelmaker Corus decided to get the workforce in its Port Talbot plant reading by giving away books. "It was part of the National Year of Reading," explains Corus spok... |
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What failed? Ask management (14 October 12:50) |
| We may never know who really wrote that internal Lehman Brothers LEH memo of June 8 this year, but it certainly asked the right question. "Why did we allow ourselves to be so exposed?" it de... |
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Discord and dialogue (14 October 12:50) |
| In November 2006, a contingent of Japanese businessmen from NEC Electronics visited the offices of Perry Capital, an investment fund based on Fifth Avenue in New York. |
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U-turn allows QTel to take 65% Indosat stake (14 October 12:20) |
| Indonesia announced a significant policy U-turn, allowing Qatar Telecomto buy up to 65 per cent of Indosat, the country's second largest mobile phone company, not the 49 per cent as previous... |
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Operators slow at getting the message (13 October 10:50) |
| The nascent state of advertising on mobile phones is underlined by how its greatest successes come only when consumers are rewarded for tolerating it. |
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Mobile phone ads hit by spending curbs (13 October 10:00) |
| The global economic downturn is set to hit advertising on mobile phones until at least 2010, when marketing agencies expect clients to increase their budgets. |
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Rent or Own: a telecommunications tale (13 October 05:20) |
| One of the common features of broadcast licences in the US is that they are just that, licences. "Licence," in this context, carries the same meaning it does elsewhere in the law. It is t... |
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France's media challenger (13 October 02:05) |
| The dry croissants and plastic coffee cups speak volumes about Alain Weill, France's most intriguing media entrepreneur. |
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Staff sing from one hymn sheet (13 October 02:05) |
| It's one of the oldest jokes there is, points out Sir Howard Stringer, chairman and chief executive of Sony SNE: "How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice." |
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The supercalifragilistic answer (13 October 02:05) |
| When I was about 10, my favourite bit from the film Mary Poppins was when Mary reaches into her empty carpet-bag and whips out a pair of lilac high-heeled shoes. This made a lot of sense to ... |
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PCCW abandons HKT stake sale (13 October 01:20) |
| PCCWbecame the latest high-profile Asian company to abandon plans to sell a significant stake in one of its key business units in the wake of last week's world stock market crash. |
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Bakrie to pay $1.2bn debt off stake sales (13 October 12:45) |
| The business empire controlled by Aburizal Bakrie, Indonesia's chief welfare minister, said on Sunday it was looking to sell stakes in listed companies to settle $1.2bn in debts that were gu... |
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Infosys slashes growth forecast (13 October 12:30) |
| India's outsourcing sector is bracing itself for a sharper than expected slowdown after the industry's second-largest operator, Infosys Technologies INFY, slashed its full-year forecast for ... |
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Path cleared for HCL to buy Axon (11 October 02:50) |
| Axon, the UK IT services group, is set to fall into the hands of HCL Technologies after its Indian rival, Infosys Technologies INFY, pulled out of the race. |
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Science Briefing: Fearlessness can be learned (10 October 09:15) |
| Fearlessness can be learned |
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EDF agrees to electric car plug-in deals (10 October 06:40) |
| EDFon Thursday announced separate agreements with Renault and PSA Peugeot Citroën to develop recharging infrastructure for plug-in hybrid and electric cars in France. |
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Vodafone makes offer for Vodacom (10 October 12:15) |
| Vodafone's strategy of seeking to boost growth by expanding its presence in emerging markets took a big step forward last night when it announced a R22.5bn ($2.5bn) offer for a controlling s... |
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IBM in the Forbidden City (09 October 11:25) |
| The only way to get a true feel for the Forbidden City, the vast moated palace built 600 years ago for China's emperors, is to peer into its grand multi-eved halls, cross its expansive plaza... |
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Make a new connection (09 October 11:25) |
| Whenever I travel on business with a laptop I always ensure I have several internet connection options so there is an alternative if a WiFi connection fails or I feel I will be overcharged f... |
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Sprint receives interest in iDen (09 October 06:55) |
| Dan Hesse, Sprint Nextel's chief executive, confirmed on Wednesday that the struggling US mobile network operator had received "significant interest" from potential acquirers of its Nextel i... |
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Huawei puts mobile sale plans on hold (09 October 04:10) |
| Global financial turmoil has forced Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker, to shelve plans to sell control of a business unit to a foreign investor. |
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A step up for senior women (09 October 03:00) |
| Anne Bouverot, head of international business development at Orange France Telecom FTE, has first-hand experience of the benefits of mentoring by a senior corporate leader. She is about to j... |
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Capitalism can still do good (09 October 03:00) |
| PhilanthrocapitalismHow the Rich Can Save the WorldMatthew Bishop and Michael GreenBloomsbury $27, A&C Black £16.99This is not the ideal time to publish a book on how very wealthy people - ... |
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Nobel prize for discovery of glowing proteins (08 October 04:10) |
| Two Americans and a Japanese have won the Nobel chemistry prize for discovering the glowing proteins that have become an essential tool in biomedical research. |
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RIM hopes to storm in with touch phone (08 October 10:35) |
| Research in Motion RIMM, the Canadian manufacturer of the BlackBerry family of smartphones, is hoping that its first touch-screen handset, launched on Wednesday morning, will live up to its ... |
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Bohman's Treco to finance XG's plan (08 October 09:30) |
| Johan Bohman, the secretive billionaire and shareholder in one of Switzerland's most exclusive private banks, is behind the investment vehicle that is financing XG Technology's plan to build... |
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Abu Dhabi shows its ambitions (08 October 03:00) |
| Advanced Technology Investment Company is the latest state investment entity to emerge from Abu Dhabi, Andrew England reports. |
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