Apple has brought the release date of its new operating system, Snow Leopard, forward in order to steal the march on Microsoft’s new Windows 7. Originally slated for a September release, Apple decided to bring the date forward at the eleventh hour. With Windows 7 gaining many plaudits prior to its release, Apple could well [...]
Network Rail have announced the preferred route for their planned high speed railway link between Scotland and south-east England. The proposed path will connect the cities of London and Glasgow, with spurs to connect Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Edinburgh as it follows the existing West Coast Main Line. While the official go-ahead is still waiting [...]
UK airline British Airways has reached its 90th birthday this week but the situation they find themselves in now is far removed from the prestigious era they experienced in the past. When you think of British Airways you probably think of Concorde – the world’s first supersonic commercial aircraft – or their flashy, mid 90s [...]
It seems that the £4.7m Pirate Bay buyout by Global Gaming Factory has fallen on hard times as rumours abound that GGF’s chairman has resigned as their shares are suspended. The deal, originally supposed to turn the illegal file sharing site into a paradigm of copyright holders working hand-in-hand with users, may well fall apart [...]
So Fortune magazine have released their list of the top-growing companies in the world and sitting pretty at the top is the company responsible for the Blackberry – Research In Motion (RIM). While Apple have seen sales of their iPhone device exceed all expectations and have become a major player in the smartphone market, RIM [...]
In the last couple of weeks there has been increasingly positive news emerging about the world economy, ranging from stock market growth to the economies of key countries exiting their recessions. But is this a sign of a real recovery in progress or merely a false dawn? To look at this it is important to [...]
Online businesses have a history of crashing and burning early in their lifetimes. From the early dot-com bubble of the late 90s/early 2000s there have been many examples of companies overextending themselves and ending up in financial trouble. Most people still see the internet as some form of gold rush scenario, a place where anyone [...]
Trust is an important part of running a successful business. If your company looks like it isn’t as trustworthy as a competitor, you will lose out and they will profit from it. So how can you go about increasing your level of trust in the marketplace without spending a fortune to do it? Everyone knows [...]
With the recent announcement that two of the world’s biggest tech companies will be collaborating over the next 10 years in an area they had previously competed in, what does this show the rest of the world about how business may be changing? The Microsoft and Yahoo deal has been garnering a pretty healthy amount [...]
