Rumours are that Apple is preparing a spreadsheet product for sometime early next year to join its iWork portfolio. We think this is too little and too late. With the world moving towards an even more ‘online’ model of computing – purported to follow the banner of Web 2.0 – see the rapid growth...
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For those baby boomers the CRT was the route to freedom, it meant entertainment and a vista into unseen worlds through Television, it meant untold riches through massive industrialisation of the white collar work place with the computer terminal. Mostly though, it meant big heavy screens on the desktop and in the corner of...
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Miffed by the valuation of its 20% stake in Airbus by NM Rothschild, BAE is to order a formal audit of Airbus before deciding if it sells its stake. The value of the stake made by Rothschild comes in at $US3.5bn – which is about a third less than BAE and the market expected. BAEs...
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Only three days ago it was a ‘dead cert’ that the Bank of Japan would raise its rates from an effective zero on the 14th July. Now, however, it all seems uncertain again. Yesterday Japan’s Economy minister, Kaoru Yosano appeared to back the rise, but the finance minister Sadakazu Tanigaki stressed that the bank should...
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It seems that Mr Bush’s attention on Iran and its nuclear ambitions has annoyed Kim Jong II, the petulant Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Long used to attention from the USA, North Korea has recently been put on the back burner by Mr. Bush. Perhaps the USA thought that the Korea would just go away...
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