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Just 15 minutes of exercise each day is enough to increase life expectancy by up to three years and cut the risk of early death by 14 per cent, suggests research from Taiwan. Expert in The Lancet claim that this is the least amount of activity which an adult can do in order to achieve [...]
(Read More)16th Aug 11
Google to acquire Motorola Mobility to supercharge Android ecosystem
by Paul Russell
Google is set to take over Motorola Mobility, the American company’s smartphone business, in a cash deal worth $12.5bn (£7.6bn). The acquisition will boost the emergence of Google Android within the blossoming smartphone market. The $40 per share deal – the biggest acquisition which Google have ever agreed – is a premium of 63 per [...]
(Read More)12th Aug 11
Amazon releases Kindle Cloud Reader to challenge Apple
by Paul Russell
Amazon has released its Kindle Reader for internet users, in a move which is likely to be viewed as a direct response to Apple. The Kindle Cloud Reader web app uses HTML 5 to imitate Amazon’s features in its Kindle ebook reader app for mobile devices. At present it is offered on Google Chrome and [...]
(Read More)10th Aug 11
Riots break out in Manchester and Salford
by Paul Russell
Hundreds of rioters have “shamed Manchester and Salford”, said the assistant chief constable of Greater Manchester Police. Rioters threw fire bombs at shops, while looters have stolen electrical items, clothes and alcohol. ACC Garry Shewan described the violence as senseless criminality on a scale which he has never experienced before in his career. So far [...]
(Read More)8th Aug 11
E.ON sparks outrage with higher bills
by Paul Russell
E.ON has become the fourth out of the “big six” power giants to raise prices, adding to consumer outrage regarding increasing household bills. The German-owned utility company is putting its gas prices up by 18.1 per cent, its electricity costs by 11.4 per cent, and introducing a 15.2 per cent hike to its dual fuel. [...]
(Read More)4th Aug 11
Mubarak denies all charges
by Paul Russell
Hosni Mubarak, the toppled Egyptian president, has denied all charges he faces as his trial started in Cairo. Behind the bars of his cage, laid out on a stretcher and dressed in white prison overalls, the 83-year-old spoke only once, confirming his presence and entering his plea. He said that he categorically denies all charges [...]
(Read More)3rd Aug 11
Twitter value soars to $8bn
by Paul Russell
Twitter, the microblogging websites which allows users to tweet messages containing up to 140 characters, is now valued at $8bn (£4.9bn). The company’s new valuation comes in the wake of an investment of $400m in the loss-making firm from DST Global. Twitter is currently nominally worth around, as Moody’s the ratings agency which boasted, $1.2bn [...]
(Read More)2nd Aug 11
UK households face bigger squeezes than Europe and US
by Paul Russell
Households in the UK are having their disposable incomes squeezed tighter than the rest of Europe and the US, largely due to the weakness of the pound. According to Haver Analytics’ research, real disposable income is decreasing in the UK at a rate of roughly three per cent, but is contracting by 0.5 per cent [...]
(Read More)29th Jul 11
Adviser tells PM to abolish maternity leave
by Paul Russell
Steve Hilton, one of the prime ministers most senior advisers, has recommended that the UK should abolish maternity leave as well as suspend consumer-rights law, it was revealed on Wednesday night. Mr Hilton, David Cameron’s strategy director, allegedly suggested the radical proposals during talks about scrapping bureaucracy and red tape in order to boost economic [...]
(Read More)27th Jul 11
Two thirds of benefit claimants fit for work
by Paul Russell
David Cameron has hailed official figures which reveal that over two thirds of people who try to claim employment support allowance, the main out-of-work benefit for disabled people, are actually fit for work, or abandon their claim prior to taking the new fitness-for-work test. The prime minister stopped short of describing the claimants as work [...]
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