http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Sun, 19 May 2013 09:00:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/do-you-do-your-food-shopping-online/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/do-you-do-your-food-shopping-online/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 14:30:57 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=166782 Following the news that Morrisons is going to start delivering food direct to your door courtesy of Ocado, it begs the question, how many of you actually do your food shopping online? By tying-up with Ocado, Morrisons became the last big-chain supermarket in Britain to start offering online shopping. The deal has put the cat [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/do-you-do-your-food-shopping-online/feed/ 36 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/the-price-fixing-email-that-steve-jobs-sent-to-james-murdoch/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/the-price-fixing-email-that-steve-jobs-sent-to-james-murdoch/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 11:00:58 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=166408 As part of the ongoing Apple e-book price fixing investigation by the Department of Justice, a new email sent from Steve Jobs to James Murdoch has come to light. Murdoch, ultimately in control of what happens at Harper Collins, was approached by Steve Jobs to undermine Amazon’s $9.99/£7 e-book pricing model, reports All Things D. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/the-price-fixing-email-that-steve-jobs-sent-to-james-murdoch/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/would-you-pay-2-a-week-for-the-sun-online/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/would-you-pay-2-a-week-for-the-sun-online/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 16:30:40 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=166137 The Sun, that bastion of quality news journalism and tits on page 3, is planning to erect a paywall for its online offerings, in something it’s calling Sun+. Basically, you pay two quid a month for access to the paper and “near-live” TV clips of Premier League footie. Tempting perhaps? It’ll launch on August 1st, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/would-you-pay-2-a-week-for-the-sun-online/feed/ 22 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/tesco-nfc-is-passed-its-sell-by-date/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/tesco-nfc-is-passed-its-sell-by-date/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 14:45:27 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=165388 Bad news for those who’d like to see NFC phone payments like Google Wallet actually take off in the UK. The Tesco retail juggernaut has basically said it’s a load of crap, and that it’s already out of date. It’s just not “cool” enough, apparently. Crapping all over NFC like Steve Jobs on Android, Tesco’s [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/tesco-nfc-is-passed-its-sell-by-date/feed/ 12 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/sonys-finally-back-in-the-black-after-five-years-of-losses/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/sonys-finally-back-in-the-black-after-five-years-of-losses/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 09:00:30 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=164444 The Sony we used to know and love is slowly returning. With products like the Xperia Z, awesome headphones, some seriously good TVs, and cutting out the crap, Sony’s managed to drag its loss-making arse back into the black. It made its first annual profit of £280 million in five long years, but it’s not [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/sonys-finally-back-in-the-black-after-five-years-of-losses/feed/ 1 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/how-apple-just-avoided-paying-6-billion-in-tax/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/how-apple-just-avoided-paying-6-billion-in-tax/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 11:30:18 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=162962 When you’re a company as big as Apple, saving on tax bills is important — especially when they’re in the billions. Fortunately its team of accountants has just managed to save it a cool $9.2 billion (£6 billion). The trick — I think we can call it a trick — involved financing a $55 billion [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/how-apple-just-avoided-paying-6-billion-in-tax/feed/ 21 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/parliament-gives-google-another-tax-related-rodgering/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/parliament-gives-google-another-tax-related-rodgering/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 12:15:06 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=162739 Google’s suffering a bit of an ‘out of the frying pan into the politician’s lap’ moment. Having recently been accused of being tax cheats, Google’s now apparently a liar as well. Awkward. Apparently, one of the cornerstones in Google’s tax argument was that it doesn’t have any salespeople in the UK, something job advertisements seem to disagree [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/parliament-gives-google-another-tax-related-rodgering/feed/ 14 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/carphone-warehouse-adds-the-whole-of-best-buy-europe-to-its-empire/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/carphone-warehouse-adds-the-whole-of-best-buy-europe-to-its-empire/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:15:18 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=162206 Having set up a joint venture with Best Buy in Europe, the American retailer has recoiled back into the US, selling its half to Carphone Warehouse. Considering Best Buy didn’t exactly do that well in the UK, I’m not sure it’s that great a purchase, but who knows. We might get more Best Buy stores [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/carphone-warehouse-adds-the-whole-of-best-buy-europe-to-its-empire/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/nokias-attempt-to-block-htc-one-sales-has-failed-for-now/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/nokias-attempt-to-block-htc-one-sales-has-failed-for-now/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:15:07 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=160852 Nokia’s spat with HTC over microphones thankfully won’t affect sales of the awesome One for the time being. HTC’s apparently free to use the HDR microphones it bought from STM electronics and to continue to sell HTC Ones with them already in until further notice, which is good, because HTC really needs the One to [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/nokias-attempt-to-block-htc-one-sales-has-failed-for-now/feed/ 18 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-only-thing-apple-really-sells/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-only-thing-apple-really-sells/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:00:59 +0000 Brian Barrett http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=160407 A recent Wall Street Journal article posits an interesting question: Is Apple a hardware company or a software company? Does it sell iPhones or iClouds? The answer has deep implications for how analysts evaluate the company’s worth. It’s framed as an identity crisis, one with deep, dangerous implications for one of the most dominant consumer [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-only-thing-apple-really-sells/feed/ 26 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-htc-one-could-end-up-getting-banned-from-europe-by-nokia/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-htc-one-could-end-up-getting-banned-from-europe-by-nokia/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:45:59 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=160310 It seems HTC just can’t catch a break. It’s got a stellar phone in the One, but it can’t get them out the door quick enough because of supply issues, and now Nokia’s attempting to ban it. It’s managed to get a preliminary injunction against HTC, which could see it barred from sale in Europe. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-htc-one-could-end-up-getting-banned-from-europe-by-nokia/feed/ 48 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/only-318000-brits-are-using-4g-in-the-uk-right-now/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/only-318000-brits-are-using-4g-in-the-uk-right-now/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:15:26 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=160272 For the first time since launch, EE’s busted out some real subscriber numbers, and it seems not that many Britons have actually jumped on the 4G bandwagon yet. Only 318,000-odd people have plunked for one of EE’s high-priced 4G tariffs, which in comparison to EE’s total subscriber base of 13.7 million is still a drop [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/only-318000-brits-are-using-4g-in-the-uk-right-now/feed/ 17 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/eric-schmidt-google-powers-the-uk-so-stop-badgering-us-about-tax/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/eric-schmidt-google-powers-the-uk-so-stop-badgering-us-about-tax/#comments Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:45:16 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=159882 Eric Schmidt, Google’s talkative executive chairman, has launched a mini offensive over the company’s controversial UK tax affairs, claiming Google is a key element of the tech scene that’s driving the UK’s recovering economy so we ought to be grateful for its presence instead of moaning about its suspiciously low tax bills. Talking on BBC [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/eric-schmidt-google-powers-the-uk-so-stop-badgering-us-about-tax/feed/ 27 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/how-much-richer-than-a-sweatshop-worker-are-you/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/how-much-richer-than-a-sweatshop-worker-are-you/#comments Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:00:32 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=159517 It’s that time of year again, the global rich list has just been updated allowing you to work our precisely where you are in the global money-grubbing rankings. Simply enter your salary into the spangly new box and hey presto, feel miles better about your miserable existence. It pulls data from the same source as [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/how-much-richer-than-a-sweatshop-worker-are-you/feed/ 33 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/apple-branded-a-sordid-smut-peddler-by-angry-china/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/apple-branded-a-sordid-smut-peddler-by-angry-china/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:30:01 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=159003 China’s not happy with all the risqué content Apple’s apparently trying to push to its citizens. The state-run The People’s Daily, named and shamed Apple in a porno-shock investigation, labelling it as one of the biggest providers of the sordid material behind the Great Firewall of China. Oh the irony. Even if Apple is notorious [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/apple-branded-a-sordid-smut-peddler-by-angry-china/feed/ 13 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/htc-just-made-its-lowest-profit-ever/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/htc-just-made-its-lowest-profit-ever/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:15:58 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=155849 HTC has announced that it made just £1.8 million in the first three months of 2013, which Bloomberg claims is its slimmest profit on record. The company generated around £1 billion in revenue, which is well down on last year, when it churned over £1.4 billion. More embarrassingly, last year it made a profit of [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/htc-just-made-its-lowest-profit-ever/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/hmv-saviour-confirmed-as-hmv-canadas-owner-swoops-in/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/hmv-saviour-confirmed-as-hmv-canadas-owner-swoops-in/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:45:44 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=155416 Looks like all 140 remaining HMV stores will stay open thanks to Hilco UK (beating out ASDA), which bought out HMV’s debt, and previously managed to turn around HMV in Canada. 2,500 staff will keep their jobs, and even some stores originally set to close have been taken off the chopping block. That brings the [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/hmv-saviour-confirmed-as-hmv-canadas-owner-swoops-in/feed/ 0 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/can-you-guess-the-countries-where-windows-phone-outsells-the-iphone/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/can-you-guess-the-countries-where-windows-phone-outsells-the-iphone/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:30:43 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=154589 Yes, you can stop making fun of Windows Phone now, because believe it or not, there’s a handful of real, non-tinpot countries where Apple’s darling iPhone gets outsold by Windows Phone devices. So, the lucky (or not) winners on this particular wheel of fortune are: Argentina, India, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Ukraine, and a handful [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/can-you-guess-the-countries-where-windows-phone-outsells-the-iphone/feed/ 19 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/no-apple-you-cant-trademark-ipad-mini/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/no-apple-you-cant-trademark-ipad-mini/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:00:54 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=154498 Apple might be famous for its ability to patent rounded corners and the letter ‘i’, but it looks like whole words are off-limits to it. The body that rules on patents in the US, the Patents and Trademarks Office, has finally got round to ruling on Apple’s application to trademark ‘iPad Mini’, and they’ve put their [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/no-apple-you-cant-trademark-ipad-mini/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/jessops-is-re-opening-under-peter-jones-shit-eating-grin-not-included/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/jessops-is-re-opening-under-peter-jones-shit-eating-grin-not-included/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:15:43 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=153789 Jessops was probably the most annoying High Street shut-down to happen earlier this year, and certainly one of the most tragic. However, you can wipe away those tears (with an appropriately soft micro-fibre cloth, of course), because Jessops is back TODAY, complete with photos of Peter Jones looking awkward in a cheapo-polyester fleece. The Dragon [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/jessops-is-re-opening-under-peter-jones-shit-eating-grin-not-included/feed/ 38