Tag Archives : Business and Economy

Apple’s iPad made it UK store debut this morning on Regent Street, London at 7am and it was a spectacular scene with  scores of  Apple fans  queuing all night, a  few celebrities  including Stephen Fry were spotted , and the media – more than 50 cameras at a rough count –   was out in full force. The line of fans stretched from the Apple store on Regent Street all the way [...]

GiffGaff is a ‘people powered’ mobile operator, running on the o2 network here in the UK. Last night they launched an updated website, with their brand new tariffs. Among these new price-plans is a very exciting £35 a month for unlimited everything: calls, texts, data. On top of the already great perks offered by these guys (free GiffGaff-to-GiffGaff calls/texts, free data until [...]

Image via Wikipedia So here in the UK we’ve become accustomed what’s known as the ‘Apple tax’. Whenever a product is launched in the UK, we always see a significant price increase compared the US price. It has been argued that our higher prices are down to extra costs, such as customs and VAT. To this way say: nonsense! As an example, we worked out the cost of an imported [...]

Image via Wikipedia A report was released by Consumer Focus,  a consumer rights group  in UK which pleads the UK government to rethink and redo  its strategy related for nationwide roll-out of broadband internet, if it wants to bring the internet to have a 100% reach in  UK. It reports that the people without  a broadband connection face a number of obstacles when it comes to getting  a broadband [...]