The Leatherhead & District Business Awards 2012 winners and runners-up were announced at an awards ceremony and dinner held on Wednesday 23 May at St John’s School, Leatherhead. The Awards celebrate the diversity and achievements of businesses in the Leatherhead & District area and put the spotlight on the companies and business leaders that make … Continue reading »
Conversations with Christopher Gunning and Nigel Hess
Renowned British composers Christopher Gunning and Nigel Hess have earned a veritable cabinet of trophies, winning between them five Ivor Novello and four BAFTA awards for their musical contributions to film and television. We spoke to them recently about their work and their upcoming concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: A Celebration of British Film … Continue reading »
Independant Reviews for BOXJOX Performance.
BOXJOX Performance available on Amazon 5.0 out of 5 stars Boxjox,24 May 2012 By C. Mathieson (UK) This review is from: BOXJOX Performance Mens Baselayers – Black & Grey (Misc.) I used them for a 20 mile bike ride on a new road bike. I’m not a pro cyclist and don’t have all the lycra … Continue reading »
Adventures in my pants…..the birth of BOXJOX™
Having always been an ‘ideas man’ and chosen to look at the world as an opportunity and work-in-progress, back in 2005 I found myself on a plane going on a family holiday to the USA and idly flicking through the on-board magazine. I came across a picture of David Beckham promoting some underwear and though … Continue reading »
Caring Capitalism – The New Imperative
Back in 2008 at a previous Davos meeting Bill Gates described his ideas for ‘creative capitalism’ – but as the banks and financial institutions have clearly shown us, capitalism by its very nature is driven to finding alternative approaches, so creativity is already implicit in the system. At worst it fosters greed and exploitation, but … Continue reading »
Sony NXT in detail: Interview with Nikolaus Scheurer
We caught up with Nikolaus Scheurer, Sony Mobile’s Director of Marketing and Planning, for an interview on the new Xperia NXT series from Sony. In case you’re not familiar with the new Xperia phones revealed at MWC, check out our news post here.
We take the Porsche Design BlackBerry P’9981 for a test drive
RIM have teamed up with Porsche Design Studios to create the BlackBerry P’9981, a mix of hard edges and precise angles unlike any other BlackBerry we’ve seen before. The P’9981 enters the market as the elite BlackBerry, demanding an exclusive price tag for an exclusive device. We spent some exploring how the Porsche Design treatment … Continue reading »
The Connected TV exploiting the service opportunities.
By Ved Sen & Geof Todd What is “Television”? Is it a device? A type of content? A broadcasting methodology? A set of audiovisual technologies? A home-specific viewing experience? Or all of these? Or, to take a deconstructionist approach, is it just a large screen attached to device with tuner and intelligence, for conditional access … Continue reading »
OTT TV – Television’s Sticking Plaster or a Major Operation?
By Ved Sen & Geof Todd Picture this … a patient is anaesthetized by fentanyl, and rendered unconscious by propofol. An endotracheal tube is inserted and mechanical ventilation kicks off. His chest is cut open through the sternum. The clotting is suspended … an aortic cross clamp is placed on the aorta and the heart … Continue reading »
The Problem of IPTV is TV
By Geof Todd & Ved Sen An interaction with the online agent of BT Vision, accessible from the BT Vision website: We are now routing you to one of our chat team… You are now connected with Jenny. Jenny: ‘Welcome to BT, the most complete broadband provider. My name is Jenny’. Jenny: ‘How may I … Continue reading »
