Fashion retailer Missguided looks to iPhone app to boost online sales

BufferOnline fashion retailer Missguided has launched its own iPhone app in a bid to expand its online retail offering. The business, which specialises in “catwalk looks and celebrity inspired women’s fashion”, hopes to use the application to strengthen ties with customers … Continue reading

More browser users take a shine to Chrome

BufferGoogle’s Chrome browser continued to make inroads into its rivals’ share of worldwide browser usage in May, new statistics show. Chrome rose 0.3 percentage points to take seven per cent of the market, said Net Applications, which monitors browser usage … Continue reading

Apple’s Jobs says people must be persuaded of merits of paying for online content

BufferApple top man Steve Jobs fears that the internet will be reduced “into a nation of bloggers” unless a sustainable way of persuading people to pay for online content is devised. Speaking at the Wall Street Journal-organised D8 conference near … Continue reading

Times iPad edition is another brick in the paywall

BufferThe Times newspaper of London has launched an iPad edition on the same day as the device went on sale in the UK. The move also came just days after the launch of the News Corporation-owned newspaper launched its revamped … Continue reading

Apple passes Microsoft to become number one tech company

BufferApple has overtaken arch-rival Microsoft to become the world’s biggest technology company – and it’s thanks largely to the iPod and the iPhone. In the aftermath of a volatile stock market day on Wednesday, the value investors placed on Apple … Continue reading

Google has Apple in its sights in smartphone apps war as more players still flood in

BufferGoogle has overtaken Microsoft in the battle over the software that runs mobile phones and is challenging Apple for share of the fast growing smartphone market. Google’s Android was the fourth most popular operating system on smartphones sold in the … Continue reading

Argos joins rush to sign up i-Phone users

Buffer“Don’t just shop for it, i-Phone it to Argos” – that might well be the latest variation of Argos’ well-known advertising catchphrase promoting the retailer’s latest idea to open new channels for its customers. The high street company has followed … Continue reading

Buyers on their marks for iPad UK release

BufferUK consumers can pre-order Apple’s handheld iPad from today (Monday May 10), with the first of the devices expected to go on sale a little more than two weeks later, on Thursday May 28. Apple is taking pre-orders for the … Continue reading