Daily Finance UK http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk Daily Finance UK http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/media/feedlogo.gif Daily Finance UK http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/Nintendo looks to social gaminghttp://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/18/nintendo-looks-to-social-gaming/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/18/nintendo-looks-to-social-gaming/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/18/nintendo-looks-to-social-gaming/#commentsFiled under:

Picture of hands holding moneyGames specialist Nintendo is looking to social gaming as the next big thing that's going to push sales of the new hand held console, the DSi XL. Social gaming, like Farmville on Facebook and other applications adults and kids play, tends to happen on phones more than dedicated consoles but it's growing quickly.

Two things spring to mind about this. First, with game site Gamastura quoting analysts claiming the social gaming market will reach $1.3bn this year, everyone's bound to want to be in it. Second, the only real upgrade to the Nintendo in the new console is a bigger screen, so yes, they'd better do something to make it look a bit interesting.

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]]>Guy ClappertonThu, 18 Mar 2010 15:04:00 ESTMicrosoft: no IE9 for XPhttp://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/18/microsoft-no-ie9-for-xp/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/18/microsoft-no-ie9-for-xp/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/18/microsoft-no-ie9-for-xp/#commentsMany apologies to those of you who aren't fans of headlines with loads of initials in them. What's happening is that Microsoft has announced that the next version of Internet Explorer, its market leading Internet browser, won't work with its last-but-one version of Windows, Windows XP.

All of which sounds reasonable enough until you consider how many Microsoft customers decided not to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista when it came out, as the replacement system was widely regarded as a bit of a dog's breakfast. So in practice this is going to mean upgrading to Windows 7, like now, if you want the new IE to work.

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]]>Guy ClappertonThu, 18 Mar 2010 14:44:00 ESTPaypal goes mobile with phoneshttp://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/17/paypal-goes-mobile-with-phones/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/17/paypal-goes-mobile-with-phones/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/17/paypal-goes-mobile-with-phones/#commentsFiled under:

iPhoneOnline finance transfer specialist Paypal has gone a step further than any competition by introducing a system that works by phone.

Called Send Money for iPhone, version 2.0, it allows two iPhone users to "bump" phones to exchange cash and using a function called "split cheque" you can split the cost of a restaurant bill really easily.

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]]>Guy ClappertonWed, 17 Mar 2010 12:58:00 ESTInternet piracy: music companies winhttp://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/17/internet-piracy-the-music-companies-win/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/17/internet-piracy-the-music-companies-win/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/17/internet-piracy-the-music-companies-win/#commentsFiled under:

Scales of justice pictureThe House of Lords has passed the Digital Economy Bill intact in the UK, which means people breaching Internet piracy rules will be subject to exclusion from the Internet. There had been - and no doubt will be - a lot of controversy over the provision to cut people off.

It should be interesting to watch the test cases as someone is bound to infringe and upload music or video they don't own, and then claim - as some authorities are already stating - that the Internet is a fundamental human right therefore they can't be chucked off. It's drivel of course, but someone will try it.

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]]>Guy ClappertonWed, 17 Mar 2010 05:46:00 ESTTwitter embeds in Webhttp://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/17/twitter-embeds-in-web/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/17/twitter-embeds-in-web/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/17/twitter-embeds-in-web/#commentsFiled under:

Twitter logoChairing the Social Media World Forum day one on Monday I was quite struck by how biased we all were towards Twitter - it's been the highest profile social network recently even if Facebook does have the figures, and oddly nobody minds that its numbers fell off a bit in January (there was always going to be some fall-off after the initial fascination).

This is no doubt why there's such a perceived opportunity for the new service, @anywhere, which allows people to embed Twitter onto their website. So you can follow a journalist straight from their column (anyone wanting to follow me is welcome, although you might feel three blog entries a day is all you want, thanks), authors from their books, whatever. But why would you?

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]]>Guy ClappertonWed, 17 Mar 2010 05:36:00 ESTNexus One not a flop?http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/17/nexus-one-not-a-flop/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/17/nexus-one-not-a-flop/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/17/nexus-one-not-a-flop/#commentsFiled under:

Google's Nexus OneMarket research agency Flurry has published sales information on Google's Nexus One phone 74 days after its release, and if you're a Google employee or shareholder it's not attractive reading. Essentially it's sold 135,000 units. Day 74 is significant because that's when Apple reached the 1m mark with the iPhone.

Numerous commentators are saying that if you think this means the phone hasn't performed well, you haven't understood the market. I have a slightly different take: if you think selling 13.5% of the volume your nearest competitor has achieved is a success, you have serious numeracy issues.

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]]>Guy ClappertonWed, 17 Mar 2010 05:16:00 ESTSmall biz warned on redundancyhttp://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/16/small-biz-warned-on-redundancy/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/16/small-biz-warned-on-redundancy/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/16/small-biz-warned-on-redundancy/#commentsFiled under:

Picture of a man with his head in his handsDo you own or manage a small business? In that case it's unfortunate but at the moment you might be having to make some people redundant (we are not going to use euphemisms like "let people go"). You need to be careful how you do it though, as the handling of this difficult issue is leading to reputation damage for a number of companies.

The reason is that people made redundant are telling ten or more people about how it went, which is their right. Social networks like Twitter and Facebook make it even easier to get word around about how well or badly someone has been treated on their way out.

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]]>Guy ClappertonTue, 16 Mar 2010 14:26:00 ESTTories: high speed away from voters?http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/16/tories-high-speed-away-from-voters/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/16/tories-high-speed-away-from-voters/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/16/tories-high-speed-away-from-voters/#commentsFiled under:

David CameronThe Conservative Party has a little egg on its face today as it turns out its plans for high speed Internet could alienate the rural areas whose votes it needs most. Its plan to scrap the 50p Broadband Tax could deprive remote regions of the Internet and that, says research company Point Topic, is where the votes that win or lose the election will be coming from.

This isn't a party political blog by any means, and readers will draw their own conclusion. Personally I laughed like a drain at first, but then came to consider it a little more carefully: isn't it a sign that someone's being fair minded when they push for a policy that's actually going to go against their best interests?

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Tories: high speed away from voters? originally appeared on Daily Finance UK on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>Guy ClappertonTue, 16 Mar 2010 14:13:00 ESTDell accuses LCD makershttp://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/16/dell-accuses-lcd-makers/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/16/dell-accuses-lcd-makers/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/16/dell-accuses-lcd-makers/#commentsFiled under:

Picture of scales of justice - from UK rather than America!PC manufacturer Dell has accused some of its suppliers of price fixing. It has filed a complaint against Toshiba, Hitachi, Hannstar, Sharp and Seiko in the US District Court in San Francisco. It's far from the only company to sue for this sort of thing; Nokia and US phone manufacturer AT&T have also alleged the same against other companies for the screens they use for their phones.

It would be wrong to try to guess how these cases are going to go, and there's often a legalistic hair's breadth between price fixing and market forces determining an actual cost. But it's worth looking at some of the practices that can lead to a perception that prices are being controlled.

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]]>Guy ClappertonTue, 16 Mar 2010 13:42:00 ESTAmerica plans universal broadbandhttp://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/16/america-plans-universal-broadband/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/16/america-plans-universal-broadband/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/16/america-plans-universal-broadband/#commentsFiled under:

American flagKeen followers of British plans to introduce broadband Internet to everybody (and make it a human right while they're about it, if you please) might be keen to see if there's anything to be learned from America. The world's biggest superpower has decided that with 100m of its population (around a third) with no broadband it's time to do something about it.

Only they've no idea how to pay for it. No, I'm not making it up. The intention has been announced but nobody has said anything about how this is going to be divided between private funds and tax dollars.

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]]>Guy ClappertonTue, 16 Mar 2010 12:42:00 ESTMcAfee secures the cloudhttp://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/16/mcafee-secures-the-cloud/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/16/mcafee-secures-the-cloud/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/16/mcafee-secures-the-cloud/#commentsFiled under:

Google logoMcAfee has acknowledged concerns about security in the cloud computing arena and launched its own cloud security offering. It will be called the Cloud Secure platform.

Many smaller businesses have concerns about what happens to their data once it's in the cloud. Many others are a little perplexed about what cloud computing actually is.

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]]>Guy ClappertonTue, 16 Mar 2010 10:30:00 ESTSorry consoles, you're doomedhttp://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/13/sorry-consoles-youre-doomed/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/13/sorry-consoles-youre-doomed/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/13/sorry-consoles-youre-doomed/#commentsFiled under: ,

Inside an Xbox storeThe age of the computer game console is over, say new reports about an on-demand games service called OnLive, which will go live properly in June. It'll be different to other online gaming systems because it'll happen through the computer's browser, so there are no downloads and no need to buy extra hardware.

OK. And as long as it'll play DVDs and my existing games and transfer itself from my computer to my living room (I work at the computer and relax in the living room, OK?) I'll happily bin the consoles. What? It won't? Oh dear.

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]]>Guy ClappertonSat, 13 Mar 2010 17:16:00 ESTNokia and Apple look at dateshttp://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/13/nokia-and-apple-look-at-dates/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/13/nokia-and-apple-look-at-dates/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/13/nokia-and-apple-look-at-dates/#commentsFiled under:

iPhonesApple and Nokia have started looking at dates for their legal battle - and the bad news is that it won't happen until mid-2012. On the surface this could be interpreted as leading to a long uncertainty for both companies.

In practice it's unlikely to amount to the proverbial hill of beans. What, you thought technology and communications companies weren't always suing the backsides off each other?

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]]>Guy ClappertonSat, 13 Mar 2010 17:02:00 ESTMicrosoft appeal may cost dearhttp://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/13/microsoft-appeal-may-cost-dear/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/13/microsoft-appeal-may-cost-dear/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/13/microsoft-appeal-may-cost-dear/#commentsFiled under:

Man looking at computerMicrosoft has lost another appeal in its long-running legal tussle with software company i4i. Essentially the decision that it should pay £160m to i4i and stop using XML in its software still stands.

The history is long and tangled and it's important to stress that Microsoft has long since taken the offending code out of software it's selling at the moment. But it might prompt people to consider some of the alternatives.

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]]>Guy ClappertonSat, 13 Mar 2010 16:17:00 ESTFacebook considers suing Mailhttp://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/12/facebook-considers-suing-mail/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/12/facebook-considers-suing-mail/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/12/facebook-considers-suing-mail/#commentsFiled under:

Chained computer to indicate safetyNow this is naughty. Facebook is considering suing the Daily Mail because of a story that appeared on Wednesday.

The paper had an article by a guy called Mark Williams-Thomas, an ex-policeman. He posed as a teenage girl on a social network and within minutes had someone asking him to perform sexual acts.

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]]>Guy ClappertonFri, 12 Mar 2010 14:11:00 ESTBuzzwords fail to deliver businesshttp://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/12/buzzwords-fail-to-deliver-business/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/12/buzzwords-fail-to-deliver-business/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/12/buzzwords-fail-to-deliver-business/#commentsFiled under:

Man with head in his handsHow about running this up your flagpole, seeing if anyone salutes at a bit of blue-sky thinking? But there's an elephant in the room - I've degenerated into fluent clichés and it's sounding a bit strained.

The odd thing - to me - is that some businesspeople really think this sort of nonsense is going to get them more work. It's a relief, then, that business generating agency Retriever has researched and proved that while 54% of companies resort to jargon to win pitches, it puts 62% of directors right off.

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]]>Guy ClappertonFri, 12 Mar 2010 13:40:00 ESTBT says no to Net cut-offshttp://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/10/bt-says-no-to-net-cut-offs/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/10/bt-says-no-to-net-cut-offs/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/10/bt-says-no-to-net-cut-offs/#commentsFiled under: ,

Home taping insigniaBritish Telecom chief exexutive Ian Livingstone has joined others in writing to the Financial Times in protest at proposals to cut people off the Internet if they infringe copyright.

They should be fined instead, says the signatories. In this way you get a fund with which you can pay some owed copyrights rather than disenfranchised citizens.

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]]>Guy ClappertonWed, 10 Mar 2010 09:18:00 ESTPlaystation 3 - tortoise to the Wii?http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/10/playstation-3-tortoise-to-the-wii/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/10/playstation-3-tortoise-to-the-wii/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/10/playstation-3-tortoise-to-the-wii/#commentsFiled under:

PS3 consoleIt's pretty much received wisdom in the games industry that the Wii is the best selling games console, with Playstation 3 an embarrassing trailer for Sony. This may change: analysts from US firm Strategic Analytics are saying it's going to have more staying power.

They're missing a load of points in the Wii's favour, and assuming that there'll be no PS4 for a while, but their projections are impressive. PS3 sales will reach 127 million against a total of 103 million for Wii, they're saying, because it's going to be around a lot longer.

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]]>Guy ClappertonWed, 10 Mar 2010 08:58:00 ESTExpenses scandal - no MPs involvedhttp://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/09/expenses-scandal-no-mps-involved/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/09/expenses-scandal-no-mps-involved/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/09/expenses-scandal-no-mps-involved/#commentsFiled under:

MoneyHere we go again with an expenses story but this time it's not in the public sector: according to new research from specialist payment card specialist fuelGenie, almost one in 30 staff are on the fiddle in small businesses.

Financial service staff are the worst offenders with some 18.2% admitting to claiming falsely (and if 18.2% admit to it you can be certain there are more).

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]]>Guy ClappertonTue, 09 Mar 2010 08:49:00 ESTWeak security questions put data at riskhttp://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/09/weak-security-questions-put-data-at-risk/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/09/weak-security-questions-put-data-at-risk/http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2010/03/09/weak-security-questions-put-data-at-risk/#commentsFiled under: ,

Picture of home falling off a cliffEvery now and then in this column I mention how people pick insecure passwords for websites and work computers. There's now another wrinkle - insecure questions.

When I log onto one of my accounts I get asked a few things. Name of first school, mother's maiden name...now, how many people would actually know those things about me? My mum's a nice woman, she has loads of friends, it could be hundreds.

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]]>Guy ClappertonTue, 09 Mar 2010 06:43:00 EST