Mar 18

Michael Kors – Alexander Mcqueen’s Cfda Honour

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Alexander McQueen will posthumously receive a Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Board of Directors Special Tribute award.

The British designer – who committed suicide last month – will be given the honour at the board’s annual awards, regarded as the Oscars of the fashion word, which will be held in later this year.

Other award recipients include Michael Kors, who will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, while model Iman will be named Fashion Icon.

Other designers will have to battle it out for awards, with Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs and relative newcomer Alexander Wang competing in the womenswear category – which is considered the big competitive prize of the night.

Tom Ford, Michael Bastian and fashion house Rag and Bone’s David Neville and Marcus Wainwright will compete against each other in the menswear category.

For the accessories prize, the competition is between Alexis Bittar, Marc Jacobs and Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler.

Alexis said of his nomination: “This is pretty major. After 19 years of work, I’m recognised by my peers, which is super great.”

In the Emerging Talent section – sponsored by Austrian diamond company Swarovski- the nominees are Joseph Altuzarra, Prabal Gurung and Jason Wu.

Jason said: “The CFDA really is the pinnacle of the industry and this is such an honour.”

The winner of the award will be given financial help by Swarovski in furthering their career.

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Mar 17

Queen shows she’s fashion royalty at designer event

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WELSH designers Julien Macdonald, David and Elizabeth Emanuel and Jeff Banks were among the guests at a star-studded reception at Buckingham Palace last night in celebration of Britain’s fashion industry.

David and Elizabeth Emanuel – best known for designing Princess Diana’s wedding dress – mingled with some of fashion’s greatest at the event in honour of the clothing world, including models Sophie Dahl, Twiggy, and Erin O’Connor, and designers Jasper Conran and Zandra Rhodes

The Queen, dressed in a subtle floral print outfit, was also there to view the pieces on show, made by students from the Royal College of Art’s class of 2008 and curated by the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The items on display included a large patent sculpted leather handbag by Holly Cowan, a gold helmet piece complete with white horse hair plume, and a military style jacket covered in gold Swarovski crystals by menswear designer Katie Eary.

But although all eyes were supposed to be on the collection, the Queen herself emerged as the unlikely style icon for the likes of Ms Dahl.

The model said: “The Queen is my icon in general. I have embraced her use of matching shoes and handbag since I was 16. I think she looks marvellous.”

Claire Wilcox, senior curator at the V&A, added: “I hope the exhibition will reinforce the notion that British design is alive and well.

“We really are producing wonderful creative young designers who are celebrating traditional craft but bringing new things to them.”

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Mar 10

DSstyles announces Cubical Series Swarovski Crystal iPhone Case

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Hong Kong – Dsstyles, the innovator for putting flat back round Swarovski Crystals now brings customers with the new elements: Flat Back Square Swarovski Crystals on phone cases. The new Cubical series comes available in different patterns. The use of flat back square crystals brings new charm and new visual effect for your Swarovski Crystallized iPhone case.

This is the best news for ladies who love both round shape or square of crystals. The crystals effect has never been that sharp as the reflections between crystals becomes different. During the 2010 Oscar Awards, Swarovski crystals was the front and centre – its stage curtain sparkled in hues of white, platinum, brighter than those shiny teeth of Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock. This is exactly the surprise from combining the use of different crystals.

Customers who are looking for personalized patterns can also make a request directly with DSstyles. It would definitely be the perfect chose if you do not want anyone having the same piece as you do for your party. As recognized by Swarovski with Crystallized ID: 1522109, each DS. Crystal Hand Bag is featuring over 6000 pieces of Crystallized Swarovski Elements, each pieces of crystals is hand crafted by our experienced craftsman.

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Mar 08

Tablet Competition: Apple vs Microsoft

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With only a few weeks remaining before the much anticipated Apple iPad  is released, Microsoft is finalizing details on its own “Courier.” Microsoft’s tablet, “a book-like device with two opposing screens,” according to Engadget, will supposedly have handwriting recognition built-in, and a stylus resembling a pen seems to be a primary source of input.

Engadget also claims there will be a built-in camera and a headphone jack as well. It will also serve as an e-book device, similar to the iPad’s own “iBook” app.

There has been no more information concerning pricing for the Courier, but because of the larger amount of features it is rumored to have, it is expected to be more expensive than the iPad

The Courier is to be released prior to the holiday season this year, which means by the time it is released, the iPad will have been part of the tablet market for over half a year—meaning more rumors about future updates, such as cameras on both sides of the device, tethering, and Flash support for Safari could cause possible Courier purchasers to refrain from purchasing until an iPad refresh.

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Mar 08

Apple posts surprise ad for iPad during the Oscars

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Apple captured the attention of movie buffs and the entire film industry by publishing a new teaser commercial for the iPad during the Academy Awards presentation Sunday evening.

The new 30 second spot, backed by The Blue Van’s catchy tune “There Goes My Love,” races through a variety of iPad features.

It quickly demonstrates browsing through photo albums with finger gestures, then shows how to download ebooks from the new iBook Store and using the new full screen versions of Mobile Safari and Apple’s Maps application based on Google’s Map service.

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It also highlights the expanded version of the iPhone OS’ email app, iTunes media playback featuring the movie “Star Trek,” and a subtle mention of page layout and word processing within Apple’s multitouch version of iWork’s Pages app.

The fast-paced new ad then flashes through a rapid sequence of other apps including Maps and iTunes album playback to finish with the iPad’s April 3 launch date.

The ad is available on Apple’s website, but has not yet been added to the company’s YouTube channel.

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Mar 05

Google and Apple Lead War for Mobile Advertising

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Google and Apple are emerging as top contenders in the fight for the mobile advertising market.

Mobile ad spending worldwide increased 74 percent last year, to $913.5 million, Entrepreneur magazine reports in this month’s issue. That’s a tiny fraction of overall ad spending, but the trend is clear if you look at the kids: more than a third of Millennials get their mobile ads on Apple devices, according to one report, and Google controls 21 percent of the space, according to Entrepreneur. The two tech giants are coming from opposite directions: Apple has a great phone product it wants to leverage for mobile ads; Google has a head start on mobile ads it wants to supplement with a new phone product. The bottom is line is both companies want a bigger piece of mobile advertising.

And the land grab has been accelerating. Last week, Google won a potentially crucial patent for location-based advertising, according to a Monday VentureBeat report. What it means is still unclear, but some argue that the broad patent may give Google a lock on the market. It could be a cause of concern for small companies without large patent portfolios and it could raise questions among big companies, too. Still, VentureBeat notes that such patents are often defensive rather than offensive.

Apple was in talks with AdMob, a mobile ad network, in November, but Google ultimately bought it for $750 million. By January, Apple had found another advertising firm, Quattro Wireless, to buy, a move which shocked the advertising community. Yesterday, Silicon Alley Insider reported on Apple’s latest job posting for its growing mobile ad team, part of what The Insider calls a staffing “blitz.”

And then there are the underdogs. HootSuite, the popular Twitter client, has teamed up with 140 Proof, a nascent Twitter ad network, to serve ads within Twitter streams for mobile clients, TechCrunch reported Tuesday. Mobclic, another ad network, bought an iPhone analytics service, most probably to provide advertisers with more accurate statistics about the people viewing their ads, according to paidContent. It beginning to look like 2010 could be the breakthrough year for mobile advertising.

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Mar 05

Rumor: Sony developing PSP phone to challenge iPhone

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In terms of sales, Sony’s PSP has been getting trounced by the various incarnations of Nintendo’s DS since day one. Despite the PSP’s better graphics and flexibility as a mobile media platform, the DS has grabbed hold of the handheld gaming market and shows no sign of letting go.

Since the introduction of the App Store in 2008, a new mobile gaming juggernaut has emerged, seemingly out of nowhere — the iPhone/iPod touch. With the forthcoming launch of the iPad, whose larger screen and more powerful CPU could make it a gaming powerhouse, it means there are now three very big players in the mobile gaming market… and Sony is in an untenable position already.

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Mar 05

Fortune: Apple Is ‘most Admired’ Company for 2010

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While Apple may not have had a chance to compete in the recently concluded Winter Olympics–and that’s a shame, too, as we understand the legal department boasts quite a formidable four-man bobsled team–the company did manage to take home a gold medal in Fortune’s annual list of “most admired” companies. That marks a three-peat for Cupertino, as Apple had previously claimed the top spot in both 2008and2009.

There were still some firsts for Apple in this year’s list. For one thing, Fortune says the company won by the highest margin ever and, in a coup, apparently an unprecedented (if slim) majority of the surveyed corporate leaders–51 percent–actually said they admired the company. The money quote, though, comes from BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer, who said, “The whole world held its breath before the iPad was announced. That’s brand management at its very best.”

Not only did Apple top the list of the 50 most admired companies, but it also walked away with its category–”computers,” which seems a little narrow given Apple’s markets these days–and earned top industry ranks in innovation, people management, quality of management, financial soundness, and quality of products/services. Of the other key attributes–use of corporate assets, social responsibility, long-term investment, and global competitiveness–it took second place, losing out to its highest-ranked industry rival, Hewlett-Packard, in each of those categories.

But wait, what’s this? Who’s nipping at Apple’s coattails? The second most admired company overall–and the first in its industry of Internet Services and Retailing–is none other than Apple frenemy Google, which edged out Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway for the silver medal spot. In particular, Fortune alludes to Google’s Android OS and its competition with the iPhone as a major market to watch in the coming months.

Apple needs just two more years in the top spot to rival the all-time record holder GE, but as it and Google increasingly square off, there’s the potential that next year’s list will see some shake-ups on the medal stand.

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Mar 04

AT&T CEO sandbags iPad 3G subscriptions

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One of the bigger surprises about the iPad when it was introduced was the sweet 3G prepaid subscription deal Apple and AT&T are offering.

But it turns out, AT&T’s CEO doesn’t anticipate many people will even use it.

At an investor conference Wednesday, Randall Stephenson predicted that Apple’s tablet computer, which comes in both 3G and Wi-Fi-only flavors, will primarily be “a Wi-Fi-driven product,” according to Reuters.

“My expectation is that there’s not going to be a lot of people out there looking for another subscription,” Stephenson said.

Presumably by “another” he means in addition to a mobile wireless contract and home Internet service. But it’s a bit of an odd business decision to talk people out of potentially using your service. Especially when the iPad-AT&T deal was greeted with plenty of enthusiasm.

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Mar 04

Skype arrives on Nokia Symbian phones

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One day after Skype yanked support for Windows and Java mobiles, citing a lack of consistent quality across handsets, the proprietary VoIP outfit is showing its love for Symbian.

Skype’s free mobile app for Nokia’s Symbian OS has left the beta stage and is now available directly from the mobile Ovi Store or alternatively the Skype website.

Skype for Symbian will run on any Nokia smartphone using Symbian^1, the latest version of the mobile OS. (A list of the compatible devices is available here).

The app works over both a 3G mobile data connection or WiFi, and it allows users to make free Skype-to-Skype calls across the globe, along with gratis instant messaging, text messaging, and picture and video sharing.

Earlier this month, Skype announced a partnership with the mobile carrier Verizon to make a similar smartphone app for select BlackBerry and Android phones on Verizon’s network.

It would seem as VoIP applications spread across more mobile devices, service providers must warm up to the idea that data plans will replace voice as the main source of revenue.

Skype already runs on the iPhone over WiFi only, although a 3G-enabled version is expected soon.

The company said “soon” it will update the Symbian app so that it will work on Symbian mobiles from other manufacturers, including Sony Ericsson.

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