2016 BMW 5-Series to have Gran Lusso Coupe styling influences, 600 bhp M5 in 2017 (pics)

A new report indicates the next generation of the BMW 5-Series will receive a design inspired by the striking Gran Lusso Coupe concept.

Set to come out in late 2016 as a 2017MY, the seventh-gen 5-Series is going to receive a new design which will be influenced by the Pininfarina-penned Gran Lusso Coupe concept showcased earlier this year at Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este...

Apple offering 0% financing on online hardware purchases in most European countries, ends 10th January

Today, Apple has launched a promotion for online purchases, offering 0% financing on any purchase above £449 (or €400). The deal is on offer across most of Apple’s European websites, including the UK, France, Italy and Spain...

Nexus phones carry SMS crash bug vuln

A Dutch security researcher has published a vulnerability that allows someone to crash a remote Nexus 4 or Nexus 5 phone – by sending them a crafted “Class 0” text message.

Instead of falling into a user's inbox and waiting for someone to read the message, a Class 0 or “flash...

Amazon PrimeAir Could Deliver Your Stuff On Drones (pics & video)

In a 60 Minutes interview, Jeff Bezos announced that Amazon is working on delivery that's even faster than Prime. 

The company wants to use octocopters to deliver your order within a half hour.

Bezos says that the project, which is heavily in the R&D stage right now, couldn't debut before 2015 even if Amazon were ready...

Ο Ν. Παπαδόπουλος νέος πρόεδρος ΔΗΚΟ

Ο Νικόλας Παπαδόπουλος είναι ο νέος Πρόεδρος του Δημοκρατικού Κόμματος μετά από μια δραματική εκλογική διαδικασία, που ανατρέπει το πολιτικό σκηνικό. 

Ο κ. Παπαδόπουλος πήρε 51,12% των έγκυρων ψήφων, σύμφωνα με τον Πρόεδρο της Κεντρικής Εφορευτικής Επιτροπής Φύτο Κωνσταντίνου, ο οποίος ανακήρυξε τον βουλευτή του ΔΗΚΟ νέο Πρόεδρο του κόμματος...

Fast & Furious actor Paul Walker dies in California car crash (pics & video)

The star of ‘The Fast and the Furious’ movie franchise and a friend identified as Roger Rodas died in Southern California after the Porsche they were in crashed violently into a tree, his rep confirmed to the Daily News. Police said speed was a factor...

Android 4.4 KitKat degrades video playback performance

Android 4.4 KitKat is the latest version of the Google developed mobile operating system. The 4.4 was promised to enhance the overall performance and as far as we can tell from those devices that have already been updated that it mostly true...

How big a TV should I buy?

How big a TV should you buy? 37? 42? 50? 65? 90? There's a TV in nearly every size you can want, and at nearly every budget.

As long as you're not limited by a cabinet or entertainment center, you can probably get a bigger TV than you're figuring. Possibly, a lot bigger.

Here's how to figure out how big you can go.

The short answer: as big as you can afford. The longer answer depends on your room, your seating distance, your eyes, and the...

Moody΄s: Αναβάθμισε την Ελλάδα σε Caa3 από C

Σε αναβάθμιση της πιστοληπτικής αξιολόγησης της Ελλάδας διατηρώντας σταθερό το outlook προχώρησε η Moody’s, καθώς όπως υποστηρίζει η οικονομία της χώρας έχει αρχίσει να ανακάμπτει σταδιακά. 

Ειδικότερα, ο οίκος αναβάθμισε κατά 2 βαθμίδες το αξιόχρεο των κρατικών ομολόγων σε Caa3 από C προηγουμένως, επικαλούμενο την «σημαντική δημοσιονομική προσαρμογή» που έχει πετύχει η Ελλάδα παρά τους χαμηλούς ρυθμούς...

S&P: Αναβάθμιση Ισπανίας, υποβάθμιση Ολλανδίας

Σε αναβάθμιση των προοπτικών του ισπανικού χρέους σε σταθερές από αρνητικές, προχώρησαν οι Standard & Poor’s επικαλούμενοι την επιστροφή στην οικονομική ανάπτυξη, περιορίζοντας τις πιθανότητες μείωσης της αξιολόγησης της χώρας σε επίπεδο junk από τον οίκο. 

Παράλληλα, σύμφωνα με σχετική ανακοίνωση του οίκου...

Apple's European Black Friday Sales Go Live with Discounted Prices, Not Gift Cards

Apple's online stores for a number of European countries have just come back online for Black Friday's one-day shopping event, and unlike in Australia and New Zealand where the company is using bonus gift cards rather than discounts as customer incentives, Apple's European stores are seeing the more traditional discounted pricing scheme...

Facebook tests Instapaper/Pocket-like ‘Save for Later’ feature app

Facebook is testing Instapaper/Pocket-like ‘Save for Later‘ feature as

an app which saves the links that are posted in Facebook for reading it later...

Αναβάθμιση από S&P

Την αναβάθμιση του μακροπρόθεσμου rating χρέους της Κύπρου κατά μία βαθμίδα σε Β- απόCCC+ ανακοίνωσε σήμερα ο οίκος αξιολόγησης Standard and Poor’s αναφέροντας ότι οι άμεσοι κίνδυνοι για την αποπληρωμή του χρέους της, φαίνεται να έχουν υποχωρήσει. 

Την ίδια ώρα, το βραχυπρόθεσμο rating αναβαθμίστηκε σε B από C. Παρά την...

'OK Google' Voice Search Lands on Chrome (video)

Google has released a Chrome extension that brings the voice-activated "OK Google" command to the browser.

The Google Voice Search Hotword (Beta) extensionis now available in the Chrome Web Store. When installed, it allows those on the desktop to speak their commands to the browser using the "OK Google" hotword...

Lamborghini Cabrera confirmed for 2014, preliminary details arriving before Christmas

A Lamborghini representative has announced a "Gallardo follower" will be launched in 2014.

Earlier this week Lamborghini released the first teaser for the Gallardo replacement and now they announced the car will go on sale in 2014...

Band to take the stage with 3D-printed instruments (pics & video)

3D-printed electric guitars and bass guitars are nothing new for Olaf Diegel, a design engineer and professor of mechatronics at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand. 

Since 2011, he has been building gorgeously intricate custom electric instruments he calls ODD guitars using Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) printing to craft the bodies.

He then adds a mahogany or maple wood core, a wooden neck, tuning pegs, a bridge, pickups, and controls for a fully playable instrument...

50 Unfortunate Truths About Investing

1. Saying "I'll be greedy when others are fearful" is much easier than actually doing it.

2. The gulf between a great company and a great investment can be extraordinary.

3. Markets go through at least one big pullback every year, and one massive one every decade. Get used to it. It's just what they do...

Αυξήθηκαν οι καταθέσεις ξένων στο σύστημα

Τάσεις σταθεροποίησης άρχισε να παρουσιάζει το τραπεζικό σύστημα, με τις εκροές καταθέσεων να περιορίζονται στο χαμηλότερο επίπεδο από το 2012 και τις ξένες καταθέσεις να αυξάνονται. 

Τα νέα στοιχεία της κεντρικής τράπεζας δείχνουν βελτίωση της κατάστασης στο σύστημα σε σχέση με τους προηγούμενους μήνες, παρά τις προκλήσεις που εξακολουθούν να αντιμετωπίζουν οι τράπεζες...

When bitcoins go bad: 4 stories of fraud, hacking, and digital currencies.

With Bitcoin interest (and prices) spiking, you might be considering investing in your own little cache of digital currency. 

But before you set up a Bitcoin wallet, you should think long and hard about who will watch over your digital wealth.

 In its relatively short lifespan, Bitcoin wallets and processors have been a target for hackers -- and old-fashioned...

Household Download Index

Based on millions of recent test results from Speedtest.net, this index compares and ranks consumer download speeds around the globe...

Υπό διαχείριση και ο ΕLOMAS

Αυξάνονται τα προβλήματα στο χώρο του λιανικού εμπορίου λόγω της έλλειψης ρευστότητας που υπάρχει στην αγορά. Τελευταίο θύμα της κρίσης η εταιρεία ELOMAS, η οποία τέθηκε υπό καθεστώς διαχείρισης.

Η Mataco & Elomas Distributors Limited, όπως είναι το όνομα της εταιρείας άρχισε να αντιμετωπίζει προβλήματα μετά την κίνηση που έκανε στις αρχές του έτους για περαιτέρω επέκταση στη Λευκωσία μέσω της δημιουργία υπεραγοράς στο εμπορικό κέντρο Ορφανίδη...

Missing: hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site

Buried somewhere under four feet of mud and rubbish, in the Docksway landfill site near Newport, Wales, in a space about the size of a football pitch is a computer hard drive worth more than £4m.

It belonged to James Howells, who threw it out when he was clearing up his desk in mid-summer and discovered the part, rescued from a defunct Dell laptop. He found it in a drawer and put it in a bin...

Black Friday 2013: Best Deals on the iPad, iPad Air, and iPad mini

On Black Friday, multiple retailers will begin offering discounts on Apple's lineup of tablets, including the iPad Air, the original mini, and the iPad 2. Stores are heavily competing on price this year to get customers into their stores, which is a major win for consumers as prices have dropped to all time lows.

We've listed the best iPad deals from our Black Friday Roundup below, but many of these discounts will be popular so customers looking for a stellar price should aim to get to stores early. Prices and inventory can also change quickly, and...

Foxconn building 500K iPhone 5s units for Apple per day with nonstop production lines

In a bid to increase supply of Apple's flagship iPhone 5s, Foxconn — the company's largest manufacturing partner — has dedicated 100 assembly lines to the handset and is now operating 24-hours-per-day, according to...

Apple's iOS brings developers 5x more revenue per download than Android

Despite Android's significantly larger installed base, iOS continues to dominate in monetization with a five-times-greater return rate for developers — a sign that Cupertino's market segmentation strategy is paying dividends for application creators...

3 Killed in Collapse at Venue Hosting World Cup Opener (video)

Part of the stadium that will host the 2014 World Cup opener in Brazil collapsed on Wednesday, causing significant damage and killing three people, authorities said.

The accident could delay the delivery of the stadium in Sao Paulo by FIFA's December deadline to have all 12 venues ready. Work was immediately halted at the Itaquerao Stadium, which was practically completed before the collapse...

Apple Inc. beats Microsoft, Google to top valuable brands list: Forbes

Global technology major Apple is the world's most valuable brand followed by Microsoft, Coca-Cola, IBM and Google, according to Forbes magazine.

Apple has topped the World's Most Valuable List compiled by Forbes with a brand value of $104.3 billion, nearly double the other technology major,..

Αλλάζει η μετοχική σύνθεση cdb bank

Καταρχήν συμφωνία για απόκτηση σημαντικού ποσοστού στη cdb bank υπέγραψαν μεγαλομέτοχοι της τράπεζας με ρώσο επενδυτή. 

Σε δηλώσεις της στη StockWatch, η CEO της τράπεζας Άντρη Γεωργίου ανέφερε ότι η συμφωνία που υπεγράφη είναι προκαταρτική...

Ζημιές €1,8 δισ. για Tράπεζα Κύπρου

Ζημιές €1,8 δισ. κατέγραψε το πρώτο εξάμηνο του 2013 η Τράπεζα Κύπρου έναντι ζημιών €314 εκ. το πρώτο εξάμηνο του 2012, λόγω της πώλησης των εργασιών της στην Ελλάδα και των αυξημένων προβλέψεων 

Τα αποτελέσματα της Τράπεζας, που ανακοινώθηκαν αργά το απόγευμα της...