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The CBI Director-General, Richard Lambert, today commented on the Bank of England’s latest Credit Conditions Survey and the need for measures to restore credit flows across the economy, including the car industry. It’s long overdue, but action is needed.
His comments follow calls for measures from the government to tackle the shortage of credit flow as a matter of utmost urgency.
Mr Lambert was quoted as saying: “The Bank of England’s latest Credit Conditions Survey paints a bleak picture of the impact of the credit crunch on businesses and families. The availability and the cost of credit have both deteriorated in the final quarter of 2008, and are expected to get worse in the next three months. The Government is going to have to do more to restore credit flows across the economy.”
Inventories and capital spending is way down and the overall state of the business economy in the UK has been sagging badly for a number of months, but its finally reached the breaking point and something must be done. It’s good to see a force like the CBI stand up and voice its concern.
Those eagerly anticipating this month’s Macworld and the prospects of a smaller iPhone should be careful, as a slew of tiny clones are introducing confusion as they reach store shelves in several countries, especially Thailand.
While silicone case molds have surfaced that allegedly hint at a smaller iPhone in the works very soon (and its all but been confirmed by Apple as a developing product at this point), a rash of similarly-sized dupes made by anonymous southeast Asian firms have added to the confusion and deception.
The devices, spotted here by AppleInsider in Thailand are almost always designed to mimic Apple’s products as closely as possible and share not only the basic design but the branding as well, in some cases directly copying the logo and the “iPhone” labeling on the back, so they can fool even a trained Apple eye.
Their software is also at times familiar and carries a similar layout, down to icons ripped directly from Apple’s interface, and similar functionality as well.
Aside from obvious color changes such as splashes of gold or pink (this is usually the tip-off that they aren’t real Apple gear), these clones are (when switched off) close enough to the original that they may pass for an iPhone “Nano” to the newbie eye.
