wrzesień 23rd, 2013
You can’t get excited about Apple products anymore ’cause they don’t present anything new and groundbreaking these days, right? Wrong! The highly anticipated launch of new iPhone 5 iterations over the weekend is big news for Californian giant, who now offers two new flagship models of its classy phone: the 5S, a technologically advanced, suave model for Apple aficionados, and the 5C, a cheap solution which still costs almost four times as much as the cheapest Chinese smartphone „for the masses” called Hongmi. Apple’s growth is slowing down despite its plans to open new stores, especially in its most promising markets in Asia, but even so, massive amounts of people were waiting in lines in the US and other countries yesterday and the day before that, cheering the advent of the new smartphones, despite only some innovations provided within the two new devices.
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sierpień 22nd, 2013
In the last 10 years, we’ve been lulled into a false sense of being ecologically friendly and promoting sustainability by the digital age’s smartphone, Kindle, tablet and a plethora of electronic gadgets, all of which claim to be „green”, energy efficient, sustainable and good for the environment. But is modern-day Information Communication Technology, or ICT for short, really as ecologically sound an industry as we think? Apparently not…
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lipiec 21st, 2013
Back in May, the Internet giant Yahoo announced that it’s going to acquire Tumblr, the personal blog service and social network for those who wish to share their pics, vids and texts with their friends and followers. Marissa Mayer, a 38-year-old CEO of Yahoo who defected from Google just around a year ago, claimed from the beginning that „Tumblr will continue to operate as a separate business” and that „their team, and tone will all remain the same”. And even the CEO of Tumblr, David Karp, the high school dropout and one of the trendsetters of the Internet, claimed as recently as last Thursday that „We’ve taken a pretty hard line on freedom of speech, supporting our users, creation, whatever that looks like, it’s just not something we want to police„. However, its policy did change – and drastically so – that same last Thursday.
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czerwiec 30th, 2013
Just a few days ago, two new Supreme Court rulings sent shock waves throughout the United States. First, the nine judges voted down a section of the Voting Rights Act, which since 1965 guaranteed that people of different race or ethnicity wouldn’t be unfairly treated at the voting booths, thus ensuring the democratic process was, indeed, democratic. The decision led some political observers to cry foul, comparing it to someone throwing away an umbrella in a storm since they’re not getting wet. But barely a day later, the Supreme Court has voted another piece of legislation down, also a controversial one, but this time in favour of the „radical thinkers”. In what has now become a landmark case, the Supreme Court overturned part of DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996, passed by the US Congress during the Clinton administration, potentially levelling the playing field between the heterosexual and same-sex marriages in the US.
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maj 24th, 2013
New Xbox One is no longer a games console, to the dismay of many avid gamers over at the gaming portal IGN – but perhaps to a sigh of relief from moms and dads everywhere.
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