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Two days a month offline: really alone with your own thoughts
What would it be like to go without mobile phones, computers and the internet for a day? A lot of people wouldn’t really know how to answer that question any more: for so long now we’ve been using all the conveniences of the digital world, offered to us by the simplifying algorithms of quoted American…
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‘Facebook lowers our resistance by taking small steps’
The important question isn’t what Facebook is changing with their new terms of use, taking effect on January the 1st; the question is: where does it stop? Internet expert Danny Mekić doesn’t doubt for a moment that Facebook has a plan, and that they aren’t nearly done with it yet. Facebook recently presented its new…
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Carrying on is no longer good enough
Chat apps are cutting into the profits of China Mobile, who blamed their first drop in profits in 14 years on competition from the likes of Tencent’s WeChat messenger (FT, March 21). China Mobile is not the first and certainly not the last major company that will see the landscape changing as a result of…