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By NIKI CHEONG alltherage@thestar.com.my TODAY marks the first day of the most anticipated sporting event of the year – the London 2012 Olympics. All the athletes and officials would have already been in London for the days leading up to the event – with their smartphones, tablet devices and laptops in tow. Yup, London 2012 […]
By NIKI CHEONG alltherage@thestar.com.my TODAY marks the first day of the most anticipated sporting event of the year – the London 2012 Olympics. All the athletes and officials would have already been in London for the days leading up to the event – with their smartphones, tablet devices and laptops in tow. Yup, London 2012 […]
Have you heard of the term “Phone Stacking”? Well, it literally means stacking phones on top of one another (not until it falls, of course), which is a practice to encourage people to interact with one another without the distractions of cell phones, or smartphones to be more specific. In our previous cover story, we […]
Cell-ing out By KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my WHENEVER Lim Wei Ze, 18, and his friends from secondary school hang out, they have a simple rule – Disconnect to connect. Tired of their friends constantly tapping away on their smartphones instead of having actual conversations, they instituted the rule a few months ago so that they all […]
IT’S 2011 and “social” is the buzz word. You have social networks to connect with people, social buying for the best deals and social gaming to take your gaming experience to a whole new level. It may be integrated into our lives, and we probably don’t think twice about how social we are anymore but […]
WHEN Sohaib Athar (@Really Virtual) sent tweets out about the “rare event” – a helicopter hovering above Abbottabad, a city in Pakistan – a few nights ago, he didn’t imagine that he would be credited with “breaking” such an important piece of news. In fact, it was such an insignificant moment, that the second tweet […]
IF YOU are a regular reader of the New York Times online, your days of reading its content for free are numbered.
BAD boy actor Charlie Sheen (of the top-rated television sitcom Two and a Half Men fame) is the latest Hollywood celebrity to take Twitterverse by storm.
TEN years ago, pretty much the only contact I had with fashion and beauty were through magazines I read during the occasional trip to the salon.
A FEW weeks ago, when I first discovered the wonders of the new iPhone App instagr.am, I almost caved in and bought the iPhone 4.