Smartphones
Science
SpaceX Starlink Satellites to Link with T-Mobile to Beam Service Everywhere
On Thursday, SpaceX's Elon Musk and T-Mobile President and CEO Mike Sievert announced a plan whereby the Starlink satellite network will start beaming service straight to smartphones next year.
The project, called Coverage Above and Beyond, aims to provide smartphone...
Diaspora
Shutdown of BlackBerry Phones Signals End of an Era
BlackBerry phones, once seen in the hands of countless executives, actors, and politicians, no longer worked at all as of Tuesday, when the company stopped service on devices that had not yet switched from the company's operating system to...
Economy
Electronics Hit With New 2% Greek Government Tax
The Greek government has added yet another tax on goods and services, this time being a two-percent percent levy on the purchase of personal computers, tablets and smartphones.
The levy was voted through the Greek parliament on Tuesday as a...
Greece
New Survey Shows 81.8% of Greeks Use the Internet
It's always been an area where the Greeks have had less experience with, compared to the rest of the western world, but things relating to Internet usage have begun to turn around.
A new poll conducted by Focus Bari shows...
Economy
Smartphones Are Costing Greeks, Study Finds
In the last seven years, Greeks have spent over 700 million euros to repair or replace their damaged smartphones, according to a report by SquareTrade, a warranty service provider in San Francisco.
Notably, 40% of Greek smartphone-owners had experienced a...