A bit too late as the holiday season is mostly over in Germany I found an interesting article on some helpful little program making travel a lot easier to organize by NY Times’ technology columnist, David Pogue on Pogue’s Posts.
last modified September 29, 2011
Is Tech Investment the Answer to Euro Economic Woe? …According to a study sponsored by AT&T and featured in the FT today, it most certainly is.
The study suggests that if Europe was to follow the US model of investment in technology and telecommunications, it would dramatically improve productivity with the potential to increase collective GDP [...]
last modified December 10, 2012
I must admit, I’m a Facebook-Junkie too and I use it almost daily.
Today the social network has about 711 million users worldwide, 20.2 million in Germany alone. Facebook was founded in 2004 although became really popular in Europe in 2008 after it was offered in German, French and Spanish, too.
At Facebook you can not only [...]
last modified September 22, 2011
The GlobalCom Munich team welcomes its latest member Chiharu Fukada – the daughter of our colleague Sohei (taking this picture) and his lovely wife Yuki.
We think if all Japanese “products” “made in Germany” are this cute, this will be the future market to watch out for
The GlobalCom Team
last modified September 21, 2011
Nielsen just recently released its Social Media Q3 Report and, unsurprisingly, social media is on the rise. Anyone who is remotely connected to the outside world could have guessed that social media is infiltrating almost every aspect of how we live. Whether it’s brands asking consumers to “like” them on Facebook or follow them on [...]
last modified December 10, 2012
The app. This expression is actually an abbreviation of the word application. Applications such as calendars and calculators had already been on the first mobile phones but with the invention of the iPhone a whole world with small varied apps seemed to arise. Meanwhile, the number of different apps for multiple operating systems on different [...]
last modified September 15, 2011
The Boston Globe recently published a slideshow series on social media etiquette, listing helpful tips, dos, and don’ts of social networking sites, including Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. As social media continues to evolve, many are still learning as they go and will likely get their wrists slapped along the way. To help prevent any blunders [...]
last modified December 10, 2012
This year, the IFA took place in the German capital Berlin from 2nd to 7th September 2011, and there was not only a record in the number of guests, but there were also many bizarre but nevertheless useful gadgets to explore.
238 000 visitors attended the huge trade show with 140,200 square meters and 1,441 exhibitors.
This [...]
last modified September 8, 2011
Ok, crazy idea time: I just picked up my phone and found that there were updates for about ten of my applications, some of which I know were updated just days ago, or at most, maybe a couple weeks ago. I find this somewhat annoying.
Firstly, though not really of concern for me as I am still [...]
last modified December 10, 2012
The latest comment for the German PR magazine PR Report was provided by Vera Likhosherstova from GlobalCom Russia. The article was published in the September issue of the magazine (see image). Here’s the English version of Vera’s comment:
You will not grasp it with your mind
Or cover with a common label,
For Russia is one of a kind –
Believe in her, if you are able…
(A. Pushkin , translated by Anatoly Liberman)
last modified September 12, 2011
