We’ve all seen the depressing pictures of African children picking through piles of toxic-looking broken computers, but it’s not every day that a powerful western government says it can’t do much about it.But that’s what Catalina McGregor, who is deputy champion for green IT at the UK government’s Cabinet Office, says.She says that the UK, the rest of Europe and (particularly) the US simpl...
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28 Sep 2009 14:00 GMT
If you’re a fan of hanging out in Starbucks, enjoying a hot drink and Twittering about how annoying all of your fellow coffee patrons are, you’re in luck.Instead of having to access the Internet on your phone or pay out the wazoo to use Starbucks' WiFi, all you have to do now is sling £5 on Starbucks Rewards Card, register it online, and you can use the WiFi at any participating Starbucks store in the UK!
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23 Sep 2009 10:00 GMT
When you think of Apple, you think of sexy, sleek designs. You think hot ironically dressed geeks hunched over Mac Books listening to their colourful iPods. When you think Microsoft, one usually pictures Bill Gates and nerdy programmers coding in .Net surrounded by empty Styrofoam coffee cups and Snickers wrappers.
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21 Sep 2009 08:30 GMT
In traditional mobile phone launch fashion, Motorola launched its new product, the DEXT mobile featuring MOTOBLUR, at the top of a very tall building in London, serving very small canapés, with a man showcasing the phone wearing very tight pants.
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15 Sep 2009 21:55 GMT
Say what you will about Lily Allen’s mouth, but it looks as though Lily has actually said something quite intelligent. The media loves to jump all over Allen’s Myspace blogging – which clearly has affected the frequency of both her blogging and tweeting – and Allen finall...
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15 Sep 2009 11:00 GMT
One of the coolest things to arrive in BitchBuzz HQ this past summer has definitely been the COOL-ER - an innovative new eBook reader that "makes reading cool".I am big fan of books, and have always been put off electronic book readers. I’ve failed to see what’s so exciing about the Sony Reader or
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14 Sep 2009 11:00 GMT
From the 10th to the 13th of September, all over the world, all of those crazy Twitter users will be once again gathering to “Tweet. Meet. Give” and raise money for charity. The first global Twestival was organized by the incredible Amanda Rose in February of this year, and in just one day , Global Twestival raised over $250k
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10 Sep 2009 09:00 GMT
Between LG’s sponsorship of most recent Pout event, and their high fashion inspired launch party for their new Chocolate BL40 – fashion and tech are definitely being quite flirtatious with each other lately.
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08 Sep 2009 11:00 GMT
There's a great passage in Marilyn French's The Women's Room where her character Val captures the rhapsodic joy of falling in love, then just as devastatingly describes the discovery of your beloved's clay feet—and the sinking feeling that accompanies that discovery. It seems like a lot of people are experiencing that crushing loss of rhapsodic love for social media.
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08 Sep 2009 08:30 GMT
At BitchBuzz HQ, we try and do our bit for the environment. We've planned big green weddings, we've supported Swishing Parties and even made
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04 Sep 2009 12:30 GMT