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"Mit 5G erreichen wir die Geschwindigkeit unserer Nervengefäße"
("With 5G we'll achieve the speed of our nerve tracts")
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 25.2.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | marketing, smartphone, texting, WhatsApp
Summary | Mobile service providers in Germany have to change their marketing strategies because the market is changing. Fewer people are sending traditional SMS text messages and more people use WhatsApp or similar instant messaging services. Now, mobile service providers have to put everything on the resources they still control: mobile data. They are working on faster mobile data connections (5G).
Image Description | Portrait of the interviewee (Vodafone director).
Image Tags | male(s)
Experten verraten: Diese Apps müssen dringend auf Ihr Smartphone
(Experts reveal: these apps need to be on your smartphone)
Newspaper | Focus Online
Date | 5.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | privacy, smartphone, WhatsApp
Summary | It is difficult to avoid WhatsApp because virtually everyone is using it. The app profits from allowing you to reach everyone. There have however been privacy issues in the past. Safer options are the free app Signal (even recommended by Edward Snowden) or Threema. Other must-have apps are sophisticated password organizing apps, clean-up apps that optimize one's storage as well as good web browsers.
Image Description | Image of a boy holding a smartphone while laying on a sofa.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Whatsapp macht das Abhören unmöglich – auch für sich selbst
(WhatsApp makes interception impossible – even for itself)
Newspaper | Der Bund
Date | 5.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | privacy, WhatsApp
Summary | WhatsApp has incorporated end-to-end encryption so that nobody can under no circumstances see the content of any message sent through the app. This was done so as to avoid problems with federal investigators. Recently, Apple did not allow federal investigators to break into a suspect’s phone because then the government would keep approaching them with such demands. Because WhatsApp wants to protects its users’ privacy, they have added end-to-end encryption to their service.
Image Description | Photograph of WhatsApp founder, Jan Koum.
Image Tags | male(s), WhatsApp
Jungbürger verzweifelt gesucht
(Young citizen seeked out desperately)
Newspaper | Tagblatt (Thurgau)
Date | 15.1.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | WhatsApp, youth
Summary | Swiss towns traditionally invite all of their citizens who turn 18 to a young citizens’ celebration to initiate them into the life of their town, meet the town council, find out about their right, and to mingle with fellow young citizens during some fun activities. Less and less youths however responded to such invites and so the town of Sirnach decided to send their invites via text message and WhatsApp. This is meant to create a group dynamic so that young citizens would animate fellow young citizens to attend the celebration.
Image Description | Photograph of a group of teenagers playing curling.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
WhatsApp frisst Apps
(WhatsApp devours apps)
Newspaper | Focus Online
Date | 28.2.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | video communication, WhatsApp
Summary | WhatsApp has been running a deficit since Mark Zuckerberg bought the app for $ 22 bio. WhatsApp developer Jan Koum is not worried about profits – he states that their number one goal is to recruit more WhatsApp users and the opportunity to profit would establish itself later on. WhatsApp is looking to expand its services to video communication and communication with businesses. WhatsApp users should, f.i., be able to make a reservation at a restaurant via WhatsApp rather than having to make a phone call.
Image Description | Videos/Interviews about WhatsApp, its features, and its future.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone, WhatsApp
Blaue Häkchen vergiften die Liebe
(Blue ticks are poisoning love)
Newspaper | Der Bund
Date | 7.11.2014
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | misunderstanding, WhatsApp
Summary | WhatsApp programmers may have thought that they would improve communication by introducing a ‘message read’ notification in the form of two blue ticks. This new feature however is making room for much more confusion and misunderstandings. If a person reads a message and does not respond instantly, the other person might think it is because they are sulking, for instance. This is why users should discuss matters of the heart face to face and just share trivial things such as shopping lists via WhatsApp – to avoid misunderstandings of non-verbal cues.
Image Description | Screenshot of a tweet representing a scene of Breakfast at Tiffany's. George Peppard's message "I love you" is well received by Audrey Hepburn (two blue ticks).
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Statt Whatsapp bitte wieder den Telefonalarm
(Instead of WhatsApp please bring back the telephone chain)
Newspaper | Der Bund
Date | 1.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | WhatsApp
Summary | WhatsApp group chats are convenient to spread messages quickly. The only problem is that all members can contribute to a WhatsApp chat, and if everybody responds to an announcement, these group chats can get very annoying because one gets notified of everyone's contribution.
Image Description | Photograph of an adult male looking at his smartphone.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Schreiben statt streicheln: Die neue kalte Liebesordnung
(Writing instead of stroking: The new cold order of love)
Newspaper | Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ)
Date | 20.6.2014
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | Facebook, smartphone, threat, WhatsApp, youth
Summary | Youth nowadays do not get to know their love interests face-to-face but rather through digital channels. A typical digital encounter would be a Facebook friend request, message exchanges and possibly the exchange of seductive images. Now intimacy means something different; people open up to each other in letter form rather than with actual physical contact. Cultural pessimists fear that while it is convenient that all of our interactions can be done online, this convenience may turn into a huge problem because people could virtually stay at home all the time and become lonely.
Image Description | Photograph in back and white of a couple (male and female), sleeping entwined.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
WhatsAppitis
(WhatsAppitis)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 15.4.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | (mental) health, texting, WhatsApp
Summary | A myriad of new illnesses named after new technologies are reported in the media and in scientific journals. WhatsAppitis, for instance, is the tendinitis of the thumb. There is also the so-called text-neck and many other more or less serious neologisms like that.
Image Description | Photograph of the author Peter Abegglen.
Image Tags | male(s)
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