Are consumers ready for sustainable consumer hardware like smartphones? What potential does advertising-based video streaming offer? Is interest in 5G growing? Who’s playing which games, and who’s even paying for them? And what’ about the willingness to spend on hardware, media subscriptions and telecommunications services? The new Deloitte study provides answers to these and other more
In autumn 2022, the most popular small talk question is no longer “Have you had it yet?” but “Are you heating yet?”. Winter hasn’t even officially started yet and already many consumers are asking themselves how they can best minimise their heating costs and save money. We have collected the best tips on how to more
“With Home Connect Plus you can connect and control various smart home appliances and even entire systems from different manufacturers with just one app. Wasting time switching between apps becomes a thing of the past, giving you more time for the things that really matter. For an even smarter home to suit your needs: convenient, more
“There are a thousand people in the town I come from. There are twice as many in the neighboring one. 300,000 in the nearest city. And soon four million in Berlin. We’ve come so far and seen so much. So much has happened that we don’t understand. I don’t know, but I wonder. How did more
Two opposing trends are shaping the current conversation about how digital our lives should be in the future. On the one hand, there are the tech believers. They see the future in the metaverse, a virtual world. It can be “entered” with technical means – VR goggles and suits. In the future, we’ll work, learn more
In view of the energy crisis, the German Association of Towns and Municipalities has warned of widespread power outages in Germany. “Blackouts are a threat,” Chief Executive Gerd Landsberg said to the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. The consequences of a complete blackout don’t bear thinking. If you want to know what they are, you should more
Vacation – that means sun, beach and sea for many of us. You lie in the hot sand, blink into the sun from time to time and sweat under the parasol at 30 degrees in the shade. It’s hot and in August it gets really hot. If you’re able to, you take off your clothes more
Part 3: Early teens The early teens are an exciting time for children. They leave primary school and go on to secondary school. They meet new people, become more independent – and many of them get their own smartphone. That’s something most teenagers have been looking forward to eagerly for years. According to a recent more
The fixed-line connection used to be the gateway to the world. The switchboard operator was the charming gatekeeper who opened it. From today’s vantage point, however, it was more of a small gap. After all, today’s smartphones not only permit telephony, but also offer access to the Internet – and thus to a sheer inexhaustible more