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Extra articles about my three focus products

BlackBerry Z10: New reports of high return rates http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/04/blackberry-wants-sec-to-investigate-false-reports-of-z10-returns/ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/04/11/analyst-blackberry-z10-returns-outnumber-sales/?mod=google_news_blog Samsung Galaxy 4:  Officially released Apr 26th, will be available in India May 4th http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/04/19/samsung-galaxy-s4-vs-samsung-galaxy-s3-5-things-to-know/ comparing S4 to S3 http://www.idigitaltimes.com/articles/16874/20130421/galaxy-s4-release-date-price-specs-samsung.htm official release dates, features and news http://www.ciol.com/ciol/news/187340/samsung-galaxy-s4-launched-india Indian developments iPhone … Continue reading

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Verizon’s New Plans

So I found out today that the phone company Verizon is making some changes to their package plans.  Namely, they are getting rid of the early upgrade plan where any customers on a 2 year plan can upgrade their phone … Continue reading

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Hybridity and Postmodernism

The articles written by Bhabha, Klor de Alva and Stoddard and Cornwell can all be classified as a postmodern or poststructuralist.  This kind of approach to cultural studies and understanding identities tends to look at smaller details that make up … Continue reading

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Class Overlap Concerning Apple

So I am in GS 101: Political Economy with Madeleine Wong right now and I am working on a project based on the novel No Logo by Naomi Klien.  My group is working with advertisements in schools and focusing on … Continue reading

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Some Lingering Thoughts and Ideas of “Sex Machine”

This week I will be talking about the article that our group did the presentation on, Sex Machine.  It will be more of a wrap up blog since we could not get to everything we wanted to due to the … Continue reading

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TechFeed and Solidifying my Thoughts

I recently found a YouTube channel called TechFeed that makes videos about the latest in technology news.  Subjects range from new devices, censorship news, debates about different company products and more.  While watching some of their videos, I started to … Continue reading

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“Your identity changes when people perceive you differently.”

Today our group discussed Judith Butler’s piece Gender & Sexuality. It was sort of an extended version of our class discussion on Thursday. We started off speaking about how we felt about the articles. Tina said she felt it was … Continue reading

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Hail Mary! BlackBerry Steps Back into the Market

Probably one of the longest running punch lines in the technology community is BlackBerry.  It is commonly known to have slow internet connection, outdated operating systems (OS) and overall inferior to popular product like the Iphone or the Galaxy.  I … Continue reading

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Who are we?

For our café discussion this week we discussed “Freeing South Africa: The ‘Modernization’ of Male-Male Sexuality in Soweto” by Donald L. Donham. It was a really interesting one that brought up people’s conflicts with identity and it being placed upon … Continue reading

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The 4G Curse

I came across an article on Reuters today that focused on South Korea’s involvement in 4G development.  Rather than reading about the latest updates, they were issuing a warning to the European countries adopting the technology, specifically England.  The phone … Continue reading

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