Fewer driving infringements for phone use in the Balearics than nationally
There was a national campaign last month against driver distractions.
Pictures were being taken and posted on Instagram accounts
Pictures were being taken and posted on Instagram accounts.
I have owned a mobile phone since they were the size of a house-brick in the early 1980’s
I have owned a mobile phone since they were the size of a house-brick in the early 1980’s.
Some random thoughts on: Exclamations marks, apps and other annoying stuff
It appears that these days cash money is of no use to anyone. Everything is expected to be paid for by flashing a bank card or App.
Warning: If you are in Alcudia on Wednesday you will get an emergency text
Your smartphone will start vibrating.
Confidential: Limping whilst walking in the countryside
I don’t know if the same debate about obesity is raging in Spain as it is in Britain at the moment, but here it has got very political.
Frank Talking: New technology and some embarrassing confessions
Come on, I can’t be alone in this pathetic inability to engage in this sort of stuff can I - surely?
Some random thoughts from a random brain!
Frank Leavers shares with us some of the issues that have vexed him over the past year or so.
Technology
The code number for lost or stolen phones
A reminder to keep a note of a phone's identity number.
Retailing
Retail payment by phone coming to Palma
Changing habits is not always easy when there are many people who are reluctant to use non-traditional payment systems.
Technology
15% of people in the Balearics are phone addicts
Addictive behaviour, previously impossible, is now being displayed because of new technologies and smartphones in particular.
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Women mobile phone users are the most active.
- The owner's fear of the 'tenant-squatter' in Mallorca
- Update: Mallorca December temperature records broken, Mallorca basks in sunshine, highs of 24ºC
- Housing law has reduced the number of homes to rent in Mallorca by up to 30%
- Top British cyclist trains in Alcudia
- Petition launched for a referendum on the UK rejoining the European Union
Comment
Stop posing in the Balearics
The surge in influencers has come under fire by some sections of society for over-publicising the beauty of the Balearics leading to isolated saturation.
Humphrey Carter21/09/2023 15:07