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Lark, MyPhone, Pentagram, Kruger & Matz, GoClever – these are not the names of Western companies, but Polish companies producing smartphones and tablets. These brands are pushing forward on the domestic market, but do they actually have a chance to challenge the global giants? Polish smartphones are often called B brands,
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Solidarity in Poland, “Solidarność”, is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year. The Public Opinion Research Centre has just published a report in which they present public views on the establishment of the Solidarity trade unions in the early 80s. SEE ALSO: “Father of Poland’s economic success” urges Greece to
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Over 35 million – the record-breaking win happened on Saturday evening. The lucky new millionaire comes from Ziębice in Lower Silesia, a town of less than 10,000 citizens. 35 million złoty – record lottery win No one has ever won so much money in a Polish lottery. Only one person
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Bottlenose dolphin off the coast of Poland First, news reached the Hel Marine Station on 8th August. Specialists from the Institute of Oceanography at the University of Gdańsk were informed that a bottlenose dolphin was seen near Hel, but there were no pictures to prove it. We accepted the information
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Queues to doctors and generally poor quality of the National Health Fund (NFZ) offer are the reasons for a growing number of people and companies taking out private health insurance policies – reports “Rzeczpospolita”. After the first quarter of this year, there were already more than 1.2 million private health
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New microapartments in Warsaw called Wolska2 have now become available for purchase. The 14 to 31sqm flats will be finished and furnished. The investor is a company called Dantex. Wolska2 in Warsaw is the answer to the needs of customers who want to live in the heart of the city
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The Netflix Poland website has changed from “Not available in your country” to “Not available yet” and added an invitation box for future users to enter an email address, in order to be notified on launch. It’s more significant than it seems. On-demand without adverts If they follow
Technology
Many Windows users will have seen a system tray icon inviting them to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. I am not usually one to jump onto a “1.0” release of anything, but as the desktop mode on Windows 8.1 was so hard to use on a small
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Blue-green algae (cyanosis) are quickly taking over all Polish seaside resorts. Within only a few days red flags have been placed on beaches from Rewa to Stogi and Sobieszewo in Gdańsk. There are no-bathing signs in towns along the Hel peninsula as well. The toxic blue-green algae
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This year there have been more than 1,300 “grandchild” scams in Poland. Just in Warsaw scammers have extorted approx. 10 million zł. What is the “grandchild” scam? It’s quite simple really. A scammer skims a phone book in search of a name common among the elderly, then calls
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In a recent survey by CBOS 91% of Poles were recorded as believing the way they make use of the internet is safe. Of the remainder, 5% consider it a moderate risk. 20% have no publicly exposed information at all The believers include some who make publicly visible their email
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A recent survey shows a decline in the mobile phone usage while driving, down from 4.4% in 2014 to 2.9%, in passenger cars, and down to 3.3% averaged across all vehicle types. Fewer Poles are driving with phones Unfortunately in trucks and commercial vehicles the rate is