Guardian: Lady Geek survey highlights Gaming Grannies
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PRESS RELEASE The world of ‘apps’ is not just the domain of young geeky males. Lady Geek’s survey (conducted by YouGov) reveals that technology and software are no longer just the preserve of geeks, with women over 55 feeling liberated by their smart-phones. The report highlighted: Of all survey participants, 39% of female smart-phone owners [...]
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One of the myths prevailing around women and technology is that technology companies think that women are not interested in technology therefore they need to ‘dumb it down’, ‘pink it up’ and ‘girlify it.’ The reality is that women are interested in technology. Four out of every ten gadgets in the UK are now bought [...]
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My first ever PC was a noisy clunky beige-coloured box which sounded something like a hair-dryer and produced twice as as much heat. It was a useful workhorse, but profoundly unpleasent up-close. Such a device would have no hope in my living room: In most households women control which devices are allowed into that most [...]
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At the Consumer Electronics Show in 2006, only 1% of women surveyed felt consumer electronics manufacturers have them in mind during the design process.
This was the ASUS stand at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2010- unfortunately very little has changed and manufacturers like ASUS are reverting to cliches stereotypes rather than understanding [...]
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After the disappointing N97 it was all to easy to dismiss Nokia as a fading star of mobile phone design. The flagship which failed to float was the perfect excuse for a whole horde of doomsayers to predict the end of the once-greatest mobile company. A common quip was that unless Nokia were to pull [...]
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No doubt this Christmas, technology companies will target men with tech babble (ram, gigs, specs etc), and then try to woo women by dressing up their products in glitzy, pinked up marketing bows. This is a guide for men and women, those who are less in love with technology and more interested by what technology [...]
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