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Record number of Poles using internet in 2021 poll shows

CBOS indicated that the number of Poles who used the internet to shop and sell products had also increased. Darek Delmanowicz/PAP

The CBOS pollster reported on Wednesday that, according to its recent studies, almost three out of four adult Poles used the internet at least once a week.

The end is nigh! Social media website Nasza Klasa to close after 15 years

Launched in 2006, at its peak the website had nearly 40 unique million users and was used by over FIFTY percent of Poland’s internet users.

Letters from the King, a family tale of loss and a second wedding emerge as internet unearths more mysteries about ‘viral’ WWII girl

The life of Maria Barr, whose photo went viral after being posted online with an appeal to help identify her, has taken a further step forward as more details about life, her marriages and her death are uncovered.

Internet sleuths track down mystery WWII woman from 70-year-old photo

The Institute of National Remembrance published the photo on its Facebook page on 14 March in the hope of finding out who the woman was, what happened to her after the war and whether she is still alive – or whether her children or grandchildren are. 

When ‘whizz-kid’ Konrad Strek started his business, he was so young it had to be registered with his parents. Three years on, investors are lining up

The rapid growth of the company which was only founded in 2018 and now boast over 4 million earners and over 10,000 advertisers operating across 17 languages has been fuelled by the COVID lockdown and increasing automation of jobs.

Nine million Poles now have 'trusted profile' says PM

The prime minister said over nine million Poles have created an electronic “trusted profile” in two years.

Internet users come to aid of Uprising hero after crooks swindled him out of life savings

After ruthless conmen posing as roofing contractors walked off with PLN 10,000 that Bogusław Czarmiński had saved to repair his roof in time for the winter cold the BohaterON organisation swung into action.

New internet platform for entrepreneurs launched at business congress

An online platform designed to help entrepreneurs establish cooperation with potential domestic and foreign contractors was launched as part of the ongoing 10th European Congress of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Katowice, southern Poland.

With no selfies, no internet, no social media and costing over 1,000 PLN, just how popular will the new slow-life phone be?

VIDEO: Despite its lack of modernity, the Mudita Pure phone from Warsaw tech firm Mudita has already won not only fans but a raft of awards including the IRON A'Design Award in the category of Designing Digital, Electronic Devices from the International Academy of Design and the German Design Award 2021.

Two major Polish film festivals moved to Internet

The New Horizons International Film Festival and American Film Festival, both scheduled to take place in the western city of Wroclaw on November 5-15 have been moved to an online platform, due to the worsening epidemic situation, organisers told PAP.

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