addiction
RSS addictionThird of techies check their work email every day on holiday
News It seems techies could well be suffering from email addiction whether they're on holiday or not: another recent silicon.com poll found the majority check their work email before 9am either on a PC or a mobile device. [07 Sep 2009]
Businesses' XP addiction is keeping Microsoft from killing IE 6
News It's been roughly eight years since Microsoft released Internet Explorer 6, but in many ways the company is still very much tied to the aging product. Although Microsoft has released two major versions of Internet Explorer in the past... [14 Aug 2009]
Leading Teaching Hospital Improves Search Results, Streamlines IT Tasks With the Google Search Appliance
White Paper The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's leading addiction and mental health teaching hospital. Its mission is to improve the lives of those affected by addiction... [23 Jun 2009]
Leading Teen Addiction Treatment Center Relies on SmartDraw for IT Diagrams
White Paper Kennon Baker is the IT & Facilities Director for the Teen Challenge Training Center, a leading provider of successful faith-based recovery programs for teens facing drug addiction. Kennon is responsible for managing IT... [15 Apr 2009]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... John Chambers
News This is the age of internet addiction, after all; no one is about to kick that habit. As the countdown begins to silicon.com's ninth annual Agenda Setters poll of tech's 50 most influential individuals, it is time to... [18 Sep 2008]
Mobile 'radio silence' fear afflicts Brits
News Nomo-phobia joins other anxiety-based mobile neologisms, including CrackBerry, the nickname for the BlackBerry smart phone which plays up its addiction properties; 'phantom ring', when a mobile user reports hearing their... [31 Mar 2008]
Poll: Email addiction a hard habit to break
News Email addiction is taking over people's lives with almost half of silicon.com readers unable to stop themselves constantly checking their inbox during the day. The latest silicon.com poll of more than 100 readers asked... [14 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.12.07
Round-Up In fact, the only country in the world with higher and more dangerous levels of Facebook addiction than the UK is Canada. We British may be rubbish at almost all sports, possess terrible dental hygiene and labour under... [14 Dec 2007]
Life Skills Education Firm Achieves 25 Percent Efficiency Increase After IT Upgrade
White Paper Realityworks, based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, provides life skills curricula and products to help people avoid problems, such as addiction and teen pregnancy. Over time, the company outgrew its corporate IT network and... [28 Sep 2007]
Messaging and Reporting Systems Help Hospital Ease Compliance, Improve Safety
White Paper The road to recovery: Eagleville Hospital knows it well, having helped people fight addiction for more than 40 years. Caregivers at the 310-bed hospital and its affiliated outpatient clinics depend on e-mail for... [05 Sep 2007]
Facebook to fuel spear-phishing boom?
News I think this is a symptom of an addiction with social networking sites such as MySpace or LinkedIn - where people have willingly keyed in all this information about themselves. Security experts are warning of a drastic... [05 Jul 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.03.07
Round-Up Is this BlackBerry addiction becoming a case of the tail wagging the dog? It's been a week of irony upon irony. And the Round-Up isn't talking irony in the Alanis Morissette simply-not-ironic-in-the-least-bit sense of... [09 Mar 2007]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 09.03.07
Round-Up Podcast SMS texts for immigrants, the world's hottest wi-fi hotspots, BlackBerry addiction and the BBC's search plans are all up for discussion this week. [08 Mar 2007]
BlackBerry users work longer, earn more
News Many members of silicon.com's CIO Jury have admitted their addiction to BlackBerrys. BlackBerry users may put in more hours than your average employee but they also earn more money. Nearly one-fifth (19 per cent) of... [22 Feb 2007]
Leader: A skin spat or OS X's new dawn?
Leader It could be time for Cupertino to set aside its addiction to brand at all costs and pretty hardware and embrace a new dawn as a box shifter. Apple has once again put its lawyers to work - this time over a website that... [15 Jan 2007]
