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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 phone apparently ring...
[31 Mar 2008]
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 how often people check their...
[14 Mar 2008]
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 outrageously high taxes, but...
[14 Dec 2007]
whitepaper 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 allowed its hardware and...
[28 Sep 2007]
whitepaper 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 communication concerning patient care.
[05 Sep 2007]
Round-Up According to yet another report, our Facebook addiction is costing businesses billions of dollars a year. Hola! Let's take a moment to examine the state we're in. A state which, expressed in pictorial form, might look a little something like this).
[24 Aug 2007]
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 rise in personalised phishing...
[05 Jul 2007]
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 the word.
[09 Mar 2007]
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]
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 people who own a BlackBerry...
[22 Feb 2007]
whitepaper Eagleville Foundation provides comprehensive services for addiction, co-occurring disorders, and other behavioral health problems through Eagleville Hospital and its outpatient affiliate, Riverside Care.
[13 Feb 2007]
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 had posted a link showing...
[15 Jan 2007]
News It seems you can add email addiction to problems such as over-eating, over-drinking and disputes with the in-laws which tend to reach a head at Christmas time. This Christmas more than half of BlackBerry users will keep checking their emails...
[30 Nov 2006]
Comment The negative side, as many of us know is the cocaine-like addiction to the device which has given it the popular nickname 'CrackBerry'. If, like me, you find it almost impossible to ignore the device during your waking hours and even take it...
[14 Sep 2006]
Round-Up The problem of addiction to internet games in China has become so great that a shelter has been opened for teens who are endangering their health by playing endless hours of computer games online. The Round-Up's favourite statistic of the week is...
[25 Aug 2006]
Leader We can't count the number of times we've heard tales of 'CrackBerry' addiction or how you'd never travel without your trusty laptop and 3G data card. For most silicon.com readers business travel is a fact of life.
[01 Jun 2006]
News But addiction to the BlackBerry - dubbed the 'CrackBerry' on account of users breaking out in a sweat if they are separated from their device for more than a few minutes - remains strong for the other half of the CIO Jury, with one even emailing...
[23 Feb 2006]
Comment It has become an addiction, to the extent that new terms such as 'Crackberrys' are being coined for people who cannot switch off. A chronic work avoider, Martin Brampton examines the practises that actually lead us to accomplish the most - and they...
[06 Dec 2005]
News But the downside of this gadget addiction is that tech toys can be lost or stolen. Consumers are carting around £1,000 of gadgets every day - although few have any insurance for their tech goodies. As MP3 players, PSPs, digital cameras and other...
[01 Dec 2005]
Round-Up But incredibly the addiction has a lot in common with the more traditional symptoms experienced by substance abusers. Internet addiction in China is now at such levels that people are actually dying due to the fact they are not eating, sleeping or...
[14 Oct 2005]
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