addiction in comment and analysis
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 outrageously high taxes, but... [14 Dec 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.08.07
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]
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 the word. [09 Mar 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 had posted a link showing... [15 Jan 2007]
Confessions of a CrackBerry addict
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]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.08.06
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: Business travel tech - a good thing?
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]
Devil's Advocate: Work is overrated
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]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.10.05
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]
Devil's Advocate: In search of wireless nirvana
Comment On the computer side, the steadily increasing addiction to power is not helping matters. To realise the dream of a wireless world, we need to find a new way to deliver power to computers and other electronics, says Martin Brampton. [22 Mar 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Is UK's outsourcing addiction unhealthy?
Comment The UK loves foreign goods, including foreign software development. But, asks Martin Brampton, is outsourcing this speciality good for the country and IT? Forrester Research believes the UK will account for three-quarters of all European offshore... [20 Jul 2004]
The Director's Cut: Navigating the email minefield
Comment Email has revolutionised communication, on the one hand becoming core to doing business, on the other becoming a sort of electronic drug addiction. Many people argue emails have simply replaced the old fashioned internal memo, often colour-coded to... [20 Feb 2001]
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