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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... [14 Aug 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. John Chambers continues his tenure as CEO of networking infrastructure company Cisco - a role he has held since 1995,... [18 Sep 2008]
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. Nowadays you write it on the... [05 Jul 2007]
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. In the... [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. One juror also pointed out that because of increased availability of... [01 Jun 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.03.06
Round-Up At the time it was noted by one contributor to the survey that Hull's very existence represented "a sad story of unemployment, teenage pregnancy, heroin addiction, crime, violence and rampant self-neglect". [10 Mar 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.10.05
Round-Up Internet addiction in China is now at such levels that people are actually dying due to the fact they are not eating, sleeping or drinking while surfing the web. But incredibly the... [14 Oct 2005]
Are you addicted to the internet?
News Tobacco companies, drug cartels and Starbucks beware - the internet may be giving you a run for the money in the addiction department. and advertising company OMD, internet detox makes... [23 Sep 2004]
Conscripts booted out of army for 'internet addiction'
News A bunch of young men are being excused from military service due to a debilitating modern illness - internet addiction. When they go to the army doctor to share their woes, a proportion of them are... [04 Aug 2004]
Quarter of UK mobile users addicted to their phones
News Mobile addiction in the UK is on the up, with 26 per cent of users now classified as 'cyborgs', or people who can't imagine life without a mobile and feel lost without it. This group wants their mobile to carry TV and... [23 Jun 2004]
Internet news more addictive than porn - shocker
News While that fact alone will hardly surprise anybody keen on keeping their job, research from web monitoring firm Websense suggest the reason isn't to do with respectability, but has more to do with addiction. [25 Sep 2002]
Hooked on clicks
News The addiction worsened during the French Open when she was spending as much as six hours a day online. Tennis star Serena Williams is addicted to internet shopping - spending up to six hours a day... [10 Aug 2001]
It's all gone wrong for Terra Lycos and the penguin stands firm
News A painting by British artist Dexter Dalwood, depicting the room in which Sex Pistols singer Sid Vicious' girlfriend Nancy Spungen died, is being auctioned to raise money for charity Action on Addiction. [02 Feb 2001]
Mobile internet is more than WAP
News I doubt Vodafone can provide content and build an end user addiction. According to major industry players at Mobile Internet2000 in Paris, network operators are misleading consumers by marketing WAP services as access to... [03 Oct 2000]
Netsmart offers smartcard medi-records
News Its first application in New York will be at the Addiction Research and Treatment Centre (ARTC). The card uses Java based platform design and application which, according to the company, will make it easier to slot the... [08 Oct 1999]
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