Category: E-Mail Addiction

Finding Web sites that look good on the substandard Web browsers and screens of most PDAs and PDA phones (read: Treos, Windows Mobile devices, and BlackBerrys) is a challenge. Thankfully, mobile-obsessed blogger Brian Cantoni has produced a quick and easy list of Web sites specially designed for the small screen. He even breaks them down into simple categories. And, of course, the list itself ...

Sure, AT&T already has the Curve, the 8800 and the Pearl, not to mention older Blackberries such as the 8700 and the 7130c. But they won't let that stop them from introducing yet another push e-mail powerhouse from RIM. Rumor has it that the 8820 from the Crackberry folks will be announced Tuesday, September 4th, by AT&T. The newest handset from RIM will be the first to feature Wi-Fi and ...

Teenagers can sometimes be a miserable bunch. According to British researchers, that may have something to do with a lack of quality sleep. The culprit of this "junk sleep?" Electronics, of course. According to a survey done by The Sleep Council, a full 30 percent of children between 12 and 16 years old only get 4-7 hours of sleep a night as opposed to the recommended 8-9. Almost 25 percent ...

After four years of tweaking and re-releasing the chubby Treo 600 design, Palm is finally ready to release a new smartphone. Unfortunately for the struggling handset maker, the reception so far towards its leaked Palm Centro (previously known as Gandolf) has been less than enthusiastic. The device looks small and slick, which is nice, but the keyboard is apparently so small that it's tough to ...

Spammers, while evil, are a crafty bunch. They constantly adapt to the security firms who attempt to stay ahead of these scam artists. It used to be that spammers were simply the junk mailers of the electronic world, assuring you were aware of the latest deals on 'personal enhancement' devices. Then viruses and spyware embedded in HTML and images became a new threat. In January, image-based spam ...

Way back in the day (a whole four years ago) the Internet was primarily a tool of communication -- e-mail, message boards, instant messaging. Then somewhere along the way things began to change. Content became king. A study conducted by Nielsen/NetRatings over the past four years has shown that almost half our Internet lives are now spent devouring content (like this blog). Since 2003, the ...

If you're not familiar with AT&T's billing practices you might be a bit shocked to receive your first iPhone bill. Justine Ezarik was less-than amused when her 300-page bill was delivered in a box. AT&T makes sure to take note of every single text message, every data transaction, and every phone call and print each on a separate line. That means that every time you hit that Safari web ...

When Yahoo decided to offer unlimited free storage with Yahoo Mail, we all figured it was only a matter of time before Google offered the same... well, Google has put the kibosh on that idea. The search giant has unveiled its new pay-for-storage system that will increase your limits on Gmail, Picasa, and, soon, Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Don't worry, though, since prices look to be ...

Federal or state programs to help citizens deal with drug and alcohol addiction is something we're used to in the U.S. In China it's a little different. The scourge of the streets in Shanghai and Beijing is... (bum bum bum) the Internet. Over the past few years, there have been a series of Internet and gaming related deaths in China (both from sickness and from murder), which has finally led to ...

Though a youngster today might look at you with absolute bewilderment at the mention of the word "e-mail," the medium is actually more popular than ever with Americans. AOL just completed a massive, broad-sweeping survey on the subject, which polled residents of the country's top 20 markets. From the survey, an index rating was created based on the percentage of residents online who have more ...

American Airlines and Lufthansa are the latest to jump on the in-flight Internet bandwagon. American Airlines has signed up with Aircell to start offering broadband access at 30,000 feet sometime next year. It will initially begin rolling out the service on trans-Atlantic flights on its fleet of 767s. Annoyingly, prices for the service were not announced yet, which is what we laptop-addicted ...

In our exclusive video investigation, Switched.com hits the streets to document just how hooked Joe Public has become on the old inbox. Related Links: Top 10 Most E-Mail Addicted Cities E-Mail Addiction: Battle of the Sexes! 43% of E-Mail Users Sleep With Their Cell Phones American, Lufthansa Adding In-Flight Wi-Fi ...

This past June, AOL conducted a survey of 4,025 Internet users to study the behavior of we humans and our relationship to e-mail. The survey covered everything from how many e-mail accounts people have, to how they feel when they're busted checking personal e-mail at work, to where they check e-mail on portable devices (church, the bathroom and from behind the wheel were all answers given). The ...

Not too many men we know are addicted to shoe shopping, just as it isn't so easy to find a female who paints her face in team colors every Monday night in the fall and spends the better part of her salary on an all-inclusive sports cable package. But what about e-mail? When it comes to the domain of the inbox, who's more addicted? This past June, America Online (Switched.com's daddy) surveyed ...

Forget the midnight snacks. It turns out Americans would rather check their e-mail in the middle of the night than do just about anything else. According to AOL's E-Mail Addiction study for 2007, forty percent of e-mail users have checked their e-mail in the middle of the night. Yes, this means people are sleeping with their Blackberries, iPhones, and Treos. The gender breakdown isn't ...