Filed under: Business, Internet, E-mail, Web services
We are all pretty addicted to email, we know
If you have a device that pulls in email, like a Blackberry or a spankin new iPhone, a new study shows that you are addicted to email. And those rates have doubled since 2004.As email has become more accessible on devices many consumers are taking advantage of the fact they can check email whenever they want. AOL together with the Opinion Research Corporation who put the study together said that as devices are becoming easier to use, its becoming easier to stay connected, whether at the office, vacationing on the beach, or lying in bed. The study shows that people on average would check their email five times per day, however 59% of those people with portable devices would check the message every time a new one came in.
15% of Americans see themselves as email addicts, with many users actually basing their vacations around whether the locations are email friendly.
How do DLS readers fare in this study. Are you addicted to email? and do you actually base your vacations and trips around whether you get a good signal?
Disclaimer: DownloadSquad is owned by AOL.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
