Psychiatrist treating 4 year old with iPad addicition

Avert your eyes children, your sanity depends on it! (credit: Flickr user dickdotcom) Batten down the hatches, folks, because if this isn't a sign of the impending apocalypse, we don't know what is. A four year old English girl is being treated for iPad addiction, with psychiatrists saying she needs to play games on the tablet frequently or else she suffers...

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Facebook Home nets just half a million downloads so far on Android

500,000 downloads is an underwhelming return for Facebook Home After the giant hoopla over Facebook Home in the last couple of weeks, the company could be forgiven for thinking more than half 500,000 users would have downloaded it to see what all the fuss was about. Well apparently, folks aren't exactly rushing to the Google Play store to download the social...

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Google rumored to launch an updated Nexus 4 with LTE radio

Google in collaboration with LG launched its fourth generation Nexus smartphone and the powerful specifications and features of the device, created a buzz among the tech enthusiasts. However, the Google Nexus 4 was criticized, as it lacked an LTE radio and the ability to support micoSD card for memory expansion. Google seems to have addressed the concern, as the company...

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'BadNews' Android malware may have been downloaded 9 million times

Affected apps had been approved by Google A new breed malware has been discovered within at least 32 Android apps, which may have been downloaded up to nine million times. The so-called 'BadNews' malware was outed by security firm Lookout Mobile Security in a blog post on Friday. All of the apps found to contain the malicious code had been approved by...

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Are wireless signals really dangerous?

Using a headset is always a good idea While we are surrounded by radio waves emitted by the Cosmos, we have only known about them since the 1890s, when wireless transmission was first demonstrated. However, It wasn't until the late 1980s, with the advent of the first mobile phones, that radio transmitters first started entering the home, and even then,...

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Why basic smartphones will win in the race for 'the next billion' users

The first Firefox OS smartphone, the ZTE Open, launches soon in Spain, Venezuela and Colombia With so many high-end smartphones about, the market for cheap PAYG phones is long dead. That's the received wisdom, but it's wrong – so wrong – because it's predicated on a mis-understanding of where the 'market' is. If you hadn't guessed already, the US, Europe...

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