The “40-hour week” has been getting longer for years. The average American works 47.5 hours per week – and that’s not even counting another 4.5 hours they spend catching up on extra work at home.
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If your smartphone is attached to your hip, your blood flows like a Twitter feed and you're fairly certain your eyes permanently see through an Instagram filter, then maybe it's time to disconnect for a bit? Delete the scoop?
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For now, we are making smartphone purchasing decisions not just on hardware specs, connectivity and price but even more so on the software and data entanglements of these device. Delete the scoop?
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Most people whipping out their mobile phone and touching the interface with their fingers won't connect it to science fiction at all. Delete the scoop?
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Although 45% of American adults own smartphones, only about 11% of mobile devices are recycled, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's latest data. Delete the scoop?
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Sometimes, smartphones can be a boon for your personal productivity, but other times it's amazing how much trouble they have performing simple tasks. Here are ten things your phone probably sucks at, and how to make it work better. Delete the scoop?
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Sometimes, smartphones can be a boon for your personal productivity, but other times it's amazing how much trouble they have performing simple tasks. Here are ten things your phone probably sucks at, and how to make it work better. Delete the scoop?
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You might not have thought of all you can do with your smartphone. Here are 10 apps with useful functions to help you complete physical-world tasks. Delete the scoop?
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Mobile phones make it easy to connect to the Internet, but they can also make it easy for you to outgrow your data plan in a hurry. Try these 8 ways to ration your mobile data usage so you can spend less money on your phone plan. 
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May 7, 4:03 AM
Some good advice here. Whilst on holiday recently, we found ourselves eating our Data bundles. We take these for granted when in the UK, at home using WIFI, of as part of your tariff, However, it's easy when you are abroad to forget just how much data we use, even simple switching to manual checking of email can save a lot. Delete the scoop?
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It was only a matter of time.
Smartphone shipments overtook feature phone shipments worldwide in the first quarter of this year for the first time ever, according to a new report from IDC. There were 418.6 million mobile phones shipped worldwide in the March quarter, according to IDC, 216.2 million of which were smartphones. This marked the first time that smartphones represented more than half the market. Smartphone shipments increased by more than 40% year-over-year.
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An exclusive interview with some of the designers of the Facebook Phone. For more obvious parodies, see: http://twitter.com/dartanion or http://facebook.com/... Via ABroaderView Delete the scoop?
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, it turns out that adults are worse than teenagers when it comes to texting while driving That's according to the results of a survey conducted by AT&T and published in USA Today, showing that 49% of adult drivers... Delete the scoop?
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The new Samsung Galaxy S 4, which was unveiled in New York City on Thursday night, will be coming in April Delete the scoop?
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Detaching from work -- mentally, physically and electronically -- is the key to recovery from job stress during nonwork hours, according to an expert. YoungAh Park, assistant professor of psychology and former businesswoman in the competitive South Korean workforce, has researched the stress crossover phenomenon between working couples, work-family boundary management and processes of work stress and recovery from stress.
She says staying connected to work through smartphones, tablets or laptops has become the norm, although being plugged in allows work-related issues to spill over to the family domain and disrupts recovery from job stress. Read more... Delete the scoop?
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BlackBerry — the company formerly known as Research in Motion — announced on Wednesday the arrival of its new BlackBerry Z10 smartphone, which has the potential to brighten the future of the struggling company.
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In the market for a new (smart)phone? This chart includes the latest offering from BlackBerry; the Z10, side-by-side with the industry biggies. Delete the scoop?
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