A Facebook addiction test has finally been developed and published by researchers at the University of Bergen, in the journal Psychological Reports.
 
The Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale, created by Psychology Professor Cecilia Schou Andreassen based on research with 423 students, deems a user addicted to Facebook if they answer “often” or “always” four or more times to six questions which must be answered with “very rarely”, “rarely”, “sometimes”, “often”, and …

AT&T has just announced its most affordable LTE Windows Phone yet, the Samsung Focus 2, which will be up for grabs for $50 starting May 20 to those looking for a bargain Windows Phone working on the fastest network AT&T has to offer.
This seriously threatens the Windows Phone-powered Nokia Lumia 900 which is also on AT&T’s LTE network as the two devices are comparably endowed in terms of hardware.
This brings the AT&T portfolio of LTE Windows Phone handsets at three, the HTC …

The next iteration of the biggest Galaxy tablet from Samsung, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, is now available for pre-order from Office Depot at a low price of $400 ($399.99 if you want to split hairs).
So it seems that the leak from Office Depot early last month, which we have since suspected to have been a prematurely published page of the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, turned out to be correct.
In a leak at the start of April, what appears to have been the preorder page for the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 …

A breakthrough research culminating in a technology being called Touché is paving the way for everything around us to become intelligently touch-sensitive.
The Touché technology was developed by a team from Disney and Carnegie Mellon University and it endows living and non-living things alike with touch sensitivity: not only simple touch sensitivity but intelligent touch sensitivity.
Touché paves the way not only for things to sense whether they are being touched. That’s relatively simple …

CrowdCloud LLC, a subsidiary of digital media technology company Adiant, last month released the final version of its CrowdCloud app, which uses a patent pending technology to search social media and provide curated reports for users in the 41 U.S. cities it currently covers. Other Adiant brands include the Adblade Ad Network, OptiServe ad platform, CrowdCloud Mobile Community platform, and Mani Rewards.
 
The CrowdCloud app, available for free on the iTunes store, is also now available in …

With the Samsung Galaxy S III finally announced, we are seeing that Samsung aims to go farther than just impressing people with ridiculously powerful hardware. The South Korean consumer electronics giant is going a step further, wanting to awe users with new features that take advantage of their new flagship’s powerful hardware.
As promised in our earlier post right after Samsung concluded its launch event, we examine these features that Samsung boasted about with the announcement of the …

It was the Galaxy S III after all.
Samsung has just announced its newest flagship superphone, the Galaxy S III. And it is official, the name is “Samsung Galaxy S III” and not the “Samsung Galaxy S3”.
Samsung touts the Galaxy S III as the “next big thing”, an obvious dig at Apple and its iPhone.
“Good evening, everyone! Today I am very excited to finally introduce the next Galaxy, the Galaxy S III,” Samsung Mobile President JK Shin said at the launch of the newest and most …

Smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices may soon be operated truly hands-free with the announcement of a new voice verification technology from speech technology firm Sensory.
The technology, which Sensory has just revealed to be already available, adds another layer of security to your device since it creates a unique voice print for users.
This means that a device equipped with such technology will only wake up if the speaker is the owner of the device.
The technology is simple: the …

Is Apple using its clout to bully app developers who use the Dropbox SDK (and more generally, offer options for users to use services which compete directly with Apple’s own services)?
Reports are pouring in that the maker of shiny i-devices is blocking apps which use the Dropbox SDK from getting approved through its rigorous vetting process.
Dropbox has confirmed as much with the company saying that Apple is rejecting apps which use the Dropbox SDK.
Apparently, Apple does not want users to …

A leak of the purported HP Slate 8 provides a sneak peek into what’s in store for people interested in enterprise-targeted Windows 8 tablets.
The leak comes from an image of a slide which is said to be part of an internal presentation from HP and includes a mockup of the device.
The Windows 8 tablet, officially being referred to on the slide as the HP Slate 8 and described as the HP Win 8 Slate, will come with a 10.1-inch display.
HP also listed some features of the HP Slate 8 on the …