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Featured Articles » Internet Addiction May Prove Related to Genetics Most of us have been there at one point or another, longing to slip out of whatever it is we're doing at the time and go check our e-mail, or our Facebook page, or the comments section of our favorite blog to see if anyone picked up on our newest witticisms. But for some, that longing is sufficiently powerful, and sufficiently frequent, that it moves into the land of addiction. Recent studies, meanwhile, have shown that the Internet addiction that some have is less a matter of willpower, and more a matter of genetics. » Mobile Gaming Grows, Total Number of Gamers Falls in Recent Survey An unexpected set of seemingly contradictory results came out of the results of a recent survey from the NPD Group: while the total number of gamers in the United States fell fully five percent, the number of people playing mobile games and games online climbed impressively. Sponsored By: TMC's CUSTOMER Magazine - Target. Engage. Deliver. Companies must know who to target, how to engage, and how to deliver customer needs efficiently and effectively. CUSTOMER will help the enterprise and contact center keep tabs on the latest strategies in customer experience management and social media. CUSTOMER premieres in September 2012. (TMC' CUSTOMER Magazine is an evolution of Customer Interaction Solutions.) SUBSCRIBE NOW » Half of Humans will use Internet by 2017 Sometimes we forget how fast the communications, Internet and device industries have solved problems that seemed intractable just several decades ago. » Steve Jobs was Wrong about Tablet Screen Size, Apparently Steve Jobs believed user experience on a tablet with a screen smaller than 10 inches was not optimal. Some new research by Strategy Analytics suggests that, user experience notwithstanding; there is significant end user demand for screens of perhaps seven inches, even among survey respondents, some of whom already owning the 10-inch Apple iPad. » New Plan for High Speed Train Service in Northeast United States could Include Tunnel under Long Island Sound A plan to send an Amtrak bullet train via a proposed 18-mile tunnel under Long Island Sound is picking up steam - in order to provide European-style fast railroad service between Boston and Washington, D.C. » A Pocket-Sized Satellite: NASA Tests PhoneSat Smartphone-Based Nanosatellites I'm going to date myself by saying I've been a space aficionado since a young kid. It is thus with no small measure of awe that I direct your attention to a recent item, innocuously titled, PhoneSate Flight Demonstrations. » Wireless Window Sentinel a Breakthrough in Home Security If you have a home alarm security system, or merely observed one at a neighbor's house or watched one being installed, it's likely that you've wondered why all of those sensors attached to the windows are wired. Good question. Featured Resources » Making the Case for Hosted Servers » Building Customer Entanglement with OpEx Models » Hear how DreamWorks Animation is streamlining global collaboration through the cloud Advertise With Us General advertising Info: Click here    Become a TechZone360 columnist! Become a TechZone360 columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of communications technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TechZone360 Web site and this newsletter. Contact Erik Linask at elinask@tmcnet.com for details. FOLLOW TECHZONE360   FEATURED MAGAZINES FEATURED EVENTS

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