BlackBerry Addicts Archive
“BlackBerry Back” to be the latest techno-affliction?
Back, shoulder and posture side-effects of on-going BlackBerry use are being studied by medical researchers.

Vacation spots for BlackBerry detox
Need to seriously unplug during the holidays? There are some destinations that will happily take your BlackBerry away from you.

Workers still check BlackBerrys on holidays
83% in a recent survey said they’d be bringing their mobile with them on summer holidays. C’mon, relax a bit.

DDB Canada cracks down on BlackBerry rudeness
A very creative way of making people put away their BlackBerrys at a meeting.

BlackBerry overuse lowers productivity?
Michael Enright talks with Professor Linda Duxbury about the potential rude uses of the BlackBerry, like checking email during a meeting or other conversation, as well as the impulse to use it at home or during the weekends.

New treatment for BlackBerry thumb
$39 to hook some elastics to your fingers? Seems a bit steep, but to fix BlackBerry thumb, options are slim.

BlackBerry users: where do you check your email?
AOL releases a report on where people are checking their email. So where do YOU do it?

RIM gets high-tech, uses LEGOs
Here’s a little fun Friday goodness for you. We were tipped off to an article today about Matthias Wandel, an engineer at RIM who came up with an inventive low-tech solution to a high-tech problem back in the day.
It seems as though Matthias was testing the 900MHz reception of the old RIM 950 (we’re talking [...]

BlackBerry’s sky high reception
Literally, my friends. Literally. Thanks to our new pal Chris Thomas and his Pour Out blog for this tidbit. On a flight back to his homebase, Chris was probably checking his ‘Berry for the 254th out of 357 times on the plane when he noticed that his device was getting a solid [...]








