TechAddiction Blog
Blog URL http://techaddictionblog.wordpress.com/
Located Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada
Tags video game addiction, internet addiction, research, study, psychology, online, effects of technology, treatment, psychologist
Clinical psychologist looks at research on video game addiction, internet addiction, and computer addiction. News and stories related to life online.
Latest Blog Posts
- Austrialian addiction expert calls for video game rehab centre on Nov 6, 2009 in Study Treatment Treatment facility videogame addiction research rehab
Sydney University psychiatry professor Vladan Starcevic has urged Austrilia to consider a gaming rebhab centre similar to the one recently opened in London. According to his own research with a sample of 2000 individuals, one in ten gamers showed...
- Females make up almost half of console gamers on Sep 21, 2009 in Consoles Female Videogames children girls research Study
A new survey by NPD has found that almost half (44%) of current generation console games are female. Although the number of adult female gamers is growing, the largest proportion is still in the 2 - 12-year-old range. Original article www.techaddict...
- New Zune HD to have gaming functionality on Sep 16, 2009 in Gadgets Handheld gaming Videogames ipod handheld gaming system Zune microsoft
Microsoft has confirmed that the new Zune HD will feature a touch screen, HD video out, internet browser, and a new focus on gaming. Following Apple’s recent announcement of a new focus on games for the iPod Touch, this comes as no surprise. As...
- Apple to market iPod Touch as a “game machine” on Sep 14, 2009 in Gadgets Videogames handheld gaming system ipod technology
The iPod with an identity crisis, the iPod Touch, was recently bestowed with a more focused goal by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Jobs told the New York Post that Apple will follow the lead of its customers (who have made the Touch a popular handheld gaming...
- Facebook and Twitter increasingly banned at work on Sep 1, 2009 in Social Networking internet addiction legal facebook twitter work banned
ScanSoft, an Internet security provider states that there has been a 20% increase in the number of companies choosing to block social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter at work. The addition of social networking sites to “black lists...
- New Sesame Workshop study on the positive effects of video games on Aug 18, 2009 in Benefits of video games Study Videogames children family non-biased
As promised, it is not all doom (the adverse fate, not the game) and gloom (the state of melancholy, not the Pokemon) here at the TechAddiction Blog. A new report by the Sesame Workshop has outlined some of the positive effects of playing video games...
- Man blames cat for child porn found on computer on Aug 12, 2009 in Fail Pornography legal cat child porn
After being charged with 10 counts of possession of child pornography, a Florida man is blaming his cat for the 1000+ images found on his computer. “I swear, I did a Google search for kitty porn!” “Griffin told investigator...
