Sometimes it feels that way while checking email at 2:50 a.m. on a Monday.
Checking email (90%) along with internet browsing and social networking (75%) ranked as the primary uses of traveling with these devices.
Mr. Flexon has mounted a "Be Here Now" plaque underneath his monitor as a reminder to avoid checking email during calls.
These individuals are the same ones who are checking email, sending messages, signing vital contracts, and more, all without missing holiday festivities.
The motivation behind this practice of constantly checking email deserves closer scrutiny.
For a virtual assistant like Janie, who works from her home in Pennsylvania, her day begins with checking email messages from her clients.
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Connor recommends that men and women set boundaries between work and home -- for example, checking email no more than once an hour.
Do we allow ourselves to be distracted on vacation by constantly checking email, or do we put work aside and enjoy the time away?
Checking email and social networking are the top activities on smartphones.
What I mostly use tablets for is reading Kindle books, watching Netflix movies and checking email and there are excellent Android apps for those particular tasks.
Only, the wireless network you signed into was not only unsecure, it was a decoy network setup by a malicious hacker targeting people casually checking email, like you.
Users will be able to perform the full breadth of online tasks-from hopping onto their social networking sites and updating their blogs, to checking email and viewing streaming video.
Popup Note lets users open an S Note instantly as a pop-up window to jot down a quick note during a phone call, checking email or watching a video.
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Their proposed FlipSide case for iPhones (we see a prototype here) centers on Bluetooth 4.0 gamepad controls that stay clipped to the back when just checking email, but attach to the front for playtime.
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For the past two years, Ruckus has turned its attention to carriers who are overwhelmed by mobile users checking email, weather and Facebook and are looking for ways to offload 3G and 4G traffic from their cellular networks.
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The top five tablet activities, based on a survey of users in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, are checking email (81 percent), reading the news (69 percent), checking the weather forecast (63 percent), social networking (62 percent) and gaming (60 percent).
And you've probably noticed yourself how much technology affects nearly every facet of your daily life, whether it's checking email on your iPhone, keeping track of your finances on a laptop or streaming your Netflix through a video game console at home.
By integrating what we currently think of as a television with what we currently think of as a computer, one could toggle between watching traditional content, Internet content or checking email between shows, or possibly while watching shows in a FaceTime-like separate box on the screen.
What happens when you get cut off in traffic or someone you are meeting with starts checking her email?
Back in the mid-80s, the idea of transferring funds, checking your email, buying stocks and booking a trip online was all a faraway dream.
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This type of message would not be out of the ordinary for her, so I clicked through the link while checking my email from my phone.
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But for those of us who plan on checking our email through the holidays that extra time at home may not be as joyous as it sounds.
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Checking my email on my phone I found two messages from Twitter - each telling me that my password had been reset "as a precautionary security measure".
Market mavens bought and used more daily deals in our study and reported checking their email for daily deals every day and integrating such deals into their regular shopping behavior.
Is checking my email one more time necessary?
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By then, Mr. Mehiri wasn't checking his email.
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Checking her email became an addiction.
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Other strategies include taking a time out from technology (including compulsive email checking) and keeping a regular schedule.
You can stop the compulsive voicemail and email-checking, the constant texting, and the Facebook stalking.
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