Chinese psychiatrists have defined Internet addiction and offered up a list of symptoms, a report indicates. The affliction has been classified for people who spend six hours or more online daily. The symptoms include poor sleep, irritability, mental distress and a "yearning to be online." To combat this growing addiction, the Chinese government has created halfway-houses and clinics to help wean their citizens off of the dependency.

American psychiatrists are still debating as to whether or not Internet addiction is the real deal or not.

Virgin Media has released their stunning 50Mbps cable modem, which relies on DOCSIS 3.0 technology. It hasn’t reached the top speeds recently seen in Ambit Broadband’s channel bonding modem or Sigbritt Löthberg’s offering, but 50Mbps is still a nice chunk of change. Virgin has yet to issue a release date or pricing, but it should be available by the end of the year.

Zivity, aka "Myspace for porn addicts", has recently laid off a full 1/3rd of it’s staff. Who says the sex industry is recession proof? Wait, has anyone ever said that? It’s not as if the site employs thousands of people though. They cut back from 22 employees to 14.

The adult social networking site describes itself as a "community-powered showcase of female beauty.” This means you make a profile and then use it to gawk at girls when you should be getting something productive done. So, almost exactly like Myspace/Facebook then.

All doesn’t look bleak for the site though. They’ve secured 8 million in capitol and they recently hired Napster’s Jordan Ritter as their CTO. The site is still in private beta, however. Look for it to go public in the first quarter of 2009.

Well, it finally happened. Google has acquired DoubleClick for 2.1 billion dollars,  in a much talked about deal. Why it was so controversial was because of anti-trust laws stating that the purchase of DoubleClick would give Google unprecedented access to personal information as well as a choke-hold on Internet advertising is illegal and would infringe on personal privacy.

Google states that the purchase would only benefit the consumer. Senator Palpatine – meet Anakin Skywalker.

Tell me what you think below. 

That’s right folks the much rumored G-Phone is official read more about it HERE on this Internet site.