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Perhaps you know at least one person who totes around one or more devices to ensure an almost constant connection to the office and friends. They answer their phones during dinner at a restaurant or turn away from a movie to read their latest text. Perhaps you are that person. Those individuals are part of a growing population, according to IDC and Nortel. They make up what the companies have dubbed the "culture of connectivity." A new study conducted by IDC and sponsored by Nortel has concluded that so-called hyperconnected workers accounts for 16 percent of global business users today.

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A growing number of households in the U.S. are hanging up their landline phones, opting instead to use cell phones exclusively, according to a Wednesday report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The six-month survey, conducted from July 2007 to December 2007, found that 22.3 percent of households with both landline and mobile phones use their traditional wired phone lines rarely or not at all. The agency's findings represent an increase over results the CDC had gathered just six months earlier.