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Last Word: PDA Detox

Friday, June 09, 2006

LINDA O'BRYON: Finally tonight, if you`re among the ranks of Americans who is addicted to their Blackberry PDAs, help could be on the way. A Chicago hotel manager is offering a kind of PDA detox by locking up the devices. The manager of the Sheraton Chicago admits he was obsessed by his Blackberry, often called a crack-berry by those who can`t live without it. He finally went cold turkey and switched to a regular cell phone. He says hotel guests who want to do the same thing can surrender their PDAs to him and he`ll lock them in his office. He will, of course, return them when asked, with no charge for the special service Paul.

KANGAS: I wonder if there`s a camp for recovering PDA users?

O`BRYON: Another camp, could be.