Tag: apple
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Apple puts its environmental initiatives front and centre at its spring event
Apple held it’s annual spring event yesterday in Palo Alto to make iPhone, iPad, and iOS related announcements (amongst others). However, this year for a change the first executive invited to address the audience was Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, former EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson. Lisa was greeted by warm applause which became…
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Apple launches ResearchKit – secure, private, open source medical research
Apple announced a new initiative at its Spring Forward event yesterday – ResearchKit. What is ResearchKit? Apple’s SVP of Operations, Jeff Williams, described it as a framework for medical researchers to create and deploy mobile apps which collect and share medical data from phone users (with their permission), and share it with the researchers. Why…
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IBM’s InterConnect 2015, the good and the not so good
IBM invited me to attend their Cloud and Mobile Conference InterConnect 2015 last week. Because of what IBM has done globally to help people get access to safe water, to help with solar forecasting, and to help deliver better outcomes in healthcare, for example, I tend to have a very positive attitude towards IBM. So…
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Technology is completely revolutionising the healthcare industry
Healthcare is changing. Recent advances in technology are completely revolutionising how we approach the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness. And this is just the beginning of what will be a technological revolution in healthcare. Smartphone use is growing at an enormous pace. They now account for 87% of the total mobile handsets in the…
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Apple just got a whole lot Greener!
Photo credit hildgrim Like Symantec, Apple too have a significant Green story that they are not telling – and it just got a lot Greener! Why do I say they have a Green story in the first place? Aren’t they just constantly exhorting us to buy their products? How is that sustainable? Well, let me…
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British Gas launch version 2 of their iPhone app – nice but non-inclusive!
British Gas announced recently that they had updated their iPhone app to version 2. The original application, which was downloaded over 100,000 times, helped customers monitor energy use and submit meter readings to avoid estimated bills. In June alone over 18,000 meter readings were submitted using the app. With the new version customers can view…
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Friday Green Numbers round-up 05/28/2010
And here is this week’s Green numbers: Infographic: Gulf oil spill by the numbers Amazing infographic of BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill – puts it into perspective. tags: Gulf of Mexico, oilspill, bp, greennumbers Quantum teleportation achieved over 16 km Scientists in China have succeeded in teleporting information between photons further than ever before.…