Tag: iphone
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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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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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WordPress app for iPhone/iPod Touch launched
WordPress launched it’s long anticipated WordPress app for the iPhone and iPod Touch this morning. See http://iPhone.wordpress.org for more. I downloaded to my iPod and am writing this post using it. The write screen seems quite bare. I don’t yet see how to add links, emphasis or photos to posts. I am sure the functionality…
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iPhone and iPod Touch leading to huge increase in mobile web browsing
Two stories being reported today point to how Apple got it right with the iPhone/iPod Touch. In the first story, coming out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, EE Times is reporting that: A blue-ribbon panel of human behavior and technology experts at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain agreed that the best…
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Nokia N810 Internet Tablet review
I received a present of a Nokia N810 recently from a client. This was in lieu of payment for some work I did for them. To say that I am underwhelmed with the device would be putting it mildly! The N810 is an internet tablet. It has a browser and a radio and GPS built-in.…
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Another device?
Amazon are set to release an electronic book reader called the Kindle today according to NewsWeek. The device sounds cool, in theory (built-in wireless over EVDO, email, long-life batteries, search, lots of storage, etc.) but do we really want another device to be carrying around? Especially at the price point being talked about ($399). I’m…