Things are changing fast in medicine, thanks to mobile.
This post was written by Tom Raftery and was published at Things are changing fast in medicine, thanks to mobile. Wow – this is an amazing video on just how much smartphones can help reduce costs, increase healthcare efficiency and improve patient well-being and outcomes. We may not be fully there yet in terms of [...]
Smartphone energy management – at last there is an app for that!
The World Bank issued a report yesterday showing that the number of mobile phone subscriptions in use worldwide, both pre-paid and post-paid, has now reached over 6 billion. The report went on to reveal that more than 30 billion mobile applications, or “apps,” were downloaded in 2011 alone – these apps extend the capabilities of [...]
Smartphone energy management – when will there be an app for that?
I wrote a post last week about mobile endpoint management applications and their potential to extend smartphone battery life. It seems it was a prescient piece given the emergence this week of a study from Purdue University and Microsoft Research showing how energy is used by some smartphone applications [PDF]. The study indicates that many [...]
My Quick Take on Quicktate (Convenient Transcription Has Finally Arrived)
It is rare that I get so excited about a new service I feel compelled to grab a pen mic smartphone and blog about it. But today it just happened: the service I’m going to talk about is Quicktate. For background, let me just come clear and admit that I’m a really lousy typist and [...]
Read My Lips: We Are Not Walking Away from WebOS
Today comes news leaked from an internal HP all hands meeting that the company is not abandoning WebOS, 15 months after acquiring it for $1.2 billion. This is how we get all our news about HP these days, leaked memos and meeting soundbites. Watch for two main arguments being presented, the first by the tech [...]
Putting Personal Choice into Enterprise IT?
Corporate IT is about standardization, control, governance, compliance, IP protection and enterprise security not about personal choice and empowerment, or at least it was. There’s a growing movement though towards employee empowerment and personal. Now admittedly some of the movement…
CES 2011 Report
The CES this year had about 140K attendees, a significant increase over last year’s attendance. More importantly, 30K of these attendees were international. Last year was good for consumer electronic sales, particularly the Christmas season, so that buoyed the attendees spirits. This was another show demonstrating CE evolution rather than revolution. As I wrote last [...]
Motorola Takes Us a Step Closer to Personal Computing Nirvana–and it’s Not Even a Computer
It took five years, but the personal computing nirvana vision I first heard from Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu is becoming reality. The concept that I discussed in The Cell-Phone Aware PC May Be a PC-less PC, and other posts is simple. Instead of a plethora of situational devices with redundant computing capacity, carry around just [...]
D&B Goes Mobile With New Smartphone-Optimized Supply Risk Capability (Part 2)
In the first post in this series looking at D&B’s recent smartphone-optimized browser capabilities, I provided an overview of D&B’s new Supply Risk Management Mobile module. I’ll continue by offering a quick analysis of some of th…
Android Phone Without Google Voice? Yes, But What a Deal! You Get What You Pay for @ Virgin Mobile.
News of Virgin Mobile starting to sell an Android phone is disruptive, to say the least. Not because of the phone – it’s a dinky little Samsung Intercept – but because of the plans. They are all contract-free, and start at $25. The basic level only gives you 300 minutes to talk, but it includes [...]
