iPads swarm healthcare

Is Your Doctor’s iPad Good For Your Health? By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com Surgeons, doctors, nurses, residents, and other medical professionals all regularly use iPads on the job. The practice has inspired a cottage industry, health care innovation, and privacy concerns. Slow­ly but sure­ly, iPads are chang­ing the fa… RT @FastCompany: Is your doctor’s iPad good … Continue reading iPads swarm healthcare

Intelligence agencies use iPhones and iPads–in top secret mode

How America’s Spies Use iPhones And iPads By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com Deep inside the NSA guidelines for iOS, warnings about “juice-jacking,” “hot mikes,” and requirements to cover iPad cameras with tape. Years ago, when spooks and gov­ern­ment employ­ees need­ed a secure smart­phone, they turned to Research in… RT @nealunger: iSpy: Inside the #NSA’s best practices … Continue reading Intelligence agencies use iPhones and iPads–in top secret mode

Why the iPad can replace your cable subscription

Who Needs Cable? 3 iPad Apps That Glue Me To My TV John Paul Titlow, readwrite.com The Internet may be changing TV, but it is nowhere close to completely disrupting it.Why’s that? In a word, content.Web videos can rack up millions of views (and millions of dollars), but the Web isn’t yet giving us content … Continue reading Why the iPad can replace your cable subscription

iPhones becoming your roaming physician on call

One day smartphones will know your body better than you do By Guest Author, wired.co.uk Technology This is a guest post by Mark Cur­tis, chief client offi­cer at design con­sul­tan­cy firm Fjord. Smart­phones, tablets and the range of apps that run on these devices are trans­form­ing the health and lifestyle sec­tor, and a… RT @WiredUK: … Continue reading iPhones becoming your roaming physician on call

Apps for iPad that let anyone watch cable channels for free

History, A&E, and Lifetime Channel apps for iPad let anyone watch current episodes for free By Dante D’Orazio, theverge.com It may con­tin­ue to be a pain for cable sub­scribers to watch tele­vi­sion when mobile, but the sit­u­a­tion should be a bit improved now that apps for the His­to­ry Chan­nel, A&E, and Life­time are avail­able for … Continue reading Apps for iPad that let anyone watch cable channels for free

Why the iPod touch is the perfect VOIP soft phone: Freedompop

FreedomPop Aims to Turn an iPod Touch Into an iPhone, With a 4G Add-On Ina Fried, allthingsd.com Wire­less start-up Free­dom­Pop is announc­ing plans on Tues­day to start sell­ing an add-on that effec­tive­ly gives an iPod touch many of the capa­bil­i­ties of an iPhone. The $99 add-on brings wire­less data capa­bil­i­ties to a third-generat… http://flip.it/lw7Sl Related … Continue reading Why the iPod touch is the perfect VOIP soft phone: Freedompop

Big Tech: Mary Meeker Says We’re Giving Up Our Possessions for the Internet

  Michael V. Copeland, wired.com Analyst turned VC Mary Meeker sees a lot to be excited about in tech (mobile), and much to be worried about too. http://flip.it/sMiw8 Big Tech: Mary Meeker Says We’re Giving Up Our Possessions for the Internet Related articles Disrupt or Die. Are You Working With The Social Agency Of The … Continue reading Big Tech: Mary Meeker Says We’re Giving Up Our Possessions for the Internet

Harvard design iPad book will never go out of date

An iPad Guide To Building The Perfect Sustainable City By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com “Ecological Urbanism,” a book of essays published by the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2010, was destined to fall out of date. The iPad version won’t have that problem. In 2010, Har­vard’s Grad­u­ate School of Design pub­lished… RT @FastCompany: Via @FastCoDesign, … Continue reading Harvard design iPad book will never go out of date

Best LTE providers for iPad

4G iPad Mini: Which Carrier Has the Best Deal? Brad Chacos - Laptop Mag, gizmodo.com The iPad mini’s pint-sized frame was made with porta­bil­i­ty in mind, and the arrival of a 4G LTE-equipped model at three of the nation’s top cel­lu­lar providers this morn­ing makes it eas­i­er than ever to keep your tablet con­nect­ed while … Continue reading Best LTE providers for iPad

iPad mini review

Review: The skinny on the iPad mini—it’s not the size that counts Jacqui Cheng, arstechnica.com For­mer Apple CEO Steve Jobs famous­ly trashed 7” tablets as being “dead in the water” in 2010. Two years later, under the reign of new CEO Tim Cook, Apple has released its own minia­ture tablet—one that has a diag­o­nal screen … Continue reading iPad mini review

Dropcam adds split screen

Dropcam Updates Their iPad App So You Can Watch Your World In Split-Screen John Biggs, techcrunch.com I’ve used a few wire­less, always-on web­cams in my day and I’ve found Drop­cam to be the best. Sud­den­ly, how­ev­er, Drop­cam just got bet­ter. Drop­cam cam­eras con­nect wire­less­ly to the Inter­net, allow­ing you to con­nect to them remote­… http://flpbd.it/hgblrContinue reading Dropcam adds split screen

Why pirates make the best change agents according to Steve Jobs

An HR Lesson From Steve Jobs: If You Want Change Agents, Hire Pirates By Peter Sander, fastcodesign.com Why? Because pirates can operate when rules and safety nets break down. [The fol­low­ing is an excerpt from What Would Steve Jobs Do?: How the Steve Jobs Way Can Inspire Any­one to Think Dif­fer­ent­ly and Win by Peter … Continue reading Why pirates make the best change agents according to Steve Jobs

iPod Touch makes point and shoot camera pointless

The New iPod Touch Will Further Obliterate The Point-And-Shoot Market Mg Siegler, techcrunch.com It’s easy to for­get that the iPod touch didn’t even include a cam­era until 2010. While such a key fea­ture has been stan­dard on the iPhone since its ini­tial unveil­ing in 2007, Apple appar­ent­ly didn’t think it was one of the must-have … Continue reading iPod Touch makes point and shoot camera pointless

New York Magazine captures post Sandy NY

New York Magazine Captures the Look of Post-Sandy New York Arik Hesseldahl, allthingsd.com To the list of New York insti­tu­tions that saw their oper­a­tions dis­rupt­ed by the Super­storm known as Sandy last week, add New York Mag­a­zine. With offices on Var­ick and Canal Streets, it is sit­u­at­ed right at the bor­der­line between t… http://flpbd.it/Den3G Related … Continue reading New York Magazine captures post Sandy NY

iPad Mini: To Doctors, Size Does Matter

mobiquityinc.com Octo­ber 26, 2012 A stan­dard lab-coat pock­et is about 8.5 inch­es by 7.5 inch­es. An iPad mini comes in at 7.87 by 5.3 inch­es, mean­ing that it is the first pocket-sized iPad (at least, if you’re into wear­ing lab coats) to hit the mar­ket.… http://flpbd.it/fp9Fn iPad Mini: To Doctors, Size Does Matter Related articles … Continue reading iPad Mini: To Doctors, Size Does Matter

Never forget a face? Take the test

Never forget a face? Take the test Gerry Everding-WUSTL, futurity.org WASH­ING­TON U. – ST. LOUIS (US) — A new online exper­i­ment tests your abil­i­ty to remem­ber names and faces, and com­pares your score with oth­ers’. The test, which can be taken from a com­put­er, smart­phone, iPad, and other mobile… http://flpbd.it/dn2t5 Related articles Review: Logitech's Ultrathin … Continue reading Never forget a face? Take the test