A blend of opinions & news on tech topics like cloud, mobile, big data, app development and app performance from geniuses inside the technology industry.
It’s only been available for a few weeks, yet the pundits and technorati agree: MS Surface Pro has some miles to go in its quest to carve out significant market share in the brutally competitive tablet marketplace. The Surface Pro marketplace may be a little soft, too, in the form of numbers of developers actively writing applications for MS Surface Pro, and currently available applications For Surface RT and Surface Pro (about 50,000). … [Read more...]
When was the last time someone offered you $25 for that Pentium III laptop you’re keeping in the basement? (You were sure it would become a valuable antique). On a similar note, when was the last time you could buy a state-of-the-art, credit-card-sized single-board computer for under $35? You read that right. And, it comes to us from the UK, makers of other cutting-edge technology, like Triumph motorcycles and Jaguar … [Read more...]
We recently wrote about patient engagement and the leading role that technology, and mobile technology specifically, is playing in helping this approach to telehealth come to fruition. Patient engagement has been increasingly singled out as providing perhaps the best chance for improving patient care quality while controlling costs. While it’s easy to take the “bully pulpit” approach: dictating healthy habits through subscriber … [Read more...]
People are not their diseases. This fundamental shift in attitude within the treatment community has the potential to drive a massive shift to more fully engage patients in their own care, while promoting the tremendous technological innovation that will enable development of more complex, natural, and meaningful social communications tools. Add to that mobile, contextual access for a rich and interactive experience. The opportunities … [Read more...]
Where do we watch TV? Turns out, not so much in the living room. At the end of February Nielsen, the company who rates how much TV we watch per household, announced that they are going to start including Smartphones and Tablets as part of the viewing figures for TV shows. To be specific Nielsen stated that a household is now one with “at least one operable TV/monitor with the ability to deliver video via traditional means of antennae, cable … [Read more...]
Words fail us when we begin to describe the concept of wearable mobile medical devices. Going back to the bad old days, it could mean backpack sized devices for monitoring and reporting cardiac information like blood pressure, blood sugar, and digestive functions. A little later on, with the advent of then – new RF technology, LifeAlert made the term “Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” a part of the modern lexicon, and the … [Read more...]
There is a magic number that means a product has reach mass adoption. It's 50 million. At 50 million you have a lot of people to sell too. So, the question is this: how long does it take for you to release a solution that can reach 50 million users? The simple answer: very fast. This is how long traditional tools took to reach 50 million users: Telephone ~ 75 years Radio ~ 38 years Television ~ 13 years Internet ~ 4 … [Read more...]
When does a phone stop being a phone? When it becomes a hub to your connected world. Over the weekend a new set of rumors from New York Times and the Wall Street Journal released stories of a potential iWatch coming from Apple. OK, we know this is rumor but the story sheds light on an interesting aspect of the iPhone - the role of digital hub. For many years both Apple and Microsoft pushed the desktop to be the digital hub for your … [Read more...]
Are you “that guy” (or “gal”)? You know the one with tablet computer (or a smart phone) in the store comparing product prices, features, availability, shipping, taxes? Do you delight in running circles around the hapless associate who can’t seem to command the same volume of intelligence about the product in question? Able to compare multiple identical products and prices simultaneously? That’s “Showrooming” in a … [Read more...]
The (now legendary) Steve Jobs will forever be credited as the inspiration for the now-familiar phrase “The Next Insanely Great Thing” in a Wired interview in 1996. It would later become his trademark in various venues, first as he oversaw the launch of new technology developed by NeXT Computer, and later as the CEO and defacto Cheerleader-In-Charge for Apple Computer. The phrase embodied Jobs’ enthusiasm for the perfect package: … [Read more...]
