At the 2011 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Orlando, Fla., a variety of new services and technologies were introduced. One major barrier to health care reform is making patients physically visit a doctor. Smartphone apps could change that, giving you a doc in your pocket. FotoFinder unveiled its handyscope for identifying [...]
A Cell gets out, and it will imitate everything on the face of the Earth! And nothing can stop it! -The Thing Mobile World Congress, the stellar, cellular show, opens today in Barcelona. The trillion dollar business is charged with excitement. Mobile has come alive. Business, entertainment and society are transforming before our eyes. It [...]
Cisco, General Electric, and Xerox shared the stage this morning at CES, to discuss smart metering, green technology and the connected home. GE is showing its home energy products, including a energy display now under development and expected in the third quarter this year. When connected to a smart meter, it will show how much [...]
The International Consumer Electronics Show (Facebook and Twitter), starts tomorrow in Las Vegas. More than 130,000 attendees and 4,500 members of the media from 60 countries can see some 20,000 new consumer technology products that launch each year at CES. The Consumer Electronics Association, producer the show, is the trade association that represents the $165 [...]
Pfizer collects about $10 billion a year from its cholesterol-lowering Lipitor, making the treatment one of the best-selling drugs ever. But if every patient took every Lipitor pill as prescribed, that number would leap to $17 billion. Enter GlowCap, a wireless, Internet-connected bottle cap, that uses light and sound to alert users and phones home [...]
A network more powerful than the Internet, while perhaps inconceivable right now, is just one of many potentially life-changing applications for wireless sensor networks (WSN) highlighted in a special update issue about Sensor Networks and Applications in Proceedings of the IEEE. A new tier of the Internet is emerging. IPv6 in Low-Power Wireless Networks will [...]
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