Philippine doctors turn to mobile, web for artificial limbs donations August 18, 2010
A group of Philippine doctors and health workers are fast-tracking their donations of free artificial limbs to poor and far-flung amputees with the help of a Philippine-made information technology that was developed for a telecommunication company, a local paper has reported.Doctors from the University of the Philippines – Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) have started to use a new program called Amputee Screening via CEllphone NeTworking (Ascent), which allows social workers to get data from beneficiaries who need prosthetics, then send the data they have gathered to doctors and to the manufacturers of prosthetics, Lyne Abanilla, executive director of Physicians for …
Email This PostMobile phones bring revolution to developing world June 23, 2010
We all know how fast technology can change markets and businesses. Now the web and the mass proliferation of mobile phones, as well as falling costs for all kinds of technologies, are allowing rapid change to affect more than just the developed world.
And advances in technology and the falling cost of delivery are driving big corporations as well as entrepreneurs to take new or renewed interest in solving some of the most seemingly intractable issues we face as a global community, from health care to education, from economic development and rolling out affordable alternative energy to coping with the social …
Email This PostText messages become a growing weapon in dating violence June 22, 2010
The text messages to the 22-year-old Virginia woman arrived during the day and night, sometimes 20 or 30 at once. Her ex-boyfriend wanted her back. He would not be refused. He texted and called 758 times.
In New York, a 17-year-old trying to break up with her boyfriend got fewer messages, but they were menacing. “You don’t need nobody else but me,” read one. Another threatened to kill her.
It is all part of what is increasingly called “textual harassment,” a growing aspect of dating violence at a time when cellphones and unlimited texting plans are ubiquitous among the young. It …
Email This PostThe secret weapons in Nigers fight against hunger: Mobile phones and Photo ID’s June 10, 2010
I arrived in Niger three months ago to help the Concern Worldwide country team scale up and roll out an emergency program to respond to the emerging food crisis. It’s hard to say when exactly this shifted from an “impending crisis” to a real humanitarian emergency, but we are there now. And we are putting every bit of the planning this team has done since December to the test. The official Food Security survey of April 2010 states that there are 7.1 million people facing hunger: 3.3 million of those are considered to be facing extremely food shortages and unable …
Email This PostAndreessen Horowitz Makes Strategic Investment In Mobile Payments Platform Boku May 28, 2010
Recently-launched mobile payments startup, Boku, has announced that they have received a strategic investment from VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. Boku has declined to reveal the funding amount from this round, but to date the company has raised a whopping $38 million since its launch a year ago. As part of the deal, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz will also take on an advisory role for Boku.order acompliaorder proscarorder brand cialisorder brand viagraxenicaldiflucanpaxileffexorlexapropropeciawhere buy cialishow to buy cialisbuy cialis next day deliverypurchase cialis …
Email This PostChildren ‘more likely to own a mobile phone than a book May 27, 2010
Almost nine-in-10 pupils now have a mobile compared with fewer than three-quarters who have their own books in the home, it was disclosed.
The study by the National Literacy Trust suggested a link between regular access to books outside school and high test scores.According to figures, some 80 per cent of children with better than expected reading skills had their own books, compared with just 58 per cent who were below the level expected for their age group.The disclosure follows the publication of a study found that found keeping …
How apps, texting can improve your health May 21, 2010
Before iPhones, Foursquare and Facebook, B.J. Fogg envisioned a mobile fitness device that coaches the user, tracks her location, and shows her friends also exercising at that time. The concept appeared in Fogg’s 1997 dissertation about how computing and psychology can merge to change behavior, and people thought the idea sounded “Star Trek-ish.” He went on to found Stanford University’s Persuasive Technology Lab, where he began work on mobile applications long before most phones in wide use could support them.Today, Fogg’s ideas that once seemed like science fiction are in widespread use. Anyone can develop a smart phone …
Email This PostTelephone therapy for depression May 11, 2010
Treating clinical depression on the telephone is nearly as effective as face-to-face consultations, a new Brigham Young University study finds.The trial run included 30 people newly diagnosed with major depression. Instead of eight scheduled visits to the clinic, the participants covered the same material during a series of phone calls with the therapist. Calls varied in length, ranging from 21 to 52 minutes. The patients did not receive antidepressant medication.Read more: Science Daily
Email This PostApple recruiting health care providers at their retail stores May 6, 2010
When I recently walked into my local Apple store to buy an iPad accessory, I saw a group of about 20 people huddled around a large LCD screen while an Apple employee was giving a workshop.When I saw the LCD screen full of medical applications (picture on the left), I was shocked. This wasn’t your run of the mill “how to use your iPhone” workshop.
The people gathered for the workshop consisted of healthcare professionals in medicine, dentistry, and other fields. About a third of the group consisted of physicians.
The workshop was focused on how the iPhone and iPad can be …
Email This PostUS physicist ‘predicted about SMS in 1909′ May 4, 2010
LONDON: Texting may be a boon in today’s world, but the concept was visualised more than a century ago.And, it was a pioneering American physicist who had predicted about the portable messaging service, like the SMS
, via a hand-held device in the ‘Popular Mechanics’ magazine in 1909, its Technology Editor Seth Porges has claimed.Nikola Tesla, the physicist and a mechanical engineer, whose name lives on at the electric car maker Tesla Motors saw wireless energy as the only way to make electricity thrive, according to Porges.Read more: Economic …
