$1m Giveway - Reply TXT ‘YES’ to Work July 20, 2010
Lingo Systems has today announced it is giving away $1 million of software licenses hospitals, clinics and nursing homes.
The giveaway is to celebrate the launch of its new product, Automated Casual Rostering System, which uses two-way SMS/TXT technology to roster or schedule staff to fill shift vacancies.
“Labour costs are typically the single largest category of costs to a hospital or nursing home,” says Kurt Lingohr, Managing Director of Lingo Systems, a boutique IT healthcare company based on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
Lingohr says, “The objective of this system is to roster staff more effectively and reduce agency usage.” “When a …
Email This PostGulf oil spill clean up relying on cell phones July 15, 2010
Cell phones, of all things, are playing a critical role in the clean up of the oil in the Gulf thanks to a St. Louis software company.Agilis Systems usually works with companies like Schnucks, to help track deliveries with GPS software.
In the gulf clean up, the company has installed special software on regular cell phones. The phones are assigned …
Email This PostAustralian mobile invention could be desert lifeline July 12, 2010
t is a new mobile phone system that promises to work anywhere and potentially help save lives in a disaster.Researchers have gone to extraordinary lengths to test it out in a remote desert wilderness in South Australia.In a landscape of deep valleys and rugged red ochre mountains, the tests have been a success.
They were carried out at Sillers Lookout, a lonely cliff that juts out like a long finger at Arkaroola in the Flinders Ranges.
Read more: abc.net
Email This PostInventor of cell phone: We knew someday everybody would have one July 9, 2010
In 1973, Martin Cooper changed the world, although he didn’t know it yet.Cooper and his team at Motorola, the communications company, created maybe the only thing that runs the lives of business professionals and teenagers alike — the cell phone.
It was the size of a brick and wasn’t commercially sold for another decade. But as Cooper demonstrated on a New York sidewalk, it worked.
The concept of cellular technology had already been created by Motorola’s rival, AT&T, whose Bell Labs introduced a system allowing calls to be moved from one cell to another while remaining on the same channel. But AT&T …
Email This PostU.S. government launches 17 mobile apps July 6, 2010
USA.gov has unveiled a slew of free mobile apps that provide information about product recalls, most-wanted criminals and other federal government information and services.Most of these tools aren’t standalone software; instead, they use information from interactive websites optimized to work well in “microbrowsers,” the small-size, limited-functionality web browsers that come with many mobile phones.
As far as access to government is concerned, mobile-friendly websites are a very good thing. That’s because, as I wrote earlier, the vast majority of U.S. mobile phones in use are not smartphones with full-featured browsers. Also, mounting wireless network congestion can make standard websites frustrating …
Email This PostPlanning ahead to avoid mobile traffic jams July 2, 2010
More Americans are using more and smarter mobile phones, and consuming more data via those devices. But can wireless broadband service keep pace with this growing need?
The Obama Administration would like to make sure it does.
Wireless network congestion threatens to bog down the much-hyped mobile broadband revolution, leaving smartphone and tethered laptop users waiting and waiting for web pages to load, videos to stream, and apps to update.
Read more: www.cnn.com
Email This PostNew Device Uses Mobile Phone To Test Vision In Developing Countries June 28, 2010
We tend to think of mobile phones as a matter of convenience, allowing us to be productive and entertained while we’re on the go. But a team of researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has created a simple and inexpensive device that when used with a mobile phone can help diagnose vision problems.
The underlying principles of the NETRA (Near-Eye Tool for Refractive Assessment) system are related to recent advances in adaptive optics. The test takes less than two minutes, during which the patient is asked to look through a small device attached to the screen of a mobile phone. The …
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 PostInventor Proposes New Language for Cell Phone Messaging — Using Hieroglyphics June 16, 2010
Modern man no longer communicates via cave painting, yet hieroglyphs may be making a comeback — thanks to the cell phone.
Colorado native Kai Staats has invented a new language for cell phones that replaces words with pictures to represent actions, nouns, and places, making his invention essentially a modern form of the hieroglyphics used in ancient Egypt.
The language, which Staats calls “iConji,” consists of 32×32 pixel square images that convey either a single meaning, such as “sports car,” …
