January 22, 2010
Aspiro Music comes to Android handsets
Aspiro, Northern Europe’s leading provider of mobile entertainment services, today confirmed that its new desktop and mobile streaming music service would now be available on Google’s new Nexus One phone and other Android handsets. The new service delivers live streaming of an extensive catalogue of music tracks via the online streaming service, the WiMP, beta launched
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January 21, 2010
GoPayforit Mobile Payment Service Now Online
A new service from GoPayforit (www.gopayforit.com) has been launched to allow easier access to the Payforit and Web Payforit technologies. Now mobile application developers, blogs, WAP sites and websites can use GoPayforit to charge for content, membership, physical goods, or anything they may wish to sell. Previously, online payments could only be completed using credit cards,
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January 8, 2010
Gone with the wind: Tubes are whisking samples across hospital
(PhysOrg.com) — Every day, 7,000 times a day, Stanford Hospital staff turn to pneumatic tubes, cutting-edge technology in the 19th century, for a transport network that the Internet and all the latest Silicon Valley wizardry can’t match: A tubular system to transport a lab sample across the medical center in the blink of an eye.
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New Device Can Aid Physicians in Detecting Heart Attacks
(PhysOrg.com) — The American Heart Association estimates 700,000 Americans will experience a myocardial infarction, or heart attack, each year. For the most severe cases, patient outcome often depends on the speed with which a patient is diagnosed and transported to a catheterization lab.
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Researchers identify an immune cell linked to inflammation and scarring in Graves’ eye disease
A cell type that causes significant scarring in lung disease appears to have a similar effect in Graves’ disease, University of Michigan Health System researchers have found. The cells, called fibrocytes, are present at a higher than normal frequency in patients with Graves’ disease, according to a new study, the first to associate fibrocytes with this autoimmune disease.
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New test may help address costly parasite in sheep industry
Researchers at Oregon State University and the University of Georgia have developed an improved, more efficient method to test for the most serious of the parasitic worms in sheep, a problem that causes hundreds of millions of dollars in losses every year to the global sheep and wool industry.
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New system helps explain salmon migration
A new acoustic telemetry system tracks the migration of juvenile salmon using one-tenth as many fish as comparable methods, suggests a paper published in the January edition of the American Fisheries Society journal Fisheries. The paper also explains how the system is best suited for deep, fast-moving rivers and can detect fish movement in more places than other tracking methods.
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MobilMAX handsets feature Telegent mobile TV receiver
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) today, Telegent Systems, the company that makes television mobile, announced that Telegent’s analog mobile TV receiver is incorporated into two CDMA TV handset designs introduced in Q4 2009 by Taiwan ODM MobilMAX. With these designs, MobilMAX brings together its expertise in CDMA and GSM technologies and operator-grade solutions
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txtNation launches new premium SMS services in Ireland
The Republic of Ireland now enjoys new premium SMS services thanks to txtNation, a leader in global premium rate billing services. With more flexible tariffs, txtNation builds on its popular SMS connectivity platform mBILL, empowering everyone with enhanced premium services in Ireland. New for 2010 will be five and ten euro tariffs, ideal for more specialised
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HTC Announces Plans for Smartphones with Qualcomm’s Brew MP Operating System
High Tech Computer, popularly known as HTC, hasn’t had any rest these days. What with the release of Google’s Nexus One phone (for those who didn’t know, was also manufactured by HTC) just in time for CES.
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January 7, 2010
‘Nexus One’ could contribute to fall in mobile broadband sales
Leading comparison website Broadband Expert says the introduction of Google’s Nexus One ‘super phone’, which is set to rival Apple’s i-Phone and other smart phones such as the Nokia and the Blackberry, will further contribute to falling mobile broadband sales in 2010.
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70,000 imphoto for iPhone downloads over Christmas
imsense, the Cambridge company which develops eye-fidelityTM Dynamic Range Correction technology to deliver the perfect picture, had a bumper festive period with over 70,000 new users downloading its recently-launched iPhone application over the Christmas holiday. imphoto for iPhone was launched to provide iPhone users with a streamlined way to take photos, reveal the detail using award-winning
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Telmap dominates the mobile navigation space
Telmap, the original pioneers in mobile location solutions, today announced that according to an independent research conducted by leading analyst house Canalys, it is the dominant provider of mobile navigation in EMEA, with 46 per cent market share as of the end of Q3 2009. The Canalys research looked into the use of mobile navigation
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January 6, 2010
Intelligent Designs announces Total Control Remote Edition for Iphone – Itouch
Intelligent Designs Group, LLC (www.totalcontrolapp.com) developer of software for mobile phones and handheld devices announces the release of their Total Control Remote Edition for the Iphone – Itouch. Enjoy the ability to control your IR (infrared) products via your Iphone – Itouch
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Intelligent Designs announces Total Control Remote Edition for Iphone – Itouch
January 5, 2010
Mobile Augmented Reality App Downloads to pass 400 million
The annual number of mobile downloads featuring augmented reality (AR) content is expected to rise from less than 1 million in 2009 to more than 400 million by 2014, according to a new report from Juniper Research. The mobile augmented reality report found that the proliferation of apps stores amongst both network operators and
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January 4, 2010
Intel’s Core i3 and i5 dual-core processors
Intel’s Nehalem microarchitecture has gone entirely mainstream with the arrival of the dual-core processors code-named Clarkdale. This release also marks two major milestones: the first 32-nm processor, and the first major desktop CPU with integrated graphics. But is it a peanut butter and Vegemite sandwich?
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December 18, 2009
Step aside Roomba, HELLO LG RoboKing
LG Roboking is the latest automatic robot cleaner from LG featuring dual camera which they claim to be industry’s first. With a 30% speed increase and lower operational noise than previous models it is set to wrestle the crown as top dog robotic cleaner from Roomba. The word on the price yet, we don’t even know if they will start to offer outside of Korea! Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good
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December 7, 2009
My Motorola Droid quick-review
I tried out the Motorola Droid for 2 weeks, including a business trip to Los Angeles last week and here are my quick notes: Google Navigation is nice! I like the user interface — for example, it’s nice how the next step in your driving directions are rendered in white text on a dark green background (just like the road signs on U.S.
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My Motorola Droid quick-review
June 30, 2009
Researchers describe the 90-year evolution of swine flu
The current H1N1 swine flu strain has genetic roots in an illness that sickened pigs at the 1918 Cedar Rapids Swine Show in Iowa, report infectious disease experts at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health in the New England Journal of Medicine. Their paper, published online today and slated for the July 16 print issue, describes H1N1′s nearly century-long and often convoluted journey, which may include the accidental resurrection of an extinct strain.
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May 26, 2009
Airport urinal surveillance cameras?
Last week, while traveling out of town from Hobby Airport, I took this photograph and posted it on Natuba/twitter: The sign on the urinal reads, “Automatic infrared flush sensors also provide video monitoring for security purposes” Posted on Natuba Gus over at Swamplot wrote it up as a story, after some back and forth on e-mail with me. And then Swamplot’s write-up got picked up on slashdot.org

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