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Report: 14 top U.S. hospitals testing Apple’s HealthKit
In an effort to curb rising medical costs and monitor patients remotely, 14 hospitals in the U.S. are currently running pilot programs with Apple Inc.’s HealthKit service, with more in talks to also participate. The hospitals confirmed their participation to Reuters, who polled 23 of the top hospitals in the U.S. Apple’s HealthKit service collates ...
Must love pot: High There! is a dating app for potheads
Prompted by Tinder’s success, online dating has progressively gone mobile and today a variety of dating apps exist for a range of interests. Now there is an online dating app aimed at another group looking for love: Potheads. Denver-based High There! wants to be the Tinder for potheads, by potheads. Similar to Tinder and other ...
Confide, the ‘Snapchat for business’ app takes aim at the enterprise with new features
Launched last year, Confide set out to offer ephemeral text messaging for business users. With its latest update, released Wednesday, it added key enterprise features, like the ability to share images and documents. The ‘Snapchat for business’ app now lets users share a variety of file types, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF documents. In ...
iOS finally outsells Android in the U.S., gains shares in Europe and China
For the first time since 2012, Apple Inc.’s iOS outsold Google Inc.’s Android mobile operating system in the U.S. It also gained on Android in Europe and China. According to the latest smartphone sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, covering the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2014, iOS devices outsold those running Android by 0.1 ...
Report: Apple in talks with content owners about its own pay-TV service
According to industry executives, Apple Inc. is talking directly to TV programmers in an effort to strike deals that will let the company create its own “over the top” pay-TV service. Sources told Re/code that Apple has shown content owners demos of what its planned pay-TV service would look like. Apple may have a demo ...
Apple leased camera-equipped vehicles spotted in Bay area, hints at street view-style mapping project
In recent weeks a number of minivans sporting camera equipment as well as LiDAR sensors mounted to the roof have occurred in the Concord, California area. The sightings could be due to a new Apple project, possibly a large update to their Maps app, as at least one of the cars is registered to the ...
Wearables to help push mobile traffic growth tenfold, says Cisco report
Released Tuesday, Cisco Systems Inc.’s Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast takes a look back at 2014 and offers a glimpse at what it predicts mobile data traffic will look like by 2019. Simply put, the numbers are staggering. Networking equipment provider Cisco predicts a ten-fold growth in mobile data traffic by 2019. In numbers, that ...
Pixie, the ‘Location of Things’ solution, finds your stuff via augmented reality
Ever lost your smartphone? Or forgot your laptop charger at home, only to realize you desperately need a charge when you arrive at a meeting? Pixie wants to help you keep track of exactly where your stuff is. It lets you tag your valuables, turn them into a connected network and helps you find them ...
Using ‘anonymous’ credit card metadata and a few Tweets, scientists reidentify consumers
Individuals can be identified by credit card metadata, even when information that we see as important like name, address or credit card number has been stripped out. These are some of the findings of a study, titled “Unique in the Shopping Mall: On the Reidentifiability of Credit Card Metadata,” published on Friday in the journal ...
New Apple Watch app to control your Tesla Model S
Apple Watch is on track to launch in April and with the release of the WatchKit SDK in November last year, several developers, including ESPN, Instagram and American Airlines have been hard at work readying their apps for the new wearable from Apple Inc. In January the team behind Pipes, the iOS news app, released ...