According to Rob McCray, President and Co-Founder of the Wireless-Life Science Alliance, we are just starting to uncover the possibilities that wireless healthcare will enable: “If this were the Internet commerce sector, we would be in 1995 when it was not clear what shape that sector would take.” In his 2009 TED MED talk,...
Daily Archives: June 1, 2011
Niche Crowdfunding Sites Need to Aim Higher to Succeed
Over the last couple of years, Kickstarter’s growth as a source of disruption in the creative industries has been pretty hard to ignore. Om extolled the site’s virtues just the other day, and the concept that anybody who has an idea can try and raise money to get it finished has become a big...
New Virtual Index Architecture Helps You Find Your Cloud-based Data
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. Today a new company founded by software industry veteran Ed Iacobucci began its...
6 ways to remain healthy whilst working from your desk
In modern workplaces, the chances are you will perform your daily duties from behind a desk. Gone are the days of conversations by the water-cooler, that’s been replaced by email and instant messaging. In fact any task that required you to get up from your desk has likely been stopped in the interest of reducing...
California could net $1bn from Amazon and other e-tailers with new tax law
A new tax bill has been passed in California that could see more than $1bn a year in extra taxes collected from sales made online. The bill was passed by the lower house of the Legislature yesterday, and it will now progress to the state Senate for consideration. If it passes this next stage,...
With Its New Follow Button, Twitter Owns The Fact That It’s Now A Media Platform
Twitter just introduced a new “follow button”; that means when you visit a site and have information about a person or company, you’ll be able to follow them on Twitter by just clicking one button. It’s not just an incremental product improvement, it’s actually a great idea. Image: Twitter Here’s why: Twitter has hundreds...
Green Overdrive: Lit Motor’s Electric Folding Scooter
While there are a growing number of electric scooter and motorcycle makers out there, there’s not many that are making a cargo-carrying, foldable version. San Francisco-based startup Lit Motors has been developing an electric scooter that can carry a large box (or a person) and can fold down into almost half its driving size....
VinPass: Wine Lovers Can Now Check In
Today a new social game called VinPass launched. It’s an application for wine lovers to “share wine reviews, win badges and earn real rewards.” VinPass uses the ‘check-in’ paradigm popularized by location-based social network Foursquare and extended into other areas by the likes of GetGlue (entertainment) and Foodspotting (food). In a nutshell, you check-in...
Airbnb’s Soaring Valuation Should Be A Wake-Up Call To Independent Hotels
Some months ago, before the company was worth a billion dollars, I shared some thoughts on Airbnb. Specifically, in what some mischaracterized as an attack on the company, I criticized those whose worship at the altar of Disruption is so unconditional that they don’t think Disruptive companies should be hidebound by the law. If...