A novel telemedicine system built by the UC Berkeley TIER program and Aravind Eye Hospital in Tamil Nadu, India, is being used by rural patients to access urban doctors and has helped restore vision in over 30,000 patients. A higher capability system from Alcatel Lucent and UPMC will serve their customer base of over...
Daily Archives: August 12, 2011
The 10 Most Important Computers From The Last 30 Years
Image: Wikimedia Commons See Also: 11 Essential Algorithms That Make The Internet Work 10 Gadgets You Can Control With Your Brain The 21 Most Important Names In Computing History You’ve Never Heard 30 years ago today, IBM released the 5150, marking the birth of the personal computer as we know it today. Modern computing...
Amazon Cloud Player Gets Social To Compete With Rdio, Spotify (AMZN)
See Also: Here Are 9 Tips For Getting The Most Out Of Amazon’s Cloud Drive RDIO: Here’s How We’re Going To Beat Spotify When It Comes To The States 10 Critical Features Spotify Needs If It Wants To Win Big In The USA Amazon just tweeted an announcement that Facebook and Twitter integration have...
HTML5 or Flash? With Yokto’s New Video Player, You Don’t Have To Choose
Yokto is a newly launched video platform which offers an embeddable player that intelligently switches between a Flash-based interface or HTML5, depending on the device being used to view the content. This idea on its own is not original, of course. Similar solutions from companies like Brightcove, Ooyala and SublimeVideo, for example, offer much...
Pandora’s Biggest Critic Doubles Down: Says Short The Stock, It’s About To Be Clobbered By Rivals (P)
BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield is reiterating his short call on Pandora (P) this morning, saying that it’s about to get walloped by a number of rivals entering the space. He thinks the stock, which is trading at $13, is worth $5.50 and here’s why: Clear Channel is about to relaunch iHeartRadio, which will have...
Apple working on better oleophobic coating likely destined for iPhone 5
A patent filing discovered by Apple Patent points to an improvement to Apple’s oleophobic coating process that helps its devices reject skin oils. The new process seems to be a more efficient way of applying the coating to device glass, making the coating more effective. We don’t report on too many patents filed by...
Why the UK Government won’t clamp down on social networks
It’s been a chaotic week in London and many other parts of England. As the riots have mostly settled down for now, the police are focusing their efforts on catching up with the criminals and even naming and shaming them on the same social networks that were supposedly used to coordinate the riots in...
Galaxy Tab 10.1 could stay on sale in Netherlands as Apple, Samsung call semi-truce
With Apple and Samsung awaiting a ruling on alleged tablet patent infringements by the Korean vendor with its Galaxy Tab 10.1 device on September 15, both companies have agreed not to file any further legal action against one another in the Netherlands until that decision is reached, meaning the tablet could continue to sell...
Bon appetit! France gets freshly baked baguette vending machines!
It seems that the traditional French boulangerie has had a 21st century makeover if this contraption is anything to go by. Jean-Louise Hecht, owner of numerous bakeries around Paris and Hombourg-Haut, decided that embracing the cultural shift in France was a far better idea than clinging to tradition with his fingertips. So he developed...
India’s Snapdeal dabbles in group car buying to differentiate itself from Groupon clones
With Groupon’s success, websites offering daily deals are popping up like mushrooms all over the world including India, where there were at least 30 coupon sites as of July 2011. However when it comes to differentiating these coupon sites based on the deals being offered, there is one striking problem, and that is the...