JAMA Archives of Neurology Location of the woman’s stroke. Doctors discovered a woman’s stroke after her husband became worried as her texts stopped making sense. The researchers have named this symptom “dystextia.” According to Bradley Voytek at Oscillatory Thoughts blog: She was brought into the emergency room after the following text message conversation with...
Yahoo Finance Apple stock got hit again today, falling 1% to $513. That’s getting close to the lowest close since the stock began its recent slide in September. (It’s also a level that Apple first breached on the way up last winter. The stock is still up sharply this year, having entered the year...
An interesting analysis by “information massage therapist” A.X. Ian suggests that Apple’s iPad is outselling Microsoft’s new “Surface” tablet by an astounding 50-to-1 margin. Mr. Ian analyzed tweets made on Christmas Eve that included the phrase “first tweet from ,” with the blank being “iPad,” “Kindle,” “Nexus,” or “Surface.” The results are presented in...
Fab, the online design giant, has announced that it has “smashed” all its previous mobile shopping days this Christmas season. Over 56 percent of its revenue in the US and 40 percent in Europe came from its mobile apps on Christmas. Both were records for the company. Previously, Fab saw a huge spike in...
If you’re up for the ultimate case of ‘gadget’ envy, take a look at this close-up video of Venus, the high-tech yacht designed by the late Steve Jobs, that was shot from the docks in Amsterda by TNW reader Michiel Frackers. The boat was recently set free from its temporary impoundment after Jobs’ heirs reached...
This year has been a breakthrough one for mobile messaging apps, and Samsung is closing out 2012 with a major update to its own cross-platform service ChatON. The Korean electronics firm has unveiled version 2.0 which introduces a number of changes, including syncing across devices, multiple image messaging, new social features and enhanced support...
Velocity Of Mobile Adoption The overall velocity of smartphone adoption may be starting to slow in the United States and other first world markets like Western Europe, but the rest of the world is starting to see extraordinary mobile adoption rates. For instance, according to analytics firm Flurry, China’s growth rate of iPhone and...
Predicting the future is notoriously difficult, and the volatile world of high-tech startups don’t make things any easier. That’s why ReadWrite turned to famous and fearless tech prognosticator Paul Kedrosky, a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, focused on entrepreneurship, innovation and the future of risk capital, to ask him his predictions for the...
Games are perhaps the most important category of mobile apps. Good games sell smartphones and tablets, keep grownups entertained and small children quiet. Dominating the app-store charts, a good game can make mobile developers millions of dollars, or at least keep them in business to take a stab another stab at greatness. Another positive...
If you’re anything like me, you start the new year confident that you can kick your bad habits to the curb, but by February, it’s those grand ambitions for self-improvement that get left behind instead. Without external support, it can be difficult to stick to resolutions for improving your diet, getting enough sleep, exercising...