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According to the latest report by Juniper Research, a burgeoning market for healthcare peripherals and increasing smartphone processing power will result in the number of patients monitored by mobile networks to rise to 3 million by 2016. Using a smartphone as a hub, remote patient monitoring will also lower the cost of mHealth services by…
Rypple, the web-based social performance management platform, is going beyond the iPhone, having launched a version of its mobile app for the Android platform. Using the free to download application, managers and employees can align themselves around social goals, recognize great work right when it happens, and stay connected while in meetings or on the…
Samsung has started selling two of its dual-SIM Android smartphones, Galaxy Y Duos and Galaxy Y Pro Duos, in parts of Europe. At the moment I’m writing this, the second device is available in Greece for 139 EUR (about $181) from the operator Wind. Moreover, both phones are selling in Russia, with Galaxy Y Duos…
Our phones can do virtually anything these days. From making payments with a tap, unlocking your car, and even opening your garage, the possibilities seem endless. While what you see below isn’t near as functional as the three aforementioned things, it’s just damn cool. This little project comes to us from a French developer who…
Malware apps within the Android Market have been a long running issue for Google’s massively popular mobile operating system, with new threats popping up all the time. Well, in an effort to ease and potentially put a stop to this ever-growing threat, Google has introduced Bouncer. Bouncer is essentially a program on Google’s end that…
The highly anticipated Nokia Lumia 900 is now available for pre-order at Microsoft retail stores — all fifteen of them! Microsoft confirmed you can pre-order one of these devices for $25. That’s nice, but there’s still no release date or full price tag. Rumor has it the phone will launch on March 18th for a…
Instagram is a prime example of a startup success story driven entirely by a mobile application. The photo-sharing app is available only on iPhone and iPod touch, yet in just over a year it has garnered over 15 million users with plenty more signing up each day. Its popularity has led developers for other platforms…
IDC, a technology research firm, released statistics today on the data it gathered on mobile phone sales in Q4 2011. According to the numbers, Apple is now the third largest phone manufacturer in the world by shipments, surpassing LG. Apple’s record-breaking iPhone sales last quarter skyrocketed the company into an easy third place, claiming 8.7…
Finally, Vimeo users out there will be able to access the video service on another mobile operating system, as the official application has hit the Marketplace on Windows Phone. The app brings a lot of useful features in its first iteration which includes the ability to manage, upload and watch videos. Other noteworthy features include the following: Watch…
Well, the numbers are in for the different types of Android versions running on all devices, and the results are disappointing because it shows that fragmentation isn’t going anywhere. First, Google released data (below) that showed 60 percent of users are running some sort of version of Gingerbread, and only 1 percent of users were…