Category: Apps (Page 17 of 34)

      Swine flu app puts panic in your hands

      October 26, 2009 /

      HMS Mobile Swine Flu app.It’s hard to say just how I feel about the new app from Harvard Medical School, called the Swine Flu Center. On the one hand, it’s certainly important to keep the public educated about H1N1. As a national emergency level virus, people should know what they’re up against. Are outbreak maps on our phone the best way to do that? Maybe not.

      The new application is part of Harvard Medical School’s mobile initiative to get people educated about current medical issues. At $1.99 it’s pretty cheap, and certainly has a lot to offer. The app has videos, diagnostic tips, prevention tips, and an interactive symptom checker.

      As with any interactive medical tool, make sure you’re talking to a physician before making rash decisions. These are guidelines, people, guidelines. Let’s not freak out.

      Source: TechCrunch

      Apps, iPhone, Mobile

      Android gets tapped for military use

      October 24, 2009 /

      G1 google maps.Military defense contractor Raytheon is apparently as interested in Android as the rest of us. The company has created an application that works like a mashup between a buddy list and Google Maps, giving users the ability to locate “buddies” anywhere on the battlefield.

      The system, called Raytheon Android Tactical System (RATS), was developed on Android for the openness of the platform. Raytheon sees RATS expanding to uses like biometric scanning and off-site suspect identification. By developing on Android, Raytheon was also able to keep the cost of the software down. Think a couple hundred dollars per user, versus the typical tens of thousands per mobile terminal, something taxpayers are sure to be happy with.

      Source: Forbes

      Apps, Mobile

      Wolfram Alpha turns free service into $50 app

      October 19, 2009 /

      Wolfram Alpha on the iPhone.Wolfram Alpha just released an iPhone app that differs in one major way from the web engine – it costs $50. And the WA guys think people will buy it, though they aren’t sure how many.

      A rep for the company contacted Gizmodo and said the following:

      How many people will buy it? We’re not sure, but looking at the other apps that are $50+, we think that we’re of at least comparable in utility and functionality, if not more. And, part of what the company is also doing is making a statement about the non-trivial nature of WolframAlpha’s capabilities, and how much the system has matured since launch.

      So what does that mean for the future of the web version of WA? Does the company really expect users to pay $50 to take that free service mobile?

      Apps, iPhone

      App exposure site founded by a 15-year-old

      October 19, 2009 /

      app-of-the-dayWhen I had the thought that someone should do some app organizing, giving consumers a way to find the very best iPhone apps out there, I didn’t think it would be a high school sophomore. Jordan Satok had plans to surprise me, it seems. The 15-year-old web entrepreneur started appoftheday.com, a site that aims to give exposure to the very apps many of us are looking for.

      The daily recommendations come courtesy of community nominations. You get just one nomination per day, and since the site ties in with Gravatar, the hope is that users will just log in with an email, keeping developers from going in to spam their own apps with votes.

      Apps, iPhone

      Reading Material: Can in-app sales and the iPad save publishing?

      October 16, 2009 /

      Apple tablet concept.There’s a good read up on Wired’s Gadget Lab about Apple’s recent removal of in-app purchase restrictions for free iPhone apps. The article suggests that the move, when implemented with the Apple tablet, could be the defib the publishing industry needs.

      There are already a couple apps out there using this model, though they weren’t free to begin with. The McSweeney’s app, for instance, allowed you to purchase six months of content on installation. From there it was a subscription service for more of the premium goods. Wired thinks newspapers and magazines could use this model to differentiate premium quality content from the everyday stuff like blogs and user content.

      The key to the publishing transformation, though, is the Apple tablet. For my part, I really don’t like to read content exclusively on my iPhone. I love the flexibility to do so as I please, but having content limited to just that little screen is exactly the reason I’ve avoided the McSweeney’s app. It’s just too small to use for all of my daily reading. A tablet would change that, offering the real estate necessary to make daily reading an enjoyable experience.

      For more on Apple’s plan to pluck a struggling industry from the brink, check out the original post at Wired.

      Apple, Apps, Computers, iPhone

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