Technology

Chronic Pain Apps Make Pain Relief Just a Phone Call Away

February 13, 2012
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Managing chronic pain has gotten less painful – or at least easier to keep track of. Born out Damon Lynn’s own painful experience, “My Pain Diary” is an iphone app designed specifically to help people track their pain. It’s one of several apps on the market that help chronic pain sufferers document their symptoms and [...]

Sprint and Clearwire Nearing Deal

October 29, 2011
Sprint and Clearwire are in talks. Not engaged but maybe serious dating.

Sprint and Clearwire are not only talking again. They may be going out on an extended date. Bloomberg reports that the two wireless carriers are “near an agreement” to extend their existing network contract for another three to five years. According to Bloomberg, a new wholesale agreement would allow Sprint to use Clearwire spectrum at [...]

Sprint and Clearwire Mend Fences – For the Moment

October 27, 2011
Sprint and Clearwire are in talks. Not engaged but maybe serious dating.

Two feuding siblings in the wireless sector are talking to each other again. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse disclosed in a conference call that his company has reached a non-binding cooperation agreement with Clearwire for fourth generation network capacity using LTE technology. Hesse said that Clearwire’s wireless spectrum is needed to supplement Sprint’s 4G LTE network, [...]

App for hikers and backpackers prints custom maps to order

October 14, 2011
App for hikers and backpackers prints custom maps to order

There’s a new app for the Apple iPad which helps hikers and backpackers plan their next adventure, and print customized maps made-to-order. You can read about it here:

AT&T ‘COW’ Helps Emergency Responders Fights Fires in the Wilderness

September 29, 2011
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An electronic ‘COW’ device, owned by AT&T, has been set up in the wilderness to help firefighting and other emergency communications in a remote wilderness area in Minnesota.

Germans build a flashlight as big as a Volkswagen Golf

September 26, 2011
World Record: The Largest Ever Flashlight Is From Germany / ZweibrŸder Optoelectronics Unveils Four-Meter-Long Flashlight At Solingen's Festival of Lights

German light makers, Zweibrüder Optoelectronics, earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records this week when they unveiled a 13-foot long giant flashlight at the Festival of Lights in Solingen, Germany.

ASOS releases its shopping app for the iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone

September 26, 2011
ASOS releases its shopping app for the iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone

ASOS, the online style and beauty retailer has just released its new shopping app for the iPod Touch, the iPad and the iPhone.

81 percent of motor vehicle accidents can be prevented – by intelligent cars

June 11, 2011
81 percent of motor vehicle accidents can be prevented - by intelligent cars

Intelligent motor vehicles can be built and designed to ‘talk’ to one another, and this could prevent up to 81 percent of motor vehicle accidents when the human driver is unimpaired.

Germany’s solar industry powers 100,000 ‘green jobs’

June 9, 2011
Germany

Germany’s solar photovoltaic (PV) industry now employs more workers than steel production in the USA. With over 100,000 “green jobs” in PV alone, around 75 percent of European solar cells and modules as well as countless components are made in Germany. Record-breaking domestic demand is a key industry driver, with 7.4 GWp of PV capacity [...]

IBM helps build a smart public safety system for Fort Worth and Tarrant County

June 3, 2011
IBM helps build a smart public safety system for Fort Worth and Tarrant County

IBM (NYSE: IBM) is helping emergency responders in Fort Worth and Tarrant County’s joint emergency operations center (JEOC) better respond to calls for help and communicate instantaneously with dozens of agencies and departments right across Texas. Fort Worth and Tarrant County are two of the fastest growing jurisdictions in Texas with about 1.8 million residents. [...]

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