January 2011
7 posts
“Apps overtaking digital music is a watershed event. Apps are a new medium: they...”
– Horace Dediu (Asymco)
The Verizon iPhone: Why It Will Matter to...
As Joe Biden might say, the Verizon iPhone is going to be a big deal. Many prominent industry bloggers expect long lines on launch day, comparable to those for previous launch days on AT&T.
Healthcare providers love smartphones. Two-thirds of doctors used a smartphone this year, compared to less than thirty percent of the general population. Horace Dediu estimates that by this time next...
Nursing Student Wins Facebook Placenta Photo Case →
Five students who were dismissed from their nursing program for posting a picture of themselves with a placenta on Facebook have received a favorable ruling in court:
[The judge] acknowledged that the Facebook element of the case mystified him, but he said: “Today’s generation of students is today’s generation of students and I don’t know that what they did was disruptive. I think the...
David Rose on "Enchanted Objects"
David Rose, chief executive of Vitality, can be seen here presenting Glow Caps, his company’s smart medication packaging: wireless-enabled prescription drug bottle caps. The caps alert patients of medication due times with a soft pulsing glow, or (after an hour) an automated text-message. They track compliance metrics, and can even send a refill request to a pharmacy with a single button...
Panic is Hiring →
Cocoa/iOS developers, and this ad on their website is all you need to see to know just how high the bar is over there in Portland, OR.
Just make sure you’re not using an outdated browser when you visit, or you might miss the over-the-top CSS/HTML5 hover transforms.