Millennials get a bad rap. If we believe conventional wisdom about them, they like to live with their parents, at least until they can move into their urban-center condo. They hate to drive. They're maddening in the workplace, demanding lots of frills and constant praise yet returning little loyalty. They're hyperconnected through their various digital devices. And, when they deign to think about health care, which isn't often, they want all digital, all the time. There's some truth to the conventional wisdom, but not as much as you'd think. A new study from Credit Karma flatly asserts that "everything you thought you knew about Millennials may be wrong," finding that they still have aspirations to much of the same "American Dream" as previous generations...
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It’s ‘Digital Heroin’: How Screens Turn Kids into Psychotic Junkies
Susan* bought her 6-year-old son John an iPad when he was in first grade. “I thought, ‘Why not let him get a jump on things?’ ” she told me during a therapy session. John’s school had begun using the devices with younger and younger grades — and his technology teacher had raved about their educational benefits — so Susan wanted to do what was best for her sandy-haired boy who loved reading and playing baseball. She started letting John play different educational games on his iPad. Eventually, he discovered Minecraft, which the technology teacher assured her was “just like electronic Lego.” Remembering how much fun she had as a child building and playing with the interlocking plastic blocks, Susan let her son Minecraft his afternoons away...
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Kaiser Talks Up Monkey Game, Talks Down EMR Integration
When Kaiser Permanente debuted its Interchange platform API initiative last month, the company made it clear that they would not be feeding patient health information into third party apps or devices via APIs. While the health system has done notable research into incorporating things like exercise data into its EMR, it isn’t interested in integrating just any data stream. Read More »
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LG Unveils The Fireweb, Its First Firefox OS Smartphone (Video)
So far, Firefox OS has been limited to ultra-basic smartphones like the ZTE Open. LG is expanding the platform's reach today by releasing its inaugural Mozilla-powered handset, the Fireweb. [...] Read More »
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Life Saving Phone-to-Phone Technology Scoops International Prize
An emergency mobile phone system developed at Flinders University has won a prestigious international award for post-disaster relief work in the Pacific. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has announced that Dr Paul Gardner-Stephen’s smartphone communications system that can operate without cellphone towers is one of five winners in the Pacific Humanitarian Challenge. The Challenge, which attracted 129 applications from 20 countries, aims to acknowledge and develop outstanding efforts to improve faster, cheaper and effective aid responses to Pacific nations...
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Linux Won The Desktop Wars A Long Time Ago
Linux has won the desktop wars and Tux now represents the dominant desktop operating system. We’ve been in this position for a while now. The reason many of us haven’t recognized it is because this win doesn’t look anything like we thought it would. When wishes come true, they’re rarely what we envisioned. Read More »
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Majority Of Surveyed Docs Using Mobile Devices In Practices
Mobile computing devices are becoming almost as much of an essential tool in U.S. physician practices as the exam table, according to a new survey. Read More »
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mHealth Rapidly Becoming A Global Movement
While mHealth technology may be saving lives in places like Africa and the Caribbean, in Europe, Asia and Australia the results aren't so dramatic. Healthcare is already an established industry there, and the adoption of mHealth tools and services is following a more gradual path. [...] Read More »
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Millennials Are (Not) So Different
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MIT Media Lab Spinoff EyeNetra Raises $2M
Somerville, Massachusetts-based EyeNetra, which has developed a mobile-enabled eye diagnostic tool raised $2 million in funding last week, according to an SEC filing. EyeNetra hopes to serve the 2.4 billion people worldwide that don’t have glasses, but need them. Read More »
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Mobile Learning: How Smartphones Help Illiterate Farmers In Rural India
Small farmers are some of the most important people in the world – as Hendrik Knoche explains in today’s ‘Digital Diversity’, they provide over half of the world’s food supply. Helping such farmers improve their methods through innovative and efficient agriculture has long been an aim of development projects [...]. Read More »
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Motorola Project Ara: The Future Of Smartphones Is Open Source Hardware
[...] If the declared objective of Motorola (read Google) – that of truly democratizing the Smartphone (I would say the digital screens) industry and pushing it towards a landscape where it’s easier for new entrants to create products and compete – is accomplished we will face a completely different Consumer Electronics Hardware industry very soon. Read More »
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Motorola Teams Up With 3D Systems To Develop 3D-Printed Phones
Pre-Google, who ever imagined that Motorola (Motorola!) would be one of the world's most forward-thinking mobile manufacturers? Read More »
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Mozilla And Mobile Operators Want To Make The Web More Global And Diverse
Firefox-maker Mozilla and the GSMA mobile operator trade body are teaming up to help develop more non-English content for the web, so as to “positively shape” the future of the mobile web – and they’re looking for others to join them...
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Mozilla Announces $25 Firefox OS Smartphone
A Firefox OS reference handset for developers, called the Firefox OS Flame, was presented by the Mozilla Foundation as a prototype of the $25 model. It offers a dual-core, 1.2-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, 4.5-inch 854x480 display, NFC, a 5-megapixel camera on the back and 2-megapixel on the front, and 3G wireless data. Read More »
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Mozilla Release New Video Detailing New Firefox OS Mobile App Distribution
Mozilla has released a new video for Firefox OS developers detailing the way that the new Firefox OS will use search to allow users to find Firefox OS applications and redirect them to your website, rather than use the traditional app store approach. Read More »
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