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Seen that? - Google Maps Goes Mobile
Filed in archive Best of by Creative Weblogging on February 6, 2010
Google Maps Goes Mobile The Smart PDA

Seen that? - Google Maps Goes Mobile
Reuters reports today that Google Maps has gone mobile. Users can download the utility by visiting www.google.com/gmm on their mobile phone's browser. Significant exceptions from the list of supported devices include Palm OS devices and some models carried by US service providers, although Google is working to make provisions for them. [...] Read More


Google Maps Mobile now has Voice Recognition The Smart PDA

Google has moved its popular Google Maps Mobile application one step ahead and added Voice Recognition to it. This allows users to easily search for their desired location by just saying where they want to go. This is a beta version for test purposes and it is currently available on a limited range of handsets including Blackberry Pearl 8110, 8120, or 8130. Here's how you use it. You simply hold the [...] Read More


Windows Mobile Welcomes Google Maps The Smart PDA

Looks like Google Maps now has most smartphones and PDA phones covered. First it went mobile via Java MIDP2. This included a lot of Symbian smartphones. Then, somewhere along the way, a Palm OS version was made for the Treo 600, 650, 680 and 700p. Looks like the circle's complete. The Official Google Blog recently announced (somewhat indirectly) that Google Maps is now available for Windows Mobile. As long as you [...] Read More


Google Unveils Google Maps Mobile The Gadgets Weblog

I have to admit: if I had a cellphone on Sprint or Cingular or had a Blackberry, I'd be all over the release of the new version ofGoogle Maps Mobile (GMM). Living in New York City, where traffic reports cover such a large area that each traffic report only covers a small part of the whole, it would be great to know whether I'm heading into disaster as I pull [...] Read More


Google Maps goes native UIQ Tech Without Wires

Google Maps seems to be getting into a lot of places. The photo above is Google Maps on the iPhone. Whilst it is also available on other platforms as a JavaME application, today, Google Maps is available as a native Symbian S60 UIQ application. It also available as a native Windows Mobile application. With these geo-location-based features built into mobile phones, the next generation of spam^H^H^H^H adverts will not be too [...] Read More
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Seen that? - Doctor PDA
Filed in archive Best of by Creative Weblogging on January 28, 2010
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Seen that? - Doctor PDA
The only personal encounter I've had with PDAs in medicine was half a decade ago. My cousin, then studying to become an ophthalmologist, read his textbooks with a Palm Vx. He was only able to store one book, limited by the unit's 8MB internal memory. And the serial port meant uploading took forever. Fast forward to today. Facilitated by the increasing capabilities of handhelds, apostles of Hippocrates have found lots of [...] Read More


The Tricorder's Ancestor? The Smart PDA

We may be closer to Star Trek's vision of medicine. Doctor "Bones" McCoy used a tricorder to instantly discover a patient's afflictions-then reached for the appropriate gadget to cure it instantly. Such a high level of medical technology is still a long way off, but Global Care Quest's ICIS mobile service offers "patient information on handheld mobile devices and smartphones." The program can access patients' medical info, and realtime data coming [...] Read More


Medscape: Free drug App for the iPhone The Smart PDA

WebMD has released a very useful medical application for the iPhone, which comes with a database of drugs, a drug interaction tool and a directory of physicians and pharmacies. Here are the features: It comes with a drug database that contains information of over 6,000 generic and brand name drugs It comes with a collection of hundreds of herbal medicines, supplements and antidotes. It comes with a drug interaction tool that shows interactions [...] Read More


Linux for Doctors HackITLinux

Healthcare Informatics (you can call it Biomedical Informatics or simply Medical Informatics) is a research area that interests me. This new linux distribution, Linux for Clinics, is a welcome addition to the arsenal of open source applications for medical practitioners. Based on Ubuntu, Linux for Clinics is now on alpha version and ready for testing. Here's an excerpt from their website: The Linux For Clinics (LFC) Project consists of a team [...] Read More


Littman Bluetooth Stethoscope is the Tech I Expect my Doctor to Have The Gadgets Weblog

I want my doctor to have nothing but the coolest, fastest, and best technology when it comes to keeping me healthy. The Littmann 3200 Bluetooth Stethoscope is a necessary update to an outdated piece of equipment that seems long overdue. When my doctor is listening to my heart or looking for pneumonia, I want them to have super-powers, but this high-tech stethoscope will do in a pinch. Designed just like a [...] Read More
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Seen that? - Smaato is the New Kid on the Block
Filed in archive Best of by Creative Weblogging on January 18, 2010
Smaato is the New Kid on the Block The Smart PDA

Seen that? - Smaato is the New Kid on the Block
A contact has forwarded me information on a new smartphone service company. Apparently, the US-based company Smaato plans to cater to the worldwide smartphone market, through their website smaato.com. Details are scarce, but some of their services look interesting. Smaato News looks like the first truly realtime RSS reader made for smartphones, while Smaato Cost aims to provide an accurate picture of a user's voice and data usage, either on the [...] Read More


Smaato Open Mobile Advertising (SOMA) Promises Effective Mobile Marketing That's Useful to Customers The Smart PDA

Looks like Smaato has grown quite a bit ever since I first featured it on The Smart PDA. The company's new service, SOMA (Smaato Open Mobile Advertising), is now in the public beta phase, attracting some big-name brands like Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft and Allianz, according to my contact. Apparently, soma promises a more effective way of advertising; by providing targeted advertisements (bundled with mobile content), perhaps the company will create a win-win situation. [...] Read More


Smaato Acquires $3.5 Million of Funding The Smart PDA

Looks like Smaato's focus on mobile advertising has literally finally paid off. According to the official press release, the company has acquired $3.5 million: San Mateo, California - January 18, 2008 - Smaato, a pioneering provider of mobile advertising platform technology announced that it has closed a $ 3.5 million financing round. Smaato was successful in attracting prominent smart angel investors from international media, advertising, mobile and the financial community. Silicon [...] Read More


Smaato raises Series A TJ's Weblog

I got to know Ragnar several years ago and like his unstoppable entrepreneurial spirit and enthusiasm from day one. In 2005 Ragnar and Petra decided to develop software for smart phones and use advertising as a way to 'charge' customers in lieu of charging a download fee. After two years of development and thinking they brought together many industry partners (publishers, ad networks, developers) to bring them into the Smaato [...] Read More


Idea of the Week: Art Framing Service Home Based Business Home Based Business

Basic Tips on How to Start a Home-Based Framing Service Business Believe it or not, a framing service business may not always be the first choice for people who want to go into home-based business, which is rather strange, considering the opportunities. Think about this: in an ordinary house, there are four walls. Imagine filling that house with frames. Now, imagine how many houses there are in your area and how [...] Read More
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Seen that? - Documents To Go Now Available for Symbian UIQ 3 Phones
Filed in archive Best of by Creative Weblogging on January 8, 2010
Documents To Go Now Available for Symbian UIQ 3 Phones The Smart PDA

Seen that? - Documents To Go Now Available for Symbian UIQ 3 Phones
(screenshot from DataViz website) DataViz has released a Symbian UIQ 3.0 version of Documents To Go, their popular mobile office software. Aside from creating and editing Microsoft Word and Excel documents, users will now be able to edit PowerPoint presentations, something not possible in previous incarnations. Only Sony Ericsson M600 users will be able to use this program. The other two phones capable of running this version of Documents To Go, the [...] Read More


DataViz Documents To Go for iPhone coming soon The Smart PDA

The Documents To Go is the most popular mobile MS Office application available in the market. DataViz has already released the Documents To Go mobile software for Symbian, Palm, Blackberry and windows mobile smartphones. Currently it is working on releasing the Documents To Go version for the iPhone and Android Smartphones. DataViz recently demonstrated its Documents To Go application for the Apple iPhone at the MWC 2009 in Barcelona and it [...] Read More


Documents to Go now available for iPhone The Smart PDA

Good news for iPhone users as Documents to Go MS Office suite is now available for the iPhone on Apple App Store. The Documents To Go version with MS Word editing and desktop sync is available for an introductory price of $4.99. Whereas the Documents to Go Version with Exchange Attachments for MS Word editing, desktop sync and Exchange Attachments is available for $9.99. A free upgrade for editing and [...] Read More


Term Sheet example and other investment documents TJ's Weblog

If you are lucky enough to deal with investors for your first round it is always helpful to know what all the Venture Terms mean. Brad Feld has a series of entries that help a lot. - Drag-Along Agreement- Liquidation PreferenceBut even better is to have example documents to understand the term sheet better and also support your lawyer in the negotiations for your prospective investors. All you have to do is to [...] Read More


Resource of 304 Legal Documents Biz Plan Hacks

I stumbled upon this list of links to legal agreements and provide it here with a caveat - using template legal agreements requires specific legal knowledge that unless you are an attorney may actually cause more problems for you than having no agreement at all. How? These agreements are written to deal with the most common and general situations and may not have enough specific detail to adequately protect you and [...] Read More
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Seen that? - HTC TyTN & hTc Z
Filed in archive Best of by Creative Weblogging on December 29, 2009
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Mobility Today features hands-on impressions of the new TyTN, a Windows Mobile 5.0 powered device manufactured by Taiwan-based High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC). The website's "teaser" pics shows that the model boasts a camera, Wi-Fi, a mini-USB port, what looks like a mini-DS slot, and a QWERTY keyboard. According to DigiTimes.com, NTT DoCoMo will start marketing the hTc Z, another HTC model also boasting a full keyboard, in Japan at the [...] Read More


Live in the UK? Get the HTC TyTN II for £480! at The Smart PDA

Get an HTC TyTN II for £480 at devicewire.co.uk. Yep, the spiritual successor to HTC's seminal kitchen sink is available for almost $1000. Ouch. But it may be money well spent, according to the review by CoolSmartPhone. In any case, you'll be getting a Windows Mobile 6 PDA phone featuring the following specs (cited from the product page): 3 mega-pixel auto focus camera ROM 256MB and RAM 128MB 360 degree 3 way jog [...] Read More


The HTC TyTN is Dead. Long Live the HTC TyTN II! at The Smart PDA

Let everyone far and wide know that the previously codenamed HTC Kaiser will now be known as the HTC TyTN II. Quite fitting, since this Windows Mobile 6 PDA Phone continues the grand tradition of the original TyTN, with its deep feature set and high price. Unfortunately, the previously set July release date has been pushed back to sometime this September. At least it's now confirmed that the TyTN II will feature [...] Read More


Bell Mobility Introduces $85,000 Mobile Data Plan at The Wireless Weblog

Canadian oil worker Piotr Staniaszek says he "thought there was probably a mistake" when he opened his mobile phone bill for the month of November to find charges totaling nearly $85,000. Turns out he'd signed up for a $10 unlimited mobile browsing plan, and then had connected his Motorola KRZR mobile phone to his computer and used it as a wireless modem, thinking the data traffic would be covered by the [...] Read More


Mobile Firms, Environmental Bodies Join to Make Mobility Green at The Mobile Technology Weblog

Nokia, Motorola, Panasonic Mobile Communications, France Telecom/Orange, Vodafone, TeliaSonera AB, Intel, Epson and other technology companies have joined with the Finnish environment authority, UK's DEFRA, the World Wildlife Fund and the European Commission to propose new initiatives for mobile technology that aid the environment. The initiatives break down into the following categories: *energy consumption *eliminating the use of specific materials of concern *improving the amount of phones collected through take-back schemes and recycled *giving [...] Read More
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