Samsung Electronics Co. has established an internet-based mobile communication system for hospitals which allow doctors and nurses to monitor patients’ conditions with their cell phones, according to the Korea Herald.
The new system has been installed at the recently-opened cancer clinic of Samsung Medical Center in Seoul and is the first hospital in Korea to have […]
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Mobile Patient Monitoring in Korea
April 29th, 2008 by Allison
Tags: Asia · Emerging Technology · Wireless World
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Full Web-browsing, Haptics Booming in Korea
April 24th, 2008 by Allison
The Korea Times reports that mobile internet is the hottest issue among early adopters in Korea. The three most popular handsets these days according to online community Cetizen are all touch-screen phones specializing in Web browsing: Samsung’s Haptic, Pantech & Curitel’s CanU and LG’s Touch Web Phone.
These models, all capable of full web-browsing, are […]
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Ontario College of Art’s “Mobile Experience Lab”
April 7th, 2008 by NGT
There has been some interesting experimentation with mobile applications in Canada thanks to the Mobile Experience Lab. Started in 2005 at the Ontario College of Art (OCAD), the Lab aims “to pursue research projects that bring together art practice, design and research methodology with software and hardware engineering capabilities.” They focus on the areas […]
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Are Voice Apps Just for Grownups?
April 3rd, 2008 by Allison
No one would call the average teen too quiet, but when it comes to mobile, that may be the case for the new voice services hitting the market. Yahoo! just introduced voice search into its mobile oneSearch product, similar to ChaCha. An article in today’s New York Times also talks about several services out there: […]
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Microsoft Surface Launches in AT&T Stores
April 2nd, 2008 by Allison
Last year we talked about the new trend in wireless retail of “experience shopping,” where stores are more hands-on museums than retail locations. Now AT&T is stepping up the in-store experience with the Microsoft Surface. The 30-inch multi-touch screen, which Microsoft debuted back in May of last year, allow consumers to learn about a device […]
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