Apple’s vision for tracking your health via an iPhone is expanding.
Some hospitals and electronic medical records companies have already begun using an Apple software platform called HealthKit to add extra detail to patient files. For example, patients can opt to automatically share readings from a home blood glucose monitor with their provider using the software. Apple and IBM are now working together to help health-care providers make sense of that data, and to do things like automatically offer advice to patients.
Spring, the Instagram for shopping, has today closed $25 million in Series B funding led by Box Group, with participation by Yuri Millner, Groupe Arnault, Google Ventures, and Thrive Capital. Spring has raised a total of $32.5 million.
Alongside the funding announcement, Spring (created by David Tisch and his brother Alan Tisch in August 2014) is also launching an Android version of the app today after having spent almost a year exclusively on iOS.
Patients with complicated medicine regimes often find it hard to keep track of which pill is which, since most pills are only identifiable via tiny engravings. This is especially true for those who are visually impaired. A new android app called TruScan from TruMedicines hopes to help end this confusion by enabling patients to identify their pills audibly via their smartphone.
Startup SignalFx today emerged from two years in stealth mode to unveil a troubleshooting tool it designed for Web-based software developers and for other businesses that conduct operations on widely distributed computers and devices.
The San Mateo, CA-based company also announced the completion of a $20 million Series B fundraising round led by Charles River Ventures and joined by Andreessen Horowitz, which spearheaded SignalFx’s $8.5 million Series A round in 2013.
The app, currently in a private beta test, combines data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with atmospheric pressure readings captured by a smartphone. The latest iPhones, and some Android smartphones, include barometers for measuring atmospheric pressure. These sensors are generally used to determine elevation for navigation, but changes in air pressure can also signal changes in the weather.
Smart watches got stylish, tablets got new software, and virtual reality goggles wrapped their tentacles around everyone’s faces. Some companies are deconstructing their mobiles into modules. And discussions of the next generation of mobile networks, 5G, centered on how useful it will be for the Internet of Things, not mobile voice or data.
Here is a look at five important tech developments from this week’s conference:
Deconstructing the mobile: the pieces come together for modular mobiles.
La firma bilbaína Warantum, que ha desarrollado una aplicación móvil pionera para el Registro de la Garantía, ha sido designada como firma ganadora en la categoría de comercio de los premios Start BiscayApp. Este concurso es una iniciativa de Fundación Biscaytik, creada por la Diputación Foral de Bizkaia para impulsar las nuevas tecnologías. Concretamente, a través de Start BiscayApp se busca promover los productos de software en Bizkaia, en el ámbito de las aplicaciones para smartphones y otros dispositivos.
These days, it seems kids learn how to operate their parents’ iPads before they learn to read—and that can be problematic, says Marjorie Knepp, co-founder of Ann Arbor, MI-based augmented reality startup MagicBook. After all, how can a set of bound pages possibly compare to a gadget that produces colors, sounds, games, cartoons, and movies?
Knepp, a parent who has 15 years of experience working as a project manager at tech companies, is a voracious reader who grew up “devouring” books. Not long ago, she came across some research that showed kids are reading less and less, which negatively impacts their intellectual development.
As the European Union prepares its plan for a Digital Single Market, policy-makers must take full account of the fastest growing segment of that market – the app industry, writes Sophie Mestchersky.
Sophie Mestchersky is Director for European Policy and Government Affairs at the Application Developers Alliance, an industry association.
The app industry has a deep partnership with today’s ubiquitous device: the smartphone. And, like the smartphone, apps are now part almost every business and everyone’s daily activities.
In a world where we can order almost anything online, finding wall art for the home can actually be an overwhelming process online. There are just so many options, from traditional retailers to Art.com to sites that let you print out your Instagrams. But when it comes to digital art, there really hasn’t been a single marketplace for artists and buyers to put everything in one place.
