We’ve already seen travel recommendations inspired by social media trends in the form of SuggestMe, but now a new app from Sweden’s Stockholm Arlanda Airport — Local’s Guide — is using real-time updates by city residents on the photo-sharing platform to enable visitors to discover new locations through a personalized travel guide.
FOCUS, a newly formed creative startup dedicated to advancing the future of fitness monitoring technology, today announced the release of TRAINR, a new app that puts the power of a personal trainer on a person’s wrist. Available now for the Samsung Galaxy Gear and compatible smartphones, TRAINR is the first fitness app that provides custom training programs while automatically identifying exercises, tracking repetitions, sets and rest periods-with minimal input required. With TRAINR, the combination of a wearable device and smartphone evolves into a powerful fitness-training tool, accessible anytime and anywhere, explaining how to train to achieve goals.
Health IT is a booming sector, but physicians are already becoming inundated and overwhelmed by the influx of new tools.
And yet, in Silicon Valley, dozens of startups are building new technologies for doctors. The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, presents a unique opportunity for health care entrepreneurs. It aims to change the payment structure for health care and is incentivizing doctors to keep people healthy – not just bill for expensive tests and procedures.
Some local recommendation apps tell you where you can go to eat, dine or be entertained, as rated by things like proximity, price or user reviews. Others aim to offer a more personalized experience, helping you find places you would actually want to visit, based on your own personal interests. Zofari, a new company trying to build what’s best described as “a Pandora for places,” is in this latter group.
The San Francisco-based startup was founded by former Googler/YouTube Marketing Manager Nate Weinstein and longtime friend Jason Kobilka.
El l universo de las aplicaciones disponibles para smarphones y tabletas en las tiendas virtuales de IOS y Android cada día es más grande. Las que tienen que ver con salud y medicina se están llevando la palma puesto que, después de las de juegos, están magníficamente situadas en el ránking.
Sólo en AppleStore había a finales del pasado verano algo más de 40.000 apps dedicadas a salud. Demasiadas quizás para encontrar entre ellas la que puede servir a un ciudadano y definitivamente demasiadas para saber cuáles son las mejores, las mediocres o las que no sirven para nada.
La app de transporte público Moovit es elegida como ‘Best App’ en el concurso Open Data Tourism Hack-at-home del proyecto europeo Open Cities, que premia a las aplicaciones móviles que ayudan a las ciudades a ofrecer los mejores servicios a sus turistas
La adquisición aportará a Lonely Planet toda la experiencia en tecnología, aplicaciones móviles y creación de comunidades online que TouristEye ha desarrollado durante los últimos años y permitirá que ambas compañías continúen trabajando conjuntamente para crear nuevos productos innovadores para viajeros.
Boombotix, a startup based out of SF building rugged speakers for active lifestyle use, today launched a new Kickstarter campaign, this time for a new technology it’s building to complement it hardware products. The Boombotix Sync tech manages to synchronize audio from multiple mobile devices over 4G and Wi-Fi, allowing those to output to Bluetooth speakers and have the playback match for surround sound results.
With education apps crossing one billion downloads on iTunes earlier this year, the demand for quality learning content, especially content of the kid-friendly variety, is growing fast — and so is the opportunity for app publishers. Since launching in 2010, Israel-based startup, TabTale, has been on a mission to capitalize on this demand and is quietly becoming one of the App Store’s top publishers as a result.
