This dreaded moment has happened to everyone. You walk out of a store and panic seizes you. “Where did I park my car?” you ask. You’re then subjected to the wander of shame through the parking lot as you desperately try to locate your vehicle.
But thanks to two new Apple patents, this all-too-familar struggle might become a thing of the past. The patents detail how your phone can be used to help you find your car, even if you don’t have good reception. And no, it doesn’t use GPS, either.
If anybody needs to get constant, real-time information in a Google Glass-like wearable, it’s doctors and other healthcare workers.
Healthcare is one of the two major markets being addressed by San Francisco-based Wearable Intelligence, which makes software for wearable data presentation used by people in the healthcare and the energy industries.
The company is now raising a $8.4 million in venture capital, according to a filing today with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Wearable Intelligence has raised $7.9 million of the target amount and has been building the round since August 6, 2014.
While the step counters and run tracker apps of the world get most of the attention, a growing number of apps in the marketplace are serving serious clinical needs.
One is AliveCor‘s AliveECG app, which will soon run an algorithm that detects atrial fibrillation (AF), a serious type of heart arrhythmia that’s often a precursor to stroke. For people with a history or heart trouble, or atrial fibrillation specifically, the app and the algorithm could provide a life-saving early warning system.
‘Logistics as a Service’ isn’t an entirely new idea. Index-backed MetaPack already helps large online retailers compete with Amazon in the delivery stakes, while Accel-backed Packlink offers something broadly similar for consumers and eBay ‘power sellers’. However, today sees another startup enter the space.
Jim Dolce was last seen in these parts at Akamai, which bought his previous company, Verivue, in late 2012. Last March, he shipped out to San Francisco to become CEO of Lookout, a seven-year-old mobile security company.
Ever get lucky enough to hit three or four green lights in a row on your way home from work? It turns out it might not be so hard to make that happen all the time.
With permission from a local road agency, researchers in Michigan hacked into nearly 100 wirelessly networked traffic lights, highlighting security issues that they say are likely to pervade networked traffic infrastructure around the country. More than 40 states currently use such systems to keep traffic flowing as efficiently as possible, helping to reduce emissions and delays.
In the four years since the car service Uber launched, it has been beset by criticism from myriad groups, including city officials annoyed by its sometimes cavalier attitude toward regulation and taxi companies annoyed by increased competition. Some of the harshest criticism, though, has come from an unlikely place: Uber’s own customers. Thanks to its reliance on what it calls “surge pricing”— meaning that during times of high demand, Uber raises its prices, often sharply—the company has been accused of profiteering and exploiting its customers.
Emprender en el sector de las TIC no es sencillo: exige alta cualificación, innovación y mucho esfuerzo, pero 'start up' españolas demuestran que es posible y, lo que es más importante, resulta rentable.
El sector de la construcción volverá a crecer el próximo año, en torno a un 1%, con lo que cambiará la tendencia decreciente que había mantenido durante los últimos seis años, según un informe de la compañía especializada en servicios de crédito y gestión de riesgo comercial Cesce.
Está previsto que la edificación impulse al sector, mientras que la obra civil todavía necesita tocar fondo y comenzar una recuperación que alcanzará un crecimiento del 3% en 2016, según el informe.
El fabricante danés de aerogeneradores Vestas ha logrado un beneficio neto de 96 millones de euros al cierre del primer semestre, frente a las pérdidas de 213 millones del mismo periodo de 2013, informó la compañía, que ha revisado al alza sus expectativas anuales.
La cifra de negocio de la compañía danesa entre enero y junio alcanzó un total de 2.624 millones de euros, un 15% más que en el mismo periodo del ejercicio precedente.
En el segundo trimestre de 2014, Vestas obtuvo un beneficio neto de 94 millones de euros, frente a las pérdidas de 62 millones del mismo periodo de 2013, mientras su facturación creció un 13,1%, hasta 1.341 millones de euros.
