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Tagged: health, android

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

A company called LowestMed has launched a mobile app that allows consumers to compare drug prices at their local pharmacy chains.

The app will be a mobile extension of the company's Web resource for comparative drug prices and prescription discount cards.

- eWeek

Waze launched version 3.0 for Android. "The latest iteration of the app features a complete overhaul from the ground up, including a new minimalist graphic interface as well as Foursquare and Yelp POI integration to make it the most powerful local search navigation system on the market."

- press release

RunKeeper has nine new partners using its API, bringing the total to 45. New ones include:

  1. Fleetly: Lets users track and improve their Fitness Level in a social game.
  2. Pedometer Ultimate: Turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a powerful GPS stopwatch.
  3. Nexercise: An interactive game that makes fitness fun.
  4. CleverRun: Predicts your target time for your next race and compares your runs to runs of the same distance.
  5. Cycle Log: Helps cyclists track performance with GPS mapping, interval timers, voice cues and more.
  6. Coachya: Helps coaches provide training plans, track, manage and bill their teams and athletes.
  7. Vitogo: Lets you log your strength training with coaching, motivation and social support.
  8. Weighty: Allows you to submit your weight and fat percentage to the Health Graph.
  9. Scosche myTREK: A wireless pulse monitor that is worn on your forearm and lets you manage your pulse, training type, calories burned, distance/speed/pace and more.

(I don't use RunKeeper or any phone based workout app. I just use my old Garmin Forerunner 201. It's the one Kate M. gave me after I lost my first one.)

- Bostoninno

Safely, the family safety app suite from Location Labs is announcing it "has enabled more than one billion family safety location checks since inception." And, there's a new feature: a check-in feature for the kids - so they don't have to call to say where they are.

- press release

by Adena Schutzberg on 02/01 at 03:00 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

The data policy for the Geological Survey of India was released and begins:

The activity domain  under the mission Geoinformatics are broadly categorized in the scheme –i) Information Infrastructure, ii) National Geospatial Datasets, iii) Product Management, iv) 3D-Integrated Application, v) Mobile Mapping, and vi) e-Governance.  The information infrastructure, in turn, includes the GSI Portal which archives the scientific attribute and spatial information and GSI Net. 

- press release

Ubon Ratchathani is now at the forefront of IT utilisation for public health in pioneering a mobile app on Android tablet PCs for healthcare officials to collect household information on patients.

The app tracks not only the home location of patients but familial relationships, making it easier for health providers to better understand pattens with families and geographies. The underlying maps are from Google. Ubon Rachathani is the second most populous province in Thailand.

Bangkok Post

The [Japanese] government said Tuesday it plans to draw up a radioactive substance concentration map for farmlands and conduct a study on contaminated debris as part of measures to deal with radioactive material released from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The plan is to take some 500 samples and install more monitors by year's end. There are however no details on how this information will be used for decontamination effots.

- Mainichi Daily News

by Adena Schutzberg on 08/03 at 03:34 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share
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