Mayo Clinic has 14 apps for the iPad and 15 on the iPhone. Until Monday, none of the free mobile medical apps were specifically meant for patients. The three free ones were mainly for doctors, alumni and people interested in medical research). MedCity News reports. Dr. Sidna Tulledge-Scheitel of Mayo said that the app is meant to empower patients and aligns with Mayos mission of trying to make our services accessible and affordable. She noted that patients can view lab results in real time as they become available and can check blood work results, for instance, before they meet with the doctor. That can help patients to fully engage in the conversation, she said. Read More
Mobile game Draw Something has been downloaded 50 million times in just 50 days, the game's owner has said, reports the BBC. The simple game involves players drawing pictures in order to guess words, much like board game Pictionary. At peak times, Draw Something players create over 3,000 drawings per second. Read More
Bump Labs joined the mobile payments craze yesterday when the startup launched its Bump Pay app for iPhone that allows people to exchange money by tapping their phones together. Computerworld reports. Read More
Phones in the theater were once regarded as a nuisance, or worse the embodiment of a mobile revolution that was dragging consumers away from the multiplex. These days, theaters welcome them. The Los Angeles Times reports. "With box office having been down last year, it's important to use technology in every possible way to drive the industry forward, and we think mobile is the core of that," said Nicholas Lehman, an NBCUniversal executive who oversees several digital properties, including the online ticket service Fandango. "It puts more people into seats, sells more tickets and creates a better experience for users." Read More
Right before the holidays, mobswitch set up a remote controllable Xmas tree in Dresden, Germany. Users can download the Switch-a-tree app for Android, to remote control the tree's light. A webcam takes a photo and everybody may have look how their Xmas tree looks like. Read More
Developed with the Arab uprising and the Occupy Movement in mind, the Protest4 app has, not surprisingly at all, seen a huge volume of activity in Egypt, among other countries. TheNextWeb reported in November via @aym. Protest4 users have come up with creative ways to use the app most notably in Egypt with about 2,000 users participating in an online discussion campaigning for the release of Egyptian blogger and activist, Alaa Abd El-Fattah who has spent over 2 weeks in prison. In Pakistan, 15,000 Imran Khan supporters are using the app, while 1,000 anti-Berlusconi activists took to the app calling for the former Italian Prime Ministers resignation. About 800 users have joined the free West Papua movement, calling for its secession from Indonesia. Related: apps for activists and related articles: -- Read More
TED has just lanched an iPhone app. Adapted from their award-winning iPad app, the new TED iPhone app allows users to browse and watch TEDTalks, videos ranging from 3 minutes to 18 minutes in length. TEDTalks feature great ideas from speakers on everything from genetics and geopolitics to sculpture and creativity. Read More
Private banks, which have been slow to embrace mobile technologies over concerns about security and a general impression that private banking clients did not want that kind of relationship with their bankers are changing their minds and offering social media and smartphone apps. The New York Times reports. Read More
Go app for iPhone lets people stream media and post in real-time. Users can also locate tagged posts on a map aided by GPS. Forbes reports. Other useful apps for activitsts: -- Read More
Everybody has heard horror stories of the Facebook past of job applicants coming back to haunt them. In fact, a large proportion of final year students will now be trying to figure out how to expunge the unsuitable-for-work comments, photos and updates they have accumulated on their profiles and walls of friends. It is no easy task. The Wall Street Journal reports. Devines Android app, called Exfoliate, allows you to delete batches of posts based on how long theyve been up. For instance, you can have it remove posts that are older than three months and various time periods up to three years. You can clean just your wall, or also remove posts from friends walls. And the kind of content you can select for removal includes your posts, comments and likes As it is, CNET warns, the app is a bandwidth hog which takes several hours on a Wi-Fi network. Its actions are also permanent. Exfoliate costs the equivalent of $2.99 from the Android Market and an iPhone version is expected in a few weeks, writes The Wall Street Journal. Read More
