mHealth Summit 2012: Isonea previews AsthmaSense v1.1 smartphone app.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.

Medical technology company iSonea Ltd.  today announced that previews of AsthmaSense™ v1.1, the latest version of its asthma management smartphone app, are available at the mHealth Summit (booth number 501-13), currently underway through December 5 at the Gaylord National™ Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. The Company expects AsthmaSense v1.1 will be available for download before the end of 2012.

AsthmaSense is the most comprehensive, yet easy-to-use smartphone app designed specifically to help improve daily monitoring and management of asthma. Users can input their medication, symptoms and peak flow results and set alerts for medication and lung function testing. In addition to using this information to alert the user to potential risk, the AsthmaSense app provides a record of the data for the patient to review with family or physician.

AsthmaSense v1.1 includes new functionality to help better manage asthma symptoms, including:

• Data synchronization and cloud storage – AsthmaSense is the first asthma app to provide safe storage of users' asthma profiles and event history/trends in a password protected, HIPAA- compliant, patient accessible cloud data warehouse.

• Trigger tracking - A profile record of personal asthma triggers to increase user awareness of potential risk patterns.

• Automatic emergency number input – Emergency contact number is automatically inputted into the phone, based on GPS location. In addition, users can edit or input their own custom emergency numbers.

• Improved help hints - Pop-up "hint bubbles" will appear on certain screens to acquaint the user with app features.

"Since we launched AsthmaSense in June 2012, the response has been overwhelmingly positive, with user feedback consistently lauding the app's features and ease-of-use. 

AsthmaSense v1.1 builds on that foundation with new features that allow asthmatics to feel confident that their information is always available, no matter the circumstances," said Michael Thomas, CEO of iSonea Ltd. "In the event that a user loses or breaks their smartphone, the cloud data storage feature means their data is never lost. Their entire profile and information can be retrieved, via the cloud, and uploaded to a new phone or viewed on a desktop computer.

 These upgrades reaffirm iSonea's commitment to keeping AsthmaSense the most intelligent, easy-to-use asthma management app on the market."In the United States alone, 25 million people have asthma, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The CDC also estimates the cost burden in the U.S. alone exceeds $56 billion annually, as poorly controlled asthma is associated with increased emergency room visits, hospitalizations and medical costs. 

The World Health Organization estimates that there are more than 250,000 deaths globally from poorly controlled asthma every year. The medical community's guidelines, including those from the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), state that regular monitoring of breathing symptoms is necessary to improve medication compliance and successful long-term management of asthma.

It is also recommended that all people with asthma have an asthma action plan developed with their doctor to help control their asthma.AsthmaSense is available for free at the Apple App Store (for iPhone and iPad users) and Google Play and Amazon App Stores (for Android users).

Some features may not be available in all markets; contact iSonea for more information.About iSonea Limited 

iSonea Limited  is an emerging medical technology company developing innovative, non-invasive devices and mobile health apps to improve the management of chronic, costly respiratory disorders such as asthma and COPD. By leveraging iSonea's proprietary Acoustic Respiratory Monitoring™ (ARM) technology with its AsthmaSense™ mobile applications, iSonea is creating a better monitoring system—enabling anyone, anywhere, at any time to monitor breathing distress symptoms, in order to take action. iSonea's ARM devices have been cleared for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Australian TGA and the European Union. For more information, please visit www.soundasthma.com.

Media Contacts
Michael Thomas	Jon Siegal or Jen Netzband
Chief Executive Officer	Schwartz MSL Boston
iSonea Limited	+1 781-684-0770
+1 410-777-5251	iSonea@schwartzmsl.com
mthomas@iSoneaMed.com	www.schwartzmsl.com
website: www.iSoneaMed.com

SOURCE iSonea Ltd.

AT&T Samsung Galaxy SIII Jelly Bean update , now available, using Kies.

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AT&T Samsung Galaxy SIII Jelly Bean update , now available, using Kies.

AT&T subscribers, as a number of readers are now reporting that Samsung's update to Android 4.1.1 is now available for the Galaxy S III via Kies.

Word from members of xda-developers reveals that the update weighs in at a substantial 738MB.

You can get Kies for PC and Mac here, scroll down a little bit. Or on the links we posted below:

Download Kies (WINDOWS®)

Download Kies (MAC®)

Australia: Telstra to launch the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1- 4G very soon.

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Australia: Telstra to launch the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1- 4G very soon.

The folks from ausdroid.net have been tipped the Samsung Glaxy Note 10.1 with 4G is coming to Telstra very soon.  How soon? Very. How do we know? they say.

The Galaxy Note 10.1 4G has appeared in Telstra’s internal inventory system, meaning availability for customers is literally just around the corner.

The Galaxy Note 10.1 4G is equipped with a quad-core Exynos 4412 processor clocked at 1.4 GHz, which is complemented by a Mali-400MP graphics processing unit and no less than 2GB of RAM.

In addition, the tablet packs 16/32/64GB of internal memory, which can be further expanded up to 64GB via microSD memory card.

The 10.1-inch PLS capacitive touchscreen display supports 800 x 1280 pixels resolution and 16 million colors. On the back, the slate sports a 5-meagpixel photo snapper with autofocus, LED flash and HD (720p) video recording, while on the front there’s a secondary 1.9-megapixel camera for video calls.

Leaked Blackberry 10 accesories list.

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Please click on the image below to enlarge the view:

The Hungarian site berryblog is posting a list of  Blackberry BB10's accessories which also are going to be a lot of cool , and which have already started to produce RIM's partners. 

The list is as usual, batteries, docking station, and wine, but there are also a number of product categories, for the time being we do not really know where to (Flip Shell, Hard Shell Transform).

The different frames regarding the choice of colors for the time being in the black, white, gray and red colors is limited, and in addition will cause skin microfiber fabric carrying case is also a choice.

Although it is not clear from the list, in all likelihood, the L-series accessories have been added to the table, at least in this series has designated the L-S1 battery code.

No specific info on release dates and pricing has been provided as of now.

Source: Softpedia

Pope Benedict XVI Joseph Ratzinger sends out his first tweet.

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Pope Benedict XVI  Joseph Ratzinger sends out his first tweet.

Pope Benedict XVI now has his own personal Twitter account. Despite racking up tens of thousands of followers in only a short time, however, the pontiff has yet to pontificate in 140 characters.

The ranks of Twitter users just got a whole lot holier. Pope Benedict XVI has officially joined the microblogging service under the handle @Pontifex. In fact, he joined it eight times – once each for issuing divine tweets in English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Italian, French and Arabic. The Pope has already racked up more than 70,000 followers at the time of this writing – roughly 0.004 percent of the world’s Catholic population. That number will surely jump many time higher in the coming hours and days.

So far, Pope Benedict XVI has issued no tweets himself. That is likely to change soon, however, considering the Pope is an old hat at Twitter. Last year, the pontiff sent out his first-ever tweet from an Apple iPad to commemorate the launch of News.va, the Vatican’s online media hub.

“Dear Friends, I just launched www.news.va. Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI,” reads Pope Benedict XVI’s first tweet.

News.va, as well as the Vatican’s YouTube channel, Facebook page, and Flickr photo feed, are run by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communication.The Council was established all the way back in 1948 with the declaration that the Church sees “the media as an outcome of the historical scientific process by which humankind ‘advances further and further in the discovery of the resources and values contained in the whole of creation.’”

The adoption of social media by religious leaders is, of course, nothing new. Most notable among them is the Dalai Lama, who has amassed more than 5.6 million followers and tweets about once or twice a week, on average.

In addition to his social media presence, Pope Benedict XVI also became the first pontiff to adopt green car technology with a new Popemobile based on a the all-electric Renault Kangoo Maxi ZE. The gas-free Popemobile will serve as Benedict XVI’s mode of transportation around his summer home in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, which is roughly five square miles in area – a good size for a car that can travel 105 miles on a single charge.

Original news taken from: Digitaltrends  ,Spanish: Google Translate

Amazon app for Windows 8 and RT now available.

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Amazon app for Windows 8 and RT now available.

Get Windows 8 or Windows RT to run this app.

The Amazon app is available for free in the Windows Store and it offers support not only for 32- and 64-bit versions of the operating system, but also for Windows RT and, consequently, for Surface RT.

The feature list is at least impressive, as the Amazon for Windows 8 app allows you to quickly search for products, read product descriptions and reviews, add products to the shopping car or to the wish list and even purchase products.

“The Amazon app allows you to quickly make purchases, search, compare prices, read reviews, and share products with friends using a simple yet elegant interface. Shop just as you do on the web,” the official description of the app reads.

Dowload the app here

Description

The Amazon app allows you to quickly make purchases, search, compare prices, read reviews, and share products with friends using a simple yet elegant interface. Shop just as you do on the web.

You can access any of Amazon's sites around the world from a single app by simply selecting your desired Amazon country store or shipping destination. You have full access to your existing cart and wish lists.

Search for products using the Amazon app, and easily add them to your shopping cart to purchase. (Note: the app uses the Amazon search engine, which is a non-Microsoft commerce engine.) All purchases made on Amazon are routed through our secure servers just as they are on the web.

Features

• View popular products and recommendations
• Quickly search for products
• Read product descriptions and reviews
• Add any product to your Shopping Cart and/or Wish List
• Purchase products
• Access any of Amazon's sites around the world

Release notes

UX/UI improvements to gateway, thank you and wish list pages

Resolved minor bugs in previous version

New marketing descriptions. 

System requirements

• Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster
• RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
• Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• To run the app, you need an active Internet connection and a screen resolution of at least 1024 x 768.
• To snap the app, you need a screen resolution of at least 1366 x 768.

Supported processors

x86, x64, ARM

Languages

English (United States), Chinese (China), German, Spanish, Japanese, French, English (Canada), Italian, English (United Kingdom)

Kibo a mini companion and communications robot to arrive to the ISS in summer 2013.

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Kibo a mini companion and communications robot to arrive to the ISS in summer 2013.

Tomotaka Takahashi's concept sketch of the robot         

A humanoid robot that will be serving as a companion and communications device to Japanese astronauts living in the Japanese Experiment Module “Kibo” on the International Space Station is expected to be completed by February next year. This was the announcement made by Dentsu, Inc. who is part of the joint effort to make the robot.

 The design and specifications are subject to change.

 The coloring, speech and voices of the two robots (one in space and one on Earth) may differ slightly.

The KIBO ROBOT PROJECT, whose aim is to create a humanoid communication robot that will be a companion for the Japanese astronauts who will be living in the Kibo Experiment Module, was jointly submitted by Dentsu, RCAST and ROBO GARAGE in response to the call last year from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (President: Keiji Tachikawa) for a feasibility study proposal on the theme of solving social issues in the experiment module. The proposal was accepted, and the project team has been working for more than a year on developing a robot that can communicate with the astronauts via autonomous actions and remote operations. The robot will also transmit information from the Kibo module to Earth. In winter 2013 the robot will come face-to-face with Koichi Wakata, the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station, and will take part in the world's first conversation experiment held between a person and a robot in outer space. A second robot with the same specifications will be built to serve as a backup and for demonstration purposes on Earth.

Together with leading engineering companies in Japan, RCAST and ROBO GARAGE have been working on the development of the robot hardware, while Dentsu has been involved in the creation of the conversation content. Toyota Motor Corporation (President: Akio Toyoda; hereinafter "Toyota"), a new addition to the project team, is responsible for the voice recognition and natural language processing functions that comprise the robot's intelligence. Through its participation in this project, Toyota will gather data and collate the accumulated technology that is instrumental to interactive services as well as the development of the "Toyota Partner Robot" that can coexist with people.

The project collaborators hope that the project's activities will disseminate Japan's technological strengths to the international community, and make a contribution to the development of industry and science education.

Dentsu via Gizmag

Press Release:

Humanoid Communication Robot Will Leave Japan

for the International Space Station in Summer 2013

Dentsu Inc. (Tokyo) President & CEO: Tadashi Ishii; Head Office: Tokyo; Capital: 58,967.1 million yen announced today that the humanoid communication robot being developed under the KIBO ROBOT PROJECT, a joint research project being carried out in collaboration with the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo (Director: Dr. Yoshiaki Nakano; hereinafter “RCAST”) and ROBO GARAGE Co., Ltd. (CEO: Tomotaka Takahashi; hereinafter “ROBO GARAGE”), is expected to be completed in February 2013. In the summer of the same year, it will be sent to the Japanese Experiment Module “Kibo” in the International Space Station.

The KIBO ROBOT PROJECT, whose aim is to create a humanoid communication robot that will be a companion for the Japanese astronauts who will be living in the Kibo Experiment Module, was jointly submitted by Dentsu, RCAST and ROBO GARAGE in response to the call last year from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (President: Keiji Tachikawa) for a feasibility study proposal on the theme of solving social issues in the experiment module. The proposal was accepted, and the project team has been working for more than a year on developing a robot that can communicate with the astronauts via autonomous actions and remote operations. The robot will also transmit information from the Kibo module to Earth.

In winter 2013 the robot will come face-to-face with Koichi Wakata, the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station, and will take part in the world’s first conversation experiment held between a person and a robot in outer space. A second robot with the same specifications will be built to serve as a backup and for demonstration purposes on Earth.

Together with leading engineering companies in Japan, RCAST and ROBO GARAGE have been working on the development of the robot hardware, while Dentsu has been involved in the creation of the conversation content. Toyota Motor Corporation (President: Akio Toyoda; hereinafter “Toyota”), a new addition to the project team, is responsible for the voice recognition and natural language processing functions that comprise the robot’s intelligence. Through its participation in this project, Toyota will gather data and collate the accumulated technology that is instrumental to interactive services as well as the development of the “Toyota Partner Robot” that can coexist with people.

The project collaborators hope that the project’s activities will disseminate Japan’s technological strengths to the international community, and make a contribution to the development of industry and science education.

Project Team Members:

Dentsu Inc.

Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo

ROBO GARAGE Co., Ltd.

Toyota Motor Corporation

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (cooperation)

Technical Collaboration

Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation

Vstone Co., Ltd.

crossEffect, Inc.

YUKAI Engineering

Futaba Corporation

HOYA Service Corporation

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Contact: Shusaku Kannan

Senior Manager

Corporate Communications Division

Telephone: (813) 6216-8042

E-mail: s.kannan@dentsu.co.jp

Samsung Galaxy Note II TV Commercial - Art Show.

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Samsung Galaxy Note II TV Commercial - Art Show.

Samsung says:

With innovative features like Air View and Idea Sketch, you can visualize your ideas while on the move, and be more productive at the same time.

Meet the new Samsung GALAXY Note II, which enables unique experiences in personalized and expressive content creation, making it the ultimate smartphone for on-the-go creativity.

For more information: http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxynote/note2

Video: BlackBerry10 L-series tutorial -gestures.

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Video: BlackBerry10 L-series tutorial -gestures.

 You're walked through the gesture motions that will be used on the device BlackBerry 10 L-series to be launched in January 30, 2013.

Source: Crackberry

LG 3D BP520 DVD Blu-ray Disc player.

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Plays all region DVDs (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) & Zone A Blu-rays. DIVX, XVID AVI MKV 3D BP520 3D-Capable Blu-ray Player is a great way to take advantage of the ultra-high resolution available on HDTVs, since it offers full HD 1080p resolution. With support for both 2D and 3D Blu-ray discs, you can enjoy all the latest Hollywood flicks from the comfort of your couch. And when you pop in a DVD, you can see it in near-HD quality since the player allows upscaling to full HD 1080p With Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D you can enjoy all the latest movies in full 1080p picture resolution. Perfect for playing all your 3D or 2D Blu-ray and DVD movies. Better yet, our line of Blu-ray Disc Players upscales existing DVDs to near HD quality An essential element to any home theater experience is the sound -- and the BP520 supports advanced audio formats like Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio. Using the front panel USB port, you can also display photos and enjoy media and music stored on a USB flash drive. One more handy feature of the LG BP520 Blu-ray Disc Player is that if you have other LG devices, you'll be able to control them all with a single remote. So for convenience, high-performance and networked options, this disc player certainly delivers DivX/DivX HD, MPEG4 AVC, HPL4.1, MPEG2, HPML, SMPTE VC1, APL3, MPEG2, HPML, AVCHD, MKV, BD-R/-RE, DVD (NTSC and PAL formats), DVD+/-R/RW, CD, DTS-CD and CD-R/RW, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), MKV, AVC Rec, AVCHD, M4V, RMVB, WMV, 3GP, FLV, VOB, MP3, WMA, AAC Browse and share files from external storage devices on your TV screen, or access files from your PC, tablet or smart phone via Wi-Fi Integrated Wi-Fi Connectivity allows you take advantage of Internet Entertainment Access from any available Wi-Fi connection, anywhere in its range Available on Amazon store here:

LG Optimus G Multitasking with QuickMemo and QSlide at the same time. Video.

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LG Optimus G Multitasking with QuickMemo and QSlide at the same time. Video.

This 2012 have been the year for multitasking beyond of having several apps open on the background. Now the competition  between Samsung and LG in smartphones is taking some useful tasks to work with two or more tasks at the same time.

On the video below LG is showing how you can do that  with the Optimus G: 

LG says:

Don't end a task if you aren't finished yet! 

Use QuickMemo and QSlide to carry on two or more tasks at the same time!

Jot down a number while you're on the phone with QuickMemo.

Send a text message while watching a video with QSlide.

Stay tuned and smart- because at the end of the day, every task's important.

Quadruple your ability with LG Optimus G! 

For more information, visit http://www.facebook.com/LGMobile