Dangers of Distracted Walking – NYTimes.com.
We have a new recycling service in our city. Everyone got a new recycling bin, same size as the garbage bin but a different color. One of those giant noisy trucks with a giant claw arm comes every two weeks to pick up curbside.
This week I witnessed the recycling truck driver texting and driving simultaneously.
I get a real bad feeling about this.
The company started as a purely consumer-focused product to let regular people outsource their odd jobs and tasks to others, but it has indeed been increasing its focus on the enterprise space in recent months.
via TaskRabbit Confirms Layoffs As It Realigns To Focus On Mobile And Enterprise | TechCrunch.
Regular people don’t outsource errands and odd jobs.
Expense reduction will only postpone the inevitable.
E-books Now Make Up 1/5 of U.S. Book Sales.
A reader questioned why I did not read E-books several years ago. I grew up in a dead tree book world and preferred paper books. This despite a growing dependence upon computers and the internet for work where most of my reading was done.
I am now equipped with a smart phone and an E-book reader. When reading a book I now have my choice of four different devices. I like this a lot. So while I continue my love for paper books, E-books have found a place on my digital shelf.
Ten Tips for Senior Entrepreneurs | The Business Desk with Paul Solman | PBS NewsHour | PBS.
Great story. Click through to watch the video.
There are cheap dongles that can do sonograms good enough for office use, sensors and apps that can do blood tests, sweat tests and other chemical diagnostics. One type of pill has been developed that reports when the patient has swallowed it. When the pill encounters stomach acids, it sends out a tiny electronic pulse. The pulse is picked up by a small adhesive patch the patient wears on his or her abdomen. The patch, in turn, detects when the patient’s smart phone is on and close by, and sends out a Bluetooth signal. An app on the phone picks up the Bluetooth signal and sends an instant message to the clinician who is tracking the use of the drug.
via Medical apps: We are approaching the tipping point.
Interesting article.
Your history of work is as important as the work you’ll do tomorrow.
via Seth’s Blog: Building your backlist (and living with it forever).
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
What you post online stays forever.
Think before you post.
IBM Corp., the health insurer WellPoint Inc. and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center announced two Watson-based applications — one to help assess treatments for lung cancer and one to help manage health insurance decisions and claims.
via Insurers Begin Employing IBM’s Supercomputer Watson.
Elementary!
The 20 Best iOS And Android Apps Of 2012 | TechCrunch.
Last year my family bought me a smartphone for Christmas. I stumbled upon this article and thought I’d share it. The only app I recognized and have on my phone is Google Maps. I’m clueless on the rest.
I am an analog man in a digital world.
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