3-D Technology Is Transforming Medical Imagery (video)

How 3-D Technology Is Transforming Medical Imagery:  Thanks to new technologies, doctors can see, and feel, a body in entirely new ways. WSJ's Amy Westervelt explains what happens when medical imaging meets virtual reality

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How the iPhone Helps Doctors Battle Diseases (video)

How the iPhone Is Helping Doctors Battle Diseases -

Dr. Eric Schadt of Mount Sinai Hospital discusses the Apple ResearchKit with Bloomberg's Cory Johnson on "Bloomberg West" March 11th.

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Google Tests Live Chats With Doctors (video)

Better Co-Founder Geoffrey Clapp discusses the company’s health care product on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg  Oct 13)

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Google test provides live chats with doctors
(CNN) -- People using Google to search for information about their medical problems may soon get another source of information: a real-time chat with ...
The Google Doctor Will See You Now - Mashable
Google testing service to connect patients with doctors over video chat - The Verge
Google test provides live chats with doctors - CNN.com


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Apple and retail partners prepare for launch of Apple Pay
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It's almost time to start paying for things with your iPhone 6 instead of plastic. Last month, Apple said its Apple Pay mobile payments service would ...
Apple Pay details leaked in alleged training documents - CNET

How to Optimize Your Business Page for Facebook Search
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As Jennifer Beese from Sprout Social states, “Facebook Page SEO isn't new; Google has been indexing the social network for quite some time.”.


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Google Rumor Roundup: Nexus Phone, Tablet, and New Android Version Could Come This Week
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It looks like Apple won't be the only company to unveil new tablets, smartphones, operating system updates, and smartwatch goodies by the end of the ...


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iPhone Leaks Cost $50M. Sapphire Maker Reveals Contract With 'Oppressive and Burdensome ...
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Last week the tech sector was stunned by the news that Apple Apple partner ... Having waded through the GT Advanced Technology court filings the ...

Apple will not unveil MacBook Air with Retina display at Thursday event
Though Apple has been rumored to be working on a redesigned MacBook Air with a high-resolution Retina display for some time, the device will not ...

Will Ads Become the Next Net-Neutrality Battle? - WSJ: "...In the coming months, Mr. Carthy claims, some of his customers—which, he says, include wireless carriers in Europe, South America, Asia and the U.S.—plan to use the technology to block certain ads as a way to bring the ad providers to the negotiating table to win a cut of the fees...."

"... others estimate that Kroger rakes in $100 million a year from data sales. But Kroger executives are mum on the subject...." What’s All That Data Worth? - WSJ: "Among the issues: how to account for time employees spent gathering data—as an expense or a capital investment? Companies also would have to estimate the shelf-life of their data, figure out its future worth and track and report any changes in its value. Crunching those numbers would be relatively easy for a physical asset like a factory. But in the squishy world of intangibles, there’s little precedent for such calculations."

Content companies prosper from unauthorized YouTube videos - Google Inc. --Seeking Alpha: "YouTube's payments to media firms using its Content ID technology, which was set up in 2007 to allay fears about the unauthorized use of copyrighted material, has hit $1B.Content ID enables media companies to monitor when video they own has been uploaded onto YouTube without authorization and gives them the option to sell advertising on the content and make money from it or to have it taken down."The vast majority choose to monetize and track rather than block the videos," Google's Fred von Lohmann tells the FT. FremantleMedia, which is behind "The X-Factor" and "Britain's Got Talent," has made Content ID "a core part of our digital business," the company says."

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Doctors inept at tech?

About one-fourth of operating room errors are caused by technology and equipment problems, but a preoperative surgical checklist could halve the error rate, a new study says (source infra)--

Technology Mishaps Behind 1 in 4 Operating Room Errors: Study ...
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... as the computing market, historically dominated by Intel, shifts to handheld devices, where Qualcomm's technology has become the industry standard.

Google is shutting down Google+ Local for iOS

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Google Loses Bid to Delay UK Trial Until After EU Probe

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Google Inc. (GOOG) lost a bid to delay proceedings in a London antitrust case until ... of ICOMP, a Brussels-based industry coalition that includes Microsoft Corp.

Amazon.com leases nearly 130000 square feet in Cambridge

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Google's Instant Translators Could Become The Universal Tongue

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Amazon hits new high on optimism about its US business

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Keeping you in the loop on some of the things happening around Apple this week. .... It didn't take long after Google announced the $35 Chromecast, a little ...

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DOS PALOS -- Only half-filled with helium, and already more than 12 feet wide, the giant plastic envelope shimmered and shook in the breeze like some ...

How Google just quietly made your Android phone more secure

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One of Google's biggest changes to the Android platform is actually ... Simple: Google made the code a part of Google Play Services, a standalone utility that's ...

Microsoft turns to solar-power and white space for South Africa's ...

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Summary: Microsoft says it can reduce access costs by a factor of ten for poor ... Microsoft South Africa is to fund a new trial for delivering internet connectivity ...

Apple Is Too Rich To Care If It Has To Pay $500 Million For Book ...

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Apple's damages in the ebook price fixing scandal — in which a federal judge ... to ebooks for more customers at a price that was above Amazon's $9.99 setting. ... Google Just Dumped A Lot Of Pressure On Apple To Put A Better Screen On ...

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Microsoft Word Problems - Gizmodo

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The only thing harder than math is math about real life. These Microsoft Word problems from our friends at McSweeney's are impossible:

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Apple's developer center comes back online after weeklong overhaul

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While most of you are fixing to shut things down for the weekend, Apple's developer ... Google'sstill working on a Glass development kit, suggests devs use ...

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Apple Forms Supplier Responsibility Academic Advisory Board ...

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Apple has formed an academic advisory board for its Supplier Responsibility program to assist with the company's goals to provide "safe and...

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These Glitchy Google Maps Are Beautiful | Popular Science

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By playing with the Google Maps API, Kim Asendorf put together....

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Apple's Developer Center is back after over a week offline | 9to5Mac
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After being offline for more than a week, Apple's Developer Center is back. Access to the portal was removed by Apple after it was discovered that a breach into ...

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