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Enterprises increasingly use mobile platform for internal, external communication

Businesses increasingly are using wireless technology to communicate internally among employees and externally with potential and existing customers. The trend is only going to continue as more people drop landline telephone services. While traditional media companies were early adopters of mobile technology to communicate,...

Cracking the mobile health consumer market

The eighth annual Healthcare Unbound conference revealed a tension in the m-health marketplace between cutting-edge technology and ease of use. ...

IBM Sees Large Market for Wireless Health-Monitoring Devices

Consumers who are neither fitness freaks nor chronically ill are willing to pay for health-monitoring gadgets, according to a new IBM study. ...

Space Shuttle Atlantis blasts off with m-health gear in tow

When the space shuttle Atlantis blasted off earlier today for the final mission of its kind in space, it was also carrying a first of its kind for m-health. General Electric Co. (GE) Healthcare's Vivid q Cardiovascular Ultrasound is on board and NASA plans...

Hospitals to spend $4B on DAS by 2015, In-Stat says

Hospitals and healthcare expenditures for distributed antenna systems (DAS) are expected to top $4 billion in 2015, according to new research from In-Stat L.L.C., which is part of the NPD Group. “DAS is a technology that is roughly a decade old, but the new challenge...

AT&T brings mHealth to its workforce

AT&T Inc. (T) has launched a pilot to help employees manage diabetes. In partnership with WellDoc Inc., AT&T mHealth Solutions is going to pilot DiabetesManager for up to six months among a select group of employees at AT&T and Health Care Services Corp.,...

China Telecom's enterprise unit focuses on better value, lower costs

GUANGZHOU, China – China Telecom is revamping its enterprise-focused practice to better help those vertical-market customers conduct their business more efficiently, said Liang Zhiping, director of VIP Customer Department at China Telecom Group.Zhiping, speaking at the Global CDMA Operation and Development Forum 2001, sponsored...

Reader Forum: Are high training costs holding service providers back in retail?

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...

China Telecom open to new partners, distribution channels

GUANGHZOU, China – Transformation. The phrase was an overarching theme during a couple of events here as operators and equipment vendors evolve to meet challenges that arise from a fast-paced wireless industry where devices and applications are taking center stage, forcing the world's largest...

Sprint expands M2M push with management hub

Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) has launched a centralized portal to enable customers to manage and control their machine-to-machine (M2M) devices and services. The Sprint Command Center enables business to control provisioning, billing, management and development of their M2M offering.Via Web portal or direct API,...

Mobility and electronic health records take root at Trinity Health

NOVI, Mich. — Healthcare and wireless technology are colliding more than ever today and the points of convergence are being driven in large part by the massive adoption of electronic health records. Here at Trinity Health's headquarters, VP and CIO Jim Elert is tasked...

Clinical Trial Of Mobile Health Monitoring Solution Starts In Singapore

Medical News Today | May 30, 2011 HP, SingTel, HealthSTATS and Frontier Healthcare Group today announced an 8-week clinical trial of a mobile health monitoring solution. The solution enables near real time information sharing to help healthcare professionals in the early detection, treatment and prevention of...

AT4 wireless Taiwan 1st Laboratory accredited in Asia for Continua Health Alliance Certification

AT4 Wireless | May 2, 2011 | Press Release Linkou, Taipei, Taiwan – May 02, 2011 — AT4 wireless Taiwan, a leading Testing Laboratory, is pleased to announce its official designation as First Continua Health Alliance Laboratory in Asia Continua Health Alliance today announced it has...

Bangalore-based Acropetal acquires two companies in the US

BANGALORE: City-based Acropetal Technologies Ltd today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire two US-based companies LineBeyondInc , and Optech Consulting Inc. LineBeyond is valued at $ 5 million and Optech at $ 7 million, respectively, the company said in a statement. Acropetal...

@ SXSW: Rock Health launches mobile and web apps venture

AUSTIN, Texas-Rock Health, a San Francisco-based mobile health and Health 2.0 seed incubator, launched officially at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival last week. The mission of the company is to provide healthcare expertise, development resources and funding to the...

@ SXSW: Rock Health launches mobile and web apps venture

AUSTIN, Texas-Rock Health, a San Francisco-based mobile health and Health 2.0 seed incubator, launched officially at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival last week. The mission of the company is to provide healthcare expertise, development resources and funding to the best ideas available to...

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