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In the Huffington Post Barbara Ficarra, Founder of Health in 30?, asks is there too much hype in the mHealth app world?
When I last heard a good argument being put forward for the mHealth market being over hyped it was by John Chilmark Jnr, Health IT Analyst at Chilmark Research. This is interesting because John?s recently joined a mHealth startup (Prescribable Apps) founded by John Chilmark III.
John?s followed a classic ?Is mHealth a Market?, Is there too much hype?, If we can?t beat them let?s join them!? realisation process that I?m seeing happening in the world of eHealth/Health 2.0 as thought leaders there begin to appreciate the transformational new experiences that the newest mass media can support.
I hope the feedback on this article will boost Barbara?s confidence in the mHealth market and we?ll soon be welcoming yet more expertise and industry experiences to another cool new mHealth initiative.
My thoughts on the article:
?The Wild West of mobile health (mHealth) is taking the health care industry by storm, but ?there are no rules to the game,? said Joseph C. Kvedar, M.D., founder and director at the Center for Connected Health in a recent interview. Mobile health is a ?game changer,? he added, but there is a lot of hype because there are a lot of people developing health apps just to ?get rich quick.??
I find it odd that so many people think there are ?no rules to the game?. In my opinion in a world where Communities Dominate Brands the reverse is true: there have never been more and the punishment for ignoring them has never been so cruel.
Perhaps there?s an imagined problem that somehow smartphone apps offered by unrecognised brands and those without medical qualifications are being taken seriously by patients? A client paid me to investigate the ?alternative? mHealth market a few years ago and I was amazed at what I learnt. Asides from all the various ?this XYZ can protect you from mobile phone masts that are killing you? most of the scams involving mobile involved getting people to click online ads and enter their information and then following this up later with a deceptive telephone call in which they use this info combined with other information they collect/buy to convince their victim they are somehow blessed/magical/all-knowing in order to win their trust.
I?ve yet to see much evidence that smartphone apps are going to be able to achieve the same as there are still much easier ways that offer less chance of being detected eg. they?ll be all over Mobile advertising and Location Based Services before targeting Smartphone App Stores which have been forced to be much more up front with users about what information is being shared and when as a result of the development of mobile payment scams (eg. crazy frog subscriptions, etc).
A good point made later in the article highlights the speed with which this is certain to happen: ?There?s a lot of enthusiasm surrounding mHealth ? from mainstream media tapping into the mHealth rage to social networking sites exploding with discussions about mobility in health care?. In my opinion the get rich quick scammers are going to be up against this and a world where everyone can express an opinion and there?s so much passion/interest is going to prove very hostile to these scammers.
Thankfully when apps involve registered medical professionals who have real identities and are regulated by professional bodies (like the GMC or IMO) none of these approaches work or will be sustainable for more than a few hours.
?According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, mHealth is ?the use of mobile and wireless devices to improve health outcomes, healthcare services, and health research.? mHealth includes gamification, text messaging, telemedicine/telehealth (remote patient monitoring), electronic health records, and health apps, to name a few?
Clearly I think this consensus definition is very inaccurate and this will become obvious as users of it begin to look beyond the device in the hand and to the Health opportunities that mobile networks can offer (these are obviously accommodated by a definition that recognises mobile as the newest mass media rather than as a device).
Examples of the mHealth potential of mobile networks are becoming much more obvious as public health authorities use network tech to better manage the way they handle incoming 911 calls, locate individuals who are lost, broadcast emergency SMS?s (eg. weather warnings, night time mosquito spraying notifications, etc), etc
?Despite mHealth being in its infancy, the revenue projections are significant?
The article uses optimistic projections made by research oganisations that make their money by selling research reports that ultimately wouldn?t sell if they didn?t boast optimistic market projections. In my book it?s quite simple: successful mHealth examples are already here and it?s been a massive driver of adoption of mobile ? the newest trillion dollar industry ? as it?s the thing that helped the need for mobile devices to expand beyond the early adopter phase because it?s what gave mobile the mass market initial consumer intelligible reason to have a mobile and keep it on (be reachable).
?According to a 2011 press release statement from Juniper Research, the number of mobile healthcare and medical app downloads will reach 44 million this year and will reach 142 million globally by 2016?
To put these numbers into context of the mobile market where most of the revenues are still made with native apps, look how many smartphones Samsung have been selling since the start of 2012 (nearly half a million a day!). By the end of 2012 Samsung alone will have sold more than twice as many smartphones as Juniper are predicting there will be apps downloaded.
Just think for a minute about the apps that are natively installed on these devices and how they can and are being used for healthcare purposes eg. a voice dialer that will let the user roam onto any network in order to make a call to emergency services while automatically sharing their network location data, a forward facing camera that can connect users with a remote Doctor, a calendar/alarm that they can use to set pill reminders, SMS so they can communicate with their Doctors office, an internet browser that they can use to look up information on a symptom or disease they are concerned about, a multimedia player that they can use to watch rich health videos, etc.
By 2016 S Health ? Samsung?s mHealth strategy ? will have easily dwarfed this Juniper statistic for downloaded apps with native ones eg. by 2016 it?s more than likely that there will be more than 300 million Samsung branded smartphones that have been sold and are in use that have native mHealth apps installed (and by 2016 all these devices will support HTML5 too).
?Consumers are downloading apps to help them stay fit, track their pregnancies, monitor their moods, eat healthier, and sleep better. They are also downloading apps for chronic disease management. They can manage their prescriptions, have medication reminders, and monitor blood pressure and sugar levels. Consumers can be empowered to take charge of their health, but right now navigating the array of health apps can be confusing. Consumers lack guidance on choosing a safe, secure, medically sound health app. Trying to navigate the health app craze without direction can be painstakingly difficult?
I?m not so sure this is true and I?m not so sure why anyone would presume consumers are so out of their depth on this. As I?ve written at length before the first thing a customer sees is an apps community rating and feedback, as soon as you click on an app it tells you who it?s developer is. One more click and you can see other apps by this developer. Another and you can report it.
I think the open access to app experiences is a very positive development that will help the development of mHealth Apps greatly as there are many lessons to be had from other mobile entertainment experiences just as the entertainment services on the internet have helped in the creation of the best healthcare experiences on the internet eg. anyone building a social community like Sermo or ACOR is building on the success of Facebook (a service that was started as a dating website), anyone incorporating rich video content onto their hospital website is building on the success of YouTube (a service that was started so people could share home videos), etc.
?Cleveland Clinic, Nike Fuel Band, American Red Cross, and Walgreens are known in the space, and consumers may find it easy to trust them and download apps associated with them. However, consumers may find it confusing to navigate the mHealth app world from companies that are off the radar. How do consumers know if the apps are safe and reliable??
Surely with a crowded app market this is only a problem for the companies that offer these apps to work out as without it they?ve no chance of even getting customers in the first place? Speaking from personal experience at 3G Doctor we?ve done this by putting a fully insured registered Doctor in your pocket and helping patients appreciate that we?re safe, reliable and to be trusted by letting them read our FAQs, what other people are saying about us and providing them with a fully documented consultation experience (currently only available to patients in the UK and Ireland).
?The FDA is prudent on drafting guidelines for developers, but will it stifle innovation? ?It may slow innovation, but I don?t know that it stifles it. Regulations do create barriers to entry as they set a high bar. But in so doing, they also create significant economic opportunities for those who follow the appropriate processes and win regulatory approval,? said Bill Crounse, M.D., Senior Director of Worldwide Health at Microsoft Corporation, in an email. ?I do think thoughtful regulation is required in the health industry to protect consumers. This is certainly true related to pharmaceuticals and medical devices to protect consumers from harm?
As partners of Microsoft (we?ve developed a 3G Doctor app for the HealthVault platform and will be announcing the availability of a new service with them shortly) I think it?s obvious that they?re well placed to help mHealth app developers innovate but I?d be a bit concerned that most app developers aren?t yet aware of the opportunity they have to work with HealthVault.
In my opinion before mHealth app data can properly add value and have the potential to go somewhere it needs to be aggregated on a secure accessible platform. Currently, the vast majority of mHealth apps are creating silos of data that effectively lock it up rather than letting it flow and add value.
As a backbone for the aggregation of this data the HealthVault platform enables developers to build multiple apps that can complement one another, aggregate data across time and share it back so that they can create permission based biofeedback mechanisms that can drive positive patient behavioral changes whilst enabling secondary care information technology and consumer health systems to operate seamlessly.
?The primary role of the FDA is to insure consumer safety,? notes Kvedar. ?Mobile health has the potential to get out of hand if not regulated. For example, there is an app that based on self input of one?s carbohydrate count; it will generate insulin dosing suggestions. Clearly this could be dangerous,? he added. ?While I don?t think the FDA process will ever eventuate in a ?consumer report-like? or ?D Powers-like? rating, it will be a filter. If apps get through the filter, we should at least be comfortable that they are safe?
I?ve commented on the FDA approach in much greater detail here. I?m not sure they?re anywhere near to being capable of insuring consumer safety eg. they?ve sent one of the USA?s biggest mobile R&D firms off down a dead end to look for fruit where there are no trees.
?Aside from safety concerns, there are ?two problems with health apps,? said Kvedar. First, after downloading the app, it may be used once or twice and then it?s forgotten, he said. ?There?s no engagement.? Secondly, health apps can be prone to error because the data that is self-entered by consumers may not be true. It?s a ?social diversity bias problem,? he said, because the data entered isn?t honest and there is no meaningful engagement to help change consumers behavior. After downloading health apps with enthusiasm, the ?shiny new toy isn?t so shiny anymore,? because there?s ?lack of interest and lack of engagement,? said Kvedar.?
As far as I can see these problems aren?t unique to health apps. The first applies to nearly any experience that lacks engagement (all the junk apps that no one uses). The second applies to nearly any service where the consumer might think they can benefit from dishonesty (eg. energy meters).
mHealth innovators are already creating solutions to these challenges eg. look how KP have added connectivity with carers to make their Mobile first strategy engaging, look at how Alivecor has linked it?s embedded ECG tech with cloud based storage so there?s no room for patients to effectively tamper with medical data, look at how interactive medical history taking questionnaires can help patients share their important history to their Doctors in a more honest way, etc.
?Happtique, a mobile health application store and total app management solution released a draft of the standards that it will be using to certify medical, health, and fitness apps under Happtique?sApp Certification Program. The purpose of the program is to help users identify apps that meet high operability, privacy, and security standards and are based on reliable content? ?Happtique App Certification Program represents a major step in setting standards for safe and reliable health, fitness, and medical apps. Certification will assure users that the app meets security, usability, privacy, and content standards. Happtique has curated and categorized over 12,000 apps to date in over 300 categories?
I think it might be helpful to write a longer post on my thoughts on Happtique?s approach but I think it?s a bit of a stretch to be referring to an app that provides reviews of other apps as a ?mobile health application store and total app management solution?.
Beyond the marketing and discovery benefits it could offer mHealth app developers I?m not so sure that it?s Certification Program will be able to differentiate apps enough eg. whilst I can?t imagine any patients refusing to use an app their Doctor prescribes them if it doesn?t have a certain ?hAPP? rating, I could easily imagine the certification process being undermined by a patient being reluctant to download an app prescribed by their Doctor that had a high Happtique rating but also had strong negative reviews on the Apple AppStore download page.
?Mobile technology has allowed consumers to receive information at lightning speed and gives consumers health and wellness apps that can help improve their health care. Mobile technology may help to transform the lives of patients and provide a stronger partnership with health care providers?
Here in Ireland there are 50,000 Doro EasyPhone customers many of whom are living independently thanks to their mobile phones. I?m not sure many of them would agree with the assumption that this ?may help? as for many of them it?s already a critical part of the means by which they maintain their independence ? that?s if it?s not considered a lifeline.
Of course whilst this is rarely recognised by those of us who today take mobile connectivity for granted it?s not new eg. mobiles are giving reassurance to the independently living in ways similar to how Marconi?s invention more than a century ago began to take much of the fear out of journeys on the seas.
?Bottom Line. Consumers need safe, reliable, trustworthy apps to help guide their health and wellness and help them manage their chronic diseases. The health app world needs guidance. The vast assortment of apps to choose from makes it difficult for consumers to navigate. Which apps are reliable, trustworthy, and medically sound? Joseph Kvedar, M.D., Justin Major and Carol Colman are actively involved in writing a series of books for consumers titled Wellocracy; it?s the first in a series of books to help consumers navigate the ever-growing and dizzying array of health apps?
I can?t wait to buy this whole set of books so I can donate it to a museum. I?ve shared with you the mHealth Space Pen and I?m quite confident this set of books will be the fastest horse the eHealth industry could develop?
?So, how do consumers navigate the crowded world of health apps? ?Common sense rules,? he said. If consumers think it?s a ?magic app,? it probably isn?t. In this exciting world of health care where technology rules, one thing is for sure, technology will never replace the doctor/patient relationship (or health provider/patient relationship). Face-to-face communication with health care providers will always be paramount?
It always amazes me that it remains so difficult for many to even consider that some of these mHealth Apps (eg. Skype, Facetime, 3G Mobile Video Calls, GTalk Video Calls, etc) will be the way those paramount face-to-face communications are conducted?
?It doesn?t seem as if there is too much hype ? just little guidance. The push to move the mHealth app world forward may be in the power of consumers to clamor for health and wellness apps that are safe, reliable and trustworthy, developed by companies who are not just those looking to ?get rich quick,? as Kvedar said?
In a world where VC?s are voicing their concern that there?s not enough to protect apps from would-be copiers I think the idea of companies thinking there?s a get rich quick opportunity is unlikely.
My thoughts on the comments:
LymphomaJourney: Liked the piece. But not convinced that these will necessarily change peoples behaviour. The lowly bathroom scale, around for years, has not made any difference to increase in obesity rates.
I always wonder why this is used as a counter to the idea of value of monitoring health data. How would anyone know the bathroom scale is so ineffective? Perhaps the obesity rates would be even higher than it is today? Perhaps the reason it?s made so little difference is we have an idea of what to expect? Perhaps the ineffectiveness is directly related to the lack of engaging feedback?
I?m optimistic that Mobile will connect the things that should be connected and that the weighing scale is most definitely one of these things. I?ve already seen some interesting results in clinics where they?ve introduced A&D digital scales (that automatically log data into the patient electronic records) so as this connected technology gets increasingly adopted in patients homes (as the result of mHealth brands like VitaDock?s TargetScale and Withings Body Scale) I?m expecting even more as patients and their communities can leverage this data to support one another achieving goals.
I also think things there will be a transformation as these connected devices start uploading into patients HealthVault records so that their Doctors can start pushing healthcare to them at times when things are changing rather than after they?ve changed.
mHealthMarket: In our view, mobile health will eventually bifuracate into two distinct markets: a regulated industry, deployed by hospitals, doctors and ACOs, and an unregulated direct-to-consumer industry of diet and exercise apps. These two industries will feature dramatically different investment, pricing, ROI, marketing and management issues http://mobilehealthmarketnews.com/what-is-mhealth-ii/
I think it?s unlikely that two distinct systems will develop as I?m optimistic that the regulated industry is waking up to the preventative healthcare opportunities and to try to engage patients before they get sick (or notice that they?re ill) they?ll need to get very imaginative?
?dereknewell: ?Health ?apps? will transform healthcare and it is certainly the wild west right now. The main thing we need is apps that connect to the healthcare system?
I think Derek?s hit on a massive challenge for the smartphone mHealth app market here. In my opinion the Microsoft HealtVault platform approach is the most viable way of achieving this at scale.
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An artificial ?brain? built by a 17-year-old whiz kid from Florida is able to accurately assess tissue samples for signs of breast cancer, providing more confidence to a minimally invasive procedure.
The cloud-based neural network took top prize in this year?s Google Science Fair.?
?I taught the computer how to diagnose breast cancer,? Brittany Wegner, the Lakewood Ranch resident, told me today.
?And this is really important because currently the least invasive form of biopsy is actually the least conclusive, so a lot of doctors can?t use them.?
Wegner wanted to create a way for more doctors to use the minimally invasive procedure, called Fine Needle Aspirate, in order to ease the process of having lumps examined.
Breast cancer affects one in eight women worldwide, she noted, including members of her family.
?Early detection is really important,? Wegner said. ?And that is what I?m trying to do with my neural network.?
Artificial neural networks are essentially computer programs coded to think like the brain, she explained. Only they can detect patterns that are too complex for mere humans.?
And they get better as they process more and more data.
Wegner started building these networks in the seventh grade after studying the future of technology for a school project.?
?I came across artificial intelligence and was just enthralled. I went home the next day and bought a programming book and decided that was what I was going to teach myself to do,? she said.
Her first neural network played soccer.
For her Google Science Fair project, she built a neural network with Java and then deployed it to the?cloud. She ran 7.6 million trials on it and found it is 99.1 percent sensitive to malignancy.
?As I get more data, the success rate will go up and the inconclusive rate will go down,? she said. ?So with more data, I think it is hospital ready.?
She also?compared her custom-built network to three off-the-shelf products that she tweaked to work with her dataset. Her sensitivity to malignancy was 4.97 percent better than the commercial networks.
Now that her network is built and shown to get smarter with experience, Wegner aims to deploy it in hospitals. She also wants to extend it to other types of cancer.
?It will require a little bit of coding and tweaking, but it would be very easy to adapt it so it could diagnose other types of cancer and potentially other medical problems,? she said.
Before she gets cracking, though, Wegner deserves to bask in the glory of victory. The grand prize comes with $50,000 in scholarship money, an internship with a fair sponsor and a 10-day trip to the Galapagos Islands.
?I?ve never been to South America,? she said. ?I?m so excited.?
To learn more about Wegner?s project and the other finalists, check out the Google Science Fair.
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The percentage of obese kids in America has skyrocketed in recent years and many parents are looking for ways to prevent their children from becoming grossly overweight. Childhood obesity occurs when a child eats more calories than their body burns up. A child is considered obese when they weigh over 10% more than the recommended weight for their height and body type. Between 16% and 33% of children and adolescents are obese. What can we do to help our children lead a healthy lifestyle free from weight issues and related problems? Overeating+inactivity+boredom=obesity.
1. Don?t eat too much food.
The problem: There is a direct link between nutrition and obesity in children. We all know that we are supposed to exercise regularly to burn off what we eat. However, a significant number of America?s kids have poor eating habits and are consuming far too many calories, which means they would have to be exercising for several hours each day to burn off those calories. This amount of exercise is simply not possible. If we let our children consistently over-indulge on high fat or sugary foods and drinks, they will get fat, there?s no doubt about it.
The solution: Vegetables, fish, white meat and fruit are all low calorie, nutrient-rich, healthy foods. If this type of food rarely makes an appearance in your home, then it is time to introduce them to your family?s daily meals and cut out processed, high fat or sugary foods. Changing your children?s eating habits is not easy and you have to be quite firm in your approach for at least the first month, until their sugar/carbohydrate cravings have calmed. Buy a healthy cook book, make some tasty, low-calorie meals and eat together at the table as a family. Chat, enjoy the food and take your time eating it instead of wolfing it down in front of the TV. This way, you are much more likely to feel satisfied and full.
Top Tip: Give your child a healthy breakfast. Facts about child obesity clearly show that children who regularly eat a balanced breakfast will eat less during the day.
2. Do playful exercise every day.
Healthy diets for overweight children must go hand in hand with daily physical activity, or our kids won?t lose weight very effectively. Even parents who are wise enough to give their children low-fat food with lots of fresh fruit and vegetables can have overweight kids if they don?t encourage their children to exercise. Children are born ? active they are supposed to exercise and should be given the opportunity to play every day at home. ?Play? does not mean sitting down playing computer games, it means enjoying physical activity that involves running, jumping, skipping, climbing etc ? play that raises their heartbeats and makes them breathe faster. This type of play burns off calories, keeps their little bodies fit and their minds healthy and alert. If you don?t have a yard or outdoor space at home, you still need to give your kids the opportunity to exercise every day. Here are some ideas to get your kids active and enjoying exercise:
A strenuous walk around the block every morning.
Go to the local park and kicking a ball around, or skipping. Join a dance, football or martial arts club on weekends/after school.
Put a trampoline or basketball hoop in the space you have outside ? even give them a mini trampoline to use inside.
Dance mats are a brilliant way of keeping fit, especially when it?s raining, dark or cold outside. Make sure your child spends half an hour on their dance mat before they settle down (for a short while) to play a computer game. You can join in too ? dancing is excellent for losing weight and keeping fit!
Charity walks or runs are a fun way to spend a Sunday keeping fit with your child and raising money for a worthwhile cause at the same time.
3. Far less TV and computer games.
The problem: When our kids are bored, they tend to turn on the TV or play a computer game because there is not a lot else to do. This is wonderful for parents who want an easy life and quiet children. But sitting our children down to stare at a screen for long periods every day and letting them become ?couch potatoes? is unhealthy and uninspiring. It also means they are far more likely to reach for high calorie treats and snacks to make them feel good, not because they are hungry. Regular snacking on unhealthy foods can make our children obese.
The solution: Many kids would prefer to be doing something more interesting. Try to vary the routine by providing your kids with other options to keep their brains busy ? like coloring pads, playing cards, comics and books, paints or Lego. When they are doing something they enjoy, they will not think about food. TV and computer games are of course great entertainment for short periods of time.
Top Tip: When your children do eventually sit down to watch a program or play a computer game, make sure the treats you give them are natural and healthy ? like raisins, watermelon slices, pineapple chunks or yogurt (these treats should still be limited).
The sky turned black and the storm swept in, sending the crowds running for shelter, and also putting an early end to the Nanton Nite Rodeo on Friday.
The barrel racing was able to conclude, but the pole bending events were cancelled due to the pounding rain and lightning, with the timers and announcer running from the Old Crow?s Nest for the shelter of the red barn.
The rodeo was the fourth of the six-rodeo series.
In team roping, Dale Andrews and Clem Armstrong led the pack with a time of 28.6 seconds on their second calf. Cody Seitz and KC Seitz were second with 28.7 seconds on their second calf. Joel and Jessica Dykstra placed third with 11.8 seconds, and Chad Wilson and Weldon Peters placed fourth with 15.1 seconds.
In adult/child team roping, Cody Seitz and Kashley Seitz took top money with a time of 14.8 seconds. Carla Bick and Shelby Smith placed second with a time of 17.4 seconds, with Clem Armstrong and Parker Armstrong close behind them with a time of 17.7 seconds. Billy Hamilton and Reva Wilson placed fourth with a time of 45.5 seconds.
Stran Schlosser is maintaining his lead in the tie down roping. He took top spot with a time of 14.6 seconds, followed by Jake Burwash with 17.5 seconds and Weldon Peters with 28.6 seconds.
Pauline Hawk had a fast time of 3.5 seconds in the breakaway roping. She was followed for second by Shelby Smith who had a time of 4.8 seconds. Colleen Pentelchuk placed third with a time of 5.8 seconds, and Quinton Taylor placed fourth with 7.9 seconds.
Chesney Pighin had the fast time in the novice barrels, with a time of 16.791 seconds. Martina Lively placed second with 17.023, followed by Shelby Smith for third with 13.326 and Reva Wilson in fourth with 17.364 seconds.
Reata Schlosser led the way in junior barrels, with a time of 17.367 seconds. Shelby Smith was second with 17.657, Alisha Stevenson placed third with 17.882 seconds and Ashley Nelson placed fourth with 17.953 seconds.
Shawna Easson had the fast time on Friday in the senior barrel racing with a time of 17.281 seconds. Jesse Loree was second with a time of 17.410. Railey Tremblay was third with 17.570 and Dode Sears placed fourth with 17.634 seconds.
Kolton Arthur took the top money home in cow riding after scoring a 76. Blain Dixon was second with a 68, followed by Sean Alexander for third with a 66 and Cameron Rasmussen in fourth with a 64.
Wilson MacDonald and Kody Briggs split the top money in steer riding, after both scored 67. Jack Mitchell placed third with 66 and Luke Ferber placed fourth with 62.
There were no qualified rides in the bull riding.
Dustin Sippola had the high score in bronc riding, with a 66, followed by Sam Mitchell with a 62.
The next Nite Rodeo is Saturday (July 28) at 7 p.m., and the finals will be held Aug. 4 at 2 p.m.
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We're rather big fans of the Nexus 7 here at Engadget HQ -- it's just hard not to like a $200 tablet with a Tegra 3 SoC and 7-inch glass-bonded IPS display running pure Jelly Bean. Of the few missing features, there's one we're bemoaning more than the lack of rear camera, and that's the absence of any kind of HDMI or MHL video output. So far, watching movies with the Nexus 7's been relegated to using a Nexus Q and streaming content from Google Play or YouTube.
Enter Wi-Fi Media, an app available for free on Google Play that lets most Android devices like the Nexus 7 play movies, music and stills on any screen via any Cavium PureVu-compatible streamer, such as HTC's $90 Media Link HD. We tested Wi-Fi Media with our Nexus 7 and Media Link HD and found it to work pretty much as advertised except for some caveats. First the app doesn't mirror your screen -- you're limited to playing content stored on the tablet or on the network via DLNA, which means no YouTube, Netflix or games. Second, the app doesn't handle some common file types -- like AVI, for example.
While it supports watching movies, listening to music and looking at pictures, keep in mind that Wi-Fi Media is not a particularly polished app. In addition to playing local and remote DLNA content, you're able to login to Facebook and Picasa and stream images directly from these accounts, but that's pretty much it in terms of functionality. There's also no way to configure the Media Link HD, so you'll need a sanctioned HTC handset to setup the multimedia streamer before using it with a Nexus 7. Want to know more? Peek at our screenshot gallery below and hit the break for our hands-on video.
Update: Since there's some confusion in the comments, we'd like to clarify that the Media Link HD is not a DLNA device. It normally only works with select HTC phones like the One X, One S and EVO 4G LTE. WiFi-Media's primary purpose is to connect with a Media Link HD -- the app also just happens to support DLNA.
By Carolyn Winston and Addison Sims, Hosts of Let?s Talk Biz
There are only 24 hours in a day, and we cannot add time to a day, so we must manage how we are spending our time.? Small business and nonprofit owners spend about a quarter of their time on administrative tasks and a lot of time multitasking.
This week, Let?s Talk Biz?s objective is to examine how small businesses and non-profits can better manage time and improve productivity.? So, are there products and/or services that can help increase productivity and better manage time?? Yes, mobile apps and cloud computing.? Despite the increase of mobile devices and cloud computing, business owners are not taking advantage of the technology that provides an opportunity to do more with less.? Yet, business owners want to do more with less.
Small business owners in the service industry lose a lot of time scheduling, cancelling, and rescheduling appointments. On average it takes about five minutes to complete a transaction. Now, that can be a lot of lost time for salons, spas, accountants, chiropractors, counselors, etc. ?
Let?s Talk Biz?s pick of the week is Schedulicity an online appointment booking platform, launched to the public in 2010. Steve J. Cannon, VP Sales and Business Development states, the company helps small businesses and consumers save hours a day while businesses increase sales with online appointment setting.? The company has booked a billion dollars in appointment based commerce.?? Want to try Schedulicity? For July 20th only, sign up for a special extended offer, visit letstalkbiz.biz ?for a 60 day free trial and a life time discount of 25%.
Here are more ways to better manage time and improve productivity: set goals at night, before and after lunch. Think about what you want to accomplish and the steps it will take to accomplish the goals. Prioritize goals and make sure the goals are specific, measurable, attainable, and timely. Work off of deadlines, and try not to multitask. Only a very small percentage of people are able to multitask. For greater efficiency and effectiveness complete one task at a time. Track activities to determine if you are spending too much time talking on the phone, emailing, net surfing, etc.? Schedule a block of time for each activity. Constantly being interrupted with phone calls? Establish a block of time to return calls. Hang out a ?do not disturb? or a ?not now I?m busy? sign.
Here?s a quick checklist:
Identify timer wasters
Create goals
Prioritize goals
List activities/tasks to accomplish your goals
Set time limits for activities and tasks
Make a time management plan
Use mobile apps and cloud computing
Delegate activities and tasks
More tips, join us next week on Let?s Talk Biz and for marketing support register for our FREE Small Business Mentor Prot?g? webinars, www.letstalkbiz.biz. Until we meet again,keep talking biz!
About the authors: Carolyn A. Winston and Addison Sims host Let?s Talk Biz. Watch us weekly on Live Love Shopping ?and The Daily Buzz. She is President of Carolyn A. Winston, Inc. and Addison Sims is Vice President of Carolyn A. Winston Inc. is a premier Marketing Management Consulting Firm that specializing in education, brand and cause marketing.
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The new service would go head-to-head with Verizon's high-speed FiOS service
If you have a need for speed, you may be disappointed with the broadband options offered by your internet provider. But according to a new report, your home may soon be getting a speed boost if you're willing to pay for it: Comcast will start offering amazingly fast 305 Mbps residential service later this year, a huge step up from their current 105 Mbps plan.
The new offering is meant to compete directly with Verizon's 300 Mbps FiOS service, and will be released in areas already being served by Verizon. We don't know if there will be bandwidth caps, and there aren't any pricing details available yet, though you can probably expect it to be priced competitively with Verizon's. Currently, FiOS will serve you broadband at a stunning 300 Mbps (65 Mbps upload) for $205 per month, though this may come down with competition from Comcast.
Just how fast is 305 Mbps? At that speed, you could download an entire movie in 720p in about a minute and a half.
[via Gizmodo]
This article was written by Fox Van Allen and originally appeared on Tecca
BJC Center for Lifelong Learning is a resource designed to open new career paths for employees through learning and development opportunities.
Role Purpose:
Responsible for providing best-in-class learning and educational programs for BJC employees. Individual program management portfolio responsibilities vary among requirements for: online, facilitated, internal, outreach, intergenerational bridging and mentoring, professional and workforce development, and ongoing personal improvement areas of focus.
Responsibilities:
-Assesses learning needs by analyzing the gap between what employees know and do and what they should know and do.
-Designs instructional approach for appropriate delivery medium and creative concepting for targeted audiences.
-Implements effective courseware by performing online testing, instructor-taught pilot programs, revising courseware as necessary, or interfacing with Learning Management System (LMS) or Training Coordinator.
-Develops engaging and effective learning, and establishes, measures, analyzes, and tracks results for the evaluation of program effectiveness.
-Directs major cross-portfolio, intra-organizational, or public initiatives.
CompTIA A+ certification validates foundation-level knowledge and skills necessary for a career in IT support. It is the starting point for a career in IT. The international, vendor-neutral certification proves competence in areas such as installation, preventative maintenance, networking, security and troubleshooting.
There are two exams required to be A+ certified: one is 220-701 essentials which validates a candidates knowledge of computer technology, networking and security, the other is 220-702 practical which validates a candidate?s knowledge of dealing with real time scenarios and situations.
The essentials exam also focuses on an individual?s skills to be able to communicate effectively with other professionals and non professionals and to act professionally at all times.
The Practical exam isn?t really a practical exam as such but the questions are more geared towards what you would be doing in real scenarios.
The types of job someone could look for when compTIA A+ certified are IT Technician, help desk and IT support specialist.
Many companies such as Dell support, Microsoft support, Lenovo and IBM, require their employees to be compTIA A+ certified.
You are required to score a minimum of 675 out of 900 for the essentials exam and 700 out of 900 for the practical exam. There are 100 questions on each exam.
You do not have to study at a school or with a training provider unless you want to; I didn?t. I bought the appropriate study books such as compTIA A+ all in one exam guide by Mike Meyers (the current version is the 7th edition).
I also used a book called PC Technician Street Smarts by James Pyles.
Practice exams in order to help you gauge how well your studies are coming along. Now you have to be very careful with the internet and practice exams because many of the exams you can purchase, and especially free exams, are normally ?brain dumps?; these are exams that have the exact same questions that are in the exam pool that you could get when taking the exams. Using brain dumps is cheating, plain and simple, and whilst taking a certification exam you are monitored on camera and with some exams there are other methods employed by the invigilators to determine whether someone has used ?brain dumps? to study such things as how quick you are and other methods.
For my own studies, practice exams I used were ProProfs: Knowledge Sharing Tools & Free Online Education (this is the only free exam I know that is legit). I?ve also used practice exams for the other major providers such as Cisco Network Simulator | IT Practice Exams | IT Training | Boson.com LearnSmart Systems | CompTIA A+ Certification, CCNA Training, MCITP and MCSE Training & More Transcender IT Certification Prep Training Products ? Practice Exams and More and Total Seminars: Home
The best exam in my opinion was the Boson Ex-Sim Max. Most sites will let you download demos so you are under no obligation to buy.
There is a few reasons why I found the Boson Ex-Sim Max is better than the others I used. The questions were clearly laid out, and the explanantions of the answers were clear and concise. The explanantions also had links which showed the reasoning behind those answers and they further backed up the explanantions.
The exams can also be used as another study method to supplement your books.
I also felt that the Boson Ex-Sim Max product gave a true example of how your studies are coming along where as some practice exams will only say if you have scored 700 points then you have 70%.
I said above that the essentials exam minimum score is 645 and the practical is 700 but these scores do not equate to 70% and 75% as some questions are weighted differently. For example, a question with a two part answer may be worth 10 points whilst a question with one answer may be worth 20 points. Do not make the mistake of trying to just pass; you should try to learn everything that might be in the exam and then pass with flying colours.
There is a website that can tell you whether an exam you are using is legitimate or not. It is called CertGuard | IT Certification Exam Security & Integrity. You put the url of the website you are looking at in the certification search bar and certguard will tell you if the site is safe or not.
In order to book your exam, you can do so through either Computer-Based Testing Provider for Certification and Licensure Exams: Pearson VUE or Prometric Services: Testing and Assessment (or the equivalent end i.e. UK or AU etc etc for your country). You will find your nearest five test centres on those sites and simply book using your credit//debit card.
There are discount vouchers available from places such as CompTIA Vouchers ? A+ Certification Exam CompTIA Voucher Test Discount at Prometric / VUE Testing Centers that will get you some money off and if you pay VAT, as I do in the UK, then the VAT is quashed.
Once having passed the CompTIA A+ certification, it would be beneficial to continue your studies with another CompTIA certification such as the Network+ exam.
New version of the simplified character animation, with support for stereo and 3D-rendering of the physical Today, the company officially announces MAXON CINEMA 4D R13, the new generation of lead editor of three-dimensional graphics for animation design, visual effects, three-dimensional drawing and rendering. Brand new character animation tools, support for stereo and 3D-rendering of the physical help artists around the world quickly and easily create high quality images and animations for various industries.
In tomzhe year in which the company celebrated its 25th anniversary, and in consequence the most successful fiscal year in company history, the company continues to develop MAXON solutions for designers, because more and more daily work is decentralized, using a variety of industrial conveyors and modern technology, such as stereoscopy, must be maintained. ?CINEMA 4D R13 is filled with workflow enhancements that will help overcome the daily difficulties the team project," said Harald Egel (Harald Egel), co-founder and CEO of MAXON. "Artists love the new three-dimensional graphics tools for character animation, and rendering even more physical. Not to mention the new features for easy creation of stereoscopic work, which lead to sensational opportunities for processing of visual entertainment. " Specific innovations in CINEMA 4D R13: MAXON CINEMA 4D offers four different versions that are designed for different areas of activity in which artists work a three-dimensional graphics. Pay attention! Not all the described functions contained in each version of CINEMA 4D. The new expanded and improved rendering engine Three-dimensional graphics artists always try to improve the quality of their work. The new version provides all users of CINEMA 4D a number of tools that you can in the shortest time to obtain more realistic results. Physics, Rendering: creation of photorealistic images is even easier than it nibylo. Based on the functions of these cells, such as focal length, aperture and shutter speed, this additional rendering engine can be physically correct to calculate the three-dimensional blurring in motion and depth of field and distortion of the lens, and more. New subsurface scattering: Now create translucent materials such as milk, leather, wax, or even easier. New subsurface scattering shader allows you to achieve realistic results and works with standard and a new 'physical' system rendering. General Configuration of emitters: emitters combining setting for various effects such as depth of field blur in motion, the surface shadows, occlusion of the environment and blurred reflections and transparency, you can save significant time. The radiation may work adaptively or with a certain value. New smoothing filters: with the new smoothing algorithm, namely Mitchell and Gauss, we can now achieve a better quality anti-aliasing. Stereoscopic workflow Stereoscopy is maintained throughout CINEMA 4D R13 and thus provides a reliable solution for creating three-dimensional stereo images in better quality and for different types of processing. Transformation in the stereoscopic camera: perhaps a simple transformation of any camera in the "parallel", "offset", "to turn" or "circle of" stereoscopic camera. The working process of creating a stereoscopic image with a preview of stereo images can be seen directly in the viewport. Preview may take place in the display modes "anaglyph", "interlaced image?, ?Shutter? and "bilateral". Stereoscopic rendering settings: allows you to render stereoscopic images and combined to create separate stereoscopic channels for further processing or compositing channels. Support for image manager: view stereoscopic animation, editing and exporting images parallax combined or separate stereoscopic files. More than a simple tool for character animation The range of new tools for character animation makes up this technically complex processes, such as creating a barn and cyclical movements. Thus, beginning animators can easily make the characters first success, but it will simplify things for professionals. The new object Character: This object is a self-Rieger, which greatly simplifies the creation of a system of joints and connect it with a three-dimensional geometry. You can also create and use new, custom harvesting rigs. The new system of movement of the character: allows you to create your own or use ready-parametric cycles of walking, based on the cyclical movements. The figures go automatically to the spline, or on different surfaces, even the individual steps can be set. This feature works not only with the object of character, but in the whole scene. The new system of muscles: CINEMA 4D R13 has a system of muscles, which allows you to attach the muscle to various joints that leads to deformation of the model. Also includes a warp to stretch and move the skin. The new warp Interaction: deform the surface of objects on the basis of their interaction with other objects, so the character could for example leave footprints in the snow. Numerous workflow enhancements, modeling and animation CINEMA 4D is known for ease of use. Improve navigation and interface allow the user to work in the CINEMA 4D R13 is even more efficient and intuitive. Improved navigation camera: a new, based on the navigation cursor will automatically use the "intersection point" in the scene, depending on where the user starts to navigate. This, among other things, allows the camera to move smoothly, no matter where the point of intersection. Navigation around the scene and the object has now become very easy. ?Sticky Keys?: this technology allows the use of a tool holding its keyboard shortcut. Once the keypad buttons are released, CINEMA 4D is returned to the previous tool. The new interface is the user data of the "Spline": a function whose parameters are controlled by the curves have now new types of splines, which are now much easier to configure. Indicator of the object: this feature indicates the location of objects outside the camera and kind of helps you quickly navigate to these objects. Tools for working with surfaces: new infinite axis enables the user to place objects on other objects. The axis can now display and rotation of the brace, which points to its possible folding (Gimbal Lock). Several of the selected objects at the same time can now be transformed separately and not only in the group. And with the sandwiched button CTRL and click, you can easily and quickly extrude new polygons. Improved animation: the animation system has been significantly improved based on user feedback. Better was the work of the F-curves with markers and interpolation of keys, and much more. An efficient workflow Participants in teams of professionals working on the three-dimensional graphics are increasingly common project work remotely from each other, using different platforms and operating methods. This increases the requirements for CINEMA 4D R13 and therefore provides a range of new possibilities for sharing elements of the scene, as well as enhanced data exchange with other software packages. Brand new items Xref: These objects allow you to work more efficiently using the links to external files. Xref Objects can texture, animate them to use expressions and simulation without changing the original object. A huge advantage in team work on projects. Improved integration COFFEE and the Python: powerful programming languages ??in a single manager, provide opportunities for programmers to develop all kinds of plugins and scripts. CINEMA 4D offers a common environment in which to process the scripts Python, and COFFEE and C + + API. Enhanced support for file formats: three-dimensional graphics artists are now even more flexibility in working with a variety of file formats. Multiprohodny rendering can now be made in an OpenEXR file format when using multiple layers. Most popular formats FBX and COLLADA also been reworked and provide an opportunity now even easier to exchange scenes between different programs. Support for After Effects: a great connection with the program Adobe After Effects is now enhanced support for object "Director". It also now supports the export of markers in the timeline and format of the NTSC frame rate to 29.97.
The percentage of obese kids in America has skyrocketed in recent years and many parents are looking for ways to prevent their children from becoming grossly overweight. Childhood obesity occurs when a child eats more calories than their body burns up. A child is considered obese when they weigh over 10% more than the recommended weight for their height and body type. Between 16% and 33% of children and adolescents are obese. What can we do to help our children lead a healthy lifestyle free from weight issues and related problems? Overeating+inactivity+boredom=obesity.
