Wi-Fi Kiosks Begin Replacing New York City’s Pay Phones – WSJ
New York City is replacing pay phone booths with WiFi Kiosks. The project is called LinkNYC and it aims to install 7,500 units within a decade. There should be 500 by this summer. The kiosks are 9½ feet tall and provide WiFi within a radius of 150 feet, free domestic calling, cell phone charging ports, and a touch-screen tablet to browse […]
First Blood-Pressure Watch
Nearly 30% of Americans have hypertension (high blood pressure (BP)). Many people have a tough time controlling their BP. Part of the task is measuring BP routinely and accurately. It is possible to get wide variations when using a traditional home blood cuff due to arm position or cuff size. Omron may have the answer. The company has […]
Apple – A Disappointing Quarter?
Apple shipped 75 million iPhones in the last quarter: 831 thousand every day, 34,620 every hour, 877 per minute, 9.6 per second. The company shipped 5.3 million Macs, while PC shipments continued to fall. As usual after an Apple quarterly report, financial analysts were disappointed. As usual, I believe they are missing what Apple is all about. They seem to […]
Apple Music and Sonos Coming Together
It’s here. Sonos has been working with Apple Music to bring us a new way of filling our homes with an enormous selection of great music. This morning, the beta version became available. I installed it and am delighted. They will be making a few final changes during the beta test based on user input. The final version will be […]
Nurses Trade in Clipboards for iPads
My 4-year-old granddaughter announced recently she plans to be a nurse, like her aunt and grandmom. I wonder if there will be any clipboards in use in healthcare when she starts working. I hope not. Greater Seattle Memorial Hospital announced plans to replace its clipboard nurses with iPAD nurses (see the full story here). Senior-level […]
