It uses predictive analytics from the way a patient interacts on their smartphone to detect warning signals in behavior.
The software then alerts a healthcare provider that something is off. Utah Smartcare partners with three local mental health authorities and 2 community health clinics in Utah.
one of the local mental health authorities participating in the Utah Smartcare initiative. his data will allow us to better assess how our clients are doing between appointments
#TV s Disruption On Display As Netflix And Amazon Go Head-To-Head At Golden Globes More proof that good television doesn have to be developed by traditional industry players:
This is Amazon third scripted show after its entry into original programming last year, and the show itself has been nominated for Best Comedy,
and Red oaks (2015) some of which are aimed at kids. orange is the new black Transparent nom is not the first time that an Internet TV provider has earned a nod from a TV/movie industry awards show Netflix recently received dozens of Emmy
And Netflix House of cards earned 9 Emmy nominations last year becoming the first online-only web series to receive such a nomination.
and Netflix are up for the Best TV Series (Musical or Comedy) Golden Globe. Transparent is facing off against Netflix original show
television hasn been as quick to have been disrupted by the Internet as other industries, like music or books.
albeit small, study here in the U s. indicates that roughly a quarter of U s. customers are now asking for Internet-only service from their cable providers.
There are enough people watching these programs Internet TV now reaches 40 percent of U s. homes for Nielsen to begin to measure these services, too.
Nielsen data also revealed the impact of streaming video: TV viewing was down 7 percent year-over-year as of October among the 18-49-year-old demographic.
On a personal note, with HBO GO standalone service now on the near horizon, my final tie to cable TV has been severed as well.
I moved to a new house this week and opted for streaming video only with Prime,
Hulu and Netflix now taking the place of the cable TV subscription c
#Google translate Adds 10 More Languages Including Burmese Google s translation tool is constantly adding new languages
but its latest update is notable because it includes Burmese the official language of Myanmar as well as Malayalam one of India s six classical languages with 38 million speakers.
because it ties into Google s efforts to get more Indian users onto its services.
Earlier this month for example Google launched the Indian Language Internet Alliance which seeks to increase offerings for Hindi speakers as well as Hindi voice search.
At that time Google India MD Rajan Anandan said at a press conference that#to reach our goal of 500 million Internet users by 2017 in India we need to make the Internet accessible to those who don t speak English.#
#The Internet giant plans to add other Indian languages to its services and the addition of Malayalam to Google translate is a small but noteworthy step toward that goal.
According to Google India currently has about 200 million Internet users with five million new users added every month
which means that India will have more Internet users than the U s. within the next year. But only 198 million Indian people are estimated to be proficient in English
so it s important for Google to increase its roster of offerings in different Indian languages
Meanwhile Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has stressed the importance of free speech in Myanmar. Last year in a speech he called for the Myanmar government to stay away from regulating the Internet saying#The answer to bad speech is more speech.
More communication. More voices. If you are a political leader you get a much better idea of
#Schmidt also added that Google s first priority in Myanmar is to improve access to information with its search engine and tools such as Google translate and Maps.
According to Google its latest additions brings Google translate s total number of supported languages to 90 and mean that 200 million more people will be able to use it to translate texts to and from their native languages.
In its blog post the company reiterated that the accuracy of Google translate depends on members of its Translate Community who supplement the tool s algorithms by correcting translations
#Amazon s Connected Speaker Echo Now Has An ios App When Amazon launched its $199 connected speaker Amazon Echo last month,
it also came with a dedicated mobile app for configurations and other settings. The app was initially available only for Amazon Fire OS and Android,
but not ios. Instead, iphone and ipad users had to use Safari or a desktop browser instead.
Today, that changes as Amazon has released now Amazon Echo for ios. Like its Android counterpart
the new ios app allows you to use your ios device as a remote control of sorts for interacting with Echo.
To get started, the app guides you through a simple set up process, after which you can use the app to control the output to Echo as an alternative to using voice commands.
Additionally, the main screen of the application shows you weather and other recent queries, including those Echo has looked up on Wikipedia on your behalf,
which is one of the hardware device more interesting functions. Amazon Echo, as a reminder, is not yet broadly available.
Instead, interested users can visit the Echo website an request an invitation to purchase the device.
The issue here is not likely whether or not Amazon can manage to produce enough hardware to fulfill demand
but rather whether there will actually be demand. After all, Amazon entry into the smartphone market with Fire Phone flopped,
and Echo is at best a shopping assistant not, you know, a Samantha. Or Alexa, as Amazon has named its virtual helper.)
As with its other hardware-based shopping assistant Amazon Dash, the company is basically running its hardware consumer trials in the open to see how people respond.
Amazon Echo for ios is a free download here
#Update Lending Club IPO Shows The Profit Potential For Financial Technology Investments Lending Club $5. 4 billion initial public offering on the New york stock exchange is more than just the largest IPO
Here how chief executive officer Renaud Laplanche described the situation on his own Linkedin page, alil invested in Lending Club as a Series A in 2008.
and sends the data back to your home office via Wi-fi. It is powered self and can be removed in minutes.
Fueloyal is unique in that you don have to modify the tank in order to gather the data.
#Workflow Lets You Automate The Stuff You Do All the time On Your iphone Built for the tastes of power users with an interface that anyone can understand,
Workflow is a new app for ios that lets you create shortcuts for the things you do all the time on your phone or tablet.
You can create action extensions (a new feature in ios 8 that you can bring up by tapping the share button) that save the URL of the page youe on to Evernote
and also saves a PDF copy of the page to Dropbox in case youe worried it might go away.
You can access your shortcuts within Workflow or turn them into semi-apps in themselves via bookmarks on the home screen (with a customizable icon.
The app is able to throw first time users into the task because the shortcut-building tool is deceptively simple.
I sure that there are Apple power users who would pay as much as $10 for this
Once you plug the thermometer into the headphone jack of the smartphone and open the app it ll show calming animations that are helpful with kids
#What s really special about Kinsa and the thermometer in general is that it is the first device the first piece of hardware that actually verifies that you re sick#said founder and CEO Inder Singh.#
And when you add in social functionality parents can start to differentiate between a common cold (that may not require an immediate doctor visit) and strep throat.
The Kinsa costs $29. 99 and alongside hardware sales the company is considering how they can be a communications layer for other companies working on telemedicine prescription delivery and other startups in the health ecosystem.
#We need marketers engineers operations people who can handle the hardware and supply chain side of our business.
#If you want to check out Kinsa you can learn more on the website here
#Page365 Grabs $420k To Professionalize Social Commerce In Southeast asia Starting In Thailand Facebook and Twitter both have introduced uybuttons this summer,
but social commerce has been around far longer than that. Southeast asia is one hotspot, and it there that Softbaked, the company behind Thailand Page365, has raised a $420, 000 seed round.
The service started two years ago latching on to a trend that saw Facebook used to market
Page365 aims to make things more professional with its platform that plugs into Facebook and Line, the chat app with 20 million registered users in Thailand,
Page365 estimates that social media commerce niche is worth $510 million per year in Thailand alone. The round is provided by Inspire Ventures and existing investor Galaxy Ventures.
#Microsoft Begins Accepting Bitcoin For Windows Windows phone And Xbox Purchases If you want further proof that Microsoft is going through a transformative phase,
you may be interested to hear that the company has jumped on the bitcoin wagon. The Redmond-based tech giant is now accepting bitcoins for buying games
and other digital content on its Windows, Windows phone and Xbox platforms, as the folks at Coindesk noticed today.
Members of Reddit bitcoin subred noted that Microsoft appears to be working with payments firm Bitpay to make this happen.
Neither Microsoft nor Bitpay have announced formally the partnership or details but the former does have a series of instructions related to bitcoin payments within its illing helppages.
Microsoft has confirmed now that it is indeed working with Bitpay. It described its adoption of Bitcoin as being bout giving people options
Customers can use bitcoin to load money into a Microsoft wallet or to create digital gift cards,
#Instagram Hits 300 Million Monthly Users To Surpass Twitter Keeps It Real With Verified Badges It no fad.
Just nine months after hitting 200 million users, Instagram now says 300 million people use its photo app every month, with 70%of them coming from outside the US.
That makes Instagram officially bigger than Twitter, which had 284 million active users as of six weeks ago.
Instagram been going strong for four years now, and despite fears that the acquisition by Facebook would screw it up,
there now 70 million photos shared each day, and over 30 billion total. Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom says ver the past four years
Between Facebook 1. 35 billion, Messenger 500 million, and Whatsapp 600 million users, Facebook has developed a jaw dropping mobile footprint.
Instagram Of THE Week With growth steady, Instagram is now looking to strengthen its authenticity.
The tactic helped Twitter boost confidence, and Facebook started verifying profiles in May 2013. The badges will surely be coveted by the types of users desperately trying to grow their following
and make Instagram new Explore tab more trustworthy. In the same vein of keeping it real, Instagram says it now gone from deactivating spammer
and fake accounts to full-on deleting them. This means theyl no longer appear in follower counts,
The bad actors also aren being counted in its new 300 million user stat. Instagram rise has been remarkable:
Launch on iphone December 2010: 1 million users June 2011: 5 million users September 2011: 10 million users April 3rd, 2012: 30
million registered accounts on iphone, launches on Android April 4th, 2012: Instagram sees 1 million Android signups in the first 24 hours April 9th, 2012:
Instagram hits 5 million Android users, is acquired by Facebook April 30th, 2012: 50 million users February 2013: 100 million users September 2013: 150 million users March 2014: 200 million users Considering Twitter
has added only around 38 million users since March while Instagram has added 100 million, you can expect the gap to expand
if things hold steady. As it continues to grow, Instagram will encounter new challenges including the unfiltered feed problem.
As people follow more and more accounts over time, theyl eventually reach a point where they miss posts from their closest friends
because theye drowned out by more share-happy users. That degrades the consumption experience but also makes them less likely to follow more accounts in the future.
This is turn makes it tougher for everyone, especially new users, to grow their following. No one likes sharing photos into a black hole,
Twitter is facing this problem already. Eventually, Instagram might need to help people unfollow accounts they never Like
and make sure long-time users follow friends who signed up late. But for today, Instagram can rest easy knowing it captured lightning in a bottle.
Measuring the energy consumption of a Macbook Air compared to that of a Dell Desktop PC, for example, will prove to be difficult.
While some organizations already have the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) in place allowing IT administrators to manage large groups of Windows-based computer systems,
SCCM lacks the capability to provide the accuracy the ESOS audits will require. Utilizing power-management solutions,
with consistently updated content databases of makes and models currently in use, allows companies to reference the power consumption of each device,
Though the U k. has been relatively slow to implement PC power-management technology, mostly due to tax incentives, perhaps by example,
taking into consideration that the U s. wastes an approximate $2. 8 billion in PC energy every year, the U k. may need to take a more effective approach to energy security.
which will have many similarities to existing U k. policies the government is proposing that enterprises be allowed to utilize data from other schemes,
#Following Numerous Data Breaches Dashlane And Lastpass Apps Can Now Reset Passwords For You Data breaches like the ones at Target, Neiman Marcus, Staples, Home depot,
web users are asked often to quickly change their account passwords to protect themselves against further attacks.
Unfortunately, doing so is said easier than done users tend to reuse their passwords across websites,
Dashlane and Lastpass, have stepped now in to help with new features that allow users to automatically change their passwords on affected websites.
Dashlane beat Lastpass to market with the new addition by hours clearly, both companies understood that there a real need to help make the password changing process easier on end users.
In a beta release of Dashlane out this week, Passomatic technology has been baked into Dashlane core product
A process that might have taken otherwise time as users hunted down which sites shared that same password
and then jumped through the hoops to make the change, now takes seconds instead of minutes or even hours.
Dashlane Password Changer works with over 50 top U s. sites including Amazon, ebay, Facebook, Google, Linkedin,
Twitter and Yahoo and is continuing to grow as the feature expands. The first version is available for PC and Mac with mobile support arriving oon,
the company says. The company notes it also working on a recurring password change feature that will automatically change passwords at preset intervals for example
Dashlane, which now has 3 million users, says that the average users has about 60 passwords stored in its service.
That means its ability to change around 50 passwords automatically will cover a lot of the sites visited today.
Following Dashlane, competitor Lastpass also rolled out an automated password change feature. The company supports a few more sites at launch,
with 75 sites as of today, including big ones like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Pinterest, Dropbox and others.
Similar to Dashlane, Lastpass will automatically change a password for you when need be. To enable the feature
you click ditin the Lastpass dashboard for a supported site, and a hange Password Automaticallybutton appears.
and Lastpass logs you into the website, creates a new password and submits the changes to the site and to Lastpass.
The next time you log in, Lastpass will use the new password. One difference between the two implementations is that Dashlane feature lets you select all the supported sites
and change the passwords at once it even displays little progress bars at the bottom to show you how the work is progressing.
Meanwhile, Lastpass has you edit each site by individually. Lastpass notes however, that it makes the password changes locally on your machine so it never has access to your data.
While the automated password changing technology is a huge leap in terms of efficiency and security protections for today web users,
some may still be hesitant to take steps to protect their account information despite the featuresease-of-use.
The problem is that many of the most commonly used web services are accessed also regularly as mobile apps.
That means, in many cases, users will have to look up their new passwords, then copy and paste them into the apps to sign in.
web users have shown consistently they prefer the latter. If a site lets you make your password 23456,
it will become one of the most popular password choices. On Android, we should note,
things are a little easier thanks to support for autofilling logins. ios and Windows phone, sadly, don allow for this.)
You can try the new features for yourself, for free. Dashlane users can sign up for early access,
and Lastpass is available for download here s
#Youku Tudou One Of China s Leading Streaming Video Sites Launches Its First Hardware Line Youku Tudou, already one of China largest streaming video
sites, is moving into hardware as well. The company said that its first three devices Wifi router, smart TV box,
and 15.6-inch Android tabletill be available next January. To provide content for those devices,
the company is also launching a cloud entertainment business unit, which will create services that make it easier to stream videos and games from Youku Tudou main sites.
The Wifi router will be part of a P2p-based network that is supposed to make video stream faster while reducing Youku Tudou bandwidth usage.
The smart TV SET which supports 4k/Ultra HD video, will eventually start using Alibaba Aliyun operating system,
which includes online shopping connected to the e-commerce giant sites, as well as its Xiami streaming music service.
Youku Tudou says its monthly user base is now more than 500 million, with daily video views surpassing 800 million.
In a prepared statement, Youku Tudou CTO and president of its cloud entertainment unit Leo Yao, said,
ow that Youku Tudou has built the largest user community of online video in China, this expansion will ensure that Youku Tudou content
and services reach all Internet enabled screens in the forms that our users want, and offer a seamless experience across devices.
Youku Tudou decision to enter the hardware business comes at a time of rapid growth for China streaming video market.
According to DIGITAL TV Research, China is now the world biggest smart TV and OTT (over-the-top) content market,
with 20 million to 30 million sets sold each year. Several of China largest Internet companies have struck content partnerships over the past couple of months in a bid to win over as many viewers as possible.
For example, Xiaomi, which early in November announced plans to sink $1 billion in building online video content,
has made already strategic investments in Youku Tudou as well as Baidu IQIYI, one of its main rivals.
Meanwhile, Tencent struck deals with HBO and Warner Music group to distribute their content in China.
Alibaba and Baidu also have smart TV SETS of their own. Other top smart TV makers that Youku Tudou has signed deals with include Huawei technologies, ZTE 9 Network Technology, Goldweb Technologies;
and Jiuzhou Electronic Technology. Youku Tudou agreements with different hardware and software companies (including Aliyun
and Xiaomi) is interesting because it might be an indicator of future consolidation as China smart TV industry becomes more massive and fragmented.
The last round of major mergers in the space occurred in 2012 and 2013, when Youku bought Tudou in a $1 billion stock deal
and Baidu purchased PPS to fold into iqiyi. Banding together can also help companies that have a stake in China streaming-video industry deal with regulators.
Though the Chinese government closely monitors what is shown on TV channels it has so far been more flexible with online video.
But that will most likely change as more people rely on the Internet to watch television shows and movies.
For example, China may decide to limit the amount of foreign-produced shows that streaming sites can offer c
wel see a torrent of new devices emerge that are connected to the Internet and each other through a wide range of different wireless networking protocols.
As a result, there a race on, not just to get those devices connected, but also to provide the network infrastructure necessary to managing all of them at scale.
all without relying on Wifi, Bluetooth, or cellular networks. The company hopes to do that by combining low-powered wireless connectivity and a smart distribution network for data coming from those devices.
While it still working out the products and business model that will enable that connectivity, the company is announcing today that it has raised $16 million in funding led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Firstmark Capital, Digital Garage, Marc Benioff, SV Angel,
There he led the company strategic software initiatives in open source, Internet of things, and wearables verticals. As a result, he has experience in large-scale wireless systems,
but the company has assembled already a 20-person team of experts in radio frequency technology and distributed networks.
That because the big idea behind Helium is to use unlicensed wireless bandwidth to transmit small amounts of data from various connected device
To do that, the company is developing its own wireless data protocol and wireless modules that can be inserted into devices that manufacturers want to be a part of its network.
since the devices in question would be delivering bytes of data rather than megabytes, it could create its own connection to them in a cost effective manner without relying on existing cellular or Wifi networks.
By leveraging low-power wireless bands and building a highly distributed network of ultra-affordable base stations (or Helium bridges), it could receive
and transmit small amounts of data from those devices seamlessly. While Helium hopes to build out its own network for devices to connect to
it not ruling out letting devices add data through other networking solutions. After all, as Chandhok told me,
#Coolchip Technologies Is Redesigning The Humble Computer Fan If there one part of a PC that doesn get enough love, it the fan.
These small plastic spinning pieces cost almost nothing and keep hundreds or thousands of dollars of advanced technology from cooking itself.
The only time anyone talks about a computer fans is when we notice them doing their jobs. can go on Youtube without them winding up,
making a bunch of noise! For many, these fans are becoming increasingly unnecessary. Chips built for phones,
tablets and even some laptops are designed to use small enough amounts of power than they can dissipate heat without blowing a bunch of air all over everything.
But for users who demand power gamers, video editors and the like fans are still a reality that has to be dealt with every day.
Coolchip Technologies is working to redesign fans to be less of a nuisance. While there are alternatives (like liquid cooling) for those who simply cannot stand the presence of fans,
and achieve 35-40 percent greater thermal performance than traditional PC fans. That impressive, but not something that most consumers would be aware of or care about.
Among PC gamers, this could be huge. An enthusiast gaming rig typically has one CPU and one to four graphics cards, each
of which generate enough heat to warrant one of Coolchip fans. Anyone with a PC built for maxing out their games
or software would notice the noise reduction from switching to fans this quiet. Apparently I not the only one to notice that.
Onstage, Sanchez noted that Coolchip has partnered with Cooler Master to bring its technology to market as aftermarket add-ons early next year
and Microsoft consulted with the startup to make quieter fans for the Xbox One games console,
At a Facebook, Google, or Amazon data center, replacing hundreds or thousands of fans with ones using 35 percent less power could yield significant cost savings.
As data centers move from big PC processors to large networks of ARM chips, there will likely be even more individual chips to keep cool.
And Device Sandboxes Incoming Blackphone the post-Snowden pro-privacy Android smartphone joint venture between secure comms company Silent Circle and phone maker Geeksphone has confirmed it will be adding an app store
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The feature will be powered by Canadian company##Graphite Software#s OS-level virtualization software. Speaking to Techcrunch back in October Blackphone cofounder Jon Callas indicated an app store was incoming detailing a plan##to expand its##hardened Android OS to include a curated app store experience#offering third party apps##it##has selected
and vetted/reviewed for potential security concerns. The Blackphone device and startup business is an attempt to consumerize the hard problem of security
and privacy within a familiar-looking Android##wrapper and by bolting on multiple third party services to put##secure alternatives for essentials such as##cloud storage within easy reach (as well as bundling up the cost of their initial subscription in with the phone).
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while apparently maintaining high standards of user##privacy. However it s also##a trade-off given that running third party software introduces more security risks.
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and##the user##to have just the one##device for work and person use securely separating out their##personal apps and content from##work apps and content.
#Users will then also be able to spec out additional Spaces on the device as they desire#such as for instance a child-friendly bucket with access to a sub-set of apps.
##The number of apps on the store will doubtless intentionally remain##far fewer than on major app stores such as Google Play.
Callas previously told Techcrunch the store could##include##different security review tiers for apps as a way for users to navigate the risks of running third party content.
And that it##may also include##apps that some might##consider insecure by design (such as social media apps which##focus on sharing)
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