iTunes has a long and successful history of commercial transactions, so people feel comfortable clicking and shopping and buying on iOS.
The mobel advertising market is booming and it has grown from $1.4 billion in 2011 to $4.1 billion in 2012, and it’s projected to hit a massive $7.3 billion in 2013.
And almost all of it is spent on Apple’s ecosystem.
7659.com is a Chinese “app store” that is using Apple’s own bulk enterprise licensing technology to distributed pirated apps to Chinese iPhone and iPad users, completely free.
Doctors were less likely to convey “empathy, legitimation, concern, reassurance, partnership, and self-disclosure” during the course of the patient visit.
Doctors “operate at an emotional distance” from overweight and obese patients indicated by audio recordings make in exam rooms.
Continue reading… “Doctors are less likely to empathize with overweight and obese patients: Study”
Raymond Alvarez: A strange thing happened on the way to the real estate apocalypse. It didn’t happen.
Pundit and journalist alike had everyone looking the wrong way. But, who can blame them? How can you ignore the plethora of foreclosure signs on the way into the office? It turns out they weren’t looking hard enough for more signs.
Futurist Thomas Frey: Hearing aids are for old people. At least that’s what I thought when I was young and invincible attending rock concerts far louder than they should have been.
Continue reading… “How Google Glass will Disrupt the Hearing Aid Industry?”
Help Wanted: Needed, one exceptionally skilled knife catcher! Those with poor skills
will be considered as long as they’re exceptionally fast healers!
Quote of the Day: “Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.” – Terry Pratchett
The DEV-50V lets you record what you’re looking at while you’re still looking at it through the lenses.
A new pair of binoculars with digital technology has been unveiled by Sony. The binoculars will allow you to record whatever you view. This is a kind of digital device that may actually be an improvement on its analog counterpart.
Continue reading… “Sony unveils new digital binoculars that record what you see”
Bookstores are in crisis. Books aren’t.
There has been an upheaval in bookselling over the past ten years. With the surge in online ordering, the challenges faced by brick and mortar booksellers, and the arguing over ebook pricing you would think the book industry was in crisis. But sales figures suggest otherwise. Increasingly, this churning appears to be an integral feature of a steady process of transformation in the digital age.
Continue reading… “Book sales are on the rise even though booksellers are in turmoil”
Are we more productive in the office, or out of the office?
According to a new survey of 1,000 Americans by uSamp, 65 percent of companies allow remote work, and an even higher percentage of big companies take advantage of home and virtual offices. But what does that do to productivity? (Infographic)
Continue reading… “Is working remotely productive or disruptive?”
Blue-collar workers generally do more advanced math than their white-collar friends.
In high school math class we would sit there listening while the teacher droned on about polynomial equations and thinking there wasn’t a chance you’d ever use any of it in life? Well, if you’re like most Americans, chances are your 17-year-old self was absolutely correct.
Continue reading… “How little math Americans actually use on the job”
Single people have as high as twice the mortality rate of married people.
A trend that has held true in studies across the world and time periods is that single, widowed, and divorced people have as high as twice the mortality rate of married people. The tendencies for unmarried people to die seems to tell us about the relative strength of social bonds, which is supported by similar trends seen among ants, bees, and even cells, described in a fascinating paper in Cornell’s quantitative biology archive.
Continue reading… “How isolated people and animals die sooner”
Research efforts have shown how to effectively mobilize many people on social media for a common task.
Online crowds like the online community Reddit and some Twitter users were criticized for pillorying an innocent student as a possible terrorist suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. But some emerging technologies might be able to help knock down false reports and wring the truth from the fog of social media during crises.
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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