(1) David Pogue, Windows on the iPad, and Speedy; For $5 a month, a 1-gigabit-a-second Internet connection. New York Times, Feb 23, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/2 ... ate-of-the-art.html
(three pay scales: free, OnLive Desktop Plus ($5 a month) and OnLive Desktop Pro ($10 a month)
Quote:
"It’s a tiny app — about 5 megabytes.
"The free version of the OnLive Desktop service arrived in January. It gives you Word, Excel and PowerPoint, a few basic Windows apps (like Paint, Media Player, Notepad and Calculator), and 2 gigabytes of storage.
Note:
(a) byte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte
(consists of eight bits)
(b) OnLive Desktop
http://desktop.onlive.com/
(2) Peter Wayner, Monitoring Your Health With Mobile Devices. New York Times, Feb 23, 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/2 ... mobile-devices.html
Quote:
"A French start-up, Withings, has created a blood pressure cuff for $129 that connects to an iPad or an iPhone. The cuff will automatically inflate, deflate and then record the pulse rate and the blood pressure. The app will graph the pressure over time, making trends easier to see. Withings also includes a connection to its Web site so users can share their data with their doctors either directly through their password-protected pages or through third-party sites like digifit.com.
"AgaMatrix, a company that makes a blood glucose monitor, iBGStar, that attaches to the iPhone, worked with Sanofi, the pharmaceutical giant, to develop the tool. In December, the Food and Drug Administration approved the device for sale in the United States.
Note:
(a) iBGStart
http://www.ibgstar.us
, which uses AgaMatrix’s proprietary Dynamic Electrochemistry.
(b) How It Works. AgaMatrix, undated.
http://www.wavesense.info/how-it-works
To be frank, it dies not tell you how it works. Not whether a puncture is needed to take blood glucose.
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