Text messaging is a surprisingly good way to get candid responses to sensitive questions, according to a new study to be presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. “The preliminary results of our study suggest that people are more likely to disclose sensitive information via text messages [...]
With recent statistics showing Kenya’s maternal mortality ratio at 488 per 100,000 live births, a new monitoring system for expectant mothers is set to ease the number of deaths during childbirth. The app ensures the health workers, midwives and the pregnant mothers share health information and care tips using SMS and prepaid calls. The system, which offers [...]
Smartphones users are spending a lot of time browsing social networks on their phones and Facebook seems to be their network of choice. A new study released today by digital research company ComScore shows that the average U.S. Facebook mobile user spent more than seven hours perusing the site via cell phone in March and [...]
Global shipments of smartphones in the first three months of this year grew 45% year on year to 146 million units, but significant country and regional differences were apparent, according to Canalys. Shipments in the USA rose just 5% year-on-year, in marked contrast to the 81% growth seen across the Asia Pacific region. Shipments in [...]
As smartphone users have grown more comfortable forking over information about their bank accounts and physical whereabouts to mobile applications, a growing group of app developers are betting health-related data will be next. Consider Bethesda-based M3 Information. The company has created an app that asks patients a series of nearly 30 questions designed to assess [...]
Imagine a vaccine box that sends you an SMS everytime the temperature in it rises, threatening the quality of vaccines in it. Indian scientists are calling it “a thermometer with a SIMCARD in it” . In what will greatly reduce vaccines going bad due to temperature fluctuations – a phenomenon that could endanger the life [...]
Marion Underwood calls her academic study, “The Blackberry Project.” A title that would work equally well is “Panopticon, Jr.” For the past four years, the University of Texas-Dallas developmental psychology professor has essentially wire-tapped 175 Texas teens, capturing every text message, email, photo, and IM sent on Blackberries that she provided to them, creating a [...]
Chartered Health Plan, Inc., the oldest Medicaid managed care organization in the nation’s capital, is launching a new text-messaging program for its diabetic members that will disseminate diabetes-related information on their mobile phones to keep members involved in their own care. Chartered executives also said they plan to establish personal health records for their members. [...]
Lookout Mobile Security and T-Mobile have teamed up to make it easier to find your lost phone — by letting the device literally scream for help. In the time since the two companies entered a partnership in 2011, T-Mobile Android devices have come preloaded with the Lookout Security & Antivirus app. Now, T-Mobile customers have [...]
Some people quit smoking on the first try while others have to quit repeatedly. Using such mobile technology as hand-held computers and smartphones, a team of researchers from Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh is trying to find out why. “One thing that really stood out among the relapsers is how their urge to [...]
