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Jaymee C

(A Note from the Editor) Healthcare for the Poor? There's an App for That (EMDM archive... - 0 views

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cell_phone_challenge

shared by Jaymee C on 02 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), have turned a smart phone into an imaging device that can identify and track diseases.
  • Many developing countries lack access to clinical-quality microscopes necessary for even basic diagnostics. The CellScope essentially leapfrogs this technology by allowing health workers to take high-resolution images using a tube-like extension that attaches to the mobile phone’s camera.
  • The research team in Berkeley has successfully imaged malaria and tuberculosis using the CellScope system.
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  • “If we are to improve healthcare in the developing world,” says Fletcher, “rather than buy big microscopes and put them in local health centres, which often don’t exist in those countries, we can use technology to leapfrog and make microscopy portable.”
  • “A Doctor in Your Pocket,”
  • Project Masiluleke uses a form of texting to blast millions of messages each day urging people across the country in their local language to get in touch with the national AIDS hotline.
  • mobile phones are very personal: a message on your phone forces you to think and maybe act in a way that a billboard or radio ad does not.
  • Jaymee C on 02 Oct 09
     
    "Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), have turned a smart phone into an imaging device that can identify and track diseases."
Kristin O

Law or no, it's simple: Don't text and drive - OregonLive.com - 0 views

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shared by Kristin O on 16 Sep 09 - Cached
  • In the first place, you'd think you wouldn't need a law, that simple common sense would be enough to tell us it's unsafe to divert attention to a tiny keyboard and screen while simultaneously piloting 2 tons of metal, rubber, glass and, let us not forget, flesh
    • Kristin O
      Kristin O on 16 Sep 09
       
      he is trying to understand why people still text while they are driving when they know its dangerous
Karen M

Ease of use more important than price - 0 views

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shared by Karen M on 15 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Cellphones, smartphones and other mobile devices
    • Karen M
      Karen M on 16 Sep 09
       
      These are the IT systems that are going to be discussed in this article.
  • small business owners attach a high value to the benefits of staying in touch with clients and colleagues at all times, wherever they are,
    • Karen M
      Karen M on 16 Sep 09
       
      These are the benefits of using smartphones. However, the Social and Ethical Issue may be "Equality of Access" because it is possible that not everybody could afford one of these phones.
    • Karen M
      Karen M on 16 Sep 09
       
      This also shows us the Area of Impact, "Business and Employment." Business people are the ones who use the phones in order to stay connected with their clients.
  • Dependable, easy-to-use and high-quality mobile solutions pay for themselves quickly by enabling small businesses to be more responsive, efficient and productive, and allowing them to do more with fewer resources.”
    • Karen M
      Karen M on 16 Sep 09
       
      This is a description of the IT systems.
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  • ‘Maintenance’ and ‘Reliability’
    • Karen M
      Karen M on 16 Sep 09
       
      These elements need to be worked on in order to make these phones even better.
  • business benefits of being in touch with clients and other business stakeholders are perhaps even more important than they are for their larger competitors.
    • Karen M
      Karen M on 16 Sep 09
       
      This explains the benefits for the people who are being affected by these smartphones.
Arafat Chowdhury

How Cell Phones Affect the School Environment - 0 views

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cell phones

shared by Arafat Chowdhury on 16 Sep 09 - Cached
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      Arafat Chowdhury on 16 Sep 09
       
      I agree that cell phones are disruptive and distractive and schools should try to strictly enforce the use of them in schools.
  • Arafat Chowdhury on 16 Sep 09
     
    When mobile cell phones were first released, they were only really used by the wealthy business man; the phones were so large that it was near impossible to carry them around.
Arafat Chowdhury

The Phone Beckons - Got Game? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Cell phones

shared by Arafat Chowdhury on 15 Sep 09 - Cached
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      Arafat Chowdhury on 15 Sep 09
       
      Its interesting how a person can get addicted to a phone through games on the phone especially who is inexperienced with games.
  • Arafat Chowdhury on 15 Sep 09
     
    This about the cell phone black berry where it affects people and get them even addicted to it through a game.
helen g

SentinelSource.com | Archives | Wireless safety questioned - 0 views

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cell phones technology health

shared by helen g on 15 Sep 09 - Cached
  • — the level of radiation your cell phone sends sizzling toward your skull.
    • helen g
      helen g on 15 Sep 09
       
      It's really not that most people don't know this, they just put it to the side, being that they think its really not that big of a deal. Cell phones have become such a huge neccesity in peoples lives that they ignore the health risks it may cause.
  • In issuing its rankings, the Environmental Working Group — a nonprofit advocacy group concerned mostly with health problems it associates with pollution — injects itself into a scientific controversy that has simmered for years without consensus.
    • helen g
      helen g on 15 Sep 09
       
      Does this meant that cell phones can cause pollution? If so I think many people including myself are unaware of this fact.
  • behavior problems in children.
    • helen g
      helen g on 15 Sep 09
       
      What do they mean by behavior problems?
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  • Yet the debate goes on. One recent study in Great Britain found “no evidence that the risk of developing pituitary tumors is associated with cellular phone use.” A Swedish study published this summer did find a correlation between cell phone and cordless phone use and tumors. Yet a third piece of recent research failed to connect tumors to cell phones but said that conclusion is less convincing “because the observation period has been too short.”
    • helen g
      helen g on 15 Sep 09
       
      The media doesn't want to ultimately say that there is a correlation between cell phones and brain tumors, because they will then be accountable to an extent for sales dropping in cell phones.
  • Use of a Bluetooth device — those blinking blue devices worn on the ear that connect wirelessly to a nearby cell phone — could raise or lower radiation exposure, depending on the circumstances.
    • helen g
      helen g on 15 Sep 09
       
      How would it decrease the radiation? A bluetooth is still an electronic device and peope actually stick it in their ear
  • helen g on 15 Sep 09
     
    This article is about the health problems some people associate with cell phones and what different people think about these risks.
sarah d

Technologies - Cell-phone college classes face hurdles - 0 views

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shared by sarah d on 15 Sep 09 - Cached
  • campus technology officials expect most college course material soon will be accessible on mobile devices
    • sarah d
      sarah d on 15 Sep 09
       
      This relates to teh area of impact, education. If courses can be taken via cell phones, education will be very different.
  • courses via cell phone
    • sarah d
      sarah d on 15 Sep 09
       
      This phrase tells us that cell phones are the IT system being discussed in this article.
Jaymee C

Solar start-up squeezes more juice from silicon cells | Green Tech - CNET News - 0 views

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shared by Jaymee C on 15 Sep 09 - Cached
  • says it can produce a very efficient solar cell from silicon which will be in the market in two years.
    • Jaymee C
      Jaymee C on 15 Sep 09
       
      Area of Impact: Buisness and Employment. This is because something is being advertised.
  • The Lexington, Mass.-based company on Monday plans to disclose the details of its Self-Aligned Cell (SAC) architecture, a set of technologies it has developed to convert 18 percent of sunlight to electricity with polysilicon, the most common solar cell material.
    • Jaymee C
      Jaymee C on 15 Sep 09
       
      this may be good for the enviroment in the sense that there could be less batteries to be disposed of.
  • silicon solar cells
    • Jaymee C
      Jaymee C on 15 Sep 09
       
      IT system= cell phones
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  • But the efficiency rating for the majority of commercially available silicon solar cells is in the 15 percent range. Panels using cells made from alternative materials, such as a combination of copper, indium, gallium, and selenide (CIGS), are lower efficiency--about 9 percent or 10 percent--but are cheaper to produce.
    • Jaymee C
      Jaymee C on 15 Sep 09
       
      Social and Ethical Issuse: Reliablitiy. this is because if a product isn't efficient how can we trust it to be reliable?
  • Jaymee C on 15 Sep 09
     
    This about the production of a silicon cell phone.
Kristin O

Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports, Blogs, Photos, Vide... - 1 views

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sms texting

shared by Kristin O on 14 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Kristin O on 14 Sep 09
     
    Here SMS text messaging is being taken advantage of by people when they are angry
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