Coming to a Mobile Plan Near You: Pay Just for E-Mail or Facebook

        Would you ever have a trouble to pay the overage fee on your cell phone? If you have 250 megabytes of data left on your smart phone plan, and in the most of days, you spend four hours to checking Facebook e-mail and YouTube. Is that passable to not overuse if you are on a type of limited plan?

         I think there are a lot of people have this issue, they pay a lot fee on their cell phone, and they didn’t feel they was use as this much. Fortunately, there have a technology call ItsOn app, it can help people to tailor their data plans according to the services they use. For example, rather than monitoring how many megabytes you’re using watching Netflix, a carrier could offer a flat monthly rate just for video streaming. The same could be done just for e-mail or social networking.

       With the ItsOn app, we can manage which type of services they’re subscribed to, and the requests would go into effect immediately. After you ready this article, if you are a person want manage your data, would your want buy a system like that to help you to save money and your time?

Here is the website about ItsOn app. If you want know more about it, you can check this link.  

<http://www.itsoninc.com/news/releases/ItsOn-Inc-Secures-15.5M-in-Series-B-Funding-from-Andreessen-Horowitz.html>

Milk Guardian/ Iphone Milk App?

Milk Guardian?

 A Canadian company, Dairy Quality, unveiled a new product called Milk Guardian, a small black box that slides onto the back of an iPhone. A farmer inserts a plastic slide containing a milk sample from one of his cows, and the device counts the number of somatic cells (a high somatic cell count can be an indicator of mastitis, an infection of the udder tissue). Counting somatic cells used to require sending milk to an offsite lab and waiting a week or more for results; using a microscope and an app, Milk Guardian can analyze a sample on location in six seconds or less. The accessory and app together cost $1,800.

After connecting with Gary Jonas, co-founder and president of app developer Mpengo, Mangan realized that most of what he needed could be found in a smartphone. “We needed a camera; a smartphone has that,” Mangan says. “We needed software; we could do that through an app. We needed to export the data; a smartphone’s designed to do just that.”

Do you think technology should or shouldn't be involved in natural situations such as using a phone to do what scientist are trained and paid to do?

I personally think technology can be used in certain situations but having a phone basically analyze and count somatic cells verses sending the milk to an offsite lab and waiting a week or more for results using a microscope? I personally feel like science that requires a microscope to see and discover should be done by scientist with a microscope no matter how time consuming it may be.
What do you think?

To read more about the Technology used on the dairy farm " robot cow milkers" possibly texting farmers when cows are in-heat  go to:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-10-18/big-dairy-enters-the-era-of-big-data#r=tec-s

Mobile Companies Cashing In

With thousand of Mobile apps in the iPhone app store and the Android App store some of these app companies are cashing in on some serious bucks $$$$. Most Venture Capitalist this year are putting their money where there mouth in saying that mobile is the future." A  from M&A firm Rutberg & Co. covering the first half of 2012 shows firms invested $3.9 billion in mobile companies, everything from Jawbone and Viddy to Vox Mobile and Tango. That total is already 7 percent more than all the mobile-focused investments made in 2011, and 46 percent of all the venture capital invested in tech companies so far this year" says Sarah Mirtoff. App start up companies like Tango and Instagram to name a few make up the $1 billion venture capital for companies targeting users in any single category. 

Although these companies dominated in money raised, they did not however bring in the most overall.
Device, payments, and infrastructure companies raised the largest individual rounds, especially those focused on the Chinese and broader Asian markets. Before no one wanted to invest a single penny into device companies, now there in a overwhelming abundance of people looking to invest into these companies. If you had the money to invest, which would you put your money into? And if you did invest, do you think its a good idea and a good money maker? 


















Companies Cashing In

iPhone and Science

Do you remember the first cell phone you ever got? I sure can, mine was a Nokia. The one with the neon green lighting and black lettering. All i could do was text, call, and play the cell game Snake. With technology increasing the way we communicate it also is changing the way we use our phones as well. A company called Labstrip is doing just that. They are bringing the laboratories to an iPhone near you.According to the founders of the Kickstarter project LabStrip is the combination of calibrated strips, a meter accessory, and a cloud-connected iOS app. Noland and Hoefman say that the meter helps to "augment the native optics of the iPhone" and remove distracting elements like ambient light. They promise that this yields more accurate results than existing strip-reading apps.
 This new app will bring new change to how scientist work with testing out in the field. They can now do anything from anywhere with just an iPhone. What cant the iPhone do in this day and age of technology? Would you use this science technology on your iPhone?





Labstrip project

The Coolest Glasses in the World

     Hi, here have a very cool technology product I want share. I think must people may already heared about it -Google Glasses.  But do you know how it is to be proposal of the invention? The Department of Homeland Security asked a team of futurists from the agency’s Science and Technology Directorate to brainstorm future technological needs of emergency workers and first responders. The prognosticators came up with a ton of scenarios where existing technologies could help police, firefighters and Emergency Medical Technicians do their jobs. The one of them is Google Glasses, it  can scope out suspects from a distance, but the overall message was clear: Just like the words on the picture: walked down the street wearing Google Glasses, and didn't get hit by any cars. What do you think? Anyway, I think it is very cool to have it and timely recording something you don't want missing in the life or something like scene of crime.  

     For the future development of science and technology, scientists, high-end technical personnel demand and social status will be beyond measure.

IPod? What's an IPod?

Does Anyone Remember the IPod?

             IPod's generate billions in cash for Apple each year and have become a bit of a necessity -- the products that Apple will continue to release simply because it doesn't want to disappoint Wall Street. So, the company recently announced a new iPod Touch and iPod Nano at its iPhone 5 event. The announcements were strategically placed after the iPhone 5 was announced to all but guarantee they were given low billing in news stories.
Does the average person care that Apple is slowly easing iPods aside until finally, its impact on its financials is so small that it can discontinue them? Not a chance. A solid argument can be made that every iPhone or iPad a person buys is really another iPod sale. After all, those devices integrate all of the features found in today's iPods. They are, for all intents and purposes, iPods on steroids.
That's why the iPod really matters, but the iPod – a platform that allows consumers to play music and video while mobile – is morphing into its next state as a component in a product that can do more. And that's why it still matters: The iPod isn't dying. The iPod is simply entering the next phase of its long history.

What do you guys think? Do you think the IPod is what started all of the technology battle between phone companies?


To find more information visit: Why the Ipod?

M channel

 With Technology advancing everyday which seems like every hour something new is taking place in the technology world, it is important for a business to find, keep up, and revolutionize how it brings in and retains repeat customers. With the fast food mega giant McDonald's leading the pack in almost every category, it is crucial that they find new ways to bring in money. Which in most cases they do, and are very good at it. Now the question becomes, Do you want TV with you Mcdouble? That is right, now you can watch TV exclusively through McDonald's new M Channel. But unlike other channels the new M Channel strives for exclusive content to entertain customers. Also McDonald's is allowing other companies to create promotional and sales opportunities for record companies and others who want to dive into McDonald's vast customer pool. In more way then one McDonald's is rising to the top on the revolutionary chain in the fast food business by continuously offering new mobile as well as in store technology. McDonald's is planning to at the M channel in over 14,00 locations in the next 18 months. Check your local McDonald's often to see if the M channel will be playing at a McDonald's near you. If this was brought to a McDonald's near you, how often would you go in and sit down to watch the M channel while you ate, instead of just using the Drive Thru?







M Channel

Wake Up Song?

Wake Up Song?

  

Did you know that now with the Iphone update IOS 6 when setting an alarm you can now wake up to a song of your choice from your music library? Now you will no longer have to wake up to an annoying alarm that you dread every morning. Here is how it works: Open the Clock app and choose Alarm. When you add a new alarm or edit an existing alarm, tap Sound. Here, you'll see a new Songs section. Tap "Pick a song" and you'll see a list of the songs in your music library. Choose a song and that's what you'll hear to start your day or end your nap. The only disadvantage of using a song for your alarm is if you lose internet connectivity while sleeping, the alarm will be silent. This can be tested by selecting a song that you have not downloaded, set the alarm and turn on Airplane mode. When the alarm goes off, it will be silent. A good practice would be to download a song to your phone before using it as your alarm. The question is how many of you Iphone users were aware of this new feature? If so, have you used this new alarm feature? What are your thoughts on this new feature created by Apple?

For more information go to: Alarm heard as a Song?