McGuire’s Law

Standard disclaimer: don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out.)

• Word Lens augmented reality app instantly translates whatever you point it at
• Track And Turn Off Household Appliances With Your Phone
• How Long Until A Feature Length Movie Is Filmed Entirely With Smartphones?
• iGrill meat thermometer for iPhone is the expensive, unholy marriage of the meat thermometer and iPhone
• Cities Fighting Crime With Smartphone Apps
• App Smart: Apps to Give the Novice Mixologist a Fighting Chance
• File Your Taxes on Your Smartphone?
• Geolocation app appeals to your inner good samaritan, makes you an amateur EMT
• Veterans using mobile devices for follow-up care
• IRS Issues New Phone App to Track Refunds
• Cell phones improving results for wounded soldiers
• CNN shows off an Android tablet app where users can post news
• Massive Health Uses Big Data, Mobile Phones to Fight Chronic Disease
• Smartphones: Indispensable Tool For The Modern Busker
• New York Trials Real-Time Bus Tracking Information on Smartphones
• Will 350,000 people file taxes on smartphones?

Standard disclaimer: don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out.)

• Car Jacker Busted 10 Minutes After The Heist Thanks To An Android App
• Salvation Army Goes Mobile this Holiday Season
• Mobile devices increase productivity in Medical practice and support patient care
• DanKam smartphone app aids the colorblind
• Killing Impulse Purchases? There’s an app for that.
• Word Lens iPhone app combines instant text translation with augmented reality
• Qualcomm’s Outlier unwraps Swagg mobile gift card app
• Smartphone-based ultrasound awaits FDA clearance
• The iGrill Turns Your iPhone Into The World’s Flashiest Meat Thermometer
• Father’s app lets disabled son ’speak’ thru iPad
• With travel app, no one knows you’re a tourist
• Mobile Phones to the Rescue for Pregnant Women
• Parked Car Tracker App Gets Augmented Reality Add-On
• Mobile Phones Could be Used as Test Devices for STI Diseases
• CA coach says iPhone app helped save player’s life

Russ’ Observation: Mobility is undoubtedly changing (and saving) lives.

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• US Students View Mobile Devices as Critical to Learning Process
• Find your polling place and follow the US Election on the go
• 5 ways mobile car apps will change the way you drive
• Alcatel-Lucent solution helps service providers turn mobile phones into life savers
• MORE THAN HALF OF U.S. CONSUMERS PLAN TO USE THEIR MOBILE PHONE FOR HOLIDAY SHOPPING
• Want Your Kids to Learn More? Use m-Learning Tools. My Art Space with UK Museums
• Workforce management solution increases merchandisers’ productivity
• Using Free WiMAX Network to Track Available Car Park Spaces
• Russian Networks Test Train Ticket Payments with Mobile Phones
• Keep an Ear on Elderly Parents With Sonamba

Standard disclaimer: don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out.)

• Japanese Cell Phone Owners Get Gardening Tips Via Mobile Emails
• Radiology untethered: 4G technology promises new levels of mobility
• Lego’s MINDroid Android app remotely controls Mindstorms NXT robots
• Using Cameraphones to Check Blood Pressure and Heart Heath
• Wireless body area network allows your body to send status updates to your cellphone
• “Take Me Out” by Atomic Tom LIVE on NYC subway
• Patient Care via Sprint 4G Smartphone
• NBA to launch Turnstile check-in app for games
• Snap Pic of Any Invoice and the Bank Pays It
• How cell phones are changing how you shop

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• Discount shipping goes mobile with uShip
• South African Students Study Math Via Cell Phone
• Text messaging helps thousands of Iraqi refugees in Syria receive UN food aid
• How Mobile Solutions Can Improve Distribution And Logistics?
• Tesco Shopping Guide on Mobile.. almost reads our minds! Magical
• Smartphones and Broadband Are Making Our Homes Smarter
• Monitoring your health with your mobile phone
• PayPal iPhone app lets you scan checks to deposit
• Can you analyze me now? Cell phones bring spectroscopy to the classroom
• Med schools, Cedars-Sinai test wireless monitoring to reduce readmissions
• Settle Your Tab With Your Phone? NEA Will Drink to That

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• Nationwide Children’s sees higher testing, medication adherence with texting to teen diabetics
• Xora Cleans Up With Oil Spill App
• Deaf, hard-of-hearing students perform first test of sign language by cell phone
• Mobile telemedicine system beams live video from ambulance to Cincinnati Children’s
• Mont Blanc Climbers Rescued by Text Message
• How Cell Phones Can Unlock Ride Sharing
• Meijer deploys indoor positioning trial, helps you find the Morton Salt faster
• California and Sprint join forces to create America’s first mobile emergency alert system
• Federal agencies tapping 4G to strengthen security, enhance essential services and optimize efficient use of government resources
• Hospital to test medication text reminders for teenage transplant patients
• iStethoscope iPhone app goes viral, may invite FDA scrutiny of medical smartphone apps
• MIT app turns your Android phone into a supercomputer… of sorts
• Got 10 bucks and 5 minutes? Turn your iPhone 4 into a 12X Microscope
• Considering the mobile phone as a research tool

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• Massachusetts Transport Agency launches mobile parking payments
• iPhone 4’s motion detectors open up a new class of medical apps for British doc
• WellPoint, Aetna, Humana test wireless monitoring for congestive heart failure
• CardMunch Transcribes Business Cards Using Your iPhone Camera
• Kobo e-reader sashays into ten Fairmont hotel properties, adds to your poolside experience
• Observing Ramadan? There’s an App for That
• Using Mobile Phones to Improve Information for Brazil’s Fishermen
• Study: Remote monitoring cuts hospitalization, mortality for heart failure
• Testing Smartphones as Vocal Language Translation Tools
• Best Buy to Expand Location-based Smartphone Rewards
• Pleco 2.2 Chinese Dictionary uses iPhone camera to translate text in real time

I’ve always known that Emily Green was a smart analyst of what’s happening in the telecom industry, but her recent blog post shows she’s also a smart traveler.

Here are a couple of quotes to give you a sense:

“I have been on a family road trip for the past week. Writing today from Richmond, Virginia, I am here to tell you that the best way to vacation in 2010, at least in the U.S., requires the following:” (You’ll have to read the post to find out what 3 things are required for the best vacation…)

“Once you have these three elements … here’s what happens: … You ditch all other means of navigation. … You have a richer view of the changing world around you. … You skip the hotel room Spectravision. In a shocking turn of events, the TV remote has sat untended on the bureau, because no one wants to watch TV. …”

Check it out!

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• From texting to apps, using cell phones for health
• 4G Helps Put Food on the Table
• Pay Cheques Into Bank Accounts with a Camera Phone
• Clinicians Able to View Top Medical Procedures From Mobile Devices
• Farmers to get rice-growing advice via text messages
• Google Open Spot alerts Android users to freed parking spaces
• Surgeons connect with iPhone 4’s FaceTime videoconferencing app
• Cell phones help with inner-city diabetes management, but long-term prospects uncertain
• Travel Photo Guides: an app to help you take great photos in our national parks
• Virtual Vehicle Company: Unlocking Green Car Data With Cell Phones

Standard disclaimer: don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out.)

• EPI Life phone sports ECG function, can let doctors know if you’re not gonna make it
• Citi launches location-based mobile shopper app
• Iran Sends Warning SMS Messages To Potential Protestors
• Mobile Phone Personalises Espresso Machines
• Windows Phone 7’s bus tracker app looks incredibly useful
• iCampaigning? Candidates turning to phone apps
• Neiman Marcus to be completely mobile by fall
• MIT’s Android optometry app could help you stop squinting all the time
• 40% of App Owners Use Them When Making Shopping Decisions
• Partners study shows higher med adherence with ’smart’ pill bottles
• Use remote monitoring for prevention, says West Wireless and Scripps leader Topol