7 posts and columns on doctor

Diabetic Tester That Talks to iPhones and Doctors

in Personal Technology on January 4 at 6:10 pm PT

Telcare’s new diabetes meter offers built-in wireless technology to transmit readings to an online database.
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For Yahoo (And Me, Too), Time Is Brain

in News on November 23, 2011 at 2:38 pm PT

Yahoo has about 30 working days to make what has to be a complex and multiparty deal, in an effort that is akin to herding cats.
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Déjà Vu: Facebook's Questionable Stock Hijinks Feels Like Winklevii 2.0

in News on January 4, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s clear intent to keep the lid on Facebook tight–with no disclosure about the details of the financial performance and other pertinent information a public offering would require be disclosed–is clearly becoming a nettlesome issue for the company. But while that effort at preserving secrecy by staying private has resulted in little more than cute media guessing games about a possible IPO until now, the social networking giant’s most recent machinations are too clever by a half.

Almost Famous: Ben Zotto of Cocoa Box Design

in News on May 28, 2010 at 12:05 pm PT

This week, we coffee’d at Coupa Cafe on the Stanford University campus to interview Ben Zotto. He’s the mind behind Cocoa Box Design, the app company responsible for Penultimate, a sleeper hit at the iPad App Store. Ben is developing popular software that is just a little outside of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s vision for his “magical” device. That doesn’t seem to bother Zotto though.

Liveblogging Facebook's F8: Behind the 8-Ball on a Stairway to Heaven!

in News on April 21, 2010 at 10:10 am PT

So, BoomTown was in the Design Center Concourse in San Francisco for Facebook’s f8 developers conference. There was a giant logo of an 8-ball looming over it all, which suggested a questioning mood. Not at all! Lots of stuff was announced, including ventures with partners like Microsoft.

Viral Video: A "Twilight" Spoof With an Actual "Twilight" Star

in News on November 29, 2009 at 10:49 pm PT

There has been plenty of online hay made over the latest of the “Twilight” movies, “New Moon,” which has turned out to be a blockbuster for Hollywood over the last two weekends, pulling in $474 million worldwide. What’s unusual about this spoof of the hit series, from “Attack of the Show,” is that it stars Peter Facinelli, who plays “Twilight” paterfamilias vampire Carlisle Cullen.
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Recommended by One in Ten Doctors: The iPhone

in News on April 7, 2009 at 6:21 am PT

When Apple first started promoting applications for the iPhone, CEO Steve Jobs touted physician reference guides and other medical programs as an important category of software for the device. At least a tenth of the doctors in the U.S. concur with that view.