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Diabetic Tester That Talks to iPhones and Doctors

Walt Mossberg 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.

Sickweather Says Social Data Analysis Has Already Detected Two Illness Outbreaks

Liz Gannes in News on December 6, 2011 at 12:20 pm PT

Sickweather, a start-up that’s attempting to forecast illness outbreaks by tracking Facebook and Twitter updates, says its method might have already worked.

Fetchnotes Wants to Get Your “To Do” List Out of Your Head

Drake Martinet in Mobile on November 5, 2011 at 10:00 am PT

Start-up Fetchnotes is trying to use an armload of APIs to build a mainline between your real brain and the one you keep on the Internet.

Web Pans Google’s Gmail App for iPhone (Updated: “Googla Culpa”)

Ina Fried in Mobile on November 2, 2011 at 10:45 am PT

Google on Wednesday released a native Gmail client for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. However, the app was quickly panned by a number of techies.

Gigwalk Allows iPhone Owners to Stumble Into Part-Time Work

Ina Fried in Mobile on May 4, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

The idea of using the Internet to parse out small jobs is not new. But a new crop of businesses has popped up that use the iPhone to help people find and perform small tasks near them.

Travel Search Gets Granular With Room 77

Liz Gannes in Social on February 24, 2011 at 9:07 am PT

If you’re really serious about travel, you don’t just want the best hotel, you also want the best hotel room. A new start-up called Room 77 is focusing on exactly that detail.

Putting Social to Work: Sustainable Seafood Mapping

Liz Gannes in Social on December 15, 2010 at 7:00 pm PT

In the new Seafood Watch app from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, a feature called “Project FishMap” allows users to tag restaurants and markets across the United States to note what specific sustainable seafood is offered, and earn (of course!) virtual badges for their contributions.

Myspace Modernizes Mobile Site and App

Liz Gannes in Social on November 30, 2010 at 12:13 pm PT

Remember when there was a whole phone–in fact a whole carrier–oriented around the booming social network Myspace? Lately, Myspace’s mobile offerings have been more basic and sparsely updated, but today the company announced a makeover.

Cartoonist: Apple Backs Down After Denying iPhone App

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 16, 2010 at 8:04 am PT

The cartoonist who won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning this week says Apple has asked him to resubmit an iPhone app that it earlier rejected because it “ridicules public figures.” Mark Fiore, who won the prize for animations that ran on SFGate.com, submitted an iPhone app to Apple last year and received an email informing him that his application had been denied, according to a post by Laura McGann at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab.

Sesame Bringing E-Books to the iPhone

Lauren Goode, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 22, 2009 at 12:33 pm PT

Two weeks after Sesame Workshop said it would launch a line of digital books for children two to six years old, the nonprofit organization has launched an iPhone app that will let kids read Sesame books on a smartphone while listening to a recording of their parents’ voice reading along.