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The market for activity tracking devices has proved a difficult one. One of the major fitness device manufacturers, Jawbone, has recently announced a layoff of 15% of its staff. Fitbit, the market leader…
The OECD has this week released a report of their evaluation of the quality of Australian health care. The good news is that Australia has the 6th highest life expectancy of OECD countries with its residents…
Facebook has been ordered by a Belgian court to stop tracking non-Facebook users when they visit the Facebook site. Facebook has been given 48 hours to stop the tracking or face possible fines of up to…
Computer game publisher Activision Blizzard has this week announced that they intend to buy King Digital, the makers of “Candy Crush Saga”, for US $5.9 billion. Unlike competitors like Zynga, King Digital…
Apple has removed 250 apps from its app store because they were secretly stealing Apple users’ account and device identifiers to Chinese advertiser Youmi. The developers of the apps were unaware that this…
A US federal court has found that Apple infringed a patent held by the patenting arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The patent describes a mechanism that could be used in speeding up processors…
The heart rate measurement feature in the Apple Watch was intended as an aid to those using the device during exercise sessions. For a teenage boy it proved a lifesaver as a high heart rate reading prompted…
According to Microsoft, the future of work hinges on the sorts of collaboration that come from using a package of software like Microsoft Office. This has been especially embodied in its latest version…
Being overweight and inactive are two of the major causes of chronic diseases suffered by 50% of US adults. In 2012, the direct costs of diabetes in the US was estimated at being US $176 billion. At the…
The OECD has just given the world an F when it comes to using computers to improve educational outcomes in schools and to give teenagers the digital skills they will increasingly need in life. In a report…