Over the next 18 months more than 1,800 [iPads] will be distributed to the hospital’s physicians allowing them to move away from paper-based notes, prescriptions and medical documents.
via Ottawa Hospital boss urges staff to ‘be bold … go big’.
Perhaps this goes without saying, but iPad will be big in healthcare.
IFPI said that global sales of music dropped 7.2% to $17 billion for all of 2009. Late last week, Apple reported $13.5 billion in revenue for the first quarter of the year.
Why does anybody still care about music as a business?
Like an insurgency, PowerPoint has crept into the daily lives of military commanders and reached the level of near obsession. The amount of time expended on PowerPoint… has made it a running joke in the Pentagon and in Iraq and Afghanistan.
via Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War – PowerPoint – NYTimes.com.
Reminds me of PowerPoint Palace. “It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control.”
But what’s the alternative? Writing complete sentences? Does anyone compose those anymore? Does anyone read anymore?
The longest trip so far was from Oslo to Paris
via Stranded in Oslo, John Cleese takes taxi to Brussels: media – Yahoo! News.
Demand for Apple’s newly upgraded line of MacBook Pro notebooks was strong on the first day, with scattered reports of the low-end 13-inch model selling out in some retail locations
via AppleInsider | New MacBook Pros off to strong start, 13-inch model selling out.
My reading of this new language is that cross-compilers, such as the Flash-to-iPhone compiler in Adobe’s upcoming Flash Professional CS5 release, are prohibited. This also bans apps compiled using MonoTouch — a tool that compiles C# and .NET apps to the iPhone. It’s unclear what this means for tools like Titanium and PhoneGap, which let developers write JavaScript code that runs in WebKit inside a native iPhone app wrapper. They might be OK. The folks at Appcelerator realize, though, that they might be out of bounds with Titanium. Ansca’s Corona SDK, which lets you write iPhone apps using Lua, strikes me as out of bounds.
via Daring Fireball: New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler.
Nota bene: Apple will release its own app front end that allows a simpler development environment (than XCode).
yet when I eventually got my hands on one, I discovered that one doesn’t relate to it as a “tool”; the experience is closer to one’s relationship with a person or an animal.
via Apple’s iPad: The Mothership Prepares for Launch – TIME.
Can’t wait.
