Technology for well being: Kenya got mobile app for health care

Kenya, country where humans needs to fight keeping away themselves from rapidly spreading diseases like Malaria, tuberculosis, HIV and many more, are back with optimal use of technology to get rapid improvement in the Human Development Index.  Stephen Kyalo and Keziah Mumo are two innovators for the Health care mobile application. This application was promoted by European Capitalist with around $ 100,000.

Report says, Kenya has total population of 41 million and to serve them and keep them healthy there are only 7 thousand doctors. Another figure which was appealing was, 20 million people in Kenya use cell phone. Thus it was good idea of Stephen and Keziah to launch a health care application. Till now, there are 26500 downloads and almost 15000 are active user of this application. Download rate is increasing approximately by 5000 per week at least. This application bridges the gap between patient and doctor. It charges 2 cents for minute of the consultation which is not very costly for financially challenged people in Kenya. But again this is not charged by the developers but by the telecom service provider Safaricom. Shimba technologies the developers of application will be start fetching the revenue by either premium services or from the doctors up to some extent. Doctors can be charged $ 10 for getting user base of this application.

At the end this is win-win-win situation for Kenyans, Doctors and Telecom as well as developer companies. Kenya being an African country, is struggling to improve health indices and innovations like this will surely help government also for betterment of people.

MagnetU: Social Networking comes to Real Street from fake Internet

It has been a high time when technology was to come up with something very new in the field of social networking. facebooking or tweet is enough so it’s time to be realistic. Now when you will be working, shopping in malls, walking through streets, waiting for the bus or waiting for date, suddenly you’re mobile TINGS, and MagnetU device have found someone who is into your area of interest. MagnetU will share your social desires with the world by proximity and will bring you more close to people alike or suitable to you.  Won't it fascinate you? Let see how it will be possible.

What is MagnetU?

Yaron Marodi, a dream-weaver of MagnetU with Dr. Pichas Ziv founded the company to bring Yaron’s dream to reality. First version of MagnetU was available in May 2010. Still the full fledge production and distribution is expected in early months of 2012. MagnetU is a device equal to size of small music player. This device will find people who come under your area of interest in your surroundings. It is very handy small device which you can wear. It will be a bridge between your online social networking and real life. This can prove to be a new dawn for realistic social networking concept. Many people have coined word “Network Society” or “Network Economy” and this will be an important step taking this Tech savvy world towards that.

How MagnetU works?

MagnetU device is mandatory for getting into this new wave. You need to purchase a device which will cost you $24. You will then populate your social desires on www.magnetu.com. You can integrate your facebook and twitter with MagnetU profile. You make you profile based on your interests, hobbies, professional field, business activities and etc. So you can create your image in your profile. Now it will work like proximity sensors, and search for people around you physically with help of MagnetU device. Once you meet the person, you can tap your MagnetU with searched  MagnetU, which will make you best friend forever adding him/her in facebook friend list and following on twitter automatically because you must have configured profile of facebook and twitter  with MagnetU.

What are prospect and Limitation of MagnetU?

People are coming closer round the globe. This will pave the way for converting this society in to Network society. Concept is very innovative in itself, which may turn into a big success for the company and redefine the social network with the essence of reality. This can prove very advantageous from the view point of business development. Again changing trend of the world is not as easy as I mentioned here. Challenges like world wide acceptance considering the fact that it cost $24 per individual. It was very easy and free to get into social network till now. MagnetU will need acceptance in huge numbers because it will be not so useful probably if very less number of people will use it. Marketing of product will be very crucial part in making this concept successful. Technology is ever unstoppable.

Now YouTube is not the only one: Yahoo! Videos: Say, No to piracy!!!

India has always advantage of huge consumption in any market. Online video market is also one of them which have experienced exceptional growth over past 2 years in India. Report say more than approximately 30 million individuals use to see online video in India in a month. Average views by one user are around 60 videos.

As a part of its history, Yahoo! Video was actually launched in Year 2006. It was platform where anyone can upload video same as YouTube. But later on, in 2008, Yahoo started giving importance to the Videos which are owned by them. Again in 2011, Yahoo restricted uploading of video by user and only Yahoo! owned videos were available on the site.

There are in total 35 media producer who have partnered this venture. According Yahoo, this is the great move to encourage viewers to get away from extreme piracy going on in Online-video market. The partnered will provide original contents and it will be absolutely free for end viewers. Besides stopping piracy, it is great for end viewers because being it is original content, the quality would be better than the pirated one.
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Facebook Phone: Now it’s easier for Facebook freaks

It was announced in end of November 2011, that facebook is going to launch a phone. They are in to collaboration with HTC to design and manufacture this phone. It is assumed that this phone will be on Android platform and have extensive support for HTML5. Still facebook have shared very limited details about the project and refused to comment on the news which gets aired as rumours. It is also assumed that phone will be launched in the market not before year and a half.

Having the advantage of reaching around 800 million users, and also getting itself installed on almost every smartphone, facebook has a greater edge over other companies in launching its own phone. Phone from facebook will be very user friendly for tons of facebook freaks. But seeing on the other side of scenario, facebook will have equal challenges to make this product successful. facebook is just an application installed in the smartphones and other than that smartphones have lot of duties to do for its user like mailing, sharing media and other functionalities. facebook phone should also be very user friendly from all this aspects which are basic for any normal smart-phones at least. Otherwise there will be very less number of user who is actually willing to compromise on this functionality for getting betterment on facebook integration and functionalities.

Experts say that facebook has challenges to convince user to switch from their smartphones to facebook phone. Phone by facebook may not be so appealing for users if it is just based on Android. Facebook should come up with either its own operating system or else can get everything done by HTML5. This may save their efforts and money by using existing technologies rather than going for their own operating system. But still, I personally have high expectation from the cellular device we can name as smartphone by facebook.