Looking back this now seems antiquated. The novelty of the iphone replacing an expensive medical device. Who would have thought! In this case it was the humble stethoscope - a device normnally costing $100+ being disrupted by a $1.19 app. And no distribution costs or stock and warehousing to worry about.
The sheer number of apps appearing is quite extraordinary. [...]

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For many thinking that ehealth will the domain of those in the medical industry - take note.
Jawbone, the US based maker of bluetooth headsets is potentially about to radically shake up not just the way data is collected about our health, but also how and where this data is housed.

To add meat to this pitch, [...]

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Google has just bought Motorola mobility for $12.5billion. Which equates to one third of their cash reserves!
WOW!
So now Google makes hardware. Phones to be exact. Is the world getting a little weird or what?
Maybe they know something we don’t? Maybe they think they know something nobody else knows?
Maybe they think they know something, but actually [...]

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We love Apps.
One of the core reasons, and there are many, is that Apps are in essence single function solutions. An App focuses only on doing one job, or group of related jobs. Importantly, it does so in the most economical and simplest fashion. As a result , no over engineering, no complexity, no huge [...]

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If you thought the ipad, iphone, ipod weren’t ubiquitous enough, get ready for icloud. This latest development from Apple, and let’s face it, it’s really just repackaging existing ideas into the Apple format (something we note, that Apple  excel  at!) will really change the world as we know it.
Now that’s a big claim i hear you say. But the long [...]

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Did you ever buy a Polaroid instant camera?
Probably.
If you did, and many did, you probably marvelled at the film and the organic process involved in taking pictures.
You weren’t the only one. Polaroid film also gained a massive following amongst professional and amateur photographers who valued its unique characteristics. Specifically they loved the freedom the film [...]

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Apple is using its iphone to take on Nintendo, Sony Playstation and the Xbox

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There has been a lot of press about the commodity boom and how it’s the saving grace for the Australian economy. And for the vast majority of people out there, the rising prices of ‘commodities’ can often seem a nebulous and intangible issue - an issue that grabs a few seconds in the business section [...]

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The launch of the recent Apple 3G iphone has captured all the headlines with analysts, critics and the media all lavishing praise and predicting an avalanche of sales.
However, only 12 months ago GPS devices such as the Navman, etc. were the next big thing. But not everything is looking so cherry ripe for GPS devices [...]

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An article by John Davidson from Australian Financial Review last year laments the somewhat surprising decline in sales of compact digital cameras, with both volume and value in 2006 down from 2005 figures. And GfK researcher Derek Nash believes it is a maturing market with 7 million cameras across Australia and many people on to [...]

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