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MS Open Tech Cures Asynchronous Spaghetti Code Disease
Open sourcing of Reactive Extensions (Rx) to provide a common interface for cloud apps managing data from diverse sources Read More »
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NASA Launches Next Space Apps Challenge
International competition brings together developers from around the world to create software, hardware and visualization tools for space exploration missions. Read More »
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NHS Hack Weekend - Geeks Who Love The NHS
NHS Hack weekends are driven by Ross Jones and Dr Carl Jones, collectively known as Open Health Care, both committed to producing high quality software that improves health outcomes. Borne out of a similar extremely successful event in London, these hack days bring together software developers and coders with doctors, health care leaders and practitioners to create disruptive solutions to problems in healthcare services. Read More »
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Officials, Industry Preparing For More Mobile Government
[Steven VanRoekel is] now spearheading an effort to modernize the government’s technology, pushing to make more information available to citizens and allow its employees to do more work on the go. But moving the federal government to tablets, smartphones and applications isn’t as simple as signing a cellphone contract or building a 99-cent app. Read More »
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ONC Announces Winners of Blue Button + Challenge
The winner of ONC’s Blue Button Co-Design Challenge, the third challenge this year, is GenieMD! What was the focus of this Blue Button Challenge? This Challenge tasked developers with creating apps that implement and use Blue Button + functionality to address one of several patient problems. [...]
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One Small Step For NASA, One Giant Leap For Open Source
"Space: the final frontier." These may be the opening words of the Star Trek series so loved by geeks far and wide, but lately, they've been on the tip of more Linux bloggers' tongues than ever. Why? Because Linux recently scored a major victory some 230 miles up in the sky... Read More »
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Open-Source E-Bike Uses Smartphone As On-Board Computer
Urban mobility startup Velo is hoping to make an open-source computer-aided e-bike available to road users in the form of the Velo-1. Read More »
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Panasonic To Adopt Mozilla Firefox OS Open Platform For Next Generation Smart TVs
Mozilla has scored another win in its efforts to expand its Firefox Os with the announcement that it is joining with Panasonic to bring Firefox to the next generation of smart TVs. Read More »
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Parrish Medical Center Launches Mobile Health Application For Apple And Android Devices
Medical Center has launched a free mobile app with information and tools needed to manage day-to-day health. Read More »
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Q and A: What Feds Can Learn From Cities' Open Data Experiences
Cities hold the largest share of government data in the U.S., covering everything from liquor licenses to teacher performance reviews, but only a handful of cities have released that data to outside researchers and app developers. Read More »
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Redefining Medicine With Apps And iPads
The history of medicine is defined by advances born of bioscience. But never before has it been driven to this degree by digital technology... Read More »
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Review: Figure1 Clinical Image Sharing App For iPhone (VIDEO)
Figure1 is a free iOS app (Android to come) debuting today at the Apple app store that hopes to be a “crowdsourced medical image library that healthcare professionals can use to share, rank, and discuss images.” [...] Read More »
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Rwanda: Smartphones Still Not Fully Exploited in Rwanda
Siri has limitations [in Rwanda]...With increased penetration of smartphones, thanks to the fact that relatively cheap models are now becoming available, it is a pity and a nuisance that some of these quite useful apps are not available. And it can be pretty basic, too. iPhone owners, for example, will know the frustration that when one of their contacts sends them an SMS, what appears on the screen will be the number of that person, not his name - what is known as "ID mismatch."
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SafetyData.gov Review: Long On Text, Short On Data Tables
"The liberation of government datasets is important in itself, but data are truly powerful when used in the development of informative apps." So proclaimed Todd Park, Brian Forde and Jo Strang in a recent White House Blog, Safety Data Jam connects Tech Innovators with Public Safety Officers. Read More »
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Secret Service Explores A Unified System To Manage Smartphones, Tablets
The Secret Service is considering adopting a mobile device management system and apps store to better handle employee smartphones and tablets running a variety of operating systems, including BlackBerry, Android, iOS and Windows 8, according to a request for information agency officials posted Thursday. Read More »
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