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Archives: Communication Technology
Your Cell Carrier Backs Up Your Phone Numbers and Contacts…For the Times When the Phone…Isn’t Where?
News/Features
Just when you thought every name and phone number you had was gone….to the rescue may come your cell phone carrier.
Only if you are loyal, however. They don’t, says this story, help you recover this information if you are leaving them.
We are cell phone accidents waiting to happen, in airports, kitchens, offices, washrooms….if there is [...]
Topics: Communication Technology, Friends & Families, News
You Have Your Landline, Your Cell Phone Contract or Your Spy/Mobster/Drug Dealer Pay-As-You-Go Phone…Which One Is Best for You?
News
This story about a faster-growing, but not altogther new, trend in cell phone use—-pay-as-you-go phones versus contracts.
Pay-as-you-go phones are much cheaper.
This report also mentions one excellent resource for figuring out what may be best for your calling needs.
BillShrink provides a free analysis of consumers’ cellphone bills. Based on that review, it then can recommend cheaper [...]
Topics: Communication Technology, Friends & Families, News
All May Not Be Lost…Tech Tips for Those Times When Little Tricks Might Save the Day
Way back when PCs were brand new, tech people taught me one rule. “No matter what, any time your computer acts weird, turn it off, count to 10 and turn it back on.”
Topics: Communication Technology, Focus
My Cell Phone, Myself…
News
Cell phone news is important to patients and the people who are going with them or checking on them.
Being sick is a job, as we often note, and cell phones help patients, friends and families to find out what’s going on as it is happening. Being one of the people the patient counts on is [...]
A Criminal “Worm” Attacking Computers? Yes, But Internet’s White Hats Are Working To Get Them Cornerned for Now
News
Today’s opinion article from the New York Times explains why we need a new Internet, one which is more like a gated community—-those who live there give up anonymity and some freedoms in return for enhanced security. The Internet of today was built to optimize interactivity, long before anyone could imagine the uses to which [...]
Topics: Communication Technology, News
Salmonella Update: Consensus Emerging on How to Fix the FDA
News
A consensus is emerging about how to update the law governing food safety, how to bring the agency into the 21st century and how to keep consumers safer.
The investigation of the investigators is bringing to light many ways to improve the Food and Drug Administration, who, as one legislator notes, has good people but lacks [...]
Topics: Communication Technology, Friends & Families, News
Yes, We DO Need a New Internet and Fast…A”Pearl Harbor” of the Internet Is More Than Possible
News/Commentary
This article makes a powerful case for a “new” Internet, likening the one we have to being a potential “Pearl Harbor” in the making.
Since you are here, you are an Internet user, and likely one who spends a fair amount of time online.
Much of the concern patient privacy advocates have had about electronic medical records [...]
Topics: Communication Technology, News
One More Step for An Up-to-Date Record for Chronically Ill Patients
News
Right now, the percentage of patients were are monitored “remotely” is not all that big.
That will change as soon as the technology permits.
As this story notes, an adult child could check on a parent living alone with this system. A doctor can check blood sugar levels of diabetic patients.
There is plenty to like about this.
Patient [...]
Topics: Communication Technology, News
Unusual Computer Virus Invading Systems All Over the World…Purpose of It Not Clear
News
Since you are here, you likely are a regular to heavy computer user. Our readers tend to be checking in here while at work or when they are ending a long day at 1 a.m. You are busy people.
This item is about what appears to be a more-than-usual computer virus.
While there is nothing for us [...]
Topics: Communication Technology
Talking Scale Helps Heart Patient Stay Out of Hospital and Feeling the Best He Can
News/Commentary
By Cheree Cleghorn, Editor
If you looked at the bathroom scale, it would appear sleek, providing no hint of how much information it takes in and transmits daily to tele-nurses who track patients and their symptoms.
It is a talking scale.
I have a family member who is a heart failure patient. He uses this talking scale.
Breathlessness, feeling [...]
Topics: Communication Technology, Friends & Families, News
