Ensequence secures $26 million to help accelerate the Future of TV — from marketwatch.com
NEW YORK, May 10, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Ensequence, a leader in transforming TV into a more interactive and engaging experience, has secured commitments for a $25,994,279 investment that will help accelerate its expansion into mobile and connected TV.
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We can begin to see why educational apps are on deck here…
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Excerpt from Welcome to the Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE blog:
Well, for most of us, health is something we don’t bother with… until we don’t have it. Imagine this scenario:
It’s 3 a.m. Your child is crying and screaming about an earache that has gotten progressively worse all day. Her temperature has been steadily rising and is now at 103°. What do you do now? Head to the hospital? Take her to a pediatrician? Get some Advil and wait it out? But would that interfere with a medication that she might get later at the ER or Urgent Care?
By the way, she is still crying while you are trying to figure this out.
Imagine an alternate universe, one where you take a small sample of her saliva and insert it into an attached sensor on your smartphone. There it gets analyzed, and – bing – on your 3×5-inch screen, it reassures you by telling you:
“Sadie has another ear infection. Please give her some Ibuprofen, because she may react to the aspirin like she did last time this happened in August. The nearest Walgreen’s is two blocks away, and has a prescription filled for a topical antibiotic that should begin to address symptoms within three hours. Her pediatrician has an appointment available tomorrow at 3 p.m. Would you like me to schedule you for this time?”
We aren’t there quite yet, but at X PRIZE we see a day when we soon will be. In this competition, we are creating this future by launching a $10 million competition that will ask to teams to accurately and quickly diagnose 15 common and important diseases without the input or oversight of a health professional. So that in the future we may not need a doctor, or an ER room, or not even have to wait until we are sick to get health information and health care.
Health information can be now, it can be mobile, and it can be controlled by you.
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Global Smart TV market worth $265 billion by 2016 — from appmarket.tv by Richard Kastelein
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You can bet educational apps will be part of these emerging technologies. My take on this is that:
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What is Siri? — from Apple.com
Siri is the intelligent personal assistant that helps you get things done just by asking. It allows you to use your voice to send messages, schedule meetings, place phone calls, and more. But Siri isn’t like traditional voice recognition software that requires you to remember keywords and speak specific commands. Siri understands your natural speech, and it asks you questions if it needs more information to complete a task. Siri uses the processing power of the dual-core A5 chip in iPhone 4S, and it uses 3G and Wi-Fi networks to communicate rapidly with Apple’s data centers. So it can quickly understand what you say and what you’re asking for, then quickly return a response. Siri is currently in beta and we’ll continue to improve it over time.
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Voice Control Will Disrupt Living Room Electronics — from techpinions.com by Patrick Moorhead
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In what seems to be a routine in high-tech journalism and social media now is to speculate on what Apple will do next. The latest and greatest rumor is that Apple will develop an HDTV set. I wrote back in September that Apple should build a TV given the lousy experience and Apple’s ability to fix big user challenges. What hasn’t been talked about a lot is why voice command and control makes so much sense in home electronics and why it will dominate the living room. Its all about the content.
What we learned in 2011 – you’re going mobile — from Blackboard blogs » Next Level Learning by Kevin Alansky
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What stood out after looking at this year’s trends could be summarized in a single word: mobile.
Mobile technologies are not only increasingly important in our daily lives, but are also playing a more substantial role in workplace training and education. Here are just a few examples of mobile developments in various professional working and learning environments this year…
My thanks to Mr. Steven Chevalia for the resource
