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Photos: Adidas, Samsung phone--it's your trainer calling

Cell phones take another step toward controlling your life with a personal-trainer phone from Adidas and Samsung. by Andy Smith

Tags: product photos, cell phone, health, fitness

Image galleries 2008-03-13

Three wireless fitness devices to help shed pounds and blood pressure

What follows is a tale of my effort to get back in shape and the wireless fitness gear that I purchased to help me get there. continued below.... Video: To see a video of the wireless gear David ended up buying and how it works on his bike...

Tags: Wired &, Wireless, Video, Personal Technology, Mobile, General, Entertainment

Blog posts 2007-05-04

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Apple iPhone 3G launch roundup

"I have an iPhone... and you don't!" I decided (ok, my financial advisor, aka spouse, decided for me) to skip the iPhone 3G frenzy this morning and just sit back and watch the fun. For...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-07-11

Ticking bombs in enterprise land

I believe the enterprise software industry is heading for major problems. It started when I read Francine McKenna  where she talks about what she sees as a doomsday scenario for at least one of the Big Four audit businesses. Francine's focus is on questioning the effectiveness of current methods for...

Tags: Software, Audit, Francine, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-07

SmartTools (exe)

SmartTools was planned for a complete check and management of the fitness-wellness clubs. At the same time the smaller fitness clubs can apply to the workplaces, employees' checking, to increase of their income and the optimization of marketing actions. The most important viewpoint was the easy manageability at the time...

Tags: Club, Warex, Disaster Recovery, Marketing Research, Backups, Data Management, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-07-03

Fitness Frenzy (exe)

Help Vicki become the ultimate trainer. You get to help your gym's customers get fit and feel fantastic. Work with all sorts of people - from newbie joggers to muscle-bound weight lifters. Teach them which machines to use and how to work out to reach their ultimate goals. A great...

Tags: SpinTop Games, Fitness Trainer, Strategy, Management

Software downloads 2008-07-02

Playing a video game? No, it's health therapy

Video games are known to improve hand-eye coordination but now they're being used to help someone quit smoking or lose weight. Raleigh, North Carolina--Video games are known to improve hand-eye coordination but can they help someone quit smoking or lose weight? Hot on the heels...

Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Health Care, Video Game, Video, Therapy, Nintendo Wii, Games, Personal Technology, Reuters, video games, health, Nintendo, Wii

News items 2008-06-26

Google reports cause of App Engine failure

Google reports cause of App Engine failureIt's PREVIEW RELEASEThere are plenty of better reasons to question cloud computing than an preview release of a free service crashing...This is just like Airplanes. Airplanes are much less likely to crash than acar, and you are about 10x safer in an airplane than...

Tags: beta, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-20

(Images: Futuristic PCs trump the beige box)

(Images: Futuristic PCs trump the beige box)Um......Napkin PC?...NO.RE: (Images: Futuristic PCs trump the beige box)The napkin computer is nothing more than a stack of slate displays in a holder. Instead of a technical bent you might have seen, on say Star Trek, it's a lot more 20th century and home...

Tags: Desktops, PC, Backpacker

Discussion threads 2008-06-20

Images: Futuristic PCs trump the beige box

Winners of Microsoft-sponsored Next-Gen PC Design Competition dream up concepts that tap into niches like travel, sports, fitness, cooking, and children. by CNET News.com

Tags: PC, Winner, Desktops, Hardware, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-06-18

Gerontologists see something worse than death

Gerontologists see something worse than deaththe worst of allis being poor and unable to work for a decent wage.When the retirement age is raised to the highest in the world, who would hire some cripple and sick men or women on a decent wage.It appears that in order to 'manage'...

Tags: Gender and diversity, Benefits, payroll solutions, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Strom Thurmond, decent wage, retirement age, Gerontologists, salary, John Glenn

Discussion threads 2008-06-17

Sony MDR-AS20J Active Headphones

Although the headphone market continues to burgeon with new models, it can be surprisingly tough to find a decent, fitness-friendly pair. A few companies, such as Sennheiser, have stepped up to the plate with sport-branded earphones that feature design attributes meant to keep them secured on the head during activity....

Tags: cord, Sony MDR-AS20J, Active Headphones, MDR-AS20Js, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2008-06-10

Women's Guide to Fitness (zip)

The Women's Guide to Fitness is a helpful read for any of today's busy women who want to stay fit, but can't find the time. This guide covers topics ranging from how to set up a home gym, to eating right on the go, to finding a workout partner to...

Tags: Women, Wameed, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources

Software downloads 2008-06-05

Google's turf expands 42.2 acres

Google's campus just expanded dramatically. NASA and Google on Wednesday announced a 40-year deal where Google will lease 42.2 acres from the space agency to build 1.2 million square feet of offices and R&D facilities. The facilities will be built on the NASA Research Park at Ames....

Tags: Google Inc., NASA, Research & Development, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Sony MDR-AS30G Active Headphones

Although the headphone market continues to burgeon with new models, it can be surprisingly tough to find a decent, fitness-friendly pair. A few companies, such as Sennheiser, have stepped up to the plate with sport-branded earphones, which feature design attributes meant to keep them secured on the head during activity....

Tags: Performance management, Sony Corp., earphone, MDR-AS30G, neckband, Active Headphones, headphone

Product reviews 2008-05-28

Top brands for product placement on broadcast TV in Q1 2008

Brand Product Category Total # Occurrences Coca-Cola Soft Drinks Soft Drinks 2,380 24 Hour Fitness Centers-Clubs Fitness Centers-Clubs 1,545 Pussycat Dolls Lounge Nightclubs Nightclubs 479 Freemotion Fitness Exercise Equipment Exercise Equipment 396 Precor Exercise Equipment Exercise Equipment...

Tags: Brand, SYS, Equipment, TV, Branding, Food & Beverage, Marketing, Manufacturing, NB

Blog posts 2008-05-26

AMA says we all need a blood pressure monitor

AMA says we all need a blood pressure monitorI'm not even 30 yetAnd have high blood pressure. I've cut down drastically on Caffiene and already quit smoking a year ago, so I'm on the right path. I have three young kids so workouts are hard to schedule. That's my...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, High Blood Pressure, blood pressure, blood pressure monitor, AMA, food, workout, health care

Discussion threads 2008-05-23

Ready for the iProd?

I felt certain this was an April Fool's joke, but apparently there's a real patent application behind it. (Picture from New Scientist.) Call it the iProd. The idea is you load it with answers to health-related questions, which the device uses to create a...

Tags: Monitor, Health Care, Monitors & Displays, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Hardware, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-16

XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?

XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?Who are we kidding?Windows will slowly but surely edge out Linux in this market. Let us not kid ourselves here.Can you imagine a Linux person developing applications for the kids. There is no challenge there - developing applications for 3rd world children...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, OLPC Project, Knowing Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-16

Introduction to BIT

This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...

Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-16