Measuring Blood Pressure With an iPhone

The smartphone is already the Swiss Army knife of the digital age, replacing the need for alarm clocks, GPS units and even digital cameras with the flick of a finger.

Can it do the same for home medical devices?

On Wednesday night, during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, iHealth Labs, a start-up in Mountain View, Calif., unveiled the iHealth Blood Pressure Dock, an attachment for iOS devices that can measure and record heart rate and blood pressure.

The kit, which costs $100, comes with a blood pressure cuff and a battery-powered dock that doubles as a charging station for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The hardware is available for sale in Apple retail stores, Apple.com and on the company’s Web site. The kit also requires a mobile application to log the results, which is available for free through iTunes.

Dr. Andrew Brandeis, a practicing doctor in San Francisco and a medical consultant and spokesman for the iHealth, said that although the device is primarily aimed at people with hypertension or other chronic health conditions, it can also be helpful for anyone trying to live a healthier life.

“I can give someone a pill for their blood pressure, but what I really want to do is educate them about their habits that cause high blood pressure,” he said. “If you can see your blood pressure is going up, you can try to get an idea about what you’re doing that is affecting it. You start to see correlations between your blood pressure and your life.”

The biggest advantage to those who buy iHealth’s blood pressure system instead of a stand-alone machine, which is much cheaper to purchase, is that it will be incorporated into a patient’s daily routine of waking up and checking their cellphone, the company says.

“You charge your device at night and when you wake up, the blood pressure cuff is sitting right there next to it,” he said.

Taking daily readings at home may also offer more accurate and consistent results than those taken at a doctor’s office, he said.

“White coat syndrome is a term used for what happens when patients come in to see the doctor,” he said. “They are stressed out because they hate going to the doctor and their blood pressure is higher. But if you take it at home, before your coffee and e-mail, get a much more accurate reading.”

Patients can also share their results with a physician, either via e-mail or by showing them the phone or iPad with the data on it during their next doctor visit.

The application can also push readings to Twitter and Facebook as a way to generate positive reinforcement about good readings among a user’s social network, Dr. Brandeis said.

Eventually, the company hopes to also release other home health kits, including a blood glucose monitor and a connected scale.

“This is a doorway to an entire new ecosystem of self-monitoring and gleaning health information about yourself,” said Dr. Brandeis.

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Skype's partner says it is legal in China

Skype's partner in China, TOM Group, said the web-based calling service is complying with Chinese law, even as a crackdown on illegal Internet telephone providers could complicate Skype's operations in the country.

The comments from TOM Group, which is 51 percent owned by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing, came as potential investors in Skype's planned $1 billion initial public offering year fret that any ban on Internet telephone services in China could exclude the company from of the world's largest Internet market.

"The operation of Skype in China is compliant with local laws and regulations," a TOM Group spokeswoman told Reuters on Tuesday. "Currently, it is business as usual while service provision stays normal."

The Ministry of Information and Industry Technology called in a notice on Dec. 10 for a crackdown "on illegal VoIP telephone services" and said it was collecting evidence for legal cases against them. It did not identify any companies.

While that could affect VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) services such as Skype, and privately owned UUCall and Heyyo!, analysts said it was far from clear what companies were being targeted or how strictly authorities would enforce any limits.

"Often these crackdowns are focused on the small domestic companies," said Mark Natkin, managing director of Marbridge Consulting, a Beijing-based company that advises businesses on China's telecom and IT industries. "It doesn't mean that the sky is falling.

"I don't believe that Skype is being shut down, but one never knows."

The Chinese regulator did not respond to a list of submitted questions about its announcement and its spokesman's office did not answer telephone calls.

PROTECTIONISM AT WORK?

Luxembourg-based Skype operates in China through TOM-Skype, a joint venture that began in October 2004 with the TOM Online unit of TOM Group Ltd. Skype and UUCall dominate the VoIP market in China, according to Gartner analyst Sandy Shen.

The government move appeared to be aimed at protecting three government-controlled phone carriers -- China Telecom (0728.HK), China Unicom (0762.HK) and China Mobile (0941.HK) -- which have been losing money on their long-distance businesses.

VoIP calls allow users to make international calls for much less than commercial providers, or even for free if both parties are using VoIP.

Many businesses that use VoIP services to cut down on their international telephone costs could lose access to the cheaper alternative.

"I think it would be hard for MIIT to really enforce things," said Duncan Clark, chairman of BDA Consulting, a Beijing-based technology consultancy.

"They would be depriving tens of millions of people of their cheap phone calls. They are sensitive about monopoly gouging, especially with the price sensitivities now."

"It smacks of protectionism for Chinese telcos," added Clark. "That's something I think the government is sensitive to. Sometimes they put these trial balloons out there to see the reaction."

Gartner's Shen said the only way to enforce the ban would be for the government to block access to Skype by shutting down the website, but she sees it as unlikely given that it would be politically unpopular among China's online community, at about 450 million people and growing.

In 2005, Skype was blocked in parts of China as the government sought to ban phone calls made over the Internet.

At the time, Chinese authorities permitted only China Telecom and China Netcom, which has since merged with China Unicom, to conduct pilot programmes for VoIP services in two cities each, said Kan Kaili, a professor at the Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications.

The pilot programmes never took place, however, and that could make it unlikely for authorities to enforce any ban on Skype, said Kan.

There is also the possibility that any ban could stir up memories of China's recent dispute with Google (GOOG.O).

"Whether the government will make any direct move against Skype has to be seen, because Skype is so internationally popular and there's the factor of international politics," Kan said.

"I think that the government might think twice after what happened with Google last year."

After a months-long stand-off over censorship, China finally gave Google approval in July to keep operating its Chinese search page. The case caused a row between Washington and Beijing.

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Online health info popular but often unchecked

The number of people looking for health information online is set to soar as workers return from holiday breaks, but few will check where the information comes from, according to an international survey on Tuesday.

A report by researchers at the London School of Economics (LSE) commissioned by the private healthcare firm Bupa said that with smartphones and tablet computers set to outsell personal computers by 2012, more health information is available online and there are more ways to access it than ever before.

The Bupa Health Pulse survey questioned more than 12,000 people in Australia, Brazil, Britain, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Spain and the United States and found that 81 percent of those with internet access use it to search for advice about health, medicines or medical conditions.

Russians search for health advice the most on the internet, followed by China, India, Mexico and Brazil. The French search for online health information the least, according to the survey's findings.

It also found that 68 percent of those who have access have used the internet to look for information about specific medicines and nearly 4 in 10 use it to look for other patients' experiences of a condition.

"New technologies are helping more people around the world to find out more about their health and to make better informed decisions. However, people need to make sure that the information they find will make them better, not worse," said David McDaid, a senior research fellow at the LSE.

In Britain, where Bupa predicted there would be 40 million hits on health websites this week as people make New Year's resolutions after their Christmas break, experts warned that much online health content is unchecked and people would struggle to know what to trust.

The survey found that of the 73 percent of Britons who say they go online for health information, more than six in 10 look for information about medicines and more than half of them, or 58 percent, use the information to self diagnose.

Yet only a quarter of people say they check where their online advice has come from.

"Relying on dodgy information can easily lead to people taking risks with inappropriate tests and treatments, wasting money and causing unnecessary worry," said Annabel Bentley, a medical director at Bupa.

"Equally, people may check online and dismiss serious symptoms when they should get advice from a doctor."

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Chinese website selling iPad2 cases, ordered to remove ads

Protective cases for the second generation iPad are being sold on Chinese e-commerce website Alibaba -- even before Apple has launched the new device -- and suggest the next model will have a camera.

Alibaba spokesman John Spelich told AFP on Tuesday the company had been asked to remove the listings, which showed brightly coloured silicon cases with a small hole in the back on sale for less than three dollars each.

"Shortly after we were made aware, through blog reports, of the presence of these listings, we received a legitimate take down request and we have been doing so since last week," Spelich said, without naming the complainant.

An AFP search for iPad2 cases found seven listings on Alibaba -- a trading platform for small businesses -- mostly from suppliers based in southern China who were accepting orders for a minimum 200-500 units.

Apple's iPad touchscreen tablet computer allows users to watch video, listen to music, play games, surf the Web and read electronic books, but the next model is also expected to feature a camera and USB port.

The company is predicted to launch iPad2 this year after selling more than eight million of the original devices between April, when it went on sale in the United States , and the end of September, Apple's last reporting period.

In China -- the world's biggest Internet market with 450 million users, according to the last official count, and the major producer of Apple products -- hundreds queued for the first official iPads when they were launched in the country in September.

Goldman Sachs predicts iPad sales could top 37.2 million units in 2011 and technology research firm Gartner forecasts total tablet computer sales of 55 million units this year.

Some observers had expected Apple to unveil iPad2 at the US International Consumer Electronics Show, which starts Thursday.

But the California-based company is shunning the massive electronics trade show, which attracts tens of thousands of buyers and sellers from around the world to Las Vegas.

Apple is notoriously secretive about new products but it's security system has been breached in the past.

A prototype of Apple's 4th generation iPhone turned up in Vietnam in May, a month before the gadget's global launch.

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Firefox most used web browser in Europe: StatCounter

Web browser Firefox garnered the highest market share in Europe in December, pushing Internet Explorer to the second spot, reveals a study.

"Firefox overtook Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) to become the No.1 browser in Europe in December 2010... In December, Firefox took 38.11 per cent of European market share, compared to Internet Explorer's 37.52 per cent," website analytics firm StatCounter said today.

Once the most-used browser in many countries, Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) is facing stiff competition, especially from Google's Chrome.

In March last year, European Union's competition authorities and Microsoft had agreed to allow web users in the region to choose from many web browsers.

"This is the first time that IE has been dethroned from the number one spot in a major territory. This appears to be happening because Google's Chrome is stealing share from IE while Firefox is mainly maintaining its existing share," StatCounter's CEO Aodhan Cullen said in a statement.

"We are probably seeing the impact of the agreement between European Commission competition authorities and Microsoft, to offer EU users a choice and menu of browsers from March last year," Cullen said.

In Europe, Google Chrome was in the third place with a market share of 14.58 per cent in December, data compiled by StatCounter's research arm StatCounter Global Stats showed.

The findings are based on data from a sample of over 15 billion page views per month, including those from North America, collected from a network of more than 3 million websites.

Since the beginning of March, Microsoft offered Europeans the option to choose from among 12 browsers on the more than 100 million old and new PCs that use its Windows software.

Globally, Internet Explorer's share slipped to 46.9 percent in December, while Firefox was at 30.8 percent and Google was at 14.9 percent, StatCounter said.

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Apple Mobile Operating System Still Tops Google Android

Many thought this race would be determined by the end of 2010, but as we roll into 2011 the mobile phone race is still too close to call.

According to a report released Monday by Nielsen, the market research company, Apple’s iPhone operating system is still the top mobile OS in the United States, controlling 28.6 percent of the smartphone market. Google’s Android platform is close by at 25.8 percent of the market, rising steadily as it nips at Apple’s heels.

The BlackBerry from Research In Motion, once the leader in the smartphone space, continues on its steady decline and now controls 26.1 percent of the market. In June 2010, Research In Motion was far ahead of Apple and Google with a 33 precent share.

Nielsen noted in the report that the race to own the “consumer market share is tighter than it has ever been” since the smartphone emerged as a multibillion-dollar market several years ago.

Earlier mobile reports by Nielsen noted that the smartphone market would not stabilize in the near future, as Apple, Google and RIM continued to add customers to the smartphone ranks. The latest numbers from Nielsen show that during November, 45 percent of mobile phone customers decided to buy a smartphone over a feature phone.

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Microsoft says lost Hotmail e-mails now restored

Microsoft says it has fixed the glitch that caused some Hotmail users to lose all of their e-mails.
Frantic Hotmail users posted complaints on Microsoft Corp.'s online message board over the weekend saying messages had disappeared. Spokeswoman Catherine Brooker says all the affected users now have their e-mails back.
On Saturday, Brooker said a limited number of people had been affected. Microsoft is still investigating the cause of the problem.
Microsoft's free e-mail service is the world's most popular, with 360 million users worldwide, according to the Web traffic measurement firm comScore Inc.
Microsoft's Hotmail message board contains 476 pages of complaints about lost and deleted e-mail messages that date back to early November.

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Virtualization software for Sandy Bridge

LucidLogix Technologies launched Virtu, software designed specifically to support Sandy Bridge processors in working with external GPUs.
The software can be used to balance built-in media features of the Sandy Bridge processor graphics with the off-chip DirectX 11 features of discrete GPUs, while significantly reducing the power drain of traditional entertainment desktops, the company claimed.

Called Virtu, the GPU virtualization software is able to assign tasks in real time to the best available graphics resource based on power, performance and features considerations, with no need for additional hardware. If graphics is needed for DirectX 11, high-resolution 3D gaming, the system will assign the job to the discrete GPU. If not the Sandy Bridge processor can perform the graphics.

"Now it is possible to experience a no-guilt, no-compromise PC entertainment experience, and save on energy at the same time," said Offir Remez, president and founder of LucidLogix (Kfar Netter, Israel), in a statement.

Designed for entry-level through mainstream PCs equipped with second generation Intel's Core i3/i5/i7 and NVIDIA or AMD 3-D graphics processors, Virtu software automatically adjusts the performance, thermal and feature allocation based on the requirements of individual applications. The only system requirement is to always connect the display screen directly to the motherboard's Sandy Bridge display output.

A demo version of Virtu is available and a beta version will be available in January 2011. LucidLogix was founded in 2003.

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Cash Keeps Facebook's Status Private

Facebook Inc. struck a deal with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and others to raise $500 million, said people familiar with the matter, becoming the latest Internet company to build a war chest that will allow it to stay private longer.

The agreement, which includes funding from Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian Internet investment firm, values Facebook at $50 billion, said the people familiar with the matter. That's up from $10 billion in mid-2009.

The deal ignited Monday a frenzy of phone calls and emails by clients in the private wealth-management division at Goldman Sachs, who will get an opportunity to buy equity in Facebook, said people familiar with the matter.

Regulators, meanwhile, continue to examine a surge of trading in shares of Facebook and other still-private tech companies. SecondMarket Inc., which helps match buyers and sellers of pre-IPO companies, said Monday it received a letter of inquiry from the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday.

SecondMarket said the inquiry related to pooled investment funds that have been formed to buy private company stock. "We are fully cooperating with the SEC in this inquiry," the company said.

With its investment in Facebook, Goldman is also creating an investment fund through which its clients can buy shares in the social-networking company. To get Facebook shares, clients must make a minimum investment of $2 million and agree not to sell until 2013.

The SEC would be concerned about Goldman's transaction if the fund were being used to get around securities laws, such as the requirement for increased financial disclosures if Facebook has more than 500 shareholders, another person familiar with the matter said.

The investment is the latest example of how Silicon Valley's newest generation of Web companies is taking capital to stay private for longer. While as recently as a decade ago it was a status symbol in Silicon Valley to go public quickly, Facebook, Twitter Inc., Groupon Inc. and others are among the new crop of firms that have recently raised big money in private financing rounds that provides them a cash cushion to continue remaining private.

Across Silicon Valley, "the incentive for going public has lowered and the penalty for going public has increased," said Ben Horowitz, a partner at venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which in November bought Facebook shares from venture-firm Accel Partners in a private transaction.

"Compared to the 1990s when everybody went public as soon as possible at much lower revenues," the regulatory environment and the rise of hedge funds has made it "dangerous" for start-ups go to public without a large cushion of cash, said Mr. Horowitz. "In general, we recommend that our companies be very careful about going public."

Groupon, the daily deals website, said last week it is raising $950 million in new funding, adding to the more than $175 million it previously raised. Twitter said last month it had raised $200 million in a funding that valued it at $3.7 billion, bringing its total raised to $360 million.

Many chief executives of the Web companies, including Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, have said publicly they are in no hurry to go public. has said Mark Pincus, CEO of fast-growing social-game maker Zynga Inc., also said the company had no IPO plans.

Overall, the typical U.S.-based venture-backed company went public in just over eight years in 2010, up from just over three years during the tech boom of 2000, according to Dow Jones VentureSource.

But the increasing length of time that many of these companies are staying private has led to new issues. In particular, investment partnerships have sprung up that pool money from various investors in order to buy shares of Facebook, Twitter and others. It's unclear whether those pools of capital should be counted as one shareholder or multiple shareholders.

In the latest Facebook financing, Goldman is investing $450 million, with DST contributing $50 million, said the people familiar with the matter. Goldman is expected to sell $75 million of its stake to DST, leaving the investment bank with $375 million of its own capital invested, the people said. The investment was earlier reported by the New York Times.

Including its newest investment, DST will have invested around $900 million in Facebook and now owns just under 10% of Facebook, according to the people familiar with the matter.

Facebook, which has more than 500 million users, plans to use the new cash it has raised "opportunistically," and no specific purposes have yet been identified, according to one of the people familiar with the matter. The Web company has been on a growth tear with its hiring, with 1,700 employees as of November, up from 1,000 a year earlier. Facebook executives have also said the company plans to acquire more than 10 companies this year.

Facebook had been searching for an investment by a major financial institution that would provide a benchmark valuation for the company ahead of any public offering, which is still expected to happen in coming years, people familiar with the matter said. Facebook didn't shop around for a bank to make an investment, the people familiar with the matter said. Rather the investment came about through DST's existing relationship with Goldman, they said. Several former Goldman employees work at DST.

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Apple a no-show but iPad looms over CES

The annual Consumer Electronics Show kicks off here on Thursday but the hottest device around, and the trailblazing company that makes it, won't be on the sprawling show floor.

Apple, whose iPad touchscreen tablet computer was the hit new gadget of last year, is once again shunning the electronics extravaganza that attracts tens of thousands of buyers and sellers from around the world to the Las Vegas strip.

Apple may be a no-show but the Cupertino, California-based company behind the iPod, iPhone and iPad and its iconic co-founder Steve Jobs will loom large over the four-day event at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

"Right now, in the consumer electronics space, Apple is the shining star that everyone and their brother are chasing," said Silicon Valley technology analyst Rob Enderle.

And what rival firms have in their sights is the iPad, which sold more than eight million units between April, when it landed in US stores, and the end of September, Apple's last reporting period.

Goldman Sachs predicts iPad sales could top 37.2 million units in 2011 and technology research firm Gartner forecasts total tablet computer sales of 55 million units this year.

"There's a tremendous buzz about tablets," said Tara Dunion of CES organizer the Consumer Electronics Association.

"I've seen at least 40 new tablets announced and we're estimating there could be up to 80 new tablets launched at CES," Dunion said.

"I don't think you'll be able to walk 10 feet on the show floor without seeing some kind of a tablet device," said analyst Stephen Baker of the NPD Group.

South Korea's Samsung and US computer giants Hewlett-Packard and Dell are among the technology titans which have already come out with tablet devices.

Samsung launched its Galaxy Tab, which is powered by Google's Android software, in November and has reported sales of over one million units.

Smaller than the iPad, the Galaxy Tab features a seven-inch (18-centimeter) touchscreen compared with the iPad's 9.7-inch (24.6-cm) display.

The Galaxy Tab has front- and rear-facing cameras for video chat -- a feature absent from the first generation of the iPad -- and can also play Adobe's Flash video software, which is banned from the Apple device.

HP unveiled its HP Slate 500, which runs Microsoft's Windows 7 computer operating system and is aimed more at professionals than consumers, in October and Dell began selling its tablet computer, the Streak, in June.

Canada's Research In Motion, maker of the Blackberry, is also planning its own touchscreen tablet computer this year, the PlayBook, aiming it at business users like HP.

At last year's CES, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer showed off Windows-powered tablet prototypes but the US software giant has been slow to get the products to market.

Ballmer is scheduled to give a keynote speech Wednesday on the eve of the CES opening and NPD Group's Baker said he expects the Microsoft chief to unveil his latest plans for Windows-based tablets.

Toshiba and Motorola are among the other household names which are expected to unveil tablet computers at CES and there will be scores of others -- most of which are unlikely to keep Apple's Jobs up at night.

"We are going to be up to our armpits in crappy tablets, and I do mean crappy," said Enderle.

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Samsung develops new, faster computer memory module

Samsung Electronics Co , the world's top computer memory maker, said today that it has developed a new computer memory module that reads and writes data at a speed twice as fast as previous devices.

Samsung will begin production of the new DDR4 dynamic random access memory (DRAM) module in 2012, using the 30-nanometer class technology, the tech behemoth said in a statement.

The DRAM industry's mainstay products at the moment are DDR3 devices, which feature enhanced performance over DDR2 products.

Samsung became the first in the industry to develop DDR4, it claimed.

The new device also reduces power consumption by about half, it added.

It transfers data at a rate of 2.133 gigabits per second at 1.2 volts, compared with DDR3 DRAM models, which transfer data at a speed of 1.6 Gbps at 1.35V or 1.5V.

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RIM offers interception solution using Cloud Computing

With the approaching deadline to offer complete solution for monitoring of its contents by January 31, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has offered lawful interception in its security architecture through cloud computing from Indian operators.

Cloud computing is Internet-based service, whereby shared servers provide software and data to computers and other devices on demand.

RIM infrastructure is ready to receive and process through the cloud computing-based system, lawfully intercepted BlackBerry Messenger data from Indian service providers, the Canada-based firm said in a letter to the government.

Earlier, RIM had assured the Government that they will provide the 'final solution' for the lawful interception of BlackBerry Messenger services by January 31, 2011. The company has said that this was the understanding that they were to put in place the system by January 31.

According to sources in the know, the Ministry of Home Affairs has asked the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to validate the technology (cloud computing) being offered by RIM.

BlackBerry has over one million subscribers in India , which is one of the fastest growing markets in the world in terms of new subscriber additions.

The Canada-based company made it clear that its security systems are still cutting edge by saying, "RIM maintains a consistent global standard for lawful access requirements that does not include special deals for specific countries.

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