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Tuesday, October 05, 2004
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At Microsoft: MSN Search and camera phones
I didn't realize that Alan Reiter was one of the chosen few, a "Search Champion," who was flown to Redmond to give his particularly analysis of Microsoft's latest search effort.
He provides this link to the new MSN Search, which I promptly loaded into my Treo and found that it works fine in the Blazer browser.
It has a draw-down list where you can select the type of search you want done, e.g. Web, News, Dictionary, etc. As a test I entered the word "telomerase" choosing "Dictionary" as the type. Up came a result from MSN Encarta with a satisfactory definition.
For a comparison, I used Google, again on my Treo, and entered "define: telomerase." What came back were several listings with varying degrees of depth, but definitely better than MSN Search. Microsoft has to produce something comparable.
2:36:54 PM 
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[Chicago's Central DuPage] Hospital Dashes to Wireless Services
This is a story from Sept 1--old news, I know--but I want to get back to this story to highlight the use of both cellular and WLAN (802.11b) services in a hospital.
This is important especially with the increasing popularity of smartphones that support tri-wireless, namely Bluetooth, cellular voice & data, and WiFi. As I see more and more surveys documenting the increasing use of PDAs by physicians and other healthcare professionals, I tend to think that most are not aware of all the wireless possibilities. Even VoIP is being considered (and probably implemented already) for hospital WLANs.
A while back I did an experiment calling long distance (Germany, Italy and Australia) using Skype on a Dell Axim X3i. Even this is old news, since the same can be done using Vonage as demonstrated on Endgadget.com. The limiting factor, as I also found out, was the quality of the microphone.
I'm putting together an outline which will lead to a whitepaper on the full range of wireless services for the medical profession. I'll be citing vendors whose work is leading this field, and I'll be looking for sponsorship of this project. Interested parties can reach me: bkosloskymd the-at-symbol yahoo.com
7:56:02 AM
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BCC Consulting: Mobile Resource Guide
Here's another download (.pdf) which was updated last month.
BCC's Mobile Resource Guide is a comprehensive, inclusive list of companies that provide solutions across a number of application areas in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. In addition to providing the 'long-list' of companies in the mobile space, the Guide presents BCC's mobile market segmentation to help user's quickly filter through the 160+ vendors listed, and the 'Free Download' section helps clinicians choose among 115+ Free Resources to add mobility to their workflow.
7:33:53 AM
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 Problem software for the Treo 600 camera
I've been swapping email with a Treo user who discovered that his camera would no longer produce acceptable images (this is a sample) which turned out to be due to PDA software called Pickem.
Evidently, palmOne knows about this problem and provides this:
It has come to our attention that third-party applications can interfere with the preview mode. It may become blurred (our QA engineers described it as "funky modern art"), and the captured images themselves look similar. We traced the issue back to the fact that a third-party application was overwriting the 16-bit color settings (the correct, default mode) with its own 8-bit settings. So far, we have found this issue with the following third-party applications: Butterfly Psycho Path.
The fix is to do a hard reset, and then by trial and error find out which offending piece of software is causing the problem.
UPDATE: Pickem is a utility created by a poster on TreoCentral.com in an effort to remove the blue dots associated with photos taken in low-light conditions. This is not a commercial product (and rightly so) AFAIK.
7:27:02 AM
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