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Mayo Clinic has announced the creation of two mobile applications (Symptom Checker and Meditation) for release in the first quarter of 2010 with the second one becoming available in the iTunes store today.
Symptom Checker
In the above video, Scott Eising, director of Advance Market/Product Development at Mayo Clinic, describes the use and benefit of Mayo Clinic Symptom Checker. The app Symptom Checker is Mayo Clinic’s first free application for iPhone and iPod Touch, and was released today. Download the free app (App Store Link).

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With the USA / Canada hockey game and all of the earthquake / tsunami coverage, odds are you’ve been watching your TV over the last several days. If you’ve been lucky you might have caught the latest in the series of iPhone ads.

The newest ad, titled “Family Travel,” is voiced-over by a mother who expresses astonishment over the new technology stating “It’s unbelievable how much better family trips have gotten…”. As she talks she uses the Southwest Airlines app to check in to her flight from Denver to LA, locates a restaurant in the C concourse at Denver International (Heidi’s Brooklyn Deli) for her family to grab a bite to eat using Gate Guru, checks that she has busy material for her kids in the form of “Finding Nemo” loaded in the iPod app, and in the end uses the Schlage Link app to turn off the living room lights at home remotely.
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While Apple’s chief executive Steve Jobs was on stage introducing the company’s new iPad tablet computer to an auditorium full of media reps last month,  Amazon executives began calling publishers in an attempt to learn the details of the deals they made with Apple to supply content for the new device Steve was introducing.

The introduction of the iPad by Apple came at the same time that Amazon, the to-date premier online retailer and eBook reader pioneer, was leaning on it’s publisher partners for long-term licensing deals that would have guaranteed that Amazon Kindle owners would continue to receive the lowest possible price for content, in exchange for publishers seeing higher revenues from each sale.

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There have been two patent applications published recently from Apple that caught our attention for their innovativeness. The first patent shows how to use the iPhone’s camera as an alternate input method that utilizes gestures while the second details a system that uses a uniquely shaped signet to log in to a computer.
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Just because it’s newer doesn’t mean it’s better. With an almost 6 month newer device, Google is still following Apple’s iPhone 3Gs in frame-rate according to a recent study performed by the independent research firm Distinctive Developments. The test shows the the Nexus One’s frame rate not only lags behind, but lags far behind the iPhone 3GS. The reason is simple; the iPhone 3GS uses Neon floating-point optimization and the Nexus One does not.

Adding to this advantage, the iPhone 3GS’ capacitive screen performance and multitouch keyboard makes it easy to see how the innovative designs by Apple from months and even years ago have far out shown those of their direct competitors. While these advantages may seem minor, when taken as a whole these small details create a friendly and fast working environment that iPhone owners enjoy every day.

 Watch the video after the break!

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