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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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According to Apple there is an app for just about everything on the available for the iPhone. From thousands of games to hoards of other apps for things like tracking how much you eat or planning a trip across the country, the App Store has it all.

AT&T now announces the launch of their latest app that lets family members track other family members are at all times. The app is called the AT&T FamilyMap App and it is available now on the App Store.

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Reader’s Digest has decided to throw it’s hat into the iPhone/iPod Touch app ring—their first release they say will for gamers.

The app, called Life IQ, represents the first in a line of future products that Reader’s Digest parent Reader’s Digest Association plans to create as part of its previously announced “Reader’s Digest Version” strategy. The idea is to repackage Reader’s Digest content into shortened versions for various platforms.
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