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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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Reviewers: ifonenation Review Team

Reviewer’s rating: 8.0
What we liked: We absolutely love the compact design. It really does deliver ample charging time and the internal battery can be charged from wall socket as well as the sun.
What we didn’t like: The device cannot balance on its side when open.
The bottom line: The Solio Universal solar charger kit is a well designed and capable charging device that works great on a sunny day. the Solio Universal solar charger kit is great for power in a pinch on a sunny day.

Any mobile device user should see the need for alternative methods of charging their device in these days of earthquakes, flooding and economic uncertainty. We at ifonenation have recently tested several solar chargers for mobile devices and while most performed adequately only one stood out from the pack. The Solio Universal solar charger. Technology has driven the solar market to the point where we’re not talking about giant solar panels here. Rather, this tiny (4.7 inches by 2.5 inches by 1.4 inches; 5.8 ounces), oval-shaped device fans open to include three small panels, each 3 inches long and while it is still too big for a pocket, the Solio does fit easily in a small bag.

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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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