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Pharmacists diagnose stroke risk with iPhone

Researchers at the University of Sydney have examined the use of a smartphone-compatible heart monitor to diagnose the risk of stroke. (Credit: AliveCor) The AliveCor heart monitor was approved by the FDA in late 2012 and hit the market for health care professionals in January 2013 — and now researchers at the University of Sydney have studied its use in …

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Users spend 2 hours

Flurry Forget television — mobile apps now appear to be one of the biggest time suckers. New data released by mobile analytics firm Flurry shows that average US users spend 2 hours and 42 minutes per day on their mobile devices — 86 percent of that time is spent in apps and 14 percent on the mobile Web. While time …

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