Joe Noccera had a great article in the New York Times yesterday dissecting why Apple needed Verizon much more than Verizon needed Apple and how the addition of the iPhone to Verizon could expose iPhone flaws.
To date almost all problems with iPhone reliability have been blamed on AT&T Noccera makes the argument that many of the iPhone reliability issues are actually the result of the poorly designed software in the iPhone.
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We’re not fans of all the wireless carriers using the term 4G when the actual service being offered is really a 3G+ or 3.5G and not the true 4G technology which is still in development.
That said, the Verizon iPhone will not have any of Verizon’s advanced network functionality. This is especially interesting seeing how Verizon has been running an ad campaign promoting their higher speed network.
The development of a CDMA (Verizon’s network technology) iPhone was not an insignificant undertaking. It’s interesting that they did not include the higher speed technology.
The result is that consumers purchasing the Verizon iPhone will be locked into a 2-year agreement with a phone lacking the fastest data transfer rate.
We are always fascinated by how old products can be mixed with new technology to create a paradigm shifting product. Withings makes a Wifi equipped electronic scale and now an iPhone (iOS) Blood Pressure Monitor (BPM). The BPM connects to the iOS device to capture readings which are then available for tracking, graphing, and (most interestingly) uploading to electronic health record systems such as Microsoft Healthvault or Google Health.
From www.withings.com
Monitoring blood pressure is a critical activity in monitoring patients with many chronic diseases as changes can be a sign of a worsening condition. The better medical professionals can monitor this data the better they can proactively treat patients. While there is debate about the economic value of proactive treatments the benefit to the individual patient are without debate.
Imagining the future we can see this same idea being applied to glucose monitoring.
By matching these technologies to a mobile device the patient already owns medical professionals have an easy way to remind patients what they should do and constantly gathering the data in real-time without any additional steps for the patient.
Too often we seek entirely new ideas when trying to find innovation. Most of the technological innovation we’ll see – especially that which will improve our lives – will be this type of hybrid technology combining existing products with the ability to think and communicate.
Original source: http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/09/smart-blood-pressure-monitor-reports-your-readings-to-iphone-video/
We were recently supporting a Windows Small Business Server 2008 installation that required an SSL Certificate Renewal. This is normally a very straight forward process of generating the renewal request in IIS 7, sending it to GoDaddy (or your preferred SSL provider), and importing the new certificate. We completed those steps without issue and checked that the new SSL certificate was working on the remote.domain.com web address of SBS2008. Everything worked successfully.
This particular setup utilizes a number of port addresses (not our preferred setup but it is how the client wanted it) to support additional applications with their SSL certificate. This in essence allowed the SSL certificate for remote.domain.com to serve multiple sites in IIS 7 by using ports such as remote.domain.com:5444, remote.domain.com:6545, etc.
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