CONFIDANT, Inc. provides a chronic disease management tool for those with diabetes and other ailments. It’s a portable, easy-to-use tool that provides feedback and coaching while automating communication between patients and healthcare providers. CONFIDANT also has a tool for interactive maintenance of a healthy lifestyle and weight management, empowering people to take charge of their health.
Diet.com provides nutritional values for food items on popular restaurant menus. Just send a text message of the restaurant and food item to DIET1 (34381), and you’ll get a reply message with all the nutritional information. It also lets you track your daily meals and save the nutritional info about each meal.
Not sure if your favorite website is compatible with your mobile web browser? Well, Tilt View can tell you. The website has options to check for IE Mobile, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Opera Mini and Symbian. It also works on all mobile browsers.
For the visually impaired, text based mobile technology doesn’t have much of a use. A new service from Audiopoint, called Voice Terminal Service (VTS), changes that. VTS is a service that alerts users via any telephone about updates to a news feed, keyword search, email or calendar item. Each item is read to the user over the telephone immediately after it happens.
Did you know that 3.8 million people suffer some sort of text-related injury each year? Or that reports of sore wrists and thumbs are up more than 38 percent over the last five years? If you take advantage of Virgin Mobile’s website PractiseSafeText.com, you can learn these facts and more, including a series of exercises you can do to prevent text-related injuries and maintain the digital dexterity you depend on to stay in touch with your friends and family!
Your Baby DataBase is a one stop mobile website for any expecting parent. YBDB has a searchable baby name database with hundreds of names, filtered by gender and origin, that provides each name’s meaning. The website also has a chat feature, a Pregnancy and Parenting 101 fact sheet and a pregnancy due date calculator. One cool feature provides a list of the top 10 baby names for each gender in each of the last eight years. In 2007, Jacob and Emily were the most popular baby names.
