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Samsung creates medical test bed to prove Internet of Things is worth the effort Summary:  Samsung's joint-venture efforts will help researchers develop preventative medical equipment through M2M tech that could soon make their way to smart watches and phones. Samsung has smartphones and smart watches, and will soon smart sensors for the medical research field. The partnership between Samsung and the University of California, San Francisco sets out with a single goal: to develop a test bed for medical sensors in efforts to validate the worth of emerging Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technologies, otherwise known as the Internet of Things. The South Korean giant's joint project with medical professionals will work to develop network-connected sensors for gadgets, signalling a divergence in the company's strategy by focusing on health and the wider medical world. Based at UCSF's Mission Bay campus in San Francisco, some of the world's leading researchers wil...

Microsoft Office on iPad: It's alive and coming sooner than most think Summary:  Microsoft's Office for iPad, codenamed Miramar, isn't dead. In fact, it just might beat Microsoft's own touch-first Office implementation for Windows to market. It must be a slow news day. I see a number of folks trying to  parse recent statements by Microsoft's Executive Vice President of Marketing Tami Reller  -- who described  Microsoft's approach to balancing its Windows and cross-platform plans as "thoughtful" -- as meaning Microsoft plans to drag its feet  on Office for iPad. Office for iPad -- which I've recently heard is codenamed "Miramar" -- isn't dead. In fact, it's likely to make it to market ahead of Microsoft's touch-first version of Office (codenamed "Gemini") according to a couple of my sources. Here's a quick recap on what I've heard from Microsoft officials, as well as my own contacts, about Offic...

Dell Wyse Cloud Connect -- another take on BYOD Summary:  Dell Wyse Cloud Connect is a cloud-access device on a USB stick. Road warriors need only use one of these devices combined with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse to access cloud-based applications. Dell claims this is a first but not really. Dell  recently announced it is building a new class of cloud-access device. The post, Dell cooks up an Android PC on an HDMI stick by my colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, reviews Dell's announcement. I'd like to explore the topic of an Android-based device in a USB-stick form factor a bit more. What Dell Announced Here's Dell's quick description of the device itself: Cloud Connect represents a new end-user device category that bridges thin clients and mobile devices as part of Dell Cloud Client-Computing’s end-to-end desktop virtualization solutions portfolio. The extremely compact, secure, cloud-managed device with a low total cost of ownership (TCO) su...

Microsoft discontinues its InfoPath electronic-forms product Summary:  Microsoft officials are confirming that InfoPath is at the end of the road and a new, still unreleased forms technology will be taking its place. As had been rumored for a while,  Microsoft is discontinuing its InfoPath electronic forms product . Company officials confirmed the news in a January 31 post to the Office Blogs site. From that post on the future of electronic forms technology: "In an effort to streamline our investments and deliver a more integrated Office forms user experience,  we’re retiring InfoPath and investing in new forms technology across SharePoint, Access, and Word . This means that InfoPath 2013 is the last release of the desktop client, and InfoPath Forms Services in SharePoint Server 2013 is the last release of InfoPath Forms Services. The InfoPath Forms Services technology within Office 365 will be maintained and it will function until further notice." Mi...