If you’ve paid any attention at all to the news this week, you know these are interesting –and dangerous – days in the Turkish capital of Istanbul. What started as a small peaceful protest erupted…
We’re all about anything that makes travel a little more convenient and a little less stressful, and this week there were several good articles that help to make travel a little less arduous. Let’s start…
Travel news this week was dominated by bad puns about Dreamliners and Nightmares, as a nasty little habit of batteries catching fire grounded Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner jets. This is more of a business story…
Wouldn’t it be great to travel abroad without lugging around an adapter for your various electrical appliances? This unthinkable dream has now become a reality in many Chinese hotels that have introduced a universal plug…
The Hospital de Denia in Spain was recently recognized for implementing the first all digital medical records system in Spain, and only the second in Europe. Electronic medical records (EMR) are a key component of…
It has been a while since we wrote about how smartphones and other devices are changing the way people track their health and fitness activities. We covered the launch of the FitBit way back in…
Pinterest is the hottest new social network that is burning up the Interwebs. Over the last eight months, the number of people using the site has skyrocketed by more than 2700 percent. That’s 2700 percent….
For most of us, it’s unimaginable to think that you might have to live without a mobile phone for even a couple of hours – and that includes when you’re traveling internationally. More and more,…
A recent post from FoXnoMad provides readers with a quick reality check on How to Accurately Calculate How Many Calories You Just Burned Sightseeing. The author provides some basic rules on how burning calories is…
In a (somewhat) recent post on Sean Nolan’s blog, Family Health Guy, we learn that Microsoft’s HealthVault is going mobile. I think this is big news for the adoption of personal health records, or PHRs….
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