On the other hand, older adults are less likely to use smartphones. So are people who are sicker, with multiple chronic diseases, says Dr. Joseph Kvedar, director of the Center for Connected Health, a division of Boston's Partners Healthcare.

Kvedar notes that nearly any phone can handle simpler text-messaging programs. Among the biggest offered to date is the free text4baby, where government-vetted health tips timed to pregnant women's due dates are texted weekly to about 50,000 participants so far.

Do these kinds of technologies work? There's some short-term evidence, although no one knows if people stick with it once the novelty wears off:

_In a study of 70 Boston residents to improve cancer-preventing use of sunscreen, Kvedar found daily texts with reminders hooked to the weather forecast for six weeks increased sunscreen use by 40 percent.

_Researchers at New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center found episodes of rejection dropped when they texted take-your-medicine reminders to 41 pediatric liver transplant recipients or their caregivers, adding another text nag to the parent if teen patients didn't quickly respond that they'd taken their dose.

_The University of California, San Diego, went a step further, designing a text-message program to encourage weight loss where participants texted back answers to such questions as "Did you buy fresh raw vegetables to snack on this week?" Answering allowed more customized texted diet tips. In a pilot study of 75 people, text-message recipients lost about four more pounds in four months than those given printed dieting advice.

_The Internet-based approach offers even more two-way interaction. This fall, Quinn will report results of a 260-patient study using a range of Welldoc phone features, including more real-time monitoring of the blood sugar fluctuations users enter. A small Welldoc pilot study found users' average blood sugar dropped over three months.

"What systems work best with patients has yet to be figured out," says George Washington's Katz, who is testing a version of that program, too — and worries not just about affordability when his study is over but whether interest will wane. "Otherwise, they find it's a nice toy to start with, and forget about it."

It is wonderful to think about using mobile phones to improve one's health, and not just to increase one's productivity, but it looks like there's a struggle on how to implement it effectively. Maybe there are human 'needs' that cannot be answered by technology.

Handcent SMS for Android

Handcent Sms 3.1.1 released  [ 26 Jun 2010 ]

      Handcent SMS is a FREE enhanced SMS & MMS  application for Android.
      It fully unleashes the power for your Andorid phone on messaging, including:

  

	Compatible with existed android phones,including HTC Dream,Magic,HERO ,MyTouch 3G, Cliq,Droid,Moment,Tattoo,ERIS,Nexus One,Desire,Legend,X10......
	Full Support SMS,MMS including attach picture,movie,audio.....
	Greate customizability,you can define many options on settings window
	Power SMS POP UP Window including SMS Template(Quick Text),Recognize Speech and Speak SMS
	Group Send SMS & MMS, easy people & group select , Sync with your phone contact database
	Beautiful UI ,including different theme and different conversation bubble style (iphone,handcent ,android)...
	Define different ringtone,vibrate,LED,background,signature ,bubble style... for different people
	Support additional font pack ,can display sms message with many beautiful & stylish font
	Include 10 and more countries language pack and will continue support more language
	Many useful functions including Blacklist ,Search SMS & MMS ,Batch Mode for threads & Messages....
	Support Handcent keyboard (A T9 predict Text keyboard)
	…many more functions are in development

This makes me wonder if it is possible to do a native client in android that uses SMS. Yaa, @tweetitow native client on android but still SMS-based instead of mobile internet. It will be just like other mobile twitter client, only powered by SMS, and not dependent on a mobile internet.

With all the smartest phones sprouting, it is still the SMS feature, which is in the most basic phone, that can help people in the 'grass roots.'

On Profile Data, Yahoo gives out all information so I guess on privacy issues, facebook can be more conservative compared to yahoo.

Australian researchers have developed software that allows mobile phones to communicate with each other where there is no reception.

It is a new mobile phone system that promises to work anywhere and potentially help save lives in a disaster.

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Cherry Mobile's 1st year anniversary Handog
pasasalamat Promo, on July 16, 2010 9AM-9PM "May QWERTY ka na May TV PHONE
ka pa" for Php2,990 one day only! @ Market Market Main Entrance Activity Area, Cherry Mobile Kiosk SM Baguio, Cherry Concept Store SM Tarlac, P. Aldana Branches (Bicol) and Cherry Mobile Kiosk SM Naga, Viewers Telecom Branches Quezon Province and Cherry Mobile Kiosk SM Lucena, All participating Cherry Mobile dealers in Cebu, Cherry Concept Store Davao (Gaisano Mall), All Branches of Graphic All in Stores CDO and Cherry Concept Store in Limketkai Mall CDO.

I'm not really after its dual sim feature, or its QWERTY feature. I wonder how its GPRS feature works. I'm thinking of getting this for my Nanay, a way to introduce her to internet and social sites. =)

Top Twitterers, Asia

			Tweets	Followers today	Followers week	Followers month	Total Followers
1	FOLLOW	✓ Rania Al Abdullah Amman, Jordan	403	489	4,734	13,933	1,299,993
2	FOLLOW	✓ Kai-Fu Lee Beijing, China	255	-22	-315	390	847,907
3	FOLLOW	✓ Shashi Tharoor New Delhi & Thiruvananthapuram	3,621	622	5,079	18,355	815,369
4	FOLLOW	✓ Sarah Silverman Tehran, Iran	709	1,684	12,326	50,398	725,131
5	FOLLOW	✓ ガチャピン【Gachapin】 東京	366	1,401	10,099	48,806	710,210
6	FOLLOW	TwitBird Everywhere	1,494	1,252	10,149	50,909	666,208
7	FOLLOW	Snaptu On your phone :)	2,682	2,499	23,695	85,815	656,957
8	FOLLOW	もーりす Okazaki, Aichi, Japan	64,536	-198	-1,102	-3,702	531,777
9	FOLLOW	✓ 堀江貴文(Takafumi Horie) Tokyo	6,562	-81	826	2,372	519,222
10	FOLLOW	✓ Dalai Lama Dharamsala, India	213	2,832	22,576		510,939
11	FOLLOW	tenki.jp 日本の空	1,332	621	4,550	24,972	462,549
12	FOLLOW	✓ twj 東京都渋谷区	1,312	641	6,277	24,411	433,136
13	FOLLOW	毎日ｊｐ編集部 東京都千代田区	10,015	126	1,149	5,488	404,439
14	FOLLOW	✓ 勝間和代 東京に戻りました	13,236	92	1,188	7,736	401,376
15	FOLLOW	✓ vir sanghvi Delhi, India	2,431	286	2,511	8,930	386,126
16	FOLLOW	asahi 東京都中央区	8,816	-76	-598	-3,620	370,554
17	FOLLOW	Anne Curtis-Smith Republic of the Philippines :)	4,879	1,276	9,284	52,158	346,141
18	FOLLOW	✓ HH Sheikh Mohammed Dubai, UAE	317	66	662	2,395	341,158
19	FOLLOW	luna maya Jakarta, Jakarta	2,309	677	4,484	30,133	334,332
20	FOLLOW	raditya dika ÜT: -6.240124,106.80901	12,738	857	5,321	29,96

Why does Anne Curtis-Smith have that much fans?

Fans today Fans this week Fans this month Total Fans 1 LIKE THIS

Vice Ganda

Comedian | Philippines

6,948 84,035 158,018

1,802,901

2 LIKE THIS

✓ Benigno "Noynoy" S. Aquino III

Politician | Philippines

6,993

1,659,494

3 LIKE THIS

✓ Manny Villar

Politician | Philippines

1,217 12,534 20,060

1,432,259

4 LIKE THIS

KRIS AQUINO-YAP

TV | Philippines

6,932 77,683 138,373

800,846

5 LIKE THIS

SHOWTIME (ABS CBN)

TV | Philippines

5,442 55,074 125,452

715,504

6 LIKE THIS

May NAGTEXT! - Vice Ganda

Comedian | Philippines

1,724 9,849 28,654

556,247

7 LIKE THIS

MELASON

TV | Philippines

2,961 29,599 48,682

551,193

8 LIKE THIS

Sarah Geronimo

Musician | Philippines

6,084 98,782 171,334

477,501

9 LIKE THIS

Enchong Dee

Actor | Philippines

4,531 76,108 134,595

463,257

10 LIKE THIS

GILBERT 'GIBO' TEODORO, JR.

Politician | Philippines

1,627 20,656 39,341

435,471

It is interesting to see that Vice Ganda, an entertainer, is on number 1, and number 10 is Gibo Teodoro, a presidential aspirant last election. It shows that showbiz and politics, here in the Philippines, mix.