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iPhone Improving Heart Health
By: Mellenie Runion

Isn't technology amazing, now you can use your iPhone as your heart monitor. Heart monitors have become popular for fitness in the past 10 years, but now you can actually use your iPhone to track your heart beats.  

Michael C. Williams, founder and CEO of iTMP Technology, Inc. "We wanted to make the fitness tracking experience cool, fun, simple and custom."  

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) say moderate exercise should give you 50 to 70% of a person's maximum heart rate. The SM Heart Link collects data from sensors and sends the information to your iPhone for tracking and display. The SM Heart Link can also track and store workouts, serve as your bike computer, and even submit your data to medical assessment websites.

Of course technology is not cheap. The module is $155, the assessments have a small fee, there is a cost for the sensors, the cost for the iPhone itself, but the applications are free.

At the end of the technology spectrum, you can take your pulse with your fingertips over your wrists to feel the radial artery and count the beats, after exercising. Old fashioned but believe it or not, it still works.  The American Heart Association's (AHA) online cardiovascular center, Heart 360 (www.heart360.org), visitors can enter their information, log exercises, and keep a medication diary - for FREE.   Heart rates can help people keep better track of their health and pay more attention to an often overlooked issue.

Whether you plug in your iPhone and provide your personal trainer with you every heart beat or you count your pulse with a pocket watch - the important thing is that you pay attention to your heart health.

Microsoft has negotiated a new deal with Verizon to improve their Live Search feature. This will come with all new phones for Verizon and will be available to older phones via download.

Full details at TechNewsWorld

Travel Predictions by Gartner

Recent research by Gartner indicates that the high cost of travel will mandate industry changes. Video telepresence is becoming the sudden solution as business budgets become tighter than ever. Gartner predicts the business industry shifting away from travel will divert $3.5 billion in annual revenue from the travel and hospitality industry.

The global economic response to the current climate will force businesses to streamline their travel policies and encourage remote connections. A new generation of videoconferencing has been introduced with high-definition systems that will better simulate a face-to-face meeting.

New installations of 5,000 hotel suites are expected globally by the end of 2010 to accommodate the new demand for videoconferencing. The Association of Corporate Travel Executives says one-third of corporate travel managers are already cutting budgets to reflect this new savings option.

Suggestions:

• Review your current policy and make sure it accomplishes your goals with your budget.
• Review your situation in 3 to 6 months, the economy will continue to be fluid and your business policy should also be just as flexible.

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