Apple’s partnership with IBM has yielded several new apps in healthcare, retail, industrial products and more.

The Apple + IBM partnership began last year, and matches Apple’s software design and development talents with IBM’s enterprise relationships. Today’s releases include eight apps, four of which are the first of these apps for the healthcare industry. There are also new apps for the industrial products, retail, and insurance industries.

From the Apple + IBM website:

• Hospital RN: Frees staff nurses from multiple pagers and phones, and gives them the ability to access any patient’s records from anywhere in the hospital. With iBeacon technology, Hospital RN accurately identifies patients by location so nurses can easily access their records and provide appropriate care.
• Hospital Lead: Push notifications deliver escalated tasks efficiently, so they can be assigned to a staff member with a tap. Prioritized task lists allow issues to be reported, delayed, delegated, or marked complete. And the intuitive dashboard combines multiple hospital databases into a single view, which makes complex actions like patient discharges easy.
• Hospital Tech: The Hospital Tech app for iPhone keeps nurse technicians closely connected to their care teams, so patient tasks are handled quickly and safely — and help is always a swipe away. Hospital Tech provides a real-time view of lab status, safety alerts, patient requests, and delegated tasks by accessing the hospital’s systems of record so nurse technicians always know exactly where to go and what to do. When shifts change, the next nurse technician is ready to hit the ground running.
• Home RN: iPhone and iOS make it easy for nurses to add photos, videos, text, and audio notes to the patient’s record. Push notifications to the patient’s care team make sharing progress simple and fast. Location-based services built into iOS help nurses find patients’ homes and nearby pharmacies, urgent care centers, and labs. Home RN ushers in a whole new way to deliver home health care without all the paperwork, in a completely mobile workflow
• Rapid Handover: Critical data including production goals, equipment maintenance, and crew lists are available at a glance in the moment of engagement. The photo and dictation capabilities on iPad capture issues like broken equipment and safety hazards. When a new shift begins, the incoming foreperson simply signs in to the app and immediately can see where the previous shift left off — saving valuable production time.
• Ancillary Sale: Flight attendants can sell seat upgrades, food and beverages, and duty-free merchandise — all while in the air. And passengers can conveniently complete the transaction with Apple Pay or the swipe of a credit card via in-flight point-of-sale systems. The app also recalls passengers’ previous on-board purchases so flight attendants can recommend similar food and beverage items based on past preferences.
• Order Commit: Merchants can access important metrics on financial targets and sell-through while in the office or on market trips. By integrating with the camera on iPad, the app lets merchants take photos of products and model performance against items with similar features.
• Risk Inspect: With the camera on iPad, inspectors can capture photo and video of any site while on the job. Intelligent analytics suggest risk areas to focus on, and provide instant access to claim history, environmental and structural data, as well as neighborhood crime statistics.

Apple and IBM launched their initial wave of apps MobileFirst apps back in December 2014, and the companies have recently launched MobileFirst apps in Japan. You can check out all of the available apps on the Apple + IBM website at the link below.

Source: Apple, via: 9to5Mac

Poetic’s heavy duty Revolution hybrid case makes a comeback with the HTC One M9, but is it worth the investment?

When it comes to cases for the HTC One M9 that can hold up to wear and tear, we usually look for popular names like OtterBox, Urban Armor Gear, Spigen and Trident. Those guys have been around a while, but Poetic is no stranger to the case market, either. Their Revolution hybrid case for the HTC One M9 is nothing short of a beast in its own respect, and definitely worth a closer look.

April Fools’ Day 2015 has arrived, and Microsoft is already making a lot of waves with its MS-DOS Mobile app. However, that’s not all the company is doing to celebrate the day. Here’s a look at what Microsoft and other Windows-related companies are doing to loosen up today.

This performance inspired case delivers dual-layer protection with an integrated stand for hands-free viewing. Comprised of a durable exterior fused with a soft impact-resistant interior liner, the Pop! Stand Case offers enhanced protection in a slim design.

Motorola is offering yet another chance to save on the Moto X by offering $140 off the device and 30% off accessories for a limited time.

While the selfie sticks Motorola showed off earlier were not real, the $140 savings they are offering on the Moto X are indeed real.

With this case and holster you get everything you need in one package to protect against impacts. The textured polycarbonate cover that wraps around your HTC One M8 is smart in design, keeping an extremely slim form while the holster rotates for optimal comfort and quick access.

Want to toggle OS X’s Accessibility options quickly? Get there in one keystroke with this quick Mac tip!

Apple builds great accessibility features into OS X Yosemite, to help users with physical limitations get the most out of their Macs.

The Accessibility system preference gives you broad control over how information is displayed on your Mac, including zoom functions to see parts of the screen better, adding media descriptions and captions; using switch control; enabling dictation and more.

If you’re able to use a keyboard, it’s easy enough to pull up Accessibility simply by holding down the command key and pressing the space bar to bring up Spotlight, then type Accessibility. Spotlight’s search results will show you the system preference, which you can access using your mouse or cursor keys.

But there’s a quicker way to get to commonly used Accessibility functions, and that brings us to this week’s tip. Just hold down the command and option keys, then type F5.

That will pop up a window entitled Accessibility Options, where you can toggle zoom settings (enabling using keyboard shortcuts or scroll gestures); VoiceOver; sticky, slow and mouse key settings; or invert display color and adjust contrast.

What’s more, you can click on the Keyboard Shortcuts… button to pull up that system preference pane, or click on the Preferences button to pull up the full Accessibility system preference.

Hopefully this tip will keep you working more and fiddling with preferences less. Let me know if you have any questions!