A new tool to assist Mexican migrant workers safely cross over the border into the United States has been developed by Ricardo Dominguez of the University of California in San Diego.

The City of San Francisco recently opened DataSF.org, a website to help improve government transparency, and increase citizen access to city data.

Apple is showing off the staggering multitude of applications available for the iPhone at this week’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference with a gorgeous data visualization, presenting an array of thousands of app icons, sorted into a color gradient, across a gigantic LCD matrix. Each icon pulsates when it is purchased online, making the entire wall bounce and swim with constant activity—bringing to life Apple’s claims regarding the platform’s massive popularity among both developers and consumers. Click through below for a video of the app wall in action.
[via Gizmodo]

As revolutionary as the iPhone was when it was introduced, the ultimate potential of this all-display device was realized when apps came along. Those amazing downloadable programs that sit on your screen are transforming the iPhone from a really great mobile phone into a device that can become virtually anything you need it to be. In the words of NY Times technology writer David Pogue: “they make the iPhone (or the iPod Touch) do absolutely amazing things…stunts a cellphone has no right to perform.”  And apps not only make the device more functional and fun, they make the iPhone a [...]

You’ve probably visited WebMD to answer your health questions. And the iTunes App Store already offers over 200 medicine-related apps, like information on drugs and heart-rate monitoring devices. But two new devices for the new iPhone OS demonstrate just how the iPhone is going to make monitoring your health both more immediate and interactive. One app can control a blood-pressure cuff that plugs in to your iPhone, and Johnson & Johnson revealed a similar app and device that tests blood glucose levels.
PCMag explains the far-reaching implications:
Since an iPhone is always connected via the integrated 3G modem, it could potentially send [...]

LiveRail recently revealed their advertising platform for the iPhone, giving developers the option of adding short commercials to their applications, which would play whenever their app is launched.