An app that can detect distress speech and trigger SOS

The innovation won the first prize in a national contest organized in India by the US-based Marconi Society under its Celestini Programme

Mobile app supported system to better manage people at risk of cardio-vascular disease

An app to measure nutrition content of Indian food

Nutrify India Now allows search in 17 languages and six food groups. Users can also search foods by nutrients in the National Institute of …

Weight-loss smartphone apps may not be reliable: Study

The apps do not use authentic and scientifically approved data, and do not consider important determinants of calorie requirement such as the user&…

Are online games like PUBG mere entertainment or a menace?

After ban and arrests, developers release statement asking for constructive solution

‘WONDER app can make the difference in improving maternal care’

Down To Earth speaks to gynaecologist and obstetrician Narmadha Kuppuswami about the WONDER app that she has developed

How useful really are mobile apps for farmers?

A review which looked at 23 studies of information services in Africa, Asia and Latin America found that perceived benefits were not always …

Ganga mission launches mobile app and site to collect data from public

The government had earlier launched an app to seek information on availability of toilets across the country

Now, use a mobile app to diagnose liver diseases

The mobile app that presently gives all the information about liver diseases will soon be turned into interactive application

World immunisation week: mobile app to remind parents of vaccine schedule

WHO focus on delivering health information directly to people’s mobile phones and social media accounts to curb vaccine preventable deaths