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Do you happen to be searching for a reliable Website Monitoring service? This type of service will track your website and alert you instantly via email if and when the site goes down. Website monitoring is crucial to your online presence and that is why it is important to have a service you can truly rely on.
Website monitoring is often used by businesses to ensure that their customers are able to access their online tools and applications as well as track their actions on the site, such as searching, e-commerce activity, etc. This service can also conduct load testing to see how web applications and servers will behave under circumstances of high web traffic as well as conduct network monitoring to check for connectivity failures and fixes.
Ideally, such a service would offer monitoring reports and diagnostic tools in real-time. The monitoring reports and tools should be provided online and are displayed using an easy to use interface that clearly highlights any trouble spots a website is having. What is also important to have in such a service is a customer support team that is available by phone, not just email, 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year. These are the important features you should be aware of when choosing a website monitoring service.
An online service that puts patients face-to-face with doctors, called American Well, will be introduced in Hawaii on January 15. The service is for individuals who are looking for easier access to doctors because they are uninsured or do not want to wait to schedule an appointment or spend time driving to a clinic. Patients and doctors can use American Well with one camera or with text chat.
Patients will utilize the service by logging in to participating health plans’ Web sites. The doctors offer ten-minute appointments, which can be prolonged for a fee, and can file prescriptions and examine patients’ medical histories via the system. American Well is based on HealthVault, Microsoft’s electronic medical-records service, and ActiveHealth Management, a subsidiary of Aetna, which scans patients’ medical history for gaps in their previous care and alerts doctors during their online appointment.
The Hawaiian health plan has 700,000 members, who pay $10 each to use the service. The insurer also offers the service to uninsured patients for $45. Health plans pay American Well a license fee per member and a transaction fee of about $2 each time a patient meets a doctor online.
Hawaii is especially suitable for online health because the islands are remote to the mainland, it takes time to travel between them, and it is difficult for the state to recruit doctors to the rural parts..
However, some critics worry that doctors will miss important symptoms, if they only see patients on the web. Others doubt that the poor and uninsured will have the broadband Internet and webcams to gain from the service.
Since some diagnoses, such as whether a sore throat is a virus or a strep infection, are difficult using a webcam, therefore, the service is predicted to be useful for patients who need medication refills or follow-up consultations after surgery. It can also save valuable time in the case of a serious condition for referral to emergency room or a specialist.
Best Buy recently became the first retailer to offer refurbished iPhone 3Gs at its stores. The news follows AT&T’s offer for refurbished iPhone 3Gs and Wal-Mart starting to sell brand-new iPhone 3Gs at a $5 discount.
Best Buy Mobile stores are selling the ‘refurbished’ iPhone 3G at $149 for the 8GB model and $249 for the 16G model. In comparison, new iPhone 3Gs retail for $199 for the 8GB model and and $299 for the 16GB model at Best Buy Mobile. Consumers are required to sign a 2-year service contract with AT&T. Best Buy promises iphone buyers will not leave the store without multimedia and smartphone setup and personalization, such as e-mail and data transfer.
Originally the phones were returned during a 30-day trial period and refurbished. In addition to a full one-year standard warranty on the refurbished iPhone 3G, customers can also buy a two-year Geek Squad Black Tie Protection service plan. At the start, the phones will be available at 350 Best Buy stores nationwide, but will expand to all U.S. Best Buy stores that offer AT&T by the end of January.
This move is estimated to be pushed by Apple as a way for the iPhone to stay relevant, as it did with the iPod, in face of growing competition.
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