June 19, 2014
Jonathan Zuck speaks on mHealth in Brussels
Today, ACT President Jonathan Zuck traveled to Brussels to speak about the mobile health landscape in Europe at the 2014 European mHealth Conference. Ray Pinto of Microsoft [...]
Apps and Autism
Last week, NPR's Morning Edition featured a story about a Queens school for children within the autism spectrum that use iPads in class and to play in their high school band. It's the type of story we're accustomed to hearing at ACT | The App Association. Most of the country first learned about the incredible impact apps have had educating children with autism from Leslie Stahl's Sixty Minutes segment on apps for autism in 2011.
Supreme Court Decision Clarifies Software Patentability
Today’s Supreme Court decision Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International addressed the patentability of abstract ideas. It confirmed what we all know to be true: abstract business [...]
A Majority of House Members Say It’s Time to Change Government Surveillance Law
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act was enacted 1986 when stored electronic communications didn’t extend beyond answering machines for most Americans. At the time, only a handful of [...]
Don’t miss a second of World Cup 2014
You may have been tied to your desk when the first game kicked off this afternoon, but the 2014 World Cup has begun and fans around the [...]