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Smartphone apps for college students
Black and Magenta
Smartphone users often download applications, which can be used for entertainment or searching for information. Applications range from fun games to maps and more practical things. "I was really upset at first, but now I really like [my smartphone...
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Click for a cab: ride home goes to the highest bidder
Sydney Morning Herald
''Technology is evolving rapidly - taxi users are already trying new ways of accessing taxis which provide transparency of taxi booking services and greater certainty of arrival times, such as smartphone apps,'' she said. ''In principle, anything that ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Passengers pay more to jump taxi queue
The Age
In the eight weeks since it launched, Ingogo has signed up almost 1000 taxi drivers in Sydney and its app has been downloaded by 34000 passengers who can offer to pay any amount to a driver and place a deadline by which they must be picked up.
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The Age
CONOR POPE rounds up some of the most useful smartphone apps
Irish Times
SNAPSEED There are loads of good photo apps to choose – Hipstamatic and Instagram are the big boys – but Snapseed is biting at their heels. It lacks the social sharing functions of Instagram, but has more and better filters and turns the dullest shots ...
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Top 5 Business Apps for Android Smartphones
International Business Times
This is a very useful app and quick too. By using this app, one can store all the business cards into their smartphones. All one can do is just take a picture of the business card, the CamCard will then scan the picture and store the contact ...
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Cyber Saturday: Parents should take close look at apps
Green Bay Press Gazette
Parents who would never dream of letting their children divulge personal information to a stranger are nonetheless party to just such disclosures when it comes to many smartphone apps. It is time for app suppliers to provide better information on just ...
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Phone apps keep knowledge at your fingertips
Rapid City Journal
(Kristina Barker/Journal staff) The advent of the smartphone has launched thousands of apps, or mobile applicationsApp use in the United States nearly doubled from 2009 to 2011, according to the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
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