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Smartphone App Improves City Snow Plowing Efforts this Winter
GISuser.com (press release)
Sandy, UT – The City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, has improved operations
by integrating a mobile app, powered by Spot Reporters, with the City's
asset management system from Cityworks. Using the smartphone-enabled
framework from Connected Bits, ...
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Campus compass? App-ily, here's a smart answer
Sydney Morning Herald
Smartphones are now essential tools for students to navigate campuses and
access course material. Universities are producing apps and using digital
media players to satisfy their students' voracious appetite for technology.
This year, Monash University ...
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Apps on phones outwit the unwary
New Zealand Herald
By Michael Dickison and Mikayla Erceg Do you know what your smartphone is
doing with your personal information? Photo / Steven McNicholl Smartphone
apps can gain access to your phone contacts, quietly make calls, read and
send text messages, ...
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83% of all smartphone app downloads are free
Mazuma Mobile
An increasingly important topic being bandied around at this week's Mobile
World Congress 2012 in Barcelona is how best to monetise mobile apps,
however, a Strategy Analytics report has shown that 83 per cent of all
downloaded smartphone applications ...
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Android and iPhone Photo Snooping: What You Need to Know
TIME
By Jared Newman | @OneJaredNewman | March 2, 2012 | + Smartphone users got
another reason to worry about privacy this week, when the New York Times
reported that iPhone and Android apps can spy on your photos without
permission.
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Survey says most US cell phone owners have smartphones; so what?
CNN
Currently, 41% of US adults use simpler "feature phones" -- which often
include a Web browser, e-mail, photo and video camera, and the ability to
run simple apps. Do most consumers really know whether their phone is a
smartphone? Over a year ago, ...
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Android apps can access smartphone user's photos too
Fiercemobilecontent
Apparently Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS developers aren't the only ones who
can get access to a smartphone user's photo library. Developers who make
applications for Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android devices can do it too. Just
days after The New York Times ...
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UPS Handhelds Learn Smartphone Tricks
InformationWeek
The prospect of real-time navigation shows the real power of mobile
computing devices like UPS', and it's no different than consumer
smartphones: It's in the apps that companies build for them. To find out
more about Chris Murphy, please visit his page ...
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Struggling with Shakespeare? There's an app for that
CBC.ca
But now, a Nova Scotia-based university lecturer is bringing Shakespeare
into the 21st century with a smartphone application he hopes will give his
students a better understanding of at least one of Shakespeare's plays
—Twelfth Night.
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