Toronto Crime Stoppers hope smartphone app takes bite out of crime
Globe and Mail
It's billed as a North American first – a crime-fighting mobile app for
smartphones to be unveiled Wednesday by Toronto police and the city's Crime
Stoppers program. The app includes interactive features that enable
Toronto-area residents to alert ...
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Frommer's Releases Smartphone App Version of Costa Rica Guide
The Costa Rica Star
Frommer's recently started releasing e-books that also are accessible as
smartphone apps, including electronic versions of Alaska, California, Costa
Rica, France, Great Britain, Japan and Spain guides. At $9.99, they're
cheaper than the paper versions, ...
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ACLU-NJ Launches Smartphone App That Lets Users Secretly Record Police ...
Yeshiva World News
New Jersey's branch of the American Civil Liberties Union has taken its
mission of policing the police to smartphones. The ACLU has released an app
called "Police Tape" that lets users secretly record police stops. The
ACLU's Alexander Shalom said the ...
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Amazon, Google go head-to-head with 3D maps: report
Sydney Morning Herald
The online retailer will place UpNext and its team of four in Seattle at
the head of Amazon's mapping efforts, according to a report, which wonders
whether Amazon could be readying a map app for the Kindle Fire or even a
smartphone. UpNext, based in ...
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Absa last to board app bandwagon
MyBroadband
With the launch of Standard Bank's smartphone app and Nedbank's mobile
banking app going into beta among employees, Absa is the last of the big
four banks to sit without a smartphone app. First National Bank (FNB) was
first to market with an app in ...
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11 Super Useful Apps You Should Be Using
Business Insider
Since the launch of Apple's App Store in 2008 there has been a flood of
smartphone apps all with the intention of making our lives easier. Because
of these apps we can find out instantly what song is playing on the radio
without having to be told, we ...
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An app that pays you to shop
Independent Online
The "check in" system tracks the movements of shoppers who sign up to a
smartphone app that triggers rewards from stores. It already has the
support of retailers such as Debenhams and Argos. A shopper could get 50p
for simply walking through the door, ...
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