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smartphone app that tracks battlefield objects
Indian Express
Researchers have developed a new software that can track the exact location of distant objects and monitor their speed and direction, allowing smartphone armed soldiers to better target the location of their enemies. The software developed by the ...
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App Smart Extra: DIY Digital Cookbooks
New York Times (blog)
This week's App Smart column was filled with tablet and smartphone apps that give you access to tens of thousands of recipes for all sorts of different meals. Many of the apps also try to help by giving you tools to aid with shopping. But if, like me ...
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New York Times (blog)
Report: Smartphone Users Big on Social Apps
Wireless Week
Social apps have grown at a rate that exceeds every other app category, according to a new report from app analytics firm Distimo. In the past two years the download volume among the top 100 most popular applications in the Apple App Store for iPhone ...
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Save the smart(phone) way with mobile apps
Washington Post
Couponing, budgeting, comparison shopping: These methods for saving money used to take time and meticulous organization, leading the lazy among us to avoid them. Not anymore. With more than 50 percent of American consumers owning smartphones...
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Smartphone app determines location, speed and direction of distant objects
Gizmag
Researchers at the University of Missouri have developed a prototype app that combines asmartphone's GPS, compass and imaging capabilities to calculate the exact location of distant objects and track their speed and direction. The researchers say the ...
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Samsung Adds Google App Store in TVs to Replicate Linkup
Businessweek
Samsung, which has kept its TV engineers and its smartphone team separate, sees television appstores to be less relevant for consumers than with smartphones, Kim said. While the company benefits from its size when striking content deals, it has just ...
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Smartphone Payment App Lets Customers Earn Rewards
WGRZ-TV
BUFFALO, NY- In addition to making calls, texting, taking pictures, Facebooking and tweeting with your smartphone, now you can also make purchases with it. There's new technology popping up in a few places in Western New York that makes it easier to do ...
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Smarter Travel: Nearly 2 in 5 Smartphone Users Accessed Travel Content from ...
RedOrbit
The study found that nearly 40 million consumers accessed travel sites or apps from theirsmartphone in July 2012, reaching 37 percent of the smartphone population. TripAdvisor Media Group led as the largest travel property with a smartphone audience ...
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Smart phone accessory guide for new parents
CNET
HugU Glass Guard. No, the HugU Glass Guard doesn't make your iPhone more huggable. (Credit: Jacqueline Seng/CNET Asia). Let's face it: Your heart skips a beat (in fear) when your one-year-old is playing with a new educational app on yoursmartphone.
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Facebook App Center Breaks Law: Privacy Group
Infopackets
... as Farmville and Mafia Wars. The App Center works like any smartphone app store: it lets users search for applications and install them directly, rather than having to manually hunt down the relevant webpage and then load the app onto their smartphone.
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