| Your Brain on E-Books and Smartphone Apps New York Times (blog) Last week, my brain played a cruel trick on me. While waiting for my flight to take off, I was reading The New Yorker, the paper version, of course — I know the rules. I became engrossed in an article and swiped my finger down the glossy page to read ... See all stories on this topic » |  New York Times (blog) |
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Sep 30, 2012 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- MTR Corporation Limited, an operator of rapid-transit systems, has upgraded and expanded its suite of MTR smartphone applications to provide instant access to travel information for passengers. The new MTR ...
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Sydney, Sep. 30 (ANI): A growing number of prostitutes in Australia are now finalizing sex deals through phone apps, according to a report. Police have been targeting the clients of sex workers in the St Kilda area since last September, issuing more ...
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NEW YORK — Apple CEO Tim Cook apologized Friday for the company's error-ridden new mobile mapping service and pledged to improve the application installed on tens of millions ofsmartphones. In an unusual mea culpa, he invited frustrated consumers ...
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This picture taken on August 14, 2012 shows Paul Ramscar holding his smartphone displaying the Pink Dollar app logo in Hong Kong. Paul Ramscar says his Pink Dollar “app” is a lot more than just another snippet of smartphone software: it is a social ...
See all stories on this topic »Smartphone Guide: Help Choosing Right Device for Your Needs
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Smartphones now have mapping apps that can locate you if you're lost and tell you where to go. You can take and share pictures. They're also all music players. And thanks to downloadable apps, new uses are added all the time. You can find helpful phone ...
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| INNOVATION ECONOMY Growing app market sparks fierce competition Boston Globe Few parcels of real estate are as valuable right now as those little half-inch square plots occupied by apps on the screen of your smartphone. “It's where the action is,” says Dustin Dolginow, of the Cambridge venture capital firm Atlas Venture. “When ... See all stories on this topic » |  Boston Globe |