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Smartphone Apps Encouraging Young People to Smoke
Voice of America
Public health officials say tobacco companies are circumventing a worldwide ban on youth-targeted advertising by marketing smartphone applications, or "apps," designed to entice young people to smoke. Armando Peruga is program manager for the World ...
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New smartphone app brings concussion info to hockey coaches and parents
Montreal Gazette
TORONTO - Hockey Canada has launched a new smartphone app aimed at reducing brain injuries in the sport. Available in both English and French, and with versions for adults and kids, the app includes medically approved information on everything from ...
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Elderly-Friendly BIG Launcher Smartphone App Update Includes Customizable ...
PC Magazine
I think apps like BIG Launcher do a good service to give more users, who would normally opt-out, a chance to explore the different ways a smartphone can make their life easier. At $9.99, the BIG Launcher app for Android is a download I would suggest to ...
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West Michigan Made Smartphone App Launches
Fox17
The new smart phone app, One Second Epic, condenses all the great moments from that one awesome party or summer trip, into a clip only a few minutes long. “Imagine capturing birthday or baseball or any other event and re-watching it almost like a high ...
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Driver performance management comes to smartphone app
Fleet Owner
GreenRoad has released what it said is the first smartphone-based driver performance solution for fleets. The GreenRoad Smartphone Edition, called Asimov, is now available in beta mode for Android devices. Using smartphone technology, the new app ...
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#MTA Announces Smartphone App for Countdown Clocks
NY Convergence
The MTA announced that by the end of the year the subway countdown clocks for numbered lines will be available on smartphones and computers. Riders will be able to view this information for next day train times by downloading an MTA app or by going to ...
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Halloween Week: Mobile apps for trick-or-treaters
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Costumes, candy and -- smartphone apps? Fill yourself with virtual holiday spirit by embracing technology this Halloween. You're sure to love the no-mess fun of carving pumpkins via touchscreen, the easy chronicling of costumes with festive photo ...
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Fort Worth Star Telegram
New smartphone app tells the history of Toronto in photos
Global Toronto
TORONTO - A new smartphone app could have Torontonians in the mood for a history lesson leaving their old, dusty encyclopedias on the shelves. Toronto in Time - a free Apple iOS and Android app launched Wednesday - is an interactive collection of ...
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Booker High Grad Creates Klik App To Organize Cliques, Events
Patch.com
The 18-year-old graduate of Booker High School knew he wanted to get into some type of Web design and making smartphone apps, and he found the answers in his social circle. It's called Klik—a play-on-words of clique—to help organize parties and ...
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