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New Apps Will Help Boost Range of GM Electric Vehicles
CleanTechnica
General Motors recently set the bold target of 500,000 electrified vehicles sold annually by 2017, and is now turning to the promise of smartphone apps to reach the finish line. Three new OnStar apps were recently previewed at the GM Electrification ...
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Mentor Public Library Offers New Smartphone Apps
Patch.com
With the use of these smartphone apps, patrons not only will be able to have round-the-clock access to the library's catalog and services, but also have an on-hand digital Mentor Public Library card. Patrons can search in the smartphone app store under ...
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Killer appssmartphone explosions, tablet wars and big RTB data: Mobile ...
iMedia Connection (blog)
If you have online access right now, do this: go to Google Trends, and type in mobile advertising. You'll see a vaguely static line across the screen from 2004 through 2011. Then you'll see a huge spike to the right. That's 2012. And we're looking at ...
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Rogue apps causing bill shock, battery drain
Sydney Morning Herald
Smartphone apps can cause you to chew through your monthly mobile data limit in a matter of days, while free versions of apps often end up costing more than the paid premium version and eat up your battery life, new data shows. Consumer advocates and ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Survey: Many HK smartphone users lack privacy awareness
CSO
November 26, 2012 — IDG News Service — More than half of smartphone users in Hong Kong are unaware of the types of personal data accessed by apps they installed, said the Office of The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data in Hong Kong ...
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Carrier billing now available for BlackBerry App World
BGR
Research in Motion (RIMM) on Monday announced that is has partnered with more than 50 carriers to bring direct billing to its BlackBerry App World. Integrated carrier billing lets customers purchaseapps through their BlackBerry smartphone and charge ...
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RIM's BlackBerry 10 Smartphone To Launch in January
ADT Magazine
Since apps are the lifeblood of any smartphone platform, RIM is working to get developers up to speed. A BlackBerry 10 SDK update is coming on Thursday, Nov. 29. The update includes bug fixes and a new version of BlackBerry WebWorks HTML5 tools, ...
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Future of mobile: How Nokia shows what's really important - and it's not apps
ZDNet
Whatever your phone is nowadays, if it's a smartphone, it will have the staples of Wi-Fi, mobile data (3G/4G), Bluetooth, a camera, and an app store where, regardless of what platform you're on, the topapps will be pretty similar. However, where ...
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One in 10 Brit smartphone owners 'can't afford' to pay for apps
Register
Brits like smartphones, but half of them don't like paying for apps and two-fifths of those who've downloaded one say they'd never hand over cash for the privilege. The numbers come from MyVoucherCodes, which asked 2,611 British app downloaders what ...
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