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Smartphone app 'Hailo' named Grand Prix Winner at Appys
Irish Independent
THE taxi smartphone application Hailo has been named the Grand Prix Winner at this year's Appys. The Appys award the best of the year's applications, which have become part and parcel of our daily lives, and make things a lot easier for us than even a ...
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911 Centers Not Ready For Mobile App Era
InformationWeek
If you tried to contact 911 using a public safety smart phone app during Hurricane Sandy and were unsuccessful, there's a good reason: Most of these apps don't work because many emergency call centers are not equipped to receive certain types of ...
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More power to the (app) people
San Antonio Express (blog)
Keeping the lights on and the smartphone apps running takes energy, a fact of the gadget world that Energizer deals with every day. The company has two new ways of delivering power to phones. Both devices are smaller than a credit card and about an ...
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San Antonio Express (blog)
Your Smartphone Knows You So Well It's Scary
Mashable
As smartphones become more ubiquitous and mobile technology becomes increasingly refined, our delicate relationships with location-based apps will become more and more interesting. That's why the infographic below is such a useful primer. Put together ...
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New Phone App Gives Parents Control Over Children's Mobile Phone Use
Meridian Magazine
Nearly a year ago, Zhou began work on creating that option for parents; developing the MMGuardian Parental Control mobile application for smartphones. His goal was to create software that enabled parents to monitor and control the critical functions of ...
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App Rates 2012's Most Loved and Hated Attack Ads
Mother Jones
Thanks to several smartphone apps created just for the 2012 election, TV viewers could fact check attack ads from the comfort of their couches. One of these programs, the Super PAC App, allowed viewers to hold up their iPhones when a TV ad aired ...
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Mother Jones
Video: Norwegian Fox Steals Smartphone, Sends Text
Slate Magazine (blog)
(Similar hunting apps exist in the U.S. market, though none—to the best of my limited knowledge—have resulted in similar hijinks.) After nights of watching a fox prowl about in the dark outside his house, drawn by the app, Lars and a friend decided ...
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Slate Magazine (blog)