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Apps make teen behavior harder to track
Providence Eyewitness News
(WPRI) -- A national study finds 28% of teens admit to sending sexual photos or videos of themselves. Smartphone applications or “apps” make teen behavior even harder to track. These new apps, available free of charge, let teens open and send files ...
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Voice apps don't make texting while driving any safer: study
CTV News
A new study finds that voice-to-text smartphone apps don't make you any safer a driver than those who choose to manually text while driving. The study looked at 43 drivers who were asked to drive a closed course. The first time they drove the course ...
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Toddlers and tech: reasons to share your smartphone
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
And increasingly, personal gadgets like smartphones are following the same trend. “One day I looked at my phone and realized I had almost as many apps on it for my daughter as I did for myself,” says Kat Holmes, principal designer for Microsoft's ...
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App-titude: Uber signs as first NYC app-hailing company
Upstart (blog)
Without a doubt the app story of the week was the New York City decision to let selected companies offer smartphone apps for hailing cabs from their phones. Today's announcement that San Francisco-based Uber became the first company granted that ...
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Beleaguered Caregivers Getting Help from New Apps
Sci-Tech Today
Some smartphone apps are specific to a particular disease, such as Alzheimer's. Others are for all types of caregivers, such as an app that in-home caregivers and matches them to customers over the Internet. As her mother and father edged toward...
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Over 30% of our bookings come through the mobile app: Bhavish Aggarwal ...
Economic Times
Also, with smartphones becoming more affordable and mobile apps becoming the 'new way' of doing things- be it search, communication, buying or commuting, we see a tremendous potential here. Many apps don't work on low end, entry level smartphones...
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Economic Times
BSB invests $7 million in messaging app Hike & Hike 2
Northern Voices Online
Smart-phone market is expanding in India on a breakneck speed. With the launch of affordable handsets from local smart-phone vendors and also from the likes of HTC, Sony and Nokia, there is a sort of mad rush for affordable smartphones in the market.
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