Smartphone Apps

Police call for smartphone app backup The Independent But a group of police officers are meeting with technology experts this weekend to try to develop a set of smartphone apps which could help them catch criminals. Among the suggested inventions they will discuss at the two-day event is an app to help ... See all stories on this topic »

Japan to release money-reading smartphone app for visually-impaired The Japan Daily Press While it's hard for some people to imagine the visually-impaired using smartphones, there is a growing market out there of models and apps specifically designed for them. Japan will be releasing asmartphone app that can read the denomination of money ... See all stories on this topic »

Arbitron: Sports Lift Smartphone Sports Apps Radio Ink Arbitron says the use of sports apps by members of the Arbitron Mobile smartphone panel has been climbing since their post-Super Bowl, mid-winter doldrums, thanks to the NCAA Tournament and opening days of the regular season of Major League ... See all stories on this topic »

Chevy BringGo hands on: Your smartphone + their LCD = in-dash navigation for ... ExtremeTech Connect your smartphone to a Chevrolet Sonic or Chevrolet Spark with MyLink (Chevy's answer to Ford Sync) and use the in-dash LCD display and controls to work the navigation system. It's a single navigation app that you can use for now, from EnGIS, and ... See all stories on this topic » ExtremeTech

Schools turn to smartphone apps in bid to identify bullies and help victims Yahoo! News Canada Try explaining to a student that an app will save them from bullying. Schools are now turning to anti-bullying apps to try to control online harassment, as issues such as the Rehtaeh Parsons and Amanda Todd cases caused the teenage bullying debate to ... See all stories on this topic » Yahoo! News Canada

match2blue presents new radar app for LinkedIn at the start-up alley of ... The Herald | HeraldOnline.com The app's push messages tell the user when contacts are located in a town or district within a certain radius but does not reveal their exact location. This makes mapp2link very different from other location-based smartphone apps that allow users to ... See all stories on this topic »

Finally, Smartphone Sales Overtake Feature Phones in 1Q13 SiliconANGLE (blog) “By making Parse a part of Facebook Platform, we want to enable developers to rapidly build appsthat span mobile platforms and devices,” Doug Purdy, Facebook's director of product management, said. “Parse makes this possible by allowing developers to ... See all stories on this topic »

Apps aid religious LSU students LSU The Reveille There's an app for that. From Islam to Judaism, religious students of all faiths at the University are turning to smartphone apps to help fill their daily devotional needs in today's increasingly technological world. Petroleum engineering senior ... See all stories on this topic »

Using Apps to Save Time - WJHG WJHG-TV While you may not be able to put more hours into the day, you can make the most of what you have through technology with special smartphone apps marketed towards productivity. "Most of us don't take or make notes of what we plan to do during a day, we ... See all stories on this topic »