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10 smartphone apps that can make your life better
Financial Post
Tumblr · Pinterest · Reddit · Digg · FarkIt · StumbleUpon. At its best, technology makes your life easier, more productive, or more fun. Here's a look at 10 of the bestsmartphone apps on offer right now, according to Business Insider's Nicholas Carlson.
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Financial Post
Beleaguered caregivers getting help from apps - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
From GPS devices and computer programs that help relatives track a wandering Alzheimer's patient to iPad apps that help an autistic child communicate, a growing number of tools for the smartphone, the tablet and the laptop are catering to beleaguered ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Facebook Home off to slow start on Google Play
Los Angeles Times
The interface, installed the same way as smartphone apps, gives users' home screens a new look that focuses on their Facebook friends rather than their apps. Facebook Home removes users' lock and menu screens and replaces them with status updates ...
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Smartphone Navigation Apps Slash Device Sales - TechWeekEurope UK
TechWeekEurope UK
Makers of dedicated navigation devices are feeling the impact of the growing use of personal navigation apps found on many of today's smartphones and tablets. Indeed, according to a research report from analyst firm Berg Insight, the growing smartphone...
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TechWeekEurope UK
TomTom still defensive over Apple Maps, says smartphones not a threat
TechRadar UK
Dok also isn't convinced that current smartphone apps such a Google's and Apple's offerings match up in terms of quality. "It's not necessarily navigation," he said. "I don't think these guys are really focused on the driving. "I think they're much ...
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TechRadar UK
Hospital opts for Wi-Fi over GPS in smartphone navigation app
Computerworld
Fit4KidsCare will eventually be ported to other smartphones. The total cost of the initial deployment was about $30,000. Most navigation apps rely on satellite GPS signals, which can support readings that are accurate to within three to five meters.
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Boot up: making apps simpler, South Korea's smartphone market, and more
The Guardian (blog)
But in practice, iCloud is rife with cognitive overhead — it only backs up your most recent photos, it works on certain select apps but not others, you have to create anicloud.com email account for it to sync your mail and notes but not everything ...
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The Guardian (blog)
'BadNews' Compromises Android Device's Security. How To Keep Your ...
Mobile & Apps
"It then redirects the user to a website that contains additional potentially maliciousapplications to download. AlphaSMS' construction is unsophisticated, but effective. AlphaSMS launches websites in an effort to get a user to install more ...
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Mobile & Apps
Phone apps and DRTV – A match made in heaven
Phones Review
Well, thanks to continuing technological innovations – and in particular thesmartphone – the relationship between apps and DRTV (Direct Response TV) has the potential to be a deeper and burgeoning one. Phone apps and DRTV – A match made in heaven ...
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Phones Review
Yahoo's iPhone app updated with Summly news story summaries
Los Angeles Times
PHOTOS: Top 10 must-have smartphone apps. The new Yahoo app is the first we've seen of Summly's technology since the free iPhone app was pulled from the app store last month after being acquired. Summly was launched in 2011 by a then 15-year-old ...
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