Smartphone Apps

UK smartphone users spend more time on apps Computer Business Review The UK smartphone users spend about 58% of their time on engaging with all theirsmartphone apps, with 7% on voice calls, according to a new report from Arbitron Mobile. In addition to the UK users, Chinese smartphone users spend 55% of their ... See all stories on this topic »

Your Smartphone Could Be Worth $12000: Survey MediaMughals This dollar amount represents the 97 percent of American smartphoneowners who use apps and report that such usage saves them up to 88 minutes a day. Equivalent to as much as 22 days' worth of free time per year, smartphone owners should open that ... See all stories on this topic » MediaMughals

Apps & Downs Syracuse New Times So every week in blog posts at syracusenewtimes.com and in this space, I'll bring you information about smartphone apps and news about games. Now I'll admit, I own an iPhone 5. I've owned iPhones since the first one was released in 2007, and I waited ... See all stories on this topic »

IBM's Jeopardy-Winning Watson is Becoming a Smartphone App TechnoBuffalo The company's Jeopardy-winning, cancer diagnosing supercomputer is being rebranded as a question-answering customer service web service and smartphone app called “Ask Watson” (we only hope IBM isn't planning on dressing Watson up in a suit à la ... See all stories on this topic » TechnoBuffalo

What is Your Smartphone Worth? Mobile Enterprise By using apps, smartphone owners can save up to 88 minutes a day. This adds up to 22 days over the course of a year. The Social Security Administration lists the average annual wage at $45,790, ($22 per hour based on a 40-hour work week.) So, multiply ... See all stories on this topic »

Popular Over smartphone app born in Louisville The Courier-Journal Aaron Marshall is the creator of the app Over, which allows people to put text over photos. In less than a year, the Smoketown resident has parlayed his $1.99 Over appand free Overgram app into two of the top apps in the iTunes store, netting one and ... See all stories on this topic »

Why Your App Design Doesn't Have To Be All Thumbs ReadWrite Luke Wrobleski, a respected designer who sold a company to Twitter and more recently founded Polar, an app maker, thinks it's time to reconsider mobile design principles. Instead of worrying about questions like whether to upsize smartphone apps for ... See all stories on this topic »

Video: Agent smartwatch hits over $336000 on Kickstarter TG Daily Agent also links to handsets via Bluetooth, which enables convenient control of music libraries and acts as a wrist-based display for smartphone apps. And yes, Agent is designed to displays incoming calls as well as notifications, and is fully capable ... See all stories on this topic »

In-car app market will be worth $1.2 billion + within 5 years says Juniper GoMo News According to the report's author, Anthony Cox, “The biggest winner from the rapid roll-out of smartphone tethering and in-vehicle apps will be the consumer.” He also notes that smartphone tethering will enable the creation of a wealth of apps for the ... See all stories on this topic » GoMo News

Smartphone app updates bus proximity in real time Jerusalem Post Rather than pacing at a bus stop wondering why the 8 a.m. line still has yet to show up at 8:15, Israeli travelers are now able to take advantage of a smartphone applicationthat provides updates about their bus's proximity in real time. The iPhone and ... See all stories on this topic »