Category Archives: Apps

8 things you should know before building a mobile app

By doris | Published: February 5, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (Mashable) — App appeal is obvious. The barrier to entry? So low! The upshot of producing the next Angry Birds or beer-chug simulator? So high! Heck, with just a small investment of time and cash, it’s not hard for would-be mobile moguls to turn a concept into a steady stream of [...]

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50 new tech tools you should know about

By doris | Published: January 26, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — You may have dozens of apps on your phone and scores of websites bookmarked on your laptop, but that doesn’t mean you have all the latest tech tools at your fingertips. New mobile apps, services, social networks and other digital tools pop up so frequently that keeping up with [...]

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Android Market catching up to Apple in app numbers

By doris | Published: January 5, 2012

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com Choices are becoming more abundant in the Android Market, which has just hit 400,000 apps in the first flush of the new year. Distimo, a Netherlands-based company that tracks app store data, posted a blog entry that shows it reaching that milestone over New Year’s weekend, with free apps as the [...]

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Steve Jobs saved technology from itself

By doris | Published: October 9, 2011

Full Story atCNN.com (CNN) — Just imagine, for a moment, a world in which Steve Jobs had never lived. How might daily life be different? Computers are still around, but not as you know them. They’re complex, hateful things, mostly used in the office for spreadsheets and other business applications. Nobody bothered to sell a [...]

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How to get an iTunes-like experience on Android

By doris | Published: September 19, 2011

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com If you used to use an iPod Touch for all of your music, but have an Android phone, maybe you’d like to carry only one device. With your iPod, you can just use iTunes to sync, organize and manage music, but there’s no one app that lets you manage everything on [...]

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Apple doesn’t want you to play this smartphone game

By doris | Published: September 18, 2011

Full Story at InGame.msnbc.com It seems there’s a smartphone game about smartphone manufacturing that one of the most famous smartphone makers doesn’t want you to play. The game app — called “Phone Story” — was available in Apple’s App Store for a few days before Apple yanked it from its virtual shelves on Tuesday. Created [...]

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Smartphones, tablets can be a port in the storm

By doris | Published: August 28, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com One item that millions will have with them in almost any situation is their smartphone. As Hurricane Irene approaches, that’s important because a smartphone or tablet computer can come in handy during the storm — if you’ve made some advance preparations. There are a host of apps for tracking weather, getting [...]

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Dutch pass law to ensure open Internet access

By doris | Published: June 22, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch parliament on Wednesday passed a law banning telecommunications providers from charging their subscribers extra fees for Internet services such as Skype and instant messaging. The law is intended to preserve open access to the Internet at a time when some mobile operators in Europe are blocking [...]

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Android loses ground to iPhone, gains in malware threats

By doris | Published: June 21, 2011

Full Story at Android apps.com Now that Verizon’s (VZ) able to sell the iPhone, is Android’s market share suffering? A chart released from Needham’s Charlie Wolf demonstrates “The Verizon iPhone Effect,” noting Apple’s (AAPL) share of the US smartphone market gaining 12.3 percentage points to nearly 30 percentage in March, while Android’s share fell to [...]

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Apple bans passcode-collecting app

By doris | Published: June 16, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.com We recently told you about how a developer used information gathered from his app’s users to reveal the 10 most frequently used iPhone passcodes. Unfortunately for him, it seems that as soon as Apple got wind of his “research,” it decided to ban his app. BGR reports that despite the fact [...]

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Steve Jobs clears up rumors about iCloud

By doris | Published: June 6, 2011

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com Today, Apple finally unveiled its Internet-based media service, iCloud, at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, where Steve Jobs opened up Apple’s biggest event of the year with a foreshadowing of news on several fronts, but no new iPhone.

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Phone 7 Developers Limited To 20 Apps Per Day

By doris | Published: June 3, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com Microsoft is restricting the certification of new mobile apps for Windows Phone Marketplace to no more than 20 a day per developer. The move is the latest sign that Microsoft’s mobile-app strategy continues to be about positioning the marketplace as a source of high-quality mobile software. Microsoft’s aim is to maintain [...]

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