Smartphone Apps

Smartphone app count at one million and rising
WDAY
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - Developers are creating apps for smartphone users to
download at a record rate. You now can choose between more than 1 million
apps for your iPhones and Androids. It's hard to believe that more than
15000 apps a week are unleashed ...
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Automatically detect my connection speed (recommended)
Sydney Morning Herald
But a smartphone app being developed by Sydney researchers could yield new
insights into the places tourists flock to, the ones they avoid, and how
they decide between them. It is hoped the findings will clear obstacles
which stop visitors from ...
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Study: Despite Android Smartphone Gains, More App Developers Bet on iOS
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Tom Loftus Google may be winning the war against Apple in the smartphone
market, but it's a different story when looking at newly developed apps.
The share of new apps built on Google's Android operating system declined
by more than one-third this ...
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British Gas to add remote appliance control to smartphone apps
Tech Digest
By Gerald Lynch on December 14, 2011 Comments (0) British Gas have begun
trialing a new app service that will allow customers to remotely switch off
appliances from a smartphone. The service, designed to keep bills low by
tighter control over ...
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Apple Takes Down Fake ID App
MyFox Houston
HOUSTON - Some say it was just silly fun, but others say it was a
smartphone app that let kids make fake ID's. This and more in today's Tech
Minute… Verizon communications is serious about making an offer to buy
Netflix, this according to a media ...
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WATCH: The Daily Show Skewers The Tap Fish Smartphone App
Business Insider
In a hilarious satire of free-to-play apps, the Daily Show recently
skewered Tap Fish, a smartphone app in which players monitor a virtual
aquarium and feed the virtual fish virtual fish food. The idea is to keep
aquarium running smoothly, ...
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THE PAGE: Smartphone smackdown
Attleboro Sun Chronicle
This smartphone from Verizon Wireless runs on Google's Android software.
(Verizon photo) Let's compare the iPhone 4, to the newest Droid, the Droid
Bionic by Motorola. On the Verizon website, the full retail price of the
iPhone 4 is $649.99, ...
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British Gas tests smartphone app to turn off appliances remotely ...
By Rik Henderson
British Gas is currently testing a number of technologies in order to help
customers save energy, money and reduce anxiety over whether an appliance
has.
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