Tag: Android
Google Wants to Help Apps Track You
- By Jessica Leber
- 05/15/2013
Google will help people who build Android apps follow their users around without draining too much battery life.
Facebook Reacts to Criticisms of “Home” App; Promises Upgrades
- By Rachel Metz
- 05/09/2013
A month after the release of Home, Facebook is working to answer criticisms with improvements.
Apps for Finding New Tunes, with a Little Help from Your Friends
- By Rachel Metz
- 05/01/2013
Twitter #music, EQuala, and Piki help you share and discover new music with friends, but they’re not all winners.
A Simple Way to Turn Any LCD into a Touch Screen
- By Rachel Metz
- 04/24/2013
Electromagnetic interference can turn a plain LCD into a touch screen on the cheap.
Safe Texting While Walking? Soon, There May Be an App for That
- By Rachel Metz
- 04/15/2013
CrashAlert, created by University of Manitoba researchers, could make it easier to walk and text without smacking into things.
Facebook’s Real “Home” May Be the Developing World
- By David Talbot
- 04/09/2013
The new Facebook-centric Android app for smartphones builds on other efforts to court mobile users internationally.
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Disappearing Messages Are Everywhere
- By Rachel Metz
- 04/04/2013
Smartphone apps that send disappearing messages are gaining in popularity.
Nuance Thinks Voice Ads Could Be a Mobile Hit
- By Rachel Metz
- 04/01/2013
Nuance hopes its voice-recognition tech can produce mobile ads that you actually want to have a conversation with.
Predictive Smartphone Assistant Gives You a Heads-Up
- By Rachel Metz
- 03/25/2013
Startup Sherpa’s predictive intelligence offers valuable insights when and where you need them.
Five Opportunities for Mobile Computing
- By Rachel Metz
- 03/22/2013
Thousands of startup companies see mobile computing as their chance to strike it big. We picked five.
Smartphones Are Eating the World
- By Benedict Evans
- 03/15/2013
The spread of mobile computers, in numbers.
Mozilla’s Mobile Firefox OS Raises Security Questions
- By David Talbot
- 02/28/2013
Firefox’s new Web-centric OS will let users run apps from the Web, raising concerns over how to stop malicious software.
App Feeds Scientists Atmospheric Data from Thousands of Smartphones
- By Nancy Gohring
- 02/01/2013
PressureNet shows the potential of distributed sensing with mobile devices.
How Your Facebook ID Can Get You More Wi-Fi Access
- By Rachel Metz
- 01/01/2013
A startup uses the Facebook Connect feature to help people share Wi-Fi networks among friends.
The Most Controlling Smartphone Ever Made
- By David Talbot
- 12/06/2012
A custom version of Android exerts total control over what you can do, depending on where you are and what apps or networks you are using.
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