Digital marketing and advertising firm T3 (The Think Tank) is today launching a new platform for mobile application and website developers called Scout, which will allow brands to customize a native application or website’s experience to individual users by tapping into the sensors’ on users’ smartphones, and connecting to back-end enterprise systems. This platform, which T3 dubs ” a context…
For the scofflaws among us, there are endless places to illegally download whatever music you’re looking for. But for those looking to expand their collections and musical horizons in more law-abiding ways, there are also lots of legit places to find music from new artists, from live concerts, and much more that won’t cost you a dime. And that also won’t get you sued by the RIAA in the process....
Google Maps is the most frequently used mobile app in the world, according to GlobalWebIndex data on global smartphone users in Q2 of 2013. The top three apps after Google's popular mapping tool are Facebook (44% of smartphone users), YouTube (35% of users) and Google+ (30% of users). See also: Use These 10 Apps During Downtime Statista's chart below tracks the 10 most frequently used smartphone apps in the world, based on percentage of smartphone users that have used the app in the past month.
Welcome to college. It's a world where careful planning means sleeping until noon every day and no outfit is too skimpy for a Halloween party. It's a place of eternal pajama pants, Ramen noodles that flow like the proverbial milk and honey of the Promised Land, all-nighters and flip cup championships. We know you were too cool for school in senior year, but you still have a way to go before mastering your new domain.
Waiting for a check at a restaurant may soon become a thing of the past, as online reservation giant OpenTable has begun testing its own mobile payments system, allowing diners to settle their tab directly from their iPhone.
Burpple, the memorably-named mobile app for food lovers that we profiled in December, has launched an updated version that makes it easier for gourmands to share pictures and recommendations.
In the span of a few short years, I’ve learned that my iPhone, among its many virtues, can be a valuable ally in making an agonizing experience slightly less agonizing. Take shopping, for example....
Fifty pounds. Lose 50 pounds, the doctor told me, and then we can start to talk about taking the kinds of steps that’ll make you happy and healthy for the long term....
Just seven months after wine-centric startup Vivino nabbed a $1m Series A round, the Danish company has announced a follow-on round of funding that sees it garner another $10.3m for its coffers....
Today, Epicurator launched to the public and released an iOS app that it hopes will encourage people to step outside of their homes and each out at new and unique dining establishments....
Looking for the perfect foodgasm? Epicurator, a new iPhone app, thinks it has what it takes to satisfy your needs. In the sea of online customer reviews, ratings and what people now know as “foodstagrams,” one more food-driven app has just launched in the market. Epicurator users review food on a dish-by-dish basis, which are then aggregated into an average restaurant rating. User…
We’ve been fans of AlterGeo for a little while. Around since 2008, this startup has a clever hybrid positioning system which combines WiFi, WiMAX, GSM, GPS, CDMA, IP (and for all we know NSA data to make it Russia’s leading location-based social networking service. Foursquare Schmorsquare, comrades. But in November last year they realised they were sitting on a lot of interesting data which…
On the off chance you missed it, you might be interested to know that there's an unprecedented sale going on right now in the App Store. Apps that yesterday were 10 or 20 dollars are free today. Your first reaction is great. Your second, if you're anything like me, is but I just bought these. And that's because we're both morons....
Being the Best Man or Maid of Honor comes with a lot of responsibility. Here's our guide of digital tools to keep you on your feet when it's time to shine.
There have been plenty of App Store sales before, some of them quite extensive. But Apple's never offered discounts of this magnitude before. Some of the best—and most expensive—games and apps you can find on iOS are free today, presumably in honor of the App Store's five-year anniversary. Here are the ones you need to download first....
The iOS App Store opened five years ago this week. Some popular apps normally priced as high as $19.99, are free starting Monday. It’s unclear how long the promotion will be going.
Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Ryan Matzner of Fueled. Fueled is a digital product design and development incubator based in New York, Chicago and London....
Out of all the possible summer vacations, road trips have the unique ability to crumble apart as soon as they begin. What you predict will be a long, character-building family trip through the countryside quickly dissolves into a car of hungry, screaming relatives -- if you're not careful.
Whether or not we can really afford to, it's hard to start slacking off a bit once the warm weather rolls around. And the bounty of apps making the process that much easier certainly doesn't help. We can't help but love them anyways, though. This week's app selection is full of goodies to take the pressure off slacking off....
S This week Android got a few long-awaited additions to their app lineup, most notably the previously iOS-only Vine and a version of Google Keyboard made just for Android. Not to mention a few fun little apps that, while not technically necessary, do make our lives just a bit easier. And that's what it's all about....
There’s nothing worse on a road trip than battling the ZZZ’s while driving (except maybe a jack rabbit destroying your vehicle), so a chain of coffee shops has created an app called Drive Awake that tracks a drivers’ drowsiness and directs them to the closest coffee shop whenever they nod off....
Is there anything wrong with a chain of coffee shops trying to drum up a little extra business while they're ensuring drowsy drivers don't end up swerving off the road? Thailand-base Cafe Amazon certainly hopes not. Working with BBDO Proximity, the chain created an iPhone app that monitors drivers for signs of sleepiness, and when it catches them nodding off, it directs them to the closest Cafe Amazon store for a hit of caffeine....
UpOut, an online guide and mobile app for discovering new and unique events in San Francisco, announced today that it has raised an $850,000 round of seed funding....
There are more than 300,000 iPad apps currently available in Apple's App Store -- with all those options, how do you find what you're looking for without wasting your hard-earned cash? SEE ALSO: The 15 Best Free iPad Games To help you out, we've compiled a list of the 25 best free iPad apps that you can download at no cost, right now.
