When I was younger I used to get 'lost' in Walmart on purpose just so I could hear my name on the intercom" "I act like I love single life. But in reality, I'd give anything to be the couple everyone stares at." "I won $50,000 on a scratch ticket. I haven't told anyone yet" If the measure of a social network is how much users share about themselves, then Whisper may already rank near the top.
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The Rise of Whisper: How Cartoons and Tiger Woods Led to a Hit App 0
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Parallels Access 2 review: Control your Mac (or PC) from your iPad or iPhone 1
July 10th at 5:02pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsParallels Access 2.0 is a remote-access app that lets you view and control your Mac or Windows machine from any iOS device. You can connect either over a local network, or (as long as both machines are connected to the Internet) over the Internet....
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Microsoft acquires iOS email app Acompli, plans to integrate with Outlook 0
December 1st at 8:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsMicrosoft's presence on Apple's iOS continues to grow with the acquisition of Acompli, a popular mobile email client that first debuted earlier this year on the iPhone.
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Woman fired after disabling work app that tracked her movements 24/7 1
May 13th at 2:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsA woman in California claims to have been fired from her job after uninstalling an app on her smartphone that her employer used to track her movements 24 hours a day. Myrna Arias, a former employee of money transfer firm Intermex, says she was told to keep her phone on at all times and was dismissed weeks after being "scolded" for uninstalling the app. She's now suing Intermex for violating her privacy and wrongful termination, among other allegations....
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Slack, you've got company. WeChat just launched its own office messaging app. 0
April 18th at 11:05pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsWeChat Enterprise is free and currently only available in Chinese via apps for iOS, Android, Windows, and OS X.
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4 Tips for Turning App Downloaders Into Subscribers 0
December 1st at 11:47am / Mashable / 0 opinionsApp stores aren’t just for selling games – they have also become increasingly important distribution channels for online services. Many companies are developing mobile...
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FB Launches Facebook Camera – An Instagram-Style Photo Filtering, Sharing, Viewing iOS App 0
May 24th at 10:00am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsInsta-who? Today Facebook begins rolling out Facebook Camera for iOS to English-speaking countries, a standalone photos app where you can shoot, filter, and share single or sets of photos and scroll through a feed of photos uploaded to Facebook by your friends. Developed by Facebook’s photos team without the help of Instagram because the acquisition deal hasn’t closed yet, Facebook Camera looks a lot like the app TechCrunch leaked images of a year ago, and is designed for quicker publishing than Faceboo...
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LogMeIn brings remote Mac or PC access for free on iOS 0
December 23rd at 2:22am / The Verge / 0 opinionsLogMeIn just released an iOS app that gives you basic remote access to a Mac or PC from your iPhone or iPad for free. This kind of software has been around for years now — Windows XP had the capability sort of built in, and there are third party apps like Go To My PC and Symantec's PC Anywhere. Like its predecessors, LogMeIn works with a program you install on your PC and lets you access and control your computer, edit files, run applications, or troubleshoot — though we're not sure you'd want to...
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Daily App Deals: Get PowerAmp for Android for $1.99 in Today’s App Deals 0
March 2nd at 10:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. PowerAmp (Android Market) Previously $4.99, now $1.99. PowerAmp for Android is a powerful, full-featured music player and our pick for Android's best, with support for multiple formats, a ten-band graphic equalizer and customizable UI. Get it for $1.99. (via Android Police) iOS iOS
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Defining the new office suite: 5 essential apps for work 0
September 1st at 9:00am / GigaOM / 0 opinionsWith the adoption of iPads, tablets and smartphones into our work flow instead of just sitting at a laptop computer here are five categories of apps positioned well for becoming a fundamental part of our day to day work environment in this mobile era.
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Having it all: Accessing files from the road 0
October 31st at 6:00am / Macworld / 0 opinionsReader Aiden Andrews is planning to venture out but would like some of his most important files available to him. He writes:...
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QuickBooks Online for iPad a limited app with potential 2
March 20th at 11:22pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsLast February, Intuit released an addition to its QuickBooks Online offering, an iOS app called QuickBooks Online for iPad that allow access to your QuickBooks data without requiring you to be pinned to your desk. While it’s clearly a first generation app—which means it doesn’t have all the features I’d like to see in an app of this sort—QuickBooks Online for iPad has the potential to ease your estimating and invoicing while you’re on the road....
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Speek easy: This startup wants to disrupt the conference call market with simplicity and WebRTC 0
May 22nd at 5:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsThere were somewhere in the region of 45 billion minutes of audio-only conference calls in North America in 2012, a stat that bodes well for the future of Speek....
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Perch lets you create an always-on telepresence portal between two iOS devices 0
September 5th at 7:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsPerch has rebooted its iOS app with a new focus on linking up two remote offices through an always-on video conference....
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Fiverr hits the iPhone to let you buy weird and wonderful services on the go 0
December 10th at 5:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsFiverr, the marketplace that allows people to offer their services to others for as little as $5, has made today made its mobile app debut with the launch of an iOS version....
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Fleksy gesture-based keyboard SDK now available to all iOS developers 0
February 20th at 6:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsJust over two months after launching a new SDK for their gesture-based keyboard into beta, Fleksy on Thursday announced that the free program is now open to all developers and that a slew of new apps have come on board.
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Apple's iOS App Store puts 20 productivity titles on sale for limited time 1
August 8th at 7:51am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple on Thursday kicked off a limited-time-only promotion for select iOS productivity apps, including popular titles like Scanner Pro, Fantastical 2 and Writer Pro.
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Microsoft Launches Outlook For iOS And Android 0
January 29th at 11:23am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsMicrosoft today launched Outlook for Android and iOS phones and tablets, based on the application it acquired when it bought Acompli last December. These new applications will go live in their respective app stores over the course of the next few hours.These new applications will go live in their respective app stores over the course of the next few hours.
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Microsoft Introduces Send, A Short-Form Email App That Works More Like Instant Messaging 1
July 22nd at 5:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsMicrosoft today is introducing a new application aimed at reducing the time it takes to check and respond to email while on your smartphone. With Send, as the app is called, the idea is to make email perform more like instant messaging, as it does away with more formal email constructs – like the subject line, for example – in favor of quicker, shorter messages that you can dash…
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5 Ways to Take Advantage of the iPad for Business 0
July 20th at 8:24am / Mashable / 0 opinionsSure, the iPad is a great device for viewing videos and photos, playing games and surfing the web, but it can also be an excellent, super-portable addition to the...
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The iPhone gets a business card reader app...and it works! (just about). 0
November 2nd at 6:30pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsIf you’re anything like me, you’ve got drawers, bags and pockets full of business cards – and they don’t belong to you. Business cards are in fact still a very…
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Daily App Deals: Get the Spring 2012 Mac SuperBundle for $49 in Today’s App Deals 0
April 18th at 9:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. iOS iOS
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Daily App Deals: Get EasyMoney for Android for Free in Today’s App Deals 0
January 19th at 10:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. EasyMoney (Amazon Appstore) Previously $9.95, now Free. EasyMoney for Android allows you manage your finances while on the go. Features include the ability to track expenses, plan your budgets, and more. There is also a widget for your home screen for quicker access and notifications for reminding you of bills you have due. Get it for Free. (via Apps-aholic) iOS...