Some cloners simply copy the images of a well-known app or use the app's name to cash in on the original app's popularity.
Launching in early 2012, this yet-to-be-name app will allow 800 million Facebook users to pull home energy usage data provided by their utility provider (the non-Oprah-Winfrey-related Opower works with a growing network of more than 60 utility companies across the country) and share it, warts and all, with fellow Facebookers.
The TV show launched simultaneously with an iPhone app of the same name.
To the right lies a grid of icons, on the Z10 arranged in a 4 x 4 matrix of rectangular tiles, each holding an app icon and a name.
Now the Rovio app is a household name, so much so that in October 2010, when Angry Birds launched on Android, it resulted in a million downloads in 24 hours.
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Robyn Spoto, a mother of young children herself, is President of Mamabear, a company makes an app of the same name that serves the specific purpose to help parents have this dialogue with children.
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Following an apparent rejection of our suggestion of "Immaculate Collection, " Palm's Developer Network site suggests that the official name of its app store for webOS is simply going to be "App Catalog".
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As of today, customers on Sprint, Boost Mobile or Virgin Mobile USA can download the app from Android Market under the name "Wireless Accessibility EN" for English and "Wireless Accessibility ES" for Spanish.
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As its name implies, the ISIS app functions like a digital version of a wallet.
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The app allows users to not only share the standard name, company, email and phone number, but also their Facebook address, Twitter handle, LinkedIn profile and more.
She also is enthused about plans for a smartphone app that will allow people to punch in the name of a person buried here and locate their grave.
If customers do business with you because you remember their face, name and what they like, there is no app for that.
Shoppers can use the Card Case app to search for businesses that are also using the service, then use the app to pay their bill, by giving the merchant their name.
Users of the Obama 2012 - Are You In? app are not only giving the campaign personal data like their name, gender, birthday, current city, religion and political views, they are sharing their list of friends and information those friends share, like their birthday, current city, religion and political views.
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Enhanced Editions, a U.K. book-app publisher founded in 2008, released enhanced titles from big-name authors such as Stephen King, Barack Obama, Nick Cave and Hilary Mantel.
With the TV, too, you can wade through various programs, as well as search for sports content or ask the app to switch to a certain channel (saying either the channel name or number will work).
Pinterest is an app for adding things of interest to a digital pinboard (thus the name).
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His latest startup, going by the name of PaPa, is somewhat like the popular photo sharing app Instagram but with more bells and whistles.
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So, customers wouldn't use, say, Paydiant's app at checkout, they would use one with the store's name on it and assign any card they wanted to it.
Customers purchasing a subscription through the App Store will be given the option of providing the publisher with their name, email address and zip code when they subscribe.
Contacts: App tells user how many contacts they have and speaks the contact's name they selected.
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After WhatsApp reached the top of the app-store rankings, WhatsApp employees noticed that other apps were hijacking its name to ride its coattails.
Just tap and hold on an app and drag it over another app to make a folder -- iOS even takes a guess at a name for you.
So in settings, you can enter user name and password, and auto configured for Twitter for any Twitter app, no need to log in every time.
Breadcrumb POS, which is the official name of yesterday's leaked point-of-sale iPad app, is now officially available, bringing a simple interface and a handful of financial incentives.
To boot, Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play is just around the bend, and if Amazon's able to launch its own app store, why not push out a game-centric one from a name that people already know and trust?
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After downloading the app and opening a game account (for which I was denied the user name "RealGilbertGottfried") I soon learned that Ruzzle consists of three two-minute rounds in which you and your opponent each get 16 letters placed in four rows of four that can be linked together to create words by gliding your finger over the screen at any connecting angle.
But for key apps like Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo, Fandango and Foursquare (just to name a few), you're stuck using a stretched phone app.
Apple just let go its senior director of iOS services, Richard Williamson, in a move that lops another name off of the list of company minds behind the flawed Apple Map app.
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Never willing to cede too much ground to dedicated devices, the smartphone world has also gotten into the act, with Windows Phone 8 supporting a special class of camera apps Microsoft has burdened with the confusing name "Lenses" (not to be confused with the City Lens app from its close partner Nokia).
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