If you use an Android device, consider using an app manager to block apps from being used without your permission.
The business, called VMWare Horizon App Manager, enables users to access email, document, spreadsheet and other programs remotely, onto all kinds of devices.
There's also a freshened up UI look, a Download Manager App, user-definable App Groups, encryption for data both on the device and its SD card, improvements in battery life while using WiFi and Bluetooth, and the obligatory stability fixes.
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The data will be uploaded to BodyMedia's mobile app and online Activity Manager, providing one-stop information access from a single interface.
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Other pre-installed apps include the Amazon app store, Application Manager, FileShare, WildTangent Games, Polaris Office (which can be uninstalled), SmartShare for WiFi Direct connections and Slacker Radio.
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Like its previous Android products, ASUS has thrown in its usual bundle of apps: App Backup, App Locker, File Manager, Mirror, MyDesktop (powered by Splashtop Remote), MyLibrary, MyNet (DLNA), Polaris Office 4.0, SuperNote, Watch Calendar and WebStorage.
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The update is quietly being pushed out as a software update for the DVR itself, and should appear automatically for users on the web or in their iOS app's DVR manager ( Android users can access it as well, but via the browser).
For the Grove app, Phunware tasked a program manager and a core team to focus on its design, meeting with Caruso twice a week to stay on point.
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Called Business Pro, it consists of 16 apps made by a range of companies, including an expense tracker, currency calculator, business card reader, task manager and GPS navigation app.
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The app, founded last year by former Google engineering manager David Aubespin, makes it quick for conference participants to find and connect others.
Long-pressing the Home button brings you to an app switcher exhibiting six of your most recently active apps, with a Task Manager loitering with malicious intent beneath them.
"We are committed to bring Skype Video Calling to as many platforms as possible and are delighted to deliver on this with our new updated Skype for Android app, " said Neil Stevens, Skype's vice president and general manager for product and marketing.
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The app will include new personalization features, although Christy Tanner, executive vice president general manager of TV Guide Mobile and TVGuide.com, wouldn't elaborate on specifics.
Christy Tanner, the general manager of TV Guide Digital, used existing online properties to promote the initial mobile app and then worked to improve it as her team learned how people were using it.
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"The Nick App creates a new platform unlike anything else available to kids today, " said Steve Youngwood, EVP and General Manager, Digital, Nickelodeon Group.
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