On the plus side, the app sells rooms around the clock, unlike other apps that are not in operation for parts of the day.
If Luddite CEOs could grasp the power of using apps for everything from seeing their appointments for the day, to checking into flights, to reading news and analyst reports, they might see an application of the device to their company.
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Downloaded three million times since it debuted in 2011, it is the most popular of the same-day booking apps, with rooms available from noon, local time, daily.
The Android-based system also offers access to thousands of useful and entertaining apps to keep the user up-to-date on the important information of the day, their social networks, and more.
With over half a million different apps on the App Store, and hundreds of games released every day, you really need to stand out from the rest to be noticed.
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Altogether, around 125 seasoned technologists and girls of all ages spent the day brainstorming and building apps to submit to the challenge.
It currently has an average of nearly 4 stars on the Google Play site, where Android users download apps, and tech review website Pocket-Lint named it "app of the day" last year.
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Now mobile users now spend an average of 94 minutes per day using apps, but just 72 minutes browsing the mobile Web, according to Flurry's report, which was released earlier this month on the company's blog.
Live Apps bring information right to the Start screen, such as the Groupon deal of the day, flight information and news headlines.
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You can set it up to allow your children to open certain apps, you can set the time limits on use sensibly (including time of day as well as total time per day) and you could manage the websites they visited.
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Fast-forward to present day and the way of all things which brings us to apps, more specifically to Tonara.
After ensuring there wouldn't be any kinks in approving the app, ZeptoLab settled on April 18, a Thursday, the day of each week when Apple touts a new set of apps.
Mobile apps have become the proverbial Swiss Army Knife of shopping, helping consumers shop a dozen times a day rather than 2-3 times per week.
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For the National Day of Civic Hacking, participants will focus on producing full, production ready apps and visualization tools that will be featured on the We the People website and made available under an open source license.
The video above also runs you through the big news of the day, namely that Android Market can now be accessed via a dedicated website and apps downloaded to your device remotely, along with the equally important (for devs) addition of in-app purchases.
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