Or get AppShopper ( www.appshopper.com) for the iPhone - it lists apps when they drop in price.
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Although it makes apps for iPhones and iPads, Facebook is still not integrated into Apple's mobile operating system, for example.
Until it can rival the Apps Store it cannot claim to have won its battle with Apple, so expect a more coherent content play from Samsung going forward.
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It includes features that appeal to classic Boxee fans like support for DLNA rendering that lets it browse and play files from PCs or other devices on the same network and DMR that lets users push media to it from apps like Skifta.
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What would happen if Apple bought LinkedIn (and 2 or 3 companies like it) and then developed apps for it that drove sales for more Apple products?
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And it has the backing of SAP, which is using it to build all of the 30-some enterprise mobile apps it expects to release in the next half year.
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Again, because the box is running Ubuntu at its core, it can run Linux apps natively, but it also includes shortcuts to webapps as well.
Ditto for that row of apps at the bottom of the screen: though you can use it to launch apps, you can't jump straight to frequently visited web pages or a playlist in Google Music.
The Smart Port Logistics project resulted in a comprehensive IT platform that incorporates mobile apps and makes it possible for traffic information and port-related services to be accessed from mobile devices.
It also means the company can reject apps as it pleases -- say, when a feature competes with an Apple product -- to the occasional displeasure of the developer community.
Google, in announcing Monday what it calls "Google Apps for Government, " said it has gained certification and accreditation under the terms of Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) from the U.S. government.
In a section of the blog post that specifically calls out popular third party clients like Tweetbot and Echofon, it puts them in a zone of Twitter apps that it believes developers "should not build" since they mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter client experience.
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But while it does a whole lot more than other augmented reality apps, it still looks like something you might try out a couple of times, then forget.
WebRTC allows communications between any browser, and it can also be implemented in native apps, making it more flexible and potentially more disruptive.
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Later this year, it will introduce apps that use 2-D barcodes for mobile marketing campaigns.
That sounds like a big number, and it includes important apps such as Skype and Facebook.
Of course, a smartphone is useless as a travel tool unless you load it up with apps.
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Canonical product manager Richard Collins said that Ubuntu has a growing developer community and it supports native apps.
Previously, California law has been used to require privacy policies from websites, but it was unclear if it applied to apps.
The Apple Configurator augmented VPP by letting IT admins unlink apps from employee iTunes accounts and link them to the managed device.
This may prove a disadvantage: developers will need to get used to it before creating apps, so users may at first find they have limited choices.
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Mark Zuckerberg even went so far as to say that relying on it for mobile apps was one of the " biggest mistakes" the company has ever made.
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Spotlight-like, it brings up apps, contacts, links out to websearch.
And as at SAPPHIRE, expect SAP at TechEd to show off the apps it is developing in-house, such as in the areas of field service, retail, and human resources.
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While Microsoft has not specified the number of apps it will debut with, in mid-August it announced 63 WP7 game titles and said it would integrate WP7 with its Xbox Live gaming network.
Google Buzz could create a complete collaborative dial tone but at this point it is not possible to use it with Google Apps, which has the email, contacts, calendar, and shared document functionality.
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Most complaints thus far have centered on Home's failings as an app launcher -- when you install Home on any phone, it rearranges your apps because there's no folder support and no app dock.
To allow people to take advantage of this offer, we have extended the deadline for final submissions to this Challenge to January 19th at 12:00am EDT (and applicants who submit their drafts for review by January 1 will receive feedback by January 7 to allow them to incorporate it into their apps before they submit them as final).
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There are two possible ways Apple could open up the Apple TV platform to third-party app developers: It could allow devs to create dedicated TV apps, or it could more heavily leverage (and open up) the AirPlay feature already baked into Apple TV to port existing iPad apps to the big screen.
It is sort of the Google Now of iPhone apps, except it actually lets you do stuff in the app, like track a package or add a contact.
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