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Financial Times circumvents Apple app store to launch app

Jun 8, 2011
Well, this will be fun to watch play out. The oddly colored newspaper Financial times has launched a new app that works on the iPad but doesn't...

Great news for tree nerds

Jun 8, 2011
Oh there are tree nerds. Just as there are Dr. Who nerds and Battlestar Galactica nerds and Commodore 64 nerds, there are tree nerds. And now they...

Army tests out consumer-grade smartphones for combat

Jun 3, 2011
The Wall Street Journal reports that starting Monday, the Army start testing on the battlefield the same iPhones and Android phones you buy off the...

ONE app gives you one-stop activism

Jun 2, 2011
ONE is a new app from Radical Media and the Bono backed organization ONE. It's designed to be a resource for civic activism, at least in support of...

Apple approves 500,000th app

May 24, 2011
Or half a millionth app if that sounds better to you. We've known for a while that Apple was the king of apps, at least in terms of most available,...

Need help naming your baby? Social Security is here.

May 23, 2011
The government agency has compiled popular baby names for the past 130 years and built a baby naming app called Baby Name Playroom. You can sort in...

Amazon fights back on "app store"

Apr 27, 2011
As we've told you before, Apple doesn't really want anyone else to use the term "app store". They say it's intellectual property and can only be...

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Brian Setzer: Pothole Cop

Apr 8, 2011
Brian Setzer stopped by our studio recently and of all the things one could talk to him about, I chose pothole apps. Because hey. Tech show. Bri...

Android tosses Shark

Apr 6, 2011
Not a movie. Sadly. Google has removed an application from the music site Grooveshark from the Android Market. Grooveshark lets you post your own...

Senators not happy about apps that help drunk drivers

Mar 24, 2011
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Harry Reid (D-NV), Charles Schumer (D-NY), and Tom Udall (D-NM) have sent a letter to Apple, Google and RIM saying apps...