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With Lyft Line, Passengers Can Split Fares For Shared Rides
On-demand ride-sharing startup Lyft is launching a new product in San Francisco today that it hopes will get more people using its service. Called Lyft Line, the product is designed to lower costs for passengers by having multiple people ride together when they share a common route.
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Facebook Messenger Is No. 1 in App Store, Has One-Star Rating
The Facebook Messenger split has officially arrived, forcing users of the Facebook app to download it — but they're not happy about doing so. This has put the app in the unique position of being the number one free app in the App Store, but with about the most dismal rating an app can have.
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Facebook Puts An End To Apps That Beg For Likes
You’ll now see fewer spammy applications begging you for Facebook Likes. On Thursday, Facebook made some changes to its Platform Policies that will stop app creators from asking users to Like their page in order to view special videos, win prizes, or get other giveaways.
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10 Things You Didn't Know Your iPhone Could Do
You may be missing out on some of its most powerful features.
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Frustrated Mom Creates ‘Ignore No More’ App To Get Teen Kids To Return Calls
Parents in the Tri-State and around the world can relate: Trying to reach your teen by phone, only to get ignored. One frustrated mom decided to do something about it. As CBS 2’s Alice Gainer reports, Sharon Standifird, was livid the day she called and texted her teenagers and they didn’t respond.
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AdDetector will make sure you never mistake a sponsored story for a real one
Sponsored news stories — or what are more politely known as "native ads" — are becoming a fixture of the web, yet it isn't always so easy to tell when an article is sponsored. Google engineer Ian Webster is now trying to solve that problem with a browser extension called AdDetector, which searches out native ads and drops a bright red bar over the top of the page announcing that what you're viewing is a paid promotion
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'Secret' app didn't actually keep you anonymous
Secret is supposed to be the anonymous social network. But until this week, Secret allowed your friends to trace every one of your posts back to you.
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Should so-called "free" apps really be labeled as "free?"
While the world looks towards Cupertino in September for signs of a new iPhone, developers will have an eye on Europe as Google stops listing apps that offer in-app purchases as “Free”.
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Hyperlapse, Instagram’s New App, Is Like a $15,000 Video Setup in Your Hand
Today at 10am PST, Instagram is lifting the veil on Hyperlapse, one of the company’s first apps outside of Instagram itself. Using clever algorithm processing, the app makes it easy to use your phone to create tracking shots and fast, time-lapse videos that look as if they’re shot by Scorsese or Michael Mann.
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Google Glass human emotion detector is by far the creepiest wearable app
You know that old mood ring joke? A husband buys his wife a mood ring and uses the colors to tell whether or not he’s in trouble, and the punch line is when she’s mad, the ring leaves a red mark upside his head? Thanks to Fraunhofer IIS, there’s now a Google Glass app for this experience, complete with a probable smack upside your head or worse should you ever use the app on an unsuspecting person.
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Mobile App Development - iPhone App & Android App: The Hidden and Unexplored Features of HTC One M8
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Google settles with the FTC for $19 million over in-app purchases
Google is now the latest company to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over the ease of in-app purchases, to the tune of $19 million. In a press release from today, the FTC states that the company has agreed to fully refund consumers who claim to be victims of unintended purchases, made mostly by the account-holders' children, as well as to change how in-app purchases work by making the process more obvious.
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Kevin Rose’s New App Tiiny Lets You Share Little Photos That Disappear In 24 Hours
Digg, Milk, and Revision3 founder Kevin Rose recently left Google Ventures to start a new mobile development house called North, and now we have some details..
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Apple Plans To Shut Down Beats Music
Apple will discontinue the streaming music service Beats Music it acquired in May, according to five sources, including several prominent employees at Apple and Beats. Many engineers from Beats Music have already been moved off the product and onto other projects at Apple, including iTunes.
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19-mile Uber ride to concert cost Colorado mom $106; ride home cost $443
A Parker mom was in sticker shock when she found out her Uber ride from Pepsi Center back to Parker cost $443. Tracy Reed used Uber - the transportation service that allows someone to request a car in the area via an app - to get five people from her Parker home to the Elton John concert at Pepsi Center on Saturday night.
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Top 10 Flashlight Apps Are Stealing Your Data, Even Pics Off Your Phone
The makers of some of the most widely used flashlight apps for smart phones are doing more than just helping you find your lost car keys, they are geo-locating you and stealing your data. At least, that is the claim being made by Snoopwall LLC. Snoopwall is the world’s first “counterveillance” company and according the founder, Gary Miliefsky in a web exclusive interview with Benswann.com, the top ten flashlight apps are stealing you data.
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This New App Lets You Visit the Dermatologist from Your Phone
Spruce is the latest to join the virtual office of docs you can download, focusing on a specialty that can diagnose your selfies for symptoms — dermatology.
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Apple Rejects Launcher, The App That Lets You Launch Other Apps From iOS 8 Notification Center
Apple doesn’t care for apps that let you launch other apps directly from the Notification Center, and has pulled one of the first apps to take advantage of this new functionality now available in iOS 8 from the iTunes App Store. We took a look at Launcher, the app in question, last week, and found it to be a convenient and clever way to access your favorite apps or common actions (like texting a friend, placing a call, etc.) without having to swipe through your homescreens or tap multiple times.
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Facebook Reportedly Building a New App Where Everyone's Anonymous
The plan marks a departure from company policy to have users disclose their identities or risk being booted from the network
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Two Teenage Girls Have Invented the Most Powerful Video Game of the Year
It comes with a very different kind of arsenal.
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