Microsoft today is introducing a new application aimed at reducing the time it takes to check and respond to email while on your smartphone. With Send, as the app is called, the idea is to make email perform more like instant messaging, as it does away with more formal email constructs – like the subject line, for example – in favor of quicker, shorter messages that you can dash…
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Microsoft Introduces Send, A Short-Form Email App That Works More Like Instant Messaging 1
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Apple offers 99-cent sale pricing on 24 apps for limited time 2
July 17th at 6:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple on Thursday rolled out another of its limited-time-only iOS App Store sections, this time featuring 24 apps on sale for 99 cents each, including popular titles like Pixelmator and GoodReader, as well as hit games Shadowmatic and The Room Two.
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Convo Follows Its Desktop Revamp With New Mobile Apps 0
July 14th at 5:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsA week after launching new web and Mac desktop applications, collaboration is releasing new versions of its mobile apps, too.CEO Faizan Buzdar has said that the relaunches reflect an attempt to rebuild Convo “from the ground up,” and that the company would be bringing these changes to all its platforms. (The redesign hasn’t been a huge hit with the TechCrunch team, though…
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Scanner Pro 6 simplifies scanning documents with your iPhone 1
July 5th at 8:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsIf you need to scan a document these days, you're often presented with two choices: find an actual scanner (good luck), or use your phone's camera. Many of us opt for the latter, but scanning apps can be clunky, and sometimes produce unreadable images, which completely defeats the purpose of using one. The newest version of the Scanner Pro app, which came out this week for iOS users, suffers none of those problems and even offers a few clever options that make scanning documents even easier....
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SQFT is a Real Estate App to Help Homeowners Slash Broker Commissions 0
June 22nd at 11:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsIf you’ve ever bought or sold a home, you know how expensive a six percent real estate commission can be. SQFT is an app that helps reduce these fees by allowing you to buy and sell a home without the need of a real estate agent.After downloading the app and deciding you want to list your home, SQFT walks you through all the steps needed to create a listing. The software will help…
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Stripe Now Has An iPhone App For Monitoring Payment Activity 1
June 9th at 8:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsStripe, a service that companies can use to accept payments, has a new way for businesses to track purchases and user activity — an iPhone app.The new iPhone app does basically everything its existing online dashboard does, but brings it to an interface more suited for a mobile device. Businesses can also set up notifications for whenever a payment or purchase is made or set up a…
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“Slack For Data” App Chartcube Launches On Desktop And iPhone 0
June 4th at 1:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsCollaborating on data is burdensome and often results in increasingly unwieldy email chains loaded with multiple PowerPoint and Excel attachments. A startup called Chartcube wants to make sharing and editing charts as easy as texting.
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Tendr Is Tinder For Finding Your Next Equity Crowdfunding Investment 0
June 4th at 1:03am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsQ: What do you get when you combine the swipe-to-like mechanism, popularized by dating app Tinder, with a wealth of potential equity crowdfunding investment opportunities?
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Egnyte Updates Its Enterprise File Sharing Apps, Hits Up The Apple Watch 1
May 19th at 10:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsEgnyte, a company that focuses on enterprise file sharing, providing an intelligent layer between cloud solutions and on-premises storage, updated its mobile apps today, adding the Apple Watch to its stack. The company’s mobile refresh includes its Android, iOS and Windows apps.
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Groupon Launches Breadcrumb Live To Bring Point-Of-Sale Management To The iPhone 3
May 18th at 6:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsGroupon has been expanding its footprint beyond daily deals for some time, and today the company is doubling down on its investment in its restaurant point-of-sale system Breadcrumb with a new app designed to bring live sales data to the iPhone. With Breadcrumb Live, the company is offering restaurant owners the ability to pull up sales information, check counts, performance trends and…
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Woman fired after disabling work app that tracked her movements 24/7 1
May 13th at 2:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsA woman in California claims to have been fired from her job after uninstalling an app on her smartphone that her employer used to track her movements 24 hours a day. Myrna Arias, a former employee of money transfer firm Intermex, says she was told to keep her phone on at all times and was dismissed weeks after being "scolded" for uninstalling the app. She's now suing Intermex for violating her privacy and wrongful termination, among other allegations....
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Roundup: The best and most interesting third-party apps for your new Apple Watch 1
April 24th at 10:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsWith newly-delivered Apple Watch units now on the wrists of the lucky, users will undoubtedly be looking to try out the best launch-day apps for their latest purchase. AppleInsider offers a roundup of some prominent and essential launch-day apps, divided by category.
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The 9 best apps for Apple Watch you can get right now 0
April 24th at 5:49pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsApple has the best smartphone ecosystem, the best tablet ecosystem, and as of today, the best smartwatch ecosystem when it comes to apps. But the app story is dramatically different on the Watch in a way that you won't quite understand until you start to use one. Where on the iPhone and iPad, apps are almost everything that you do, on the Apple Watch, apps really aren't something you want to play around with. In fact, you may often find yourself wondering why you'd use some of these apps at all....
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25 Apple Watch apps you need on your wrist 0
April 24th at 4:05pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsHappy downloading!
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4 must-have Apple Watch apps for getting work done from your wrist 0
April 22nd at 1:42pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsCollaborate with coworkers without diving too deep into a project with these essential Apple Watch apps.
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Some 1,500 iOS apps exposed to serious HTTPS vulnerability, analytics firm says 0
April 21st at 5:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApproximately 1,500 iOS apps are exposed to a vulnerability that could let a hacker bypass HTTPS security and steal passwords and other sensitive data, according to research released on Monday.
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Microsoft updates Office 2016 for Mac Preview, intros new iPhone apps for Office 365 0
April 15th at 6:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsMicrosoft on Wednesday released an updated version of the Office 2016 for Mac Preview, cleaning up bug and performance problems while adding new features, as the company also simultaneously launched two new Office 365 apps for the iPhone, Office Delve and Office 365 Video.
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A revamped Microsoft Delve looks like a corporate mashup of Facebook and LinkedIn 0
April 15th at 12:22am / Macworld / 0 opinionsDelve has leaped beyond curating documents to curating everything about you and your job. There's even a blog and mobile apps.
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Contentious 'After School' returns to App Store, '1Password for Mac' gets time-based two-step verification 0
April 7th at 11:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsThe controversial high school messaging app After School has returned to the iOS App Store after a fourth-month ban, while 1Password for Mac has been updated with a time-based two-step verification system, and Adobe's Reader app for iOS has been rebranded and relaunched under the Acrobat DC flag.
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LinkedIn Buys Refresh.io To Add Predictive Insights To Its Products 1
April 2nd at 6:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsLinkedIn, the social network for professionals with nearly 350 million users, has been making a push into the area of anticipatory computing, where its platform effectively predict what information you need to know, when you need it. Today, comes the latest development in that strategy: the company has acquired and will be closing down Refresh.io, a startup and iOS app of the same name…
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Microsoft’s Office Lens app turns your iPhone or Android phone into a powerful scanner 2
April 2nd at 12:18pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsMicrosoft is bringing one of its impressive Windows Phone apps to iOS and Android today. Office Lens is effectively a portable scanner in your pocket, allowing you to capture pictures of whiteboards, documents, and receipts to save and edit them digitally. While many apps like Scanner Pro, Scanbot, and even Evernote already exist, Microsoftâs unique offering here is Office integration....
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The plying game: An inside look at the voracious, insatiable world of App Store reviews 0
April 2nd at 3:30am / Macworld / 0 opinionsDevelopers understand the importance of a good App Store rating, but are they really worth all the trouble?
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Haystack’s New App Wants To Be Your Digital Business Card 0
March 17th at 5:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsOver the years, a number of startups have attempted to kill the business card, but these antiquated pieces of paper have managed to stick around, despite our move to a digital age. However, that doesn’t mean people will stop trying to end the reign of the business card once and for all. The latest example? A newly launched mobile application called Haystack combines the ability for users…
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Audvisor Raises $1.4M To Deliver Expert Advice In Three-Minute Audio Clips 1
March 13th at 9:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsIf you’re the kind of person who’s got a pile of business books on your desk, books that make you think, “God, when am I going to have the time to read these?” — well, you might want to check a new smartphone app called Audvisor.The startup offers advice in the form of three-minute audio clip from more than 100 contributors like author/blogger Seth Godin…