Sentences with phrase «big app for»

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«If I want to change the colour to blue for dinnertime, I have to pull out my phone, open the app... It's a big pain in the butt, so I'm not going to do it,» he says.

It's already signed up companies like NBCUniversal and CBS to create content for its app, a strategic move for big media firms trying to reach younger viewers.

I'm a big Apple Watch fan, and it is more capable — you can't respond to texts from the Fitbit Versa, or load it with apps — but that might not matter to you if you're into the idea of a smartwatch for its fitness features.

You could also earn some tips in the process so it's a great option for people that are looking to do something in their spare time, similar to the big ride - sharing apps that are hogging up app stores everywhere.

We discussed JP Morgan's would - be deal, the challenges of Uber's new board, CEO angst, the latest round of sexual harassment accusations in Silicon Valley and how the industry can respond, and a big new round of funding for meditation app Headspace.

Somewhere along the line many of us have grown accustomed to using tools from Facebook, Google, Amazon and other big companies to log in to websites and apps, instead of creating new usernames and passwords for each one.

For example, employees installing apps can «create a big security hole in the system because you're losing control of who has access to what,» says Tobok.

Speaking to BuzzFeed, Marcus explicitly challenged the narrative that Messenger Kids is a feeder product for «the big blue app.»

If I were to point out the single biggest driver for your app's discoverability, on or off the app store, it has to be the name or title of your app.

The logic changed from «The photos disappear — Snapchat must be for sexting» to «Facebook made a disappearing photos app — disappearing photos must be the next big thing!»

Most big companies use Microsoft's software, and the company has made it really easy for these customers to use its cloud for everything from securing their mobile devices to hosting their apps.

Not much different from the year before, when then - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick said: «We don't view the App Store as a really big opportunity for dedicated games.

«I think the biggest benefit [of using Flipboard] for a business owner is that you can curate the app to give you information that's the most relevant to you, regardless of the source,» Honigman says.

«The big challenge is that the level of computer power that one of these things needs is pretty high,» Wilcove says, adding that as the market evolves, he can imagine a communications app for far - flung business meetings «where you're all virtually sitting around the table in different locations with one of these headsets on, James Bond - style.»

A particularly hot area for new companies is location - based apps (Loopt and Foursquare are the big ones right now) that work with smartphones» GPS capabilities.

To mark Apple's big day, we checked the numbers to revisit several of the most downloaded apps for business.

«There's so many interesting applications out there, yet for me, there's still [a] very small number of apps that are fundamental for my day and my week,» Pincus told the FT. «Even if you're a big huge company, or a scrappy entrepreneur, you still have to build a product that resonates with people.»

Apple also made a big deal over two new fitness apps — one for tracking my movements everyday, the other for tracking specific activities like a 5 - mile run — but I wasn't able to test those out.

The 15 - inch is a meaty machine, but if you are mostly looking for the Touch Bar, the 13 - inch works fine and will make a big impact on your workflow with apps like Word and Photoshop.

Because the thing that developers ask for more than anything is a bigger market for their apps.

This is big news, not because other apps don't already offer the feature (Google Docs, for one) but because it is the established tool in business.

You might already use Slack or Convo today, two of the most popular apps in this space, but the big news here is that, with a simple click if you're already using Microsoft Office 365 for word processing and email, you can now chat with colleagues, exchange documents, start a Skype phone call, and communicate in real - time.

The bigger the market is for the apps, the more developers, and the more great content.

When the company launched Discover, the special content hub within its app in January and its biggest bet on making money, it included content channels from a few partner publishers, as well as one for its own material, such as short series, and music videos.

But here's the big news: an astounding 78 % used mobile apps for customer service purposes.

But by removing all human contact, they're making their app less valuable, so that they'll never get big enough for «how does it scale?»

So far most of the government apps seem modest in scope (think: Mapping crime reports or finding out when the next train will come), but O'Reilly suggested that this is only the beginning and that the approach can work for big problems like rising health care costs, poorly performing schools, and climate change.

Perhaps big, beloved Web brands like YouTube, the Times, and Instagram will eventually agree to share all of their content inside tweets in Twitter apps for small, per user carriage fees.

Priceline.com founder and entrepreneur Jay Walker launched a new company Tuesday that uses big data analytics, cloud computing, and a mobile app to turn flexibility into dollars for business travelers.

If you've ever helped friends pivot a couch upstairs only to find out it's too big to fit or wondered how many square feet of flooring tile you'll need for your kitchen, then an AR tape measure app might be the one for you.

But perhaps the biggest selling point of Concur's app is what it means for expense reporting.

Make Mobile Security a Big Deal The app rush is far from over, and the growth of both smartphone and tablet PC platforms is about to create a bonanza for malware creators looking to cash in via the back door.

Most interesting about the Locationary news is that CEO Grant Ritchie (also the co-founder of CanadianHotelGuide.com) wrote an opinion piece for TechCrunch last September entitled «5 Big Map App Issues Apple Must Solve.»

My biggest problem with the iPhone X is that many apps haven't adapted properly for the new screen size and shape.

At $ 30 - $ 75 per month, which includes other benefits like syncing, sharing and cloud storage, this instantly makes such apps affordable for more than just professional designers employed by enterprise or big media and advertising firms.

If you're an aspiring mobile app entrepreneur, your first big decision is which operating system to develop your application for: Apple's iOS or Google's Android.

Entrepreneurs and big companies dream up apps for the darndest things.

The biggest challenge, however, is getting developers to write apps for the new operating system that will run on BlackBerry 10.

For example, a sports team could create a mobile app in which each time familiar fans enter the stadium and walk by a certain big screen, a nearby beacon would sense that they are near and trigger the fans» faces to come on screen.

Overcast was already the best app to listen to podcasts on before this year, but a big update in 2015 made it free for everyone.

«The biggest selling point for me was the extensive app library.

In Indonesia, the region's biggest economy and most populous country with more than 250 million people, it's in a fierce battle for customers with local app Go - Jek, which has backing from Google and Tencent.

His latest project, The Human Face of Big Data, uses photographs, infographics, and even an app to attempt to both tell the story of how we use this astonishing glut of data and, for one day — October 2nd — take the temperature of humanity.

Some of the cloud tools that will be available include Google App Engine for building apps, Google BigQuery for storing and sifting through large amounts of data, and Cloud Machine Learning for detecting patterns across big datasets.

Like many things about Android, of course, Apple's iOS did it first and did it bigger; in January the iPhone maker settled with the FTC for exactly the same problem with its own app store for $ 32.5 million.

We are also excited to release our iPhone and iPad app this week, so SXSW will be a big unveil for us.

A start - up that makes it easy for developers to add telephone calls and texting to Web sites and mobile apps wins a $ 70 million investment, and another start - up that brings Big Data to college search raises $ 4 million.

For example, imagine you have a row of tabs on the main part of your app, and whenever you hover over one, it pops up, growing bigger and changing colors dynamically.

Before Warner's call, Senate Intel member Ron Wyden — one of the biggest privacy advocates in Congress — issued a letter to Zuckerberg seeking answers on a number of detailed points on Monday, including how many privacy audits the company has conducted for apps on its platform and if Facebook has ever notified individual users of privacy violations of this nature.

Maybe there's two people who used the app and they asked for relatively innocuous data — so the chance that that is a big issue is a lot lower than an app that was widely in circulation.