Sentences with phrase «many smartphone apps»

A Perth - based technology startup has struck a deal under which 10 million students in the US could be using its smartphone app.

The Silicon Valley startup's «smart pill» platform, Discover, helps doctors track patients» biometrics — and whether or not they're sticking to a drug protocol — with the help of ingestible (and on - the - body) sensors that communicate with a smartphone app.

Hearing - aid companies themselves are innovating, adding smartphone apps that let people use their phone as an extra microphone in a noisy place.

The same goes for connected toothbrushes and bathroom scales, both of which allow users to track progress through related smartphone apps.

A new smartphone app from the SBA aims to equip startups like Flawless Group with a wealth of small - business information.

The connected panties come with — get this — a built - in vibrator that's controlled via a smartphone app connected to the underwear via Bluetooth.

The start - up's vest is controlled via the Thin Ice smartphone app, where users can adjust temperatures, track estimated calories burned and set weight - loss goals.

Every car that's registered is fitted with a device that allows renters to unlock a car via a smartphone app.

Five years after CEO Travis Kalanick co-founded the company, whose smartphone app lets passengers request pickups from affiliated vehicles, the Uber network spans more than 200 cities in six continents.

Drven's product, called Ke (pronounced «key»), is a small fob that plugs into the same telemetry port a mechanic would access and wirelessly transmits to a smartphone app — kind of like a Fitbit for your car.

IKEA and Converse, respectively, already allow users to envision pieces of furniture in their homes or shoes on their feet in real time using smartphone apps.

One of the things Salesforce does better than most is cram nearly all its features into a powerful smartphone app.

Mojio is a startup that wants to put everything you can ever want to know about your vehicle into the palm of your hand via a smartphone app.

Mojio is a little box that plugs into any car's maintenance data port, beaming out information about the car's internal state, so the driver can use smartphone apps (either supplied by Mojio, or by third parties) to do anything from monitor their car's fuel economy to find parking spots.

Here's a look at the pros and cons of four smartphone apps that can help take your customer loyalty to the next level:

The new team furiously started spitting out added features and new versions of Skype every four to six weeks, and dove into significant new businesses, including smartphone apps, deals to embed Skype in consumer products like TVs and game consoles, and partnerships with Facebook and Verizon Wireless (VZ).

Its battery charge is longer (10 days), its electronics more elegantly housed, its companion smartphone apps better thought - out.

Uber will have ten days to cut off its smartphone apps in Italy, but has said it will appeal the decision.

Polar, whose smartphone app clients have included Condé Nast and CBS Sports, has inked a deal with RIM to develop more than 100 exclusive apps for RIM's new PlayBook tablet computer, which launches April 19.

Smartphone apps can also help you to edit your footage and photos, turning them into great social media posts in just a few taps and swipes.

Like Sprig, you manage Washio through a smartphone app to schedule your pickup and drop off times.

Tencent Holdings, which has the WeChat smartphone app, is bucking this trend.

With GasBuddy.com's smartphone app, you can instantly find local gas stations with the best prices.

Uses for consumers go much further, like Ikea's smartphone app that lets people get a virtual preview of how furniture or appliances might look in their homes.

Released in 2010, the smartphone app dominated the Chinese mobile messaging marketplace and most of its 272 million month - to - month users are in China.

In 2013, however, Tencent spent $ 200 million on overseas marketing campaigns to promote its smartphone app in markets such as Italy, Spain, South Africa and India.

Expensify Expensify is a smartphone app that allows you to scan your receipts for work - related expenses.

The cost of entry to entrepreneurship is lower than ever, due to smartphone apps and powerful free tools to create websites and ecommerce offerings.

They can be accessed using a smartphone app.

Yes, technically, Lyft and its ride - hailing arch-rival Uber do the exact same thing: Provide smartphone apps that customers use to hail rides that are often cheaper or easier to find than a taxi.

These startups let people reserve a local scooter from a smartphone app, ride for a small fee, and, at the end of the journey, leave the scooter wherever to be claimed by the next rider.

Also imminent from Ford is the 2011 Fiesta, which will be the first car on the market to deliver voice - controlled smartphone apps via AppLink, a downloadable software for the company's already popular FordSync technology.

It also found that the cars kept moving when the smartphone app was closed.

Smartphone apps that track a user's location to identify potential mates nearby are gaining popularity, but at what cost?

According to a Three spokesman and Shine itself, it will block most pre-roll video ads and about 95 percent of banner ads and popups — not just in browsers, but in smartphone apps as well.

If a smartphone app requiring comparatively little in capital investment can send that industry into disarray, then few businesses are safe from change.

Their smartphone app Uber lets users summon a black car or cab with a tap on a virtual map and track the driver's ETA.

The app Once installed, users track their Stick - N - Finds with a free smartphone app.

From smartphone apps to television schedules, it seems everything today can be customized to fit the needs of individuals.

A little white Bluetooth - enabled square that can be attached to any item — in a wallet, inside a guitar, stuffed inside a sock — the Tile will ring whenever someone uses a smartphone app to «call» it.

Most recently, another popular consumer brand, T - Mobile, tried to create a debit - card linked account with an accompanying smartphone app for its millions of lower income customers who didn't have regular bank accounts.

The principal argument for that being the case is habit formation: the idea that «our habits are shaped by the way that consumer technologies, such as smartphone apps, are designed to be as addictive as possible.»

Plus, the Fitbit smartphone app is one of the best fitness and nutrition apps out there.

The company has a smartphone app and API that can be used by consumers and local, state, and federal law enforcement and first responder units that makes it unnecessary to have to actually call 911 in the event of an emergency.

A smartphone app also connects to a SIM card embedded in the car and lets the driver see their charge level at any point in time.

Buchanon's thesis is that by gamifying financial lessons and putting them in a smartphone app, he'll reach more people than he did with his book.

CVS / pharmacy (CVS) recently unveiled a smartphone app that displays nearby locations of 970 MinuteClinics across the country.

It's also a brigade of courageous, enterprising patients themselves who are making the most of that tech — from innovative smartphone apps to social media to online genomic databases to telemedicine.

In 2017, Griffin even introduced the «connected toaster,» which comes with a Bluetooth connection and a smartphone app.

On the other hand, an AI - based smartphone app can now fill in for a personal sommelier, making suggestions for the perfect bottle of wine based on tastes and preferences.