And cloud -
based apps like those offered by Google Drive or Microsoft Office 365 allow you to carry on working without having to install the software first.
The benefits include more room for list -
based apps like Twitter and Facebook and for web - browsing in general, plus for certain movies and TV shows available on Netflix and Amazon Prime.
We're using Twitter to demonstrate here, but other text -
based apps like Google Keep, Wunderlist, Gmail, Facebook, or your favorite messenger app would work just the same.
Pricing on releases will work similar to how the publisher releases its books via DRM -
based apps like Comics by comiXology — cover price on par with print editions to start with a price drop after a month.
You can control phone -
based apps like Pandora, Aha, and Stitcher, but there's no word on backwards compatibility with Apple CarPlay or Android Auto (though Mazda has announced future support for those systems).
Many traditional dating websites are struggling to keep up with location -
based apps like Happn and Tinder.
Now in the age of GPS -
based apps like Tinder that can hook you up with someone instantly, and the way we communicate primarily via text rather than phone calls, this kind of advice falls short.
and other location -
based apps like Highlight.
There are a number of core
base apps like a compass, the iconic BlackBerry alarm clock and stopwatch.
Not exact matches
As with Tinder, scientists who use the
app (called «Papr») will be able to swipe left or right
based on whether or not they
like the, err, prospective paper.
Video conferencing
apps like Google Hangouts can bring multiple callers together in a single space so you can gather the best people for every job, no matter where they're
based.
Using examples
like the above - mentioned, it is made easy to fully integrate into your very own
apps, making for a splendid combination of services that will convenience your existing customer
base and potentially attract new ones.
With the advent of technology &
app -
based services, everything from cabs to groceries is being delivered to your doorstep with a click of a button; but still, the market for on - demand services
like plumbers, electricians & other maintenance services remained un-cracked.
From systems
like Infusionsoft that can turn your customer prospecting and training into trigger
based campaigns to simple calendar reminders and location -
based apps built into our smartphones and tablets.
Abby Ziff, co-founder of Beauteeze.com, a New York -
based spa and salon appointment - scheduling site, has worked at Wix since last January and
likes the opportunity for informal networking with graphic designers and
app developers.
This year it wants to dramatically expand its customer
base outside South America, with popular
apps like PlayKids — which offers streaming, mobile - optimized videos and games for children — and FreeZone, which finds and automatically connects mobile devices to open Wi - Fi networks.
Google debuted the
app in May and pitched it as an easy way for people to conduct multiple online conversations
based on individual topics
like sports and news.
If Apple's iPhone sales are starting to fall flat — something we'll learn for sure when its next earnings report is released Thursday — its challenge will be to retain that user
base and further capitalize on the promise of the
App Store and other digital services
like Apple Pay and Apple Music.
Sure, Twitter and Facebook can tell you what's trending, but I'm really
liking this new
app called Read It For Me, which will match you with a person who has read the top 100 articles, blogs, and listicles and narrowed down everything to three must - reads
based on your interests, plus a bonus longread for the commute home.
Just because something
like musical.ly had never been done before didn't make its success impossible, because new social
app -
based offerings are launched every day.
The
app is
based on a similar approach to DSLR cameras, putting photographic settings
like ISO, white balance, exposure compensation and metering at your fingertips.
So if you're one that doesn't know how to code and yet would
like to build a mobile
app startup
based on an idea, you do have options.
But new mobile
apps can add value to your visit — not only by suggesting the best sessions to attend
based on your past
likes and dislikes, but with real - time schedule updates and hyperlocal networking.
• Peanut, a London -
based app connecting
like - minded mothers in an area, raised seed funding of an undisclosed amount.
The dips seem to be tied to a report that China — which banned cryptocurrency exchanges last year — is taking more action against other online and
app -
based services that offer exchange -
like functionality.
Helix is trying to be
like the «
app store» for genetics, allowing you to submit your spit to them once, then use the sample for multiple tests
based on what type of analysis interests you.
But NPD Group says that orders placed with a mobile
app are growing more strongly, likely bolstered by the efforts digital leaders
like Starbucks (sbux) and Domino's (dpz) have made to make
app -
based ordering.
The
app lets you earn «Sweatcoins,» or points
based on the number of steps you take in a day, which you can then use to buy a limited number of specific goods that Sweatcoin has made available —
like a Fitbit tracker, fitness classes, or subscriptions to
apps designed to help you eat healthier.
Since then, its New York City -
based Creative Lab has released similarly touching yet straightforward videos to unveil newer products
like Google Glass and then the latest Google
app.
Users who want Microsoft software
like the Office suite or productivity
apps like Adobe Photoshop will be fine, and the device is certainly more capable than Chromebooks, which primarily run web -
based apps.
Some of my favorite
apps are those that deliver a user experience that is impossible to achieve on the web and something completely different from the website's typical experience — stuff that involves a user's location or is
based on delivering operational transparency (e.g., live updates on the status of something,
like a pizza delivery tracker
app created by a pizza company).
From consumer - facing, web -
based productivity
apps like Google Docs to enterprise database management suites, the tools businesses rely on are increasingly moving to the cloud.
The data used to serve the ads was gleaned from user behavior on
apps and via IP addresses, information that is regularly harvested by data brokers who repackage it to marketing firms who use it to serve ads with laser -
like precision
based on interest, location, age and many other markers.
Contrast that with Foursquare, whose new
app openly asks users to select their
likes and interests (examples: artichoke pizza, great deals, mellow jazz), so the
app can serve up location -
based recommendations.
It started with Grindr, a mobile
app for gay men, but now sites
like PlentyofFish and OkCupid, another popular free dating site, include location -
based features in their explosively popular
apps.
While we've got used to assistants
like Alexa and Siri helping us manage simpler tasks, Post Intelligence (an Android and web -
based app) is an AI -
based social media assistant.
While
app - streaming might not have the same sexiness as some of Google's other moonshots,
like self - driving cars or internet - bearing balloons, Liu isn't too off
base: The feature could have dramatic impact for users, developers, and Google itself moving forward.
It could also lead more companies to add similar three - dimensional facial - recognition technology into their phones, either by trying to cram all the hardware for it into their own phones, or by using software -
based facial recognition from a company
like FaceTec (which is something that individual
app developers could add to their
apps, too).
Platforms
like PeerShip and Roadie are among the players in the «social delivery» space aiming to connect drivers and senders through user - friendly,
app -
based technology.
He said a decline in part of Western Canada and softness in lunch time purchases led to the relatively flat results, but he hopes to build on the recent quarterly momentum by continuing to grow its recently launched espresso -
based beverages offering, driving lunch sales with new products
like its grilled cheese sandwich, and focusing on its new pay - and - go
app.
Marble's cloud -
based security client application integrates real - time intelligence derived from machine data, as well as mobile user and device attributes
like location, installed
apps and network connection data, to apply dynamic risk scores to each device.
• Docady, an Israel -
based maker of a mobile
app for critical document access and management, has raised $ 1.5 million in seed funding from backers
like Pitango Venture Capital, Disrupt - ive and Eilon Tirosh.
Either find the wine in the database or just take a picture of the label and the
app will be able to tell you if you'll
like it
based on what you've
liked in the past.
Ashley plans to change that via a blockchain -
based solution that not only matches daters
based on compatibility
like a Match.com or mutual interest
like Tinder, but also provides safety via pre-date video chats, sobriety checks, and «safe» words that the Loly
app will listen for.
Previously, people could make video or audio calls using Alexa - powered devices
like Amazon's Echo or Echo Dot Internet - connected speakers, or via iOS and Android -
based smartphones, as long as those phones have the required Alexa
app.
And key features
like Snap Maps have yet to gain widespread adoption among the
app's user
base.
The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz
app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are
based on using Facebook
likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters
based on their modeled psychometric scores.
Some of Meitu's other
apps,
like one called MakeupPlus, start with the person's skin color and offer tools
based on that.
The cloud -
based app is available on mobile platforms
like iOS and Android, as well as on the web.
Sequence is a cloud -
based ledger service for managing balances in financial and commerce applications
like wallet
apps, lending platforms, marketplaces, exchanges, and more.