Sentences with phrase «how apps are using»

Also, check the Battery app to find out stats on how apps are using power.

And Battery Saver gives you a clear breakdown of how apps are using your battery so you can make more informed usage decisions.

But they don't really know how the apps are using these sensors.»

Grindr says Localytics and Apptimize were paid to test and monitor how the app is used.

Again, restricting background data just means that Windows Phone 8.1 and Data Sense will be a little more aggressive with how apps are used in the background.

Volta also encompasses an app called Battery Historian, which lets users and developers evaluate how the app is using battery, and when it was most power - intensive.

Not exact matches

In the mobile arena, you have to think about how people will be using their apps in relation to what they want and what they expect.

«It's a very different thing from installing an app or learning how to use a site,» Huffman says.

Hot topics, as usual, include the use of data in health care, AI, digital health apps, and how to turn all of those things into products and services that actually produce real outcomes.

Upon logging in, employees who use the app are asked to rate how they feel (1 to 10) and then given options to log the activities they did that day (i.e. — «ate a healthy meal» or «spent time outside.»)

If carmakers decide to allow app - makers to access data about how the car is being driven, apps could coach the driver into using less gas.

«A lot of the opportunities out there are for people to use artificial intelligence to market, to do app placement or spam filters — to do things that are not quite as meaningful» as improving how food is produced, he says.

Krieger knows this is how most people use Instagram: They're waiting for a bus or train, and they whip their phone out and click the app for a brief look at what's been posted.

It's the idea that the ubiquity of smartphones and the popularity of apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and Candy Crush have changed our collective expectations of how software should look and function, creating huge opportunities for business applications as intuitive and user - friendly as the ones people use for fun.

-- Jay Jamison, SVP of strategy and product management at Quick Base, maker of a no - code tool that enables workers to build apps without needing to know how to write a single line of code and that is used by more than half of Fortune 100 companies including Google, Kayak, and Southwest Airlines

One great example of this tech in retail is how Converse used a mobile AR app to allow their customers to try on shoes.

Using an app called Ikea Place (there's the same company again, hmm), I found a cool wooden chair and placed a virtual representation of it in my office to see how it would look.

It completely changes how the app is both perceived and used.

Mixpanel, a data analytics company founded in 2009 and funded by the likes of Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, tells developers how exactly you're using their websites and apps.

The app has a kill button that allows you to stop all background data usage and limited data use to just a single app that's on your screen, and also allows you to limit data use by specific apps or have an on - screen message appear letting you know exactly how much data you're using while posting that Facebook message.

Adobe said it is incorporating its machine learning technology that it currently uses for its other marketing software to derive stats like how many times are people using their voice service, or the how much apps failed to understand a particular command.

If you've ever attended it though — or even just witnessed the gathering from outside — you know that there's a whole lot more going on than people sitting through sessions on how to use various sales apps.

On Thursday, the enterprise software company debuted new features it claims will help companies track how people are using voice apps (or «skills,» as Amazon calls them).

Have the comments and criticism caused you to revisit the purpose of the app or any details in how it should be used?

Demonstrating how your app will be used by each micro-segment will help that segment understand why they should buy it.

It's not yet clear how good the app is or whether it will completely supplant the existing Google Maps used on iPhones, iPads and iPods, but it's pretty clear Apple is looking to cut the final strings tying it to its former ally.

As a result, I can't do as I've been doing this week: using screenshots to show how to see what apps Facebook is giving your data to, or downloading all the information they have on you — or at least the parts they're willing to share.

Moving to something you hopefully never have to use in the office, the BACtrack Mobile Breathalyzer is exactly what you'd expect: a sensor for measuring how drunk you are that wirelessly delivers its results to an app on your iOS (or Android) device.

Think of any app you use regularly on your phone that you love, and you'll see there's a similarity between them in how they've clearly taken steps to not get in the way of the user and their core functions.

When paired together with a smartphone (the devices works with Android and iOS), you'll be able to track your health, set goals and get encouragement on how to reach them using UA Record, an app developed by Under Armour.

When making any kind of app, be it serious or entertaining, be it for kids or adults, think of how the consumer will want to use it.

Apple currently has over 1,000 AR - apps in its app store, although it's unclear how many people actually use them.

If you find that multiple hubs offer all the standards you need, and you've decided whether or not you want voice control, your next determining factor should be how easy the app is to use and how much that app can do.

How Apps Are Shaping The 2012 Election (EngineYard via Mashable) Here's how the U.S. has used mobile apps, in both sending and consuming information, during the 2012 election season so far: 70 % of the most active iPhone states (New York, California, Illinois) tend to vote Democrat, while 70 % of the most active Android states (Colorado, Arizona, Georgia) tend to vote RepublicHow Apps Are Shaping The 2012 Election (EngineYard via Mashable) Here's how the U.S. has used mobile apps, in both sending and consuming information, during the 2012 election season so far: 70 % of the most active iPhone states (New York, California, Illinois) tend to vote Democrat, while 70 % of the most active Android states (Colorado, Arizona, Georgia) tend to vote RepubliApps Are Shaping The 2012 Election (EngineYard via Mashable) Here's how the U.S. has used mobile apps, in both sending and consuming information, during the 2012 election season so far: 70 % of the most active iPhone states (New York, California, Illinois) tend to vote Democrat, while 70 % of the most active Android states (Colorado, Arizona, Georgia) tend to vote Republichow the U.S. has used mobile apps, in both sending and consuming information, during the 2012 election season so far: 70 % of the most active iPhone states (New York, California, Illinois) tend to vote Democrat, while 70 % of the most active Android states (Colorado, Arizona, Georgia) tend to vote Republiapps, in both sending and consuming information, during the 2012 election season so far: 70 % of the most active iPhone states (New York, California, Illinois) tend to vote Democrat, while 70 % of the most active Android states (Colorado, Arizona, Georgia) tend to vote Republican.

For instance, you can use Alten's technique to pick a forward - looking topic and imagine ways it's likely to come true, like «5 Ways the Apple Watch Will Improve Your Productivity» or «How Mobile Apps Will Change the Way Every Sales Professional Does Business.»

You need to be in frequent contact with your user to let him / her know the value you bring to the table and how best to use your app.

Using the smartphone's camera, this app measures users» heart rates to determine how stressed they are and offers guides to calm them down.

Here's how it works: shoppers scan the barcodes of items they wish to purchase using a handheld scanner, provided by Kroger, or the chain's «Scan, Bag, Go» app on any smartphone.

When new details emerged in July on how spy agencies used Hacking Team's services, leaked emails revealed that the security company boasted of a booby - trapped version of a Bible app to entice the Vatican to buy its services, although it was unclear if the Vatican actually bought the product.

The cryptocurrency can be used to add money to a Microsoft account in order to buy apps, games and other digital content from its various online stores, Microsoft said on a help page detailing how to use Bitcoin.

«Customers have told us that they love how easy it is to use Amazon Key for keyless entry and door monitoring from anywhere with the Amazon Key App,» Rohit Shrivastava, general manager, Amazon Key, said.

Mr. Zuckerberg said Facebook would be «investigating many apps, tens of thousands of apps, and if we find any suspicious activity, we're going to conduct a full audit of those apps to understand how they're using their data and if they're doing anything improper.

Uber's new policy pertaining to the use of Greyball, a tool the company developed to show individual riders different versions of its app, comes in the aftermath of a New York Times article that outlined how the company had used the tool to identify and avoid local regulators who were investigating the service.

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.

That in itself — combined with more scrutiny from regulators over how data is collected, used, and shared, and bigger changes that Facebook is making in terms of how it works with third - party apps that link into the Facebook platform (which CEO Mark Zuckberg announced last week)-- will hopefully lead to more meaningful changes on that front.

How can the customer journey, defined free of technology considerations or constraints, be optimized through the use of websites, mobile apps, beacons or any other technology?

The original decree was made as a settlement to an inquiry at the time into how Facebook — then just a startup but growing wildly fast — «deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public,» and it arose specifically in relation to how third - party apps were able to use and access this data.

The Notify app that Facebook rolled out last fall appears to offer another example of how publishers will be able to use Messenger.

The app's surge pricing uses a complex algorithm that determines how many users are requesting Uber rides in an area at any given time, Mashable noted.

We're following up with Congress on these directly but we also wanted to take the opportunity to explain more about the information we get from other websites and apps, how we use the data they send to us, and the controls you have.