With technology being so integral to a lawyer's livelihood, it's no wonder there is an entire industry devoted to improving the UX
of research apps, software and services.
Cheryl's excellent annotated list
of research apps includes content that many Canadian law libraries would license, HeinOnline and CCH Intelliconnect.
Instead, use the prophylactic approach
of researching an app and its publisher before you install it.
Not exact matches
Based on the bestselling book, «The Wonder Weeks,» the
app condenses 35 years
of research on a baby's developmental progress into an at - a-glance chart.
Lex Sokolin, director
of fintech at Autonomous
Research, discusses the appeal microinvesting
apps such as Acorn hold for consumers.
With
apps becoming the popular norm for business everywhere, plenty
of them are quick to spot the trend, but ultimately end up releasing an
app prematurely without initially focusing on proper
research.
Features unique to the Pixel, such as the Google Assistant, the Pixel camera, and Daydream (Google's virtual reality headset, which works with the Pixel), plus the smartphone's deeper
app integration, increased prominence
of Android Pay, and improved computing power (compared to other Android devices), will ultimately lead to users spending more money on Android, according to the
research note.
The two new hires are Fei - Fei Li, the director
of Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Lab; and Jia Li, the head
of research for Snap, the parent company
of popular social messaging
app Snapchat.
Apps like Mobile Market
Research and Field Agent are easy to use and have a broad database
of consumers that can be leveraged to find your ideal demographic.
But to every rule there is an exception, and glad I was to be called out (and called up) by the founder and CEO
of one mobile - health company whose entire premise is based on scientific
research with repeatable results — the exact study, in fact, I had used as my example
of what works better than a health
app.
Evernote is an
app that lets you store all kinds
of information from various sources — text, images,
research to look up later, etc..
... I use an
app called Tripit,» says Matt Jung, co - CEO / co-founder
of Comfort
Research.
Ross Rubin
of Reticle
Research told The New York Times he predicts that Apple will begin using Topsy analytics to make smarter recommendations for the
App and iTunes stores.
Research from digital marketing agency Catalyst Canada found the number
of apps Canadians have on their phones declined from an average
of 26 in 2014 to less than 19 last year.
We curated this list by polling coworkers,
researching the recommendations
of other tech publications, and sifting through ratings on the major
app stores.
For example, Hawke explains how one
of the site's customers, Spot Trot, a company that makes
apps for musicians like Dave Matthews, was
researching how the company could pitch its
app - building service to an entirely new market: professional sports teams.
Uber, which has been valued at more than $ 51 billion, is a comparative latecomer in China, where the number
of mobile taxi - hailing
app users is forecast to triple to 45 million by 2015 from 2013, according to Chinese
research firm iResearch.
«There is a fair amount
of excitement about this, as it's a new platform for
app developers to develop and generate revenue,» says Scott Strawn, program director for Google Strategic Advisory at
research company IDC, based in Framingham, Massachusetts.
«For now, we really don't know how compelling the selection
of apps will be, how well this thing will actually perform in the final version that's released to consumers, or what exactly the competition from Apple will look like,» says Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw
Research.
David Marcus, McAfee Labs» director
of security
research, told The New York Times that Android users had become the top target because Google does not vet the distribution
of new mobile
apps.
Almost half
of American workers said they would stop using their personal devices for business if their employer required them to install a specified security
app, according to a July report from Harris Interactive, a market
research firm, and Webroot, a cyber security company.
The
app also provides a link that explains the gender wage gap, which sits at $ 0.80 on the dollar, according to the latest
research from the Institute of Women's Policy R
research from the Institute
of Women's Policy
ResearchResearch.
ResearchKit, an open - source platform for creating iPhone
apps that collect healthcare
research data, will bring together huge swathes
of personal data from a significant portion
of the population.
There are bracelets that let people track their fitness,
apps for visiting doctors virtually, and medical
research that would be impossible without computers slicing and dicing
of massive amounts
of data.
«FireEye has recently uncovered 11 iOS
apps within the Hacking Team's arsenals that utilize Masque Attacks, marking the first instance
of targeted iOS malware being used against non-jailbroken iOS devices,» wrote FireEye senior
research scientist engineer Zhaofeng Chen on the company's findings.
«A key theme [for online travel agencies] is a shift to direct customer acquisition to drive
app downloads and direct engagement,» says Douglas Quinby, senior VP
of research at Phocuswright.
The
app claimed to be collecting data for academic
research, and users were not aware
of its true purpose.
Piracy and malware are problems too: a study by Tsinghua University, Microsoft
Research and China's Ministry
of Science and Technology found that only a quarter
of apps on local
app stores are safe.
Allyson Kapin, founder
of Rad Campaign and Women Who Tech in Washington, D.C., says previous incidents, such as Uber advertising that was demeaning to women and a top executive's suggestion that the company conduct opposition
research on journalists who are critical
of Uber, were shocking and disappointing but hadn't kept her from hailing rides on the smartphone
app.
Among the documents the committee has published today (with some redactions) is the data - licensing contract between Global Science
Research (GSR)-- the company set up by the Cambridge University professor, Aleksandr Kogan, whose personality test
app was used by CA as the vehicle for gathering Facebook users» data — and SCL Elections (an affiliate
of CA), dated June 4, 2014.
«In 2014 we received Facebook data and derivatives
of Facebook data from another company, (
app maker) GSR, that we engaged in good faith to legally supply data for
research.
Facebook said Friday a British researcher and his firm, Global Science
Research, legitimately gained access to the personal data
of Facebook users in 2013 while working on a personality prediction
app, but the researcher violated Facebook's rules by passing it on to Cambridge Analytica.
A personality
research app he created gathered the personal information on 270,000 Facebook users, as well as data on those users» friends, amplifying the reach to the tens
of millions when it passed that data to Cambridge for a voter targeting scheme.
Alibaba launched Hema, its digitized physical supermarket chain where shoppers use a mobile
app for online orders and in - store purchases
of groceries or freshly prepared foods, as well as
research products while shopping and pay digitally or with facial recognition.
Foursquare's data scientists examined the foot traffic
of a panel
of U.S. users who have been active on the Foursquare City Guide or Foursquare Swarm
apps (as well as partner
apps) for at least the past year, have opted - in to provide background location awareness, and have visited at least one
of the analyzed chains within the
research time frame (January 2017 - December 2017).
Wang is a software guru with a decade
of international university level
research into coding, software, and
app and web development.
In addition, recent
research suggests that mobile users increasingly prefer to engage with brands via mobile
apps rather than mobile browsing, furthering the decline in importance
of the traditional website.
Research by Capgemini predicts that an actual preference for voice - based interactions over traditional websites or
apps will grow rapidly in the next 3 years from 24 % now to 40 % by 2020; they also suggest that the appetite for voice assistants instead
of physical outlets like banks and shops will grow from 20 % now to 31 % in 3 years.
Facebook confirmed that the data was obtained from an
app called «thisisyourdigitallife «built by University
of Cambridge psychology professor Dr Aleksandr Kogan through his company Global Science
Research (GSR) in collaboration with Cambridge Analytica.
Kogan's
app, called «thisisyourdigitallife» and portrayed as being for
research purposes, gathered data on the 270,000 people who downloaded it and tens
of millions
of their Facebook friends.
Previously, he was co-director
of Global Science
Research, the company that obtained information on Facebook users and their friends through permissions they gave a personality quiz
app.
In line with the growing trend for self - analytics, the Mappiness
app was launched by the London School
of Economics as part
of a
research project looking into how our feelings are affected by features in our environment — the amount
of noise or green space we encounter, for example.
Trevor McKendrick did a little
research and realized that, in all
of the iTunes Store's vast
app selection, one thing it lacked was a Spanish translation
of the Bible.
We've recently combined the leading web products for sports betting data (Sports Insights) and daily fantasy
research (FantasyLabs) with the number one
app for sports bettors (Sports Action) and hired ESPN's head
of editorial to run media.
Consumers spend over 80 percent
of their time on an average
of five non-native
apps installed from
app stores, Forrester
research has found.
Disney Imagicademy
apps do an excellent job
of following
research - driven curriculum are available exclusively for iPad and can currently be found on Apple's
App Store in the Kids, Education and Entertainment categories.
At a price tag that might make you think twice, plus the investment
of more games,
apps, music, and headphones, it's important to do your
research before you hand over your credit card.
Our
research finds an emerging dichotomy in maternal «sleep narratives» that are reinforced by the use
of phone
apps to monitor and manage infant sleep, online discussions where mothers share their experiences and techniques, and websites promoting infant sleep products.
Dr Aleksandr Kogan, who created the personality
app from which the data had been harvested, is a senior
research associate at the University
of Cambridge.
Some
of her favorite teaching subjects include genealogy
research, email, and smartphone
apps.