Sentences with phrase «phone apps are using»

A growing number of phone apps are using internal GPS to locate other potentially compatible singles nearby.

Although you'll control the majority of Wear Casts through the Android Wear app, the companion phone app is used for adding podcasts to your watch by linking RSS URLs or manually importing OPML files.

Not exact matches

Now we have to train ourselves: don't use the wallet, pull out my phone, make sure the app is open.

Unlike typical data - overlay technology, which uses a phone's location to orient the overlay, PAR works has a nifty little trick — with each overlay, there are, essentially, links to more information within the app.

More importantly, your app needs to deliver a responsive experience whether it is used on mobile phone, tablet, or even a PC.

I recommend using the Audible.com app because it starts where you left off and it's easy to plug your phone into your car while driving.

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

But because your phone is a gateway to the most personal details of your life — email, photos, banking apps, etc — the privacy risk is too great, so I won't be using it.

If you can't be found, you will never be chosen: consumers are digital creatures of habit who barely use the vast majority of the apps already on our phones.

Armed with a greater understanding of what's behind the apps that we all use on our smart phones, Buchanon went on to successfully develop and launch two of them — Vite Exclusive Events, a sort of Tinder for parties across the country, and New Money Bash, a Candy Crush-esque game that teaches financial literacy.

The notifications on ReplyASAP will sound until someone actually checks the phone, and once a message is seen and read, if there is no reply, the app will freeze everything going on until a response has been sent — something that helps keep Herbert and his son on topic when using the app.

The app uses your social media and phone contacts to create a list of your Favorites, which you're greeted with when you open the app.

UK - based dad Nick Herbert decided the best way to get his son to stop ignoring his texts was to use technology to his advantage: He created an app that disabled his son's cell phone until he replied.

They're compatible with both iOS and Android phones, and they're third - party app friendly, so you can use them with popular fitness apps like Runkeeper, Strava, and MapMyFitness.

Using all of the data being collected (remember, the app is taking advantage of all of your phone's sensors), Color hopes to eventually start recommending nearby points of interest, and maybe even interesting people.

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.

The assist features on the app help you remember where your car is parked and read traffic signs using your phone's camera, then signal you when you're going too fast.

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.

Because the app is constantly running on your phone — something that many users have complained drains their battery — it is able to use GPS to roughly determine when you're inside and outside.

You'll be able to use this to open the camera app, write a text using your voice, take a screenshot, turn on the flashlight, open Google Assistant or Alexa, activate any app on the phone, and so on, mapping whatever you want to a long press and a short press.

Samsung is opening up the sensor to other app developers so that it can be used for more than just unlocking the phone (PayPal is on board for payments, for example), but I got so frustrated with it that I ended up turning it off.

Developers can use Tango to build custom apps that use an Android phone's 3D motion trackers and sensors to help the devices orient themselves in specific locations and understand where their users are holding them.

Since most apps are meant to be used vertically - by swiping up and down - taller phone screens can show you more information at once.

Customers throughout the U.S. will be able to apply for an Affirm loan online, and the site will then automatically generate a 16 - digit code that consumers can use like a debit card for purchases in stores using a phone app, as well as online orders.

Triggr makes an app that monitors phone use to determine when someone recovering from addiction is most at risk.

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).

«With your phone, make sure that whatever app you are using is capturing the largest file possible.

When Windows 8 launched for phones, tablets and PCs in 2012, the company's priority was to sign up the 100 most - used apps, including the likes of Netflix, Facebook and Instagram.

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.

You're not limited to just using Instagram as an app on your phone.

That's probably going to change once phones using Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 835 start rolling out over the next few weeks, but for now, the Mate 9 and its Huawei - made Kirin 960 chip have zero problems opening apps, installing apps, running multiple apps at once, or flipping through menus.

A Hong Kong police senior inspector, Bruce Hung, said undercover police officers had used a mobile phone app to hail five cars and arrested the drivers after being driven to their destinations.

GrubHub is a mobile app that enables users to order food from different restaurants using their smart phone.

North Korea said the Arirang phone features «Korean style» apps and can be used for «communications and learning.»

It's got most of the same apps as my phone, but only a few that have already been successfully transitioned to mini-mobile use.

Here's Netflix spending time and money on designing an app for every phone operating system there is, regardless of whether anyone is using it or not.

ZTE's phones use the Android operating system developed by Google, which under the ban may no longer be able to license its apps to ZTE.

Additionally, the phone's Android platform meant that the apps consumers can use are «essentially a subset of what's already available to Google Play users.»

Smartphone addicts may think they are strengthening their real - world relationships [when using their phones] when in actuality they are overusing some apps for relationship management.»

I can lock or unlock the door from my phone using the app, and I can temporarily let my friend in to check my house while I'm on vacation.

Customers need only to scan their phone using the new Amazon Go app on the way into the store, and their Amazon account will be charged for items taken.

Along with Xero & rsquo; s Software as a Service model, Xero also offers a mobile app, so users can access the application using any smart phone, tablet, or other device.

The reality of digital services is that the amount of data each of us generates at basically all times is astronomical; your phone always knows where you are, but so does every app you use and every website you visit.

My hobbies: Fishing, hockey and music Sources of news I use: News apps on my phone My favourite airport: Vancouver My favourite commodities: Copper, gold, zinc, cobalt My favourite tradeshow: PDAC With this person I would like to have dinner: Warren Buffet (talking about philanthropy, investing and life) If I could have a superpower, it would be: Seeing into the future

Mobile Phone users in the United States use an average of 2.5 GB of data monthly and most of the data is spent on accessing various apps on their smartphone and mobile devices.

All transfers using Abra are «app to app» so both the sender and recipient must have Abra on their iOS and Android phone.

Abra app - based transfers use the blockchain to settle, and transactions are published directly to the blockchain from your phone.

In November 2016, the Swiss Railway operator SBB (CFF) upgraded all their automated ticket machines so that bitcoin could be bought from them using the scanner on the ticket machine to scan the bitcoin address on a phone app.

Microsoft accounts can be used to purchase Windows Phone apps, PC applications, Xbox Games, Xbox Music, and Xbox Videos.

Twitter today is taking another step to build up its machine learning muscle, and also potentially to improve how it delivers photos and videos across its apps: the company is acquiring Magic Pony Technology, a company based out of London that has developed techniques of using neural networks (systems that essentially are designed to think like human brains) and machine learning to provide expanded data for images — used, for example, to enhance a picture or video taken on a mobile phone; or to help develop graphics for virtual reality or augmented reality applications.