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Its latest innovation is its Swarm Database smartphone app which allows a fleet of beekeeping technicians who inspects hives across the country to enter troves of live data on farmers,

The app also allows global consumers to connect more with Kenyan beekeepers, says CEO Ayer.

The company is in the final phase of launching an Android app that Zedeck calls a farming Bible.

The app will cost $1. 25 as a kind of starter kit with information on two crops.

The full app priced at $4. 25, will have information on 26 crops, including nine indigenous ones.

 Future updates to the app, Zedeck says, will focus on providing small business training to farmers.

there will be a tablet version of the app as well eventually. All that will require funding, of course.

with apps carrying adverts for products likely to appear to famers. But until that happens, she has been forced to use her own funds oe including selling her house oe to get the company up and running.

By summer 2012 QCN expects to release an app that turns your Android smartphone into a pocket-sized earthquake sensor.

Apple said last week that it was the best-selling iphone app of 2010. The free version for phones running Googles Android software should produce $1 million a month in advertising revenue by the end of the year,

while it was noted that Facebook was not directly charging Mcdonalds to build the app (since Facebook doesnt normally charge developers to build on its platform),

Chinese consumers need not fret there are plenty of fakes on the market, almost indistinguishable from the real thing, from the touch screen to the apps to the iconic silver logo on the back.

000 apps, compared to almost 200,000 available in Apples App store. LINK Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati r

The Concert Ticket+will be an iphone app through which you could purchase, use, or store your tickets,

Despite its name, the electronic ticket app is designed to also cover sporting events, amusement parks, weddings,

The app would also allow you to easily transfer your tickets to others as well as access more information about the concert or event.

used Paypal to add a oequick pay button to its app. Liveops, a call-center outsourcing firm, built a tool that streamlined payments to its operators, turning

used Paypal to add a oequick pay button to its app. Liveops, a call-center outsourcing firm, built a tool that streamlined payments to its operators, turning

Indeed, in this age of elites who delight in such phrases as outside the box and killer app,

Many limit their thinking about gamification to mobile apps but it has far broader implications.

In June 2011, Paypal demonstrated its own mobile payment app for Android devices. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey s latest venture, Square, is an electronic payments service

Both the Square card-reader and app are free although there is a 2. 75%charge for each payment made.

The izettle app works with iphones and ipads. Bills can also be paid or money transferred using this service.

and the bottom-up design capabilities of app developers around the world, drones will quickly move from the realm of personal toys to functional necessities that we interact with on a daily basis. For those of you looking to switch careers,

Apple s App store currently offers 9, 000 mobile health apps, along with 1, 500 cardio fitness apps, over 1, 300 diet apps, more than 1, 000 stress and relaxation apps,

and over 650 women s health apps. But apps are only part of the equation. Peripheral devices are setting the stage for the true self-revolution:

All Apples stores now carry the Withings Blood pressure monitor, a peripheral device that plugs into the ipad,

iphone or ipod Touch and takes the user s blood pressure. Data can be sent directly to a doctor or saved (confidentially) to the cloud.

Lifelens has created a smartphone app to diagnose malaria. The app can magnify a drop of blood (captured via a simple finger prick)

and identify whether malarial parasites are present. In October 2011, Ford demonstrated three SYNC apps offering in-car health monitoring for drivers to track chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma and hay fever.

Also in October 2011 AT&T announced it will begin selling clothes embedded with health monitors,

Every new peripheral device will create a market for hundreds of new apps, and we haven t even scratched the surface of

#Apple Picks Instagram as the iphone App Of The Year#Instagram is the year end winner.

the company s annual lists detailing of the top selling apps, music, TV SHOWS, movies and podcasts for the year.

This year, the biggest winner on the apps front was Angry Birds, which ran away with the number one spot on the iphone and ipad-in all categories except top free iphone app,

which was awarded to Facebook. Apple also selects its own favorite applications, and one of our preferred apps,

Instagram, won the honor of being Apple s iphone App of the Year.##Angry Birds,

which is available on ios as both a paid and free application, not only dominated the year-end lists as the number one download in several cases,

and photo app Snapseed for the ipad. Runners up for the app of the year#title included Vidrhythm (iphone), Band of the Day (iphone), djay (ipad) and Jamie s Recipes.

ipad) Game of the year went to Tiny Tower (iphone) and Dead Space for ipad.

where you can also find the results for the non-app categories. That s not our thing.

Top Paid iphone Apps: 1. Angry Birds 2. Fruit Ninja 3. Angry Birds Seasons 4. Cut the Rope 5. Tiny Wings 6. Angry Birds Rio

Zombies Top Free iphone Apps: 1. Facebook 2. Pandora Radio 3. Words with Friends Free 4. Angry Birds Free 5. Skype 6. Netflix 7. Angry Birds Rio

Twitter ipad Apps Top Paid ipad Apps: 1. Angry Birds HD 2. Pages 3. Angry Birds Seasons 4. Garageband 5. Angry Birds Rio HD 6. Penultimate 7

Keynote Top Free ipad Apps 1. Angry Birds HD Free 2. The Weather Channel for ipad 3. Netflix 4. CNN App for ipad 5

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Book-to-App Converters Over the coming months we will begin to see a form of competition brewing between books and apps.

we will begin to see a large scale effort to convert existing books and literature into an interactive app, similar to the current effort to convert popular literature from print to audiobooks.

We now have over 1 million mobile apps available for download. Putting this into perspective,

the whole mobile apps revolution began in March of 2008 when Steve jobs announced the software developer s kit for the Apple iphone.

there were a whopping 552 apps to choose from. To say the apps were an instant success is a gross understatement.

Over 60 million apps were downloaded within the first 3 days and tech companies around the world began to sense a market shift.

Little did they know how much, and how many industries would be affected. As of today, over 20 billion apps have been downloaded

and there s no end in sight. But the piece getting very little attention is the exploding field of smartphone peripherals that extend our current communication systems far beyond simple person-to-person communications.

#10 best iphone apps for gardening Whether or not you ve got a green thumb, these apps will help your garden grow.

Timing is everything as those who garden are well aware. And a bountiful crop requires planning and organization.

Following are 10 great gardening apps that serve that very purpose, and can help yield juicier tomatoes, more fragrant rosemary,

and brighter hydrangeas. 1. Landscaper s Companion Although the cost of this app is high,

This app serves as an encyclopedia of more than 1, 400 plants across 16 categories, including perennials, shrubs,

There are also approximately 5, 700 photos within the app for visual reference. Cost: $9. 99 2. Fruit Garden Fruit Garden focuses on the harvesting of 22 different fruits,

Note, the harvesting schedule in this app is specific to the UK, but even if you are not in that region,

$4. 99 4. Bugs and Insects Speaking of bugs, with a database of more than 900 pests, the Bugs and Insects app is a great resource for gardeners looking to determine the culprits who have been nibbling on their harvests,

Despite this, the app provides very detailed information and also enables registered users to share collections with fellow tree and shrub enthusiasts through the Botany Buddy website.

$5. 99 (Reduced from its usual $9. 99 price for a limited time) 6. Botanical Interests Botanical Interests is another information-laden app that includes harvesting advice

$5. 99 7. Herbs+This is a great app that provides valuable information on 25 different herbs.

A recent update to the app also shows which plants are available for purchase at local app-participating retailers.

A lite version of this app is available for free, but only contains a listing of 150 plants.

$2. 99 9. Gardens If you prefer more visual gardening instruction, this app features informative videos on topics such as Small Gardens, Big Ideas,#Novice Knockout Gardens,

The Plant Doctor is a free app that provides a listing of the ten most common plant ailments.

a form can be filled out within the app and sent directly to a plant pathologist for an official diagnosis and treatment options#each one costing $1. 99.

With a simple and easy-to-use interface, this app provides one-click calling functionality and relies on Google maps to identify locations nearby.

First reported by Apple N Apps, Trevor Sheridan writes: It has come to our attention that Apple is planning to combine ios 5

Storage would be needed for apps and perhaps a little for offline usage, but overall, maybe Apple could get away with a device with just a few gigabytes or so of onboard storage.

And really, thanks to apps like Skype, Facetime, etc, it can do that too#maybe they just dont play that up as much at first.

#Leafsnap â#New App Recognizes Trees Leafsnap mobile app did wondered you ever what type of tree was nearby

A new smartphone app allows users with no formal training to satisfy their curiosity and contribute to science at the same time.

Scientists have developed the first mobile app to identify plants by simply photographing a leaf. The free iphone and ipad app, called Leafsnap, instantly searches a growing library of leaf images amassed by the Smithsonian Institution.

In seconds, it returns a likely species name, high-resolution photographs and information on the trees flowers, fruit, seeds and bark.

and share their findings with the apps growing database to help map the population of trees one mobile phone at a time.

Using an app on the mobile phone, customers can top up their wave and pay account from a connected credit

The app allows a constant, running check on transactions and provides a real, useful and sometimes painful tally of expenditure.

but may also include more viral components like Youtube videos, blogs, mobile apps, and social media.

and fling open the portal to an alternative world of apps and software that Apple condemns.

#The primary jailbreak apps store, Cydia#named after the insect that bores into apple trees#now earns about $10 million in annual revenue and counts about 4. 5 million active weekly users hunting

for apps. Its dominance in the jailbreak world has grown so much that last year, when a rival store began eating into its market share,

Some developers, meanwhile, are raking in tens of thousands of dollars in sales off their apps, technically called packages,#themes#or tweaks#in jailbreak parlance.

#Not everyone is as open as Freeman about their contributions to this black market apps store.

The $10 Wi-fi Sync app lets you wirelessly sync your iphone to itunes without needing a USB cord.

And the $2 Elert app allows users to keep playing Doodlejump, for instance, without having to leave the game to see incoming e-mails.

whose owner Mario Ciabarra, runs a jailbreak app design firm. The terms: Freeman has to promote the apps Ciabarras company creates on Cydias home page;

and, instead of the usual 70-30 revenue split, Ciabarras business gets to keep virtually all of the sales, according to Freeman.

and I wanted to focus on developing#apps. Ciabarra has created some of the more popular#and pricey#jailbreak apps,

which have been downloaded on more than 5 million devices in more than 150 countries, he said. His $20 Mywi app hooks up your iphones Internet connection to your ipad or laptop

but he says he does not endorse using the program to avoid monthly charges. Ciabarra said AT&T

#While many are raking it in from their black market apps, others are still making smaller but respectable incomes.

Google said Android developers will now be able to sell consumers goods from directly within their apps,

Previously, Android apps were available only through client software on devices. Apple, which some analysts expect will unveil a new version of its ipad later this year,

Google now has more than 100,000 apps available for Android devices, versus Apples catalogue of more than 300,000.

For example, researcher and app developer Foodpairing has broken down flavor to its molecular components and has compiled databases that can match the flavor of those ingredients against other completely different ingredients.

#Boom in app development lures coders but it s tough to make a living Software engineers now outnumber farmers

the ranks of computer software engineers, including app writers, increased nearly 8 percent in 2010 to more than a million, according to the latest available government data for that category.

apps have inspired a new class of entrepreneurs. These innovators have turned cellphones and tablets into tools for discovering,

The iphone and ipad have about 700,000 apps, from Instagram to Angry Birds. Yet with the American economy yielding few good opportunities in recent years, there is debate about how real,

and lasting, the rise in app employment might be. Despite the rumors of hordes of hip programmers starting million-dollar businesses from their kitchen tables, only a small minority of developers actually make a living by creating their own apps, according to surveys and experts.

The Grimeses began their venture with high hopes but their apps, most of them for toddlers, did not come quickly enough

or sell fast enough. And programming is not a skill that just anyone can learn. While people already employed in tech jobs have added app writing to their rsums, the profession offers few options to most unemployed, underemployed and discouraged workers.

One success story is Ethan Nicholas, who earned more than $1 million in 2009 after writing a game for the iphone.

But he says the app writing world has experienced tectonic shifts since then. Can someone drop everything

and start writing apps? Sure,#said Mr. Nicholas, 34, who quit his job to write apps after ishoot,

an artillery game, became a sensation. Can they start writing good apps? Not often, no.

I got lucky with ishoot, because back then a decent app could still be successful.

But competition is fierce nowadays, and decent isn t good enough.##The boom in apps comes as economists are debating the changing nature of work,

which technology is reshaping at an accelerating speed. The upheaval, in some ways echoing the mechanization of agriculture a century ago,

that set off the app revolution with the iphone and ipad. Since Apple unleashed the world s freelance coders to build applications four years ago,

and the exact composition of a jobs subcategory to reflect the new prominence of apps.

And the tech industry has begun making claims about how apps are contributing to the broader economy A study commissioned by the tech advocacy group Technet found that the app economy##including Apple, Facebook,

Google s Android and other app platforms#was responsible, directly and indirectly, for 466,000 jobs.

Apple said this month that its app business had generated 291,250 jobs for the American economy,

and write apps in their spare time. Apple has become increasingly assertive in promoting the economic benefits of apps as its own wealth

and prominence have grown and its employment and other business practices have come under scrutiny. The company issued a statement for this article saying it was incredibly proud of the opportunities the App store gives developers of all sizes,

At the company s annual meeting this spring, the chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, noted that just a few years ago mobile app#wasn t even in people s vocabulary.

The guy who writes an Apple app one day will write an Android app the next day,

while not a scientifically valid sample and restricted to one segment of the app market,

the app world is weighted an ecology heavily toward a few winners. A quarter of the respondents said they had made less than $200 in lifetime revenue from Apple.

A few apps have made it extremely big, including Instagram, the photo-sharing app that was bought by Facebook in April for $1 billion.

When app developers dream, they dream of triumphs like that. Most developers, however, make their money

when someone buys or upgrades their app from Apple s online store, the only place consumers can buy an iphone or ipad app.

Apple keeps 30 percent of each app sale. While its job creation report trumpets the $6. 5 billion the company has paid out in royalties,

it does not note that as much as half of that money goes to developers outside the United states. The pie,

while growing rapidly, is smaller than it seems. My guess is that very few developers make a living off their own apps,

#said Jeff Scott, who runs the Apple app review site 148apps. com and closely tracks developments in the field.

The Struggling Entrepreneur Like many computer experts Shawn Grimes started experimenting with apps almost as soon as Apple opened its doors for the iphone.

He wrote an Internet security program as well as a tool for studio photographers to manage portrait sessions.

Those amateur apps pulled in more than $5, 000 from Apple. Late last year, Mr. Grimes was laid off as a computer security specialist by Legg Mason, the Baltimore financial firm.

With direct employment out of reach, he decided to work independently by writing apps. He had no illusion that he was likely to become rich.

But with hundreds of new apps introduced every day in Apple s store, the field is overcrowded#something the Grimeses learned quickly and painfully.

Ms. Grimes, 32, quit her job teaching kindergartners to join the couple s new venture, Campfire Apps.

They worked steadily on apps that revolved around children. Henry s Smart Headlamp was a learning game for preschoolers

The couple aimed for one new app a month, but progress was slow and sales were slower.

In March, with the apps bringing in only about $20 a day, they cashed in Mr. Grimes s 401 (k),

We justify buying new models by saying we need them to test out the apps,

but took time away from Campfire Apps. By the beginning of summer, troubled by several persistent health care issues

Mr. Grimes now works as an app developer for ELC Technologies, an Oregon company that allowed him to stay in Baltimore.

Ms. Grimes is still working on Campfire Apps. While Mr. Grimes was angry at Legg Mason for laying him off,

So far this year, their eight apps have earned $4, 964. When the newest iphone came out at the end of September,

They founded echobase, a start-up with 14 employees that is developing apps to allow doctors and nurses to view

whose doctors download the app free. Apple makes no money here, but it gets a long-term benefit:

and he made sure that Apple would retain strict oversight of every app. In retrospect, it might have been the smartest decision ever made by a company that prides itself on creating the future.

The App store opened in July 2008 with 500 apps. In an interview, Mr. Jobs laid bare the company s goal:

#And so, thanks in large part to the multitude of apps, it came to pass. More iphones#nearly seven million#were sold in the next three months than in the entire previous year,

Apps changed the iphone from a simple phone into a mobile computer, #said Mr. Scott of148apps. com. Apple s financial documents show just how crucial app inventors are.

If the developers stop developing, the company warned again last month, customers may choose not to buy the company s products.#

Developers have expressed flickers of grumpiness at Apple s 30 percent cut of each app sale.

Killer apps of the past, like online search, email, and ecommerce, now over a decade old, are becoming mature industries.

and mobile apps are also becoming old news. Every major industry of the past provides the foundational underpinning for industries of the future.

Mobile apps are now a $10 billion marketplace growing over 100%per year. The number of available apps through Apple and Android now exceeds 1. 2 million with over 34 billion downloads so far between the two of them.

Angry Birds alone has had over 600 million downloads. Draw Something#was launched 6 weeks ago and already has over 20 million downloads

It s now the number one app in 79 countries. To reach the 1 million user milestone,

Accomplishment-Based Educational Apps-Much of what happens in today s colleges and universities is based on symbols of achievement,#not actual accomplishments.

A new generation of apps will soon be developed that allow students to autonomously work their way through an actual accomplishment

I presented my thoughts on the Future of Mobile Apps & Peripherals#at our monthly Night with a Futurist event.

#oeyou can now build a cell the same way you might build an app for your iphone,

the ipad flight app, camera, charging station, high performance batteries, Wi-fi extender, and a tracking system.

and ipad apps of all time Apple s App store launched nearly five years ago and they are counting down to the 50 billionth downloaded app.

In celebration, the company will reward the person who downloads that app with a $10, 000 App store gift card.

In line with this, Apple also revealed its updated lists of all-time top iphone and ipad apps.

Without further ado, here are the new charts listing the most-downloaded paid and free iphone and ipad apps of all time#that is, until the App store hits another milestone.

The Top 25 All-time Paid iphone Apps Angry Birds Fruit Ninja Doodle Jump cut the Rope Angry Birds Seasons Whatsapp Messenger Camera+Words With Friends

Tiny Wings Angry Birds Space Pocket God Plants vs. Zombies The Game of Life Classic Edition The Moron Test Where s My Water?

The Top 25 All-time Free iphone Apps Facebook Pandora Radio Instagram Youtube Skype Words With Friends Free The Weather Channel Twitter Temple Run Google search

All-time Paid ipad Apps Pages Angry Birds HD Angry Birds Seasons HD Where s My Water?

Bad Piggies HD The Top 25 All-time Free ipad Apps Skype for ipad The Weather Channel for ipad Netflix Angry Birds HD Free Kindle Facebook Pandora

Run Youtube ebay for ipad CNN App for ipad Dropbox Adobe Reader Twitter Solitaire NYTIMES for ipad Temple Run 2 Hulu Plus Draw

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including online#oeask a librarian#-type research service, mobile library apps, library kiosks in the community,

#Mobile Apps and Websites The Goethe-Institut New york Library s Mobile Augmented Reality App#oeallows learners to explore German cultural heritage in New york city using archival documents, photographs,

#The Cuyahoga County Public library of Parma, Ohio#oecreated CCPL Mobile, an exciting new mobile app that enhances the library patron experience by giving patrons access to the unprecedented convenience of checking out

The free CCPL Mobile smartphone app features a Digital Books & Media channel that makes finding

In addition to using the app to renew and reserve items, patrons can also use the tool to find library branches and hours of operation.

I have arrived in town through the Marriott iphone app with location aware technology. I get a pop up reminder to check in

so that commuters with an app on their phone can be notified of where an available parking space is,

We (as app makers) want them to be addicting. Like a potato chip manufacturer, we try to put just the right crunch

Thousands of great apps have enriched and enhanced every aspect of our lives. As a human being, many of these triumphs are trumped by the overwhelming anxiety phones have instilled in us.

I went as far as making it inconvenient to use apps I DIDN NEED t actually.

You don t need 200 apps. Uninstall the ones you no longer use and tuck the nonessentials into folders a few swipes from your main screen

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