Monitoring Legislation Goes Mobile: TrakBill Launches New iOS App

TrakBill, a St. Louis startup that is building an online legislative monitoring platform, unveiled its brand new iOS app yesterday. This launch comes on the heels of winning an Arch Grant just last week and presenting at Capital Innovators Demo Day the week before that. To say that it’s been a whirlwind of activity for [...]... Read More

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Art Lab: MoMA’s Second Mobile App Encourages Learning Through Creation
BY: Corey Cummings
After the introduction of its first iPhone app back in 2010, New Yorkâ€™s Museum of Modern Art has unveiled a new kind of interactive art app for the iPad called Art Lab.
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Is That Google Earth, Or The New Sim City?
BY: Jon Christian
Google unveiled a graphically intense vision for Google Earth, including footage that shows comprehensively-rendered city skylines complete with buildings and foliage.
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Samsung’s Other Voice Recognition Technology Shouldn’t Have IBM In A Cold Sweat
BY: Jon Christian
Not much attention has been paid to the Galaxy S III’s other voice recognition technology, a surprisingly advanced system that can wake the phone up from sleep mode.
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Half Of Pregnancies Are Unplanned. Fortunately, MyPill Is The App For That
BY: Jon Christian
Some of the most common methods of contraception are also the most likely to fail, according to new research at Washington University â€” and those failures are due to user error rather than anything inherently ineffective about hormonal birth control pills or the contraceptive patch. But without resorting to other birth control methods, is there any way mobile developers can increase the effectiveness of common contraceptives?
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S Voice Released, Promptly Hacked To Run On Other Android Devices
BY: Jon Christian
Hackers wasted no time in releasing S Voice for other current-generation Android phones, casting a shadow on Samsung’s day in the sun while potentially opening up the functionality to a much wider range of users.
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Like Google Years Ago, Yahoo! Releases Browser
BY: Jon Christian
The web may be littered with the husks of failed browsers, but struggling search outfit Yahoo! is tossing its hat into the ring nonetheless, with a â€œsearch browserâ€ seemingly aimed mainly at mobile platforms, but also available as a plugin for popular desktop browsers.
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Android, iOS Run 82 Percent Of Smartphones. What About The Other 18 Percent?
BY: Jon Christian
The mobile operating system scene is now dominated by Apple and Google, according to research firm IDC, with the two now accounting for a combined 82 percent of the market. The other 18 percent is a surprising mixture of has-beens, potential rivals, and unknowns.
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What To Expect At Apple’s WWDC Event Next Month
BY: Kathryn Hough
Apple is expecting to unveil a number of exciting new products at WWDC, including iOS 6 and photo sharing services with iCloud.
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How The iTV Will Destroy Television As We Know It
BY: Kathryn Hough
The chairman of Foxconn just confirmed the existence of the iTV from Apple. Apple’s move into television will destroy the tv medium as we know it.
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Apple Jumps Up 18 Spots On Fortune 500 List
BY: Kathryn Hough
Apple jumped to the 17th company on the Fortune 500 list, up from the 35th spot on the 2011 list.
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Apple Fights For iPhone 5 Domain
BY: Kathryn Hough
Obligatory predictions about the features of Apple’s iPhone 5 are circulating around the web, but the company has been tight-lipped about the existence of the next generation smartphone until recently. Apple is fighting for the iphone5.com domain, hinting that the name of next iPhone won’t confuse Apple fans the way that the new iPad does. According to [...]
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Flashback Targeted Google (But Their Takings Were Pretty Modest)
BY: Jon Christian
The hackers who disseminated the Flashback trojan, which shook the confidence of Apple users who had grown accustomed to not dealing with malware, were making a quick buck at Google‘s expense, according to research by Symantec. When a user visits a compromised site, Flashback covertly installs software that redirects certain Google queries to pages chosen [...]
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