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Nav App Makers Beware: Google Maps Navigation Is Real

We wondered if makers of GPS navigation apps and systems should worry about Google's rumored efforts toward free turn-by-turn nav just the other day. And guess what--it's all true, and Tom Tom, Navigon, and the rest should be ...READ»

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Developers, Start Your Engines: NYC's Grand Experiment in Mobile Apps

The city is offering $20,000 to whomever designs a web or mobile app that best uses any of 170 public data sets--from health inspections to traffic updates.READ»

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Amazon Streamlines On-the-Go Sales--Opens 1-Click Mobile Payments to Third Parties

That familiar "Buy Now With 1-Click" button, so enticing on Amazon.com, is about to become a temptation for mobile customers everywhere. Amazon is offering its Mobile Payments Service (MPS) platform to third parties for integration ...READ»

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NYC Through an Alternate Lens: See What the Big Apple Could Have Been

A new iPhone app lets you browse futuristic design proposals for New York, from 1870 to today, as you wander around town.READ»

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MobileBiz Bootcamp

"Mobile." If there's a single buzzword that's caught fire right now, "mobile" is napalm hot. Mobile apps, mobile ads, mobile devices, mobile Internet . . . it seems that the future of just about everything involves packing it to go. ...READ»

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How Do You Design a Great iPhone App?

Check out TapTapTap's time-lapse video of the tiny changes that eventually produced their Convert app.READ»

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Five Cities That Got Civic Apps Before San Francisco (Sorry, Gavin)

This morning, San Francisco mayor (and 2010 gubernatorial candidate) Gavin Newsom announced the launch of DataSF.org, a Web site that will serve as a hub for the mountains of data streaming out of San Francisco's government agencies. ...READ»

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Can Smartphones Save the Sex Business?

The current slump in the adult entertainment industry is about more than just the recession. Like music and news, porn must compete against a raft of free content. Now the business is betting that mobile is its salvation.READ»

The Top Mobile Apps

Filtering 25,000-plus apps into one list? Impossible. Instead, hot apps to suit your style and phone.READ»

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Google Latitude Makes History

Yesterday Google [GOOG] announced a nifty mapping feature called Latitude, soon to be available for every major mobile phone platform that supports Google Maps. Latitude keeps track of your friends like so many tagged woodland ...READ»

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