But today most travellers eschew the hefty tomes for online trip planners and smartphone apps.
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The industry-first capability puts Ford out front in the race to integrate smartphone apps into the car.
Accordingly, Toshiba is also pre-loading its own TruNote and TruCapture apps to assist with note-taking.
Some of the apps will come from big names, similar to the iPhone, confirms Espelien.
Many airlines are using flight apps, which don't require Wi-Fi once installed on the tablets.
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With more and more apps being developed for shopping, the market will only continue to grow.
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It should mean developers are chomping at the bit to make apps for its Ovi store.
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What relevance could this have to the more utilitarian world of mobile apps and web pages?
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Both BlackBerry 10 and Windows Phone have burgeoning app marketplaces, but are missing many key apps.
Without this base road data, Garmin, TomTom, Apple and Google navigation apps could not exist.
Oh, and did we mention, that Apple will allow only apps approved by Apple?
Most of the apps are accessed via Gmail, GDrive files, Google Docs, or Google Contacts.
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Other newspapers and magazines have announced plans for their own, dramatically more realistic iPad apps.
Replacing Rubin is Sundar Pichai, who heads Google Chrome OS and apps efforts.
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Launched in April, the website provides a marketplace for buying and selling mobile apps.
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MeetMe is a mostly mobile-based social platform that aims to connect people within games and apps.
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Gmail is not a systemic innovation and Google Apps are kind of like other apps.
It makes sense for advertisements to direct users to apps instead of websites on mobile platform.
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Lifehacker.com provides updates on tech trends and reviews groups of competing apps and devices.
The app can be downloaded from Verizon Apps and Google Play, and is free to customers.
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But Luminate is now launching a number of other apps that can be embedded in images.
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With the countless other digital distractions available these days games, mobile apps, etc.
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Apple, Samsung and Blackberry have chosen to enable this for their pre-loaded video chat apps.
In addition to websites, both companies also offer smartphone apps geared toward diners on the go.
Both of these changes are aimed at helping make apps more prominent and accessible to users.
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Mobile apps are proliferating because they are almost always handier and sexier than their website counterparts.
The market for photo apps is crowded, with services from Instagram to Google to Facebook.
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Based on what your goal is, you can find Facebook apps that work for you.
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