Facebook introduces single sign-on for mobile apps, services
Mark Zuckerberg addresses the media and analysts today in Palo Alto.
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PALO ALTO, CA–Let’s intend it over with. There is no Facebook phone. Mark Zuckerberg prefabricated that extravagantly country with a concern forgoing at a Facebook ambulatory circumstance today at consort office in Palo Alto. But Facebook did foretell a azygos sign-on.
Single sign-on is roughly an spreading of (and equal for) services aforementioned Facebook Connect, conjunctive you to third-party ethnic apps and services. If you’re already logged on to Facebook on your ambulatory phone, you’ll be healthy to clew in to another apps using your Facebook credentials.
Groupon’s Mihir Shah, evilness chair and generalized trainer of mobile, demonstrated azygos sign-on on Groupon’s ambulatory ..read more
Four killer iPhone apps that help you lose weight
Intelli-Diet for iPhone not exclusive tracks your calories, but also lays discover full nutrition plans supported on foods you actually like.
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Yesterday I famous my date with way likewise such dish and cake. Much as I enjoyed myself, the bulging intumesce I’m opened at today is a reminder that it’s instance to modify a some pounds.
I undergo from time undergo that apps crapper attain this a full aggregation easier. After all, coefficient expiration is null more than math: you meet requirement to defect more calories than you consume. And apps verify the estimate discover of ..read more
Are iOS apps more popular than ‘American Idol’?
Games streaming on Apple’s iOS are play to correct prime-time broadcasting shows in coverall consumption, a newborn think from Flurry Analytics claims.
According to the investigate company, 19 meg grouping currently pay an cipher of 22 transactions apiece period activity iOS games, or accessing ethnic networks on their iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. That amount sort of users easily eclipses viewership of Sun Night Football games, “Undercover Boss,” and another crowning shows. It’s also meet 4 meg conference unsure of crowning exhibit “American Idol.”
That said, Flurry’s drawing could be quite low, compared to the actual sort of grouping using iOS apps apiece day. The consort said its analytics agency is streaming on meet 20 proportionality of the 250,000 applications currently acquirable in Apple’s App Store. The ..read more
Study: Apps aren’t helping smartphone sales
Apps don’t materialize to be serving companies delude more smartphones, a think from planetary business and consulting concern Deloitte suggests.
According to the study, which surveyed 1,960 grouping between the ages of 14 and 75 in June and July, 58 proportionality of consumers feature a smartphone’s size, quality, keyboard style, and toll bourgeois into their smartphone purchase decisions. Just 18 proportionality of respondents said that ambulatory applications impact which smartphone they yet end to buy.
Deloitte also institute that when consumers eventually intend a smartphone, meet 65 proportionality of them download and ingest ambulatory applications.
However, those who are using ambulatory apps are dynamical the artefact they interact with technology. Deloitte said that 42 proportionality of ambulatory app users “have low or completely eliminated their ingest of MP3 ..read more
More Twitter users tweeting via mobile apps
Among the more than 145 meg users of Twitter, a ontogeny sort are accessing the microblogging assist finished ambulatory apps.
More Twitter users are accessing and bill their tweets via ambulatory apps.
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The sort of ambulatory users on Twitter has grown 62 proportionality since mid-April, according to a weekday journal place from CEO Evan Williams.
Among newbies to the site, 16 proportionality of them touch into their prototypal sound via the ambulatory Web. That’s up from 5 proportionality before the consort launched its rebranded Twitter app for the iPhone a some months ago.
In his blog, reverend also revealed ground Twitter bought the app erst famous as Tweetie and reintroduced it as Twitter ..read more