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Apps bring small town service to the big city

June 12, 2017 by Rob McKenzie

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Part of the power of technology is that it can do at a mass urban scale what used to be normal at a village scale.

If you visit the Western world only now and then, residing outside it, the evolutionary leaps of technological change are inevitably startling. But sometimes, oddly, what is most new can feel quite old. I went to a CVS drugstore in Chicago and they had a big sign touting their app … Read More

The start up how to, by Waze app guru Uri Levine

June 7, 2017June 6, 2017 by Dave Gordon

Waze, Maps and travel apps on cellphone
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2017’s already looking like it could be the year you save even more time and money using apps, and you may have Israeli Uri Levine to thank for it. Levine, 51, a computer programmer, investor, and start up guru, was Waze co-founder (with two others) as well as president of the … Read More

The Fast, Easy, Free Way to Learn Languages

July 3, 2018June 16, 2014 by Chris Riddell

Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, you don’t have to sit in a classroom or pay hundreds of dollars to use Rosetta Stone to learn a new language. There are numerous smart phone apps that serve the same purpose, and regular use of these apps can make the learning … Read More

State of the App Store

January 4, 2013 by Staff

Wired already listed their 413 essential apps; this is just a rundown of the “most memorable”, which, in Internet-speak, means “stuff that got past the tech pages and into the mainstream press.” [Wired]