Apps
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Minicab mobile apps such as Uber are threatening to drive traditional taxis off the streets but, Britain’s cabbies tell Bella Bathurst, it’s about more than simply getting people from A to B
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Ollie is a little smartphone-controlled rolling robot cylinder that can race, jump and pull mid-air tricks like a spherical Tony Hawk
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Technology means there’s no longer any excuse for not staying in touch. Hannah Jane Parkinson picks the best apps for online chat
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Co-founder Dean Fankhauser on the inner workings of the online platform and what’s next for the fashion industry
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Have your say on the latest change to social network’s news feed, as well as Kim Dotcom, Stephen Hawking, Stampy and more
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Janus Friis is backing a communications startup that claims to solve ‘nagging problems’ in messaging, voice and file sharing. Can it really be the ‘ground up reimagination’ he claims?
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Google and Microsoft’s apps will offer a countdown to Christmas Eve, games and interactives, but which is best?
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Digital sales intended to enhance, not replace, the paper spreadsheets used to generate an estimated $800m in cookie sales a year
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Zombie Arena isn’t just another run-of-the-mill, living-dead mobile title, writes Toby Moses
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Can an app really make you feel better about your life? Download ours and find out
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With 4.3m subscribers and 1.6bn views so far, British gamer Daniel Middleton is following peers PewDiePie and The Yogscast onto smartphones and tablets
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Have your say on the American Civil Liberties Union’s lessons, plus eBay’s magic mirrors, Anita Sarkeesian, and a new way to respond to rape threats on Facebook
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Social network stresses that its new data collection initiative can be turned off by people who feel uneasy about it
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Have your say on IDC’s prediction of declining iPad sales, net neutrality, Spotify, YouTube toy channels and more
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Children aged 11 to 15 turning to online video and streaming services in greater numbers, research by media regulator reveals
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Taylor Swift, Civilization Revolution 2, Sleep Better, Messenger, Candy Crush Soda Saga, Football Manager Handheld 2015 and more
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It’s an anonymous messaging app, thought up by US students Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington. You can only communicate with people in your vicinity, but that isn’t stopping investors pouring hundred of millions of dollars into it
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Investors hoping for the next WhatsApp are piling in to US startup despite criticism over cyberbullying
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25 apps to offer exclusive Red content to boost fundraising efforts, alongside in-store and online push
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Channel 4’s Alex Thomson filmed Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone and shared the short videos on Twitter
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There are now millions of smartphone apps on competing platforms. Trouble is, few of them have any actual worth, writes John Naughton
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WhatsApp, Snapchat, WeChat and their rivals are placing big bets on what users want – and how to make money from it
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WaPo app will be pushed to all Amazon-branded tablets for free trial period before charging $1 for the following six months
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Jack Dorsey’s payment startup has launched globally – but the incomplete rollout gives competitors space to breath
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Franken, chair of the Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, asks Uber what protections it puts in place for users’ privacy
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Have your say on iOS store’s new buttons, as well as Uber questions, Apple encryption, Jolla tablet and more. By Stuart Dredge
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The cab-hire app is investigating its general manager for privacy breaches after he used a reporter’s personal data to make points in an argument
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UK startup aims to spark young imaginations: ‘You don’t have to make these fruit machine-style massive addiction games’. By Stuart Dredge
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New tool means tweets are no longer gone forever when they drop off users’ timelines. By Samuel Gibbs
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Security boost initially available within WhatsApp’s Android app, but will also come to iOS version. By Tom Fox-Brewster
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Have your say on the debate around Uber’s threats to journalists, as well as Apple Watch, Twitter and more. By Stuart Dredge
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Megan Carpentier: The $18bn startup wants to spend a million spying on women instead of driving us home. It’s time to uninstall
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Spotify boss Daniel Ek: ‘We thought ‘what’s the next generation of transportation system?’ Uber’s an obvious fit for us...’. By Stuart Dredge
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It’s an economy on warp speed, a place where you can go from nobody to millionaire in weeks. So what does it take to make it in Silicon Valley? Oliver Burkeman meets the young Brits going for broke
Changing business Wearable tech for Christmas? It probably won’t help you get fit