mobile apps

Say you find yourself in a new city and want to know where the most scenic spots are located, without dealing with a guidebook. Try this shortcut that uses the Instagram API in a different way.

The Presence app by People Power turns unused devices into surveillance cameras and can email you updates, as well as short video clips.

If you're really into space exploration but can't afford a half-million-dollar ticket for a trip into space, NASA offers some less expensive and safer alternatives.

When it comes to working with spatial data in mobile software, the business needs can vary greatly. At a basic level, you're probably going to be working with latitude and longitude coordinates as a base for the complex math involved with route calculation, distance calculation, proximity and so forth. This is where Microsoft SQL Server (2008 and greater) can help you out.

You know that streaming music over 3G draws a lot of smartphone energy. But inefficient CSS, image file choices, and geo-locating advertisements are hogging your battery in less overt ways, according to recent studies.

Industry insiders defend Google's Safari hack and Path's phonebook theft as standard industry practices. We can -- and must -- do better than that.

A mobile app privacy summit? Not a bad idea, but here’s the thing: couldn’t you have made it clear what the app was doing in the first place?

Apple's annual eight-day holiday shutdown of its App Store begins Thursday.

It took almost no time for the Internet hive mind to write off Google Currents as a Flipboard clone, but it's really something quite different.

Mobile apps development platform vendor lands $15 million in venture funding for expansion.

The Smithsonian app Leafsnap identifies plant photos taken with iPhone's camera, but sends photos and location data back to be included in plant-location studies.

How to check your tax refund status using the IRS2GO app.