Serious privacy flaws discovered in Glow fertility tracker app

 There are scores of startups making fertility tracker and family planning apps today, but a Consumer Reports investigation has singled out Glow Inc. for serious security and privacy flaws. First,...

Microsoft awards hardware startup ENTy the 2016 Imagine Cup

 The festivities have wrapped for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, a global competition among students and young people to create new software and devices. The winner this year was ENTy, a polished and...

Pokémon Go’s paying user base has reached a plateau

 Pokémon Go may be the most downloaded app in its first week post-launch ever, and is said to be raking in some $1.6 million daily on iOS alone, but a new report out on Friday suggests that...

Dating apps attach themselves to the Pokémon craze

 Pokémon may be the perfect dating app: you’re out in the real world, have an immediate way to start a conversation with an attractive stranger and, clearly, the two of you already share a common...

PokeFit gives Pokemon Go a real-time fitness dashboard on Android

 Pokemon Go is definitely big enough to start generating its own ecosystem, and one new Android app hints at how far things could go beyond simply crafting a better Pokedex. PokeFit gives PoGo...

SurveyMonkey study finds social media apps ruled mobile in first half of 2016

 A new study from SurveyMonkey Intelligence revealed the 30 most-downloaded and most-used apps in the American iOS and Android app stores so far this year. Social media apps...

What’s this whole email thing about anyway?

 What do you know about the Clinton email scandal? If you’re anything like me, not much – yet! Let’s take a stroll into our political Swamp of Sadness where both parties are currently mired. One...

White Noise 7 is out, and wants to be like Instagram for restful sounds

 When software developer Todd Moore wrote up the code for his now-famous White Noise app in 2008, it was a side project to him and one of the first mobile apps go live on the Apple app store. The...

Alphabet’s huge Q2 shows its ads business may not be so challenged after all

 While Alphabet’s core advertising business has often been questioned as the net value of its ads has been in decline, there’s one thing that’s hard to argue — it’s still one of the biggest...

Opternative and 1-800-Contacts now let users get updated prescriptions from home

 Telehealth and telemedicine companies have the power to help patients get the care they need from home, and often more quickly and at a lower cost than what they’d pay out of pocket at a clinic...

Google makes working on mobile easier with new Android Add-ons for Docs & Sheets

 Google announced today Android add-ons for Docs and Sheets, an easier way to use third-party services when working with Google’s office programs on your mobile device. These Android add-ons...

Zuck says augmented reality will flourish on phones before glasses

 Snapchat selfie lenses and Pokemon Go, not Magic Leap and HoloLens. Smartphones are how Mark Zuckerberg sees augmented reality going mainstream, rather than potentially awkward headsets and glasses....

Sketchfab makes it easier to look at 3D models in virtual reality

 Step by step, Sketchfab is turning into the best platform to view 3D models using a virtual reality headset. First, the company added a VR button on every browsing page, then it released apps to...