Two apps, Cardstar and Key Ring, serve as repositories for your loyalty shopping card numbers. You just hand your phone to the cashier at checkout.
A variety of effects may help you escape with art of a different sort, or at least a laugh.
Some tips for making an app work on your Apple gadget, and ways to try to get your money back if none of them are successful.
Smartphones are great for poetry, as even the most casual lovers of verse can read it whenever the spirit moves them.
Major retailers are working with a new smartphone app called Shopkick that tracks and offers promotions to users as they shop.
Groups that saw Google as a top ally in the fight for net neutrality see its proposal with Verizon as a retreat.
The Finnish company has its work cut out for it in the United States, where Nokia shows little of the swagger of a global powerhouse.
The Android App Inventor from Google is intended to help nontechnical types create their own apps. An intrepid explorer plunges into do-it-yourself territory.
David Pogue examines apps that lock phones to keep them from being used by drivers.
David Pogue tests Line2, an iPhone application that allows users to set up a second phone line, which can make calls over the AT&T network or over the Internet.
David Pogue looks at the Jawbone Icon Bluetooth earpiece with improved noise-cancellation technology.
