New York Waterway recently introduced an iPhone app that allows riders to use their smartphones as their tickets.

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App City: A Smartphone Can Be a Ticket to Ride

Three new Kindle e-book readers from Amazon fall short of full-featured tablets, but they have much to offer at comparatively low prices.

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State of the Art: The Fire Aside, Amazon’s Lower-Priced Kindles Also Shine

The Android app I’m Getting Arrested allows users to set up alerts in advance and send them to relatives and lawyers when they are about to be detained.

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App City: About to Be Hauled Off in Handcuffs? Press Send

The iPhone 4S is loaded with dazzlers: faster speed, a camera that takes crisper shots, global reach and transformative voice recognition.

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State of the Art: IPhone 4S Conceals Sheer Magic – Pogue

City officials in San Francisco have developed a smartphone app that displays information about areas with open parking spaces.

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Now, to Find a Parking Spot, Drivers Look on Their Phones

It can be hard to examine items on a small screen, pages can be slow to load and typing in information requires either surgical precision or tiny fingers.

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Retailers Retool Sites to Ease Mobile Shopping

A German politician was surprised to learn he was being tracked by his cellphone carrier.

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It’s Tracking Your Every Move and You May Not Even Know

A new iPhone application is designed to help blind people identify United States currency in real time by speaking the denomination aloud.

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Bits: iPhone App Helps the Blind With Currency

Iindustry insiders, eager start-ups and freelance energy enthusiasts survey ideas for solving the planet’s seemingly intractable energy problems at the sixth annual M.I.T. Energy Conference.

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Green: Energy Geeks Converge on M.I.T.

As more and more people chat on Facebook and Twitter while watching TV, networks are trying to figure out how to capitalize.

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TV Industry Taps Social Media to Keep Viewers’ Attention

Start-ups that help users discover music have created jobs that help find and input new songs into the companies’ databases.

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In Digital Era, Music Spotters Feed a Machine

More and more economists and their students are relying on mobile devices and the apps they provide in their work, an economist writes.

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Economix: Mobile Apps for Economists

Google demonstrated Honeycomb, its Android software for tablets, and a new online Android Market app store.

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Bits: Google Fixes Its App Store

Intuit, the maker of TurboTax software, has an application called SnapTax that allows taxpayers to file federal taxes by iPhone or Android using the 1040EZ form.

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New Task for Phone: File Taxes

Many apps are available to entertain every moment, wherever you are. You don’t have to be sitting on the dock of the bay.

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App Smart: Top Picks for Apps to Help You While Away the Minutes