App News

NASA's "Earth Now" app shows users climate visuals and demonstrates how apps can encourage environmental mindfulness.

Camera Awesome, a new iPhone app, appears to live up to its name, offering an array of filters and social media sharing options that may challenge Instagram's hold on the market.

Developers have created a jukebox-like app allowing users to create or request songs for a music playlist, another response to the growing popularity of streaming music services.

The "Zombies, Run!" iPhone app encourages runners to pick up the pace, joining a number of other mobile exercise games in promoting healthy lifestyles.

Academic researchers have developed an app to help determine optimal caffeine consumption for various activities, another effort capitalizing on mobile technologies to try to improve everyday life.

The Astrid note-taking app now lets users outsource to-do lists, linking up with TaskRabbit to widen the market for person-to-person employment.

The "Remove" smartphone app lets people cut unwanted objects from their photos, joining other image editing apps in improving mobile phone pictures.

Lovestagram, a Valentine app created for Instagram's co-founder, gives couples yet another way to express their love through cutting-edge technology.

The "Winter Survival Kit" app helps drivers trapped in snow banks and blizzards, joining other apps in providing emergency information through mobile phones.

Starbucks introduced a Valentine's Day-themed update for its Magic Cup augmented reality app, another example of the coffee company's embrace of mobile technology.

A host of apps will help fans connect to the Super Bowl this weekend, reinventing the gridiron experience for a digital age.

A new web app is designed to help users find out why their significant other decided to dump them, giving people answers to questions they'd rather not ask in person.

A marine nonprofit has created an app tracking the surface movement of great white sharks, a novel effort to raise funds and awareness about threats to these popular predators.

The "Crash Corsage" app tips off wedding crashers on local celebrations, making a game out of showing up uninvited.

An app tying into recent release "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo " film gives users a new piece to the story, as mobile becomes a destination for promotional and entertainment apps.