App News - September 2011

HealthTap has created a healthcare social network with more 5,000 doctors to answer patient questions, illustrating another way technology is improving the doctor-patient relationship.

Valeo has created a new app designed to remotely park a car, another effort to capitalize on both smartphone popularity and common parking anxiety.

An app from Sports Illustrated highlights the best matchups in the history of both professional and college football, just in time for the new season.

A free iPhone app lets users see how city streets used to look by integrating photographs from the past to give users a now-and-then perspective.

Android users can send live videos directly to police departments, thanks to an app that helps emergency responders provide immediate, specialized service.

New York's just-wrapped Fashion Week featured an unexpected star: Instagram, the popular iPhone app that converts low-resolution captures into grainy, vintage-style Polaroid-like pictures.

Kinetik helps users find new apps based on recommendations from friends and other tech-savvy types, cutting through increasing app clutter.

Ayn Rand's classic 1957 novel "Atlas Shrugged" is coming to life again through a new iPad app that combines its unabridged text with rarely-seen photos from Rand's archives, as more classic literature comes to mobile devices.

A BlackBerry app allows Ohio zookeepers to keep 24-hour watch over dangerous animals so they know what's going on behind closed doors before they enter the animals' cages.

A police district in the U.K. created a new smartphone app that tracks local crime, in what may become a model for police departments elsewhere.

Smartphone users can now get personalized restaurant recommendations courtesy of Ness, an iOS app that simplifies the hunt for a decent meal on the go.

SignalGuru aims to help drivers cut fuel costs and avoid traffic congestion by using smartphones to crowdsource conditions, another effort to make driving more efficient using mobile technology.