smartphone_apps

LOOKING FOR OUR INFORMATION OVERLOAD SURVEY? TAKE IT HERE  – AND STAY TUNED FOR OUR BIG PROJECT LAUNCH ON JANUARY 25! David Hohusen, game director on the popular smartphone app Two Dots, ...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/two-dots-redux/

The Internet runs on advertising. Everyone from huge tech companies to scrappy start-up websites rely on ads. There's just one problem: People hate advertising and the tracking that comes with...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/ad-blocker-bloodbath/

Originally published February 2, 2015 Part of the Bored and Brilliant project  is to put some hard numbers to what is normally just a vague impression we scrutinize too closely: our phone hab...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/apple-users-dont-be-smug/

One week after D.C. regulators effectively banned  the new sedan-for-hire service UberX from operating in Washington, a District council member who has refereed the many disputes between the D....

http://www.wnyc.org/story/315018-uber-mediator-dc-council-woman-keeps-mediating-between-uber-and-dc-taxi-commission/

WAMU - Washington — By Thursday, Washington, D.C. taxi drivers are supposed to show they have scheduled the installation of a credit card payment machine in their vehicles. Many won't. The...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/312444-why-credit-card-acceptance-dc-cabs-so-complicated/

My name is Melissa Morganlander and my 5-year-old son, Quentin, has been diagnosed with PDD-NOS, a form of autism. Here are five great apps that have helped him greatly, which I have reviewed on ...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/296771-five-great-apps-kids-autism/

Tomorrow’s New Tech City  episode is about a woman I met nearly six years ago while walking my colicky newborn around Brooklyn. Melissa Morgenlander had little ones too: weeks-old twins —...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/296414-autism-media-and-technology-a-brooklyn-story/

Dr. Ari Brown is a pediatrician in Austin, Texas, and lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics study  on the media use by children. RedLaser — "I love a bargain. Need I say more?" ...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/253285-three-apps-i-cant-live-without-ari-brown/