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According to a new survey conducted by MTV Networks (MTVN), a whopping 83% of mobile app users say they're addicted to their apps. For obvious reasons, that's good news for companies participating in the still-rapidly growing app economies built around Apple iOS and Google Android.

But of course, not all apps are successful. In fact, another new study shows that nearly a third of the Android apps released on Android Market have disappeared.
So how can companies make their apps more addictive, reducing the likelihood that they'll eventually have to kick them to the curb?

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Tuesday's announcement that Microsoft is buying Skype is obviously huge business news, but millions of consumers aren't focused on that.
Instead, many of the video and chat Web tool's 660 million users are wondering less about the economic impact of the $8.5 billion deal and more on what the purchase will mean for their user experience.

Kelly

Nokia announced that they are launching 3 new social networking mobile phones at their Everyone Connect Event in London recently.

Nokia has launched the Nokia C3, Nokia C6 and Nokia E5. All three of which run on the Symbian platform and support multiple email accounts, instant messaging and social networks.


Steve

There is a new Formula Three car in Northern Ireland that is receiving a great deal of press lately. Not only can the car reach speeds of 130 mph, but it’s made of sustainable materials, too.

According to BBC News, the ‘green’ vehicle, which researchers say is the world’s first sustainable race car, is a result of a collaboration between the University of Warwick’s Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre, the University of Ulster, and others. Powered by biodiesel, it’s made from environmentally friendly products like hemp, soybean oil, potato starch, and recycled bottlesResearchers didn’t sacrifice safety for sustainability, though. The vehicle’s “critical parts” are not made from sustainable materials, researcher Dr. Julie Soden told the BBC.


Pixie

Imagine a small device that you wear on a necklace that takes photos every few seconds of whatever is around you, and records sound all day long. It has GPS and the ability to wirelessly upload the data to the cloud, where everything is date/time and geo stamped and the sound files are automatically transcribed and indexed. Photos of people, of course, would be automatically identified and tagged as well.

Imagine an entire lifetime recorded and searchable. Imagine if you could scroll and search through the lives of your ancestors.


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