Smart phone applications such as Emergency Aid or In Case of Emergency (ICE) for the iPhone provide one-touch emergency contacts and first aid information in the event of an incident.

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The boldest conglomerate is News Corporation, which sells online subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal and will begin charging for the newspaper's smart-phone applications.

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The new SocialTV Timeline is also available for syndication by third parties as a simple module that works in smart phone and tablet applications as well as on web pages, allowing users anywhere to sync to TV across more than 400 channels.

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It was one of the early iPhone applications that redefined the smart phone as more than just a geeky way to store contacts: it can also gross out your friends.

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The Mogul doesn't look quite as futuristic or elegant as the iPhone, but it has some features Apple's phone lacks, like a removable battery, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for thumbing messages, access to a "third-generation" (3G) Internet connection for fast mobile Web access and downloadable software applications that let you turn your smart phone into a mini computer.

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New affiliate programs are emerging and making it possible to automatically generate a variety of SMS Trojans and offer a selection of tools and options for spreading them through a smart phone or tablet, such as through fake storefront applications in the Google applications store, or through QR codes, among others, Maslennikov wrote in a long post about Android malware discoveries in 2011.

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