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...Apps As more consumers use their phones for snapping and sharing photos, Google's new, no-stress editing tool could soon give it a key competitive advantage in phone photography. In an interview with TIME a month before the acquisition, Picnik CEO Jonathan Sposato said developing a great, easy-to-use phone app was an important project for Picnik. By launching a feature-rich, easy-to-use app version of Picnik, Google can speed ahead in the race for phone-software supremacy...
Both of these add-ons are certainly nice, but the real game changer is Microsoft's solution to a fundamental flaw in most mobile platforms. Instead of having to toggle back and forth between separate apps so you can check Facebook or send a tweet, the WP7 team figured out how to aggregate all your social-networking content in a People hub on your Start screen. Likewise, photos from your mobile device, PC and various social networks will be neatly organized within the Pictures hub. In all, WP7 has created six distinct hubs - People, Pictures, Music+Video, Games, Office...
...works like this: when, say, a prominent politician sends his mistress an iPhone message via TigerText, the mistress will be prompted to install the app. When she has done so, she can read the message, but she can't keep it. In fact, the message is never actually sent to her phone; it's stored on TigerText's servers. After the politician's specified time span has elapsed - anywhere from one minute to five days - the message ceases to exist. There's even a "delete on read" setting, which counts down from 60 after a message is opened and erases...
While the implications for philanderers - and spies - are obvious, the app was not actually developed for them, says TigerText founder Jeffrey Evans, a former recruiter and headhunter, and not, at least on the basis of one interview, a particularly paranoid guy. The name was in place before the Tiger Woods texting scandal, he claims, and the company decided to stick with it. Evans' real concern is about privacy. "People text like they talk," he says. "And some of the things they say, taken out of context, can come back to haunt them." (See the 18 best Android apps...
...required to keep all cell-phone and e-mail data for a certain period of time. "That just seems wrong and an invasion of privacy," he says. "We have not caught on to the implications of all these conversations being kept for so long." While he acknowledges that the app might also be a boon to teens who are in the habit of sexting, drunk texting or "running off at the thumb," he thinks lawyers and their clients and business executives involved in complicated deals will be even more interested...