Douglas Engelbart recently filed two new patents for mobile chorded keyset devices and TipTap. mobi has released a chorded app for the iPhone with Douglas Engelbart.

It has been called Perl's killer app.

The standard has been created to enable home automation, security, healthcare and energy monitoring applications that are battery powered and can easily connect to the web using the large number of existing DECT enabled modems and be managed using a smartphone app.

More recently Roger's Profanisaurus has become a popular downloadable app for Apple's iPhone.

It has also been suggested that the new Google voice search iPhone app is using Speex to transmit voice to Google servers for interpretation.

The Weather Channel already has made huge strides with its mobile app but will use Weather Underground's large network of digital forecasting and tracking websites to bolster its digital growth.

The " Jump " key launches an app that has a list of interchangeable vertical shortcuts.

The OS has been modified to appeal to a younger crowd, such as threaded-messaging for the SMS app, a group messaging app, a custom lockscreen, among many other changes.

The 5th and 6th generation Apple iPod Nano has a built-in accelerometer in a Fitness app that can be used to record walking steps and runs.

Zumtobel has also introduced smartphone app design guide to help select the best products for specific applications.

Mac OS X v10. 5, Mac OS X v10. 6 and Mac OS X v10. 7 installed X11. app by default, but as of OS X Mountain Lion, Apple has dropped dedicated support for X11. app, with users directed to the open source XQuartz project instead.

In recent years, the abbreviation " app " has specifically come to mean application software written for mobile devices, with the abbreviation in particular representing both the smaller size and smaller scope of the software ( i. e. an app whose sole purpose is to display an image representation of the current weather ).

In 2012, an iOS remake has been announced, as a mobile app entitled Flick of the Dead.

By 2012, in addition to Autoweek magazine, the Autoweek Media Group has grown to include autoweek. com, Autoweek Productions, shopautoweek. com, an Autoweek iPhone and iPad app, and Autoweek's Vinsetta Garage.

It has published a number of book-related apps for the iPhone and the iPad, including Malcolm Tucker: The Missing Phone ( which was nominated for a BAFTA award ), QI: Quite Interesting, Harry Hill's Joke Book, and The Waste Land for iPad app.

The Ho-Chunk Nation is working on language restoration and has developed a Hocąk-language " app " for the iPhone.

ArtScroll has announced plans to produce a mobile app that can be accessed on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.

The Hollywood Reporter has a suite of products that include a daily PDF edition, an oversized weekly glossy magazine, an iPad app, international newsletters and festival dailies.

Starting in April 2011, Moleskine has made a web application available for iPhone and iPad users from the iTunes app store.

The Moleskine app has received lukewarm reviews on iTunes, and has been reviewed as lacking compatibility with other native and cloud applications and services like Dropbox In late 2011, Moleskine company follows up the book The Hand of the Architect with an iPad app presenting all the sketches, drawings, and biographies of the 110 featured architects.

Doom became a " killer app " that all capable consoles and operating systems were expected to have, and versions of Doom have subsequently been released for the following systems: DOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Macintosh, Super NES, Sega 32X, Sony PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, iOS, Symbian OS, RISC OS, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Tapwave Zodiac, 3DO, Xbox, and Xbox Live Arcade.

Google had been sent a DMCA letter to remove the Android app called tricorder since its use of the LCARS interface was un-licenced.

Several computer games have also been produced using clay animation, including The Neverhood, Clay Fighter, Platypus, Clay Moon ( iPhone app ), and Primal Rage.

Additionally, the eFax service has been integrated into some HP printer models and is available as an app for Microsoft Office 2013.

With the expiration of the Netflix deal, film content from studios that Starz has broadcast rights is no longer available for online streaming at the time being, particularly as Netflix and certain similar services such as Vudu do not have separate streaming rights to films from studios Starz has broadcast film rights to ; however, Starz announced in November 2011 that a streaming application was being developed for mobile devices, that would allow Starz subscribers and possibly non-subscription television subscribers as well to view the network's series and film content ; no release date has been announced for the app.

The games in the series have been praised as being among the best first-person shooters on a video game console, and are considered the Xbox's " killer app ".

However, the application was subsequently pulled from iTunes four days later, and two days after that, Google announced that the al-Manar app had been removed from Google Play.

Even thought the App Store has been blocked the messaging app, facetime, and the iPod / music app are unlocked but students are only allowed to use these apps outside of the classroom.

Workspot was based in downtown Palo Alto, California during the dotcom boom, and funded its free desktop service through wireless contracting: they may have been the first mobile web app shop, involved in creating the first mobile apps for Google, eBay, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Metro Traffic etc., as well as client-server software for OmniSky, Palm and others.

The cloned apps often are purposely designed to resemble other popular apps by name or feel, luring away purchasers from the legitimate app, even after complaints have been filed.

In this form it has been called a " killer app ", but in a non-traditional sense that it helped kill the company, and the reputation of Apple with it.

An app “ PurdueBus ” has been recently launched which provides a comprehensive system for the city bus system of the West Lafayette / Lafayette area.

Another type of shareware software distribution very popular in the mobile domain are app store markets ( e. g., see List of mobile software distribution platforms ).

It is also used in the web-based game Glitch, the popular video game Minecraft ( as a title screen splash text ), the music service Turntable. fm, the free online education site khanacademy. org, the operating system Ubuntu, the photo-sharing site Flickr, the Humble Indie Bundle Android app, when generating certain reports in SEOmoz, and when preparing the game collection analysis in Raptr.

There are deals offered on university restaurants on popular coupons apps such as Groupon, FourSquare, and CollegeByMe, which is an app exclusive to the University students offering special deals to local restaurants and businesses.

With the spread of smartphones and tablet computers around 2010, the short form app was in some popular news accounts restricted to mobile apps.

In 2010, Earthjustice launched an innovative fundraising campaign using the popular location-based social networking app, foursquare.

In 2008, an iPhone app called Pull My Finger was one of the most popular apps in Apple's App Store, purchased over 50, 000 times in less than one week.

Beyond game development, the company also created and maintains the free and popular Android app Barometer HD, allowing simple measurement and graphing of barometric pressure on devices equipped with pressure sensors.

On January 24, 2011, PostUp acquired popular Twitter client app UberTwitter — after previously purchasing Echofon ( for iPhone / iOS ) and Twidroyd ( for Android OS )— and renamed itself UberMedia.

* Bump ( application ), a popular app for the iPhone and Android smartphones which allows users to easily share information between each other