Apps stories - Page 12

Unblock: a free, fun and addictive puzzle game that will keep you entertained for hours (or maybe just minutes). Read more.

Gloomy Dungeon 3d: Hardcore is a Doom-esque first-person shooter that is 3D, hardcore, and set in a gloomy dungeon. It's perfect, really.

The hardware may be state of the art, the software well designed, but the meat-ware (that's us) is more often than not both stupid and forgetful.

Simplify your siesta with 'Napp', the app designed to perfection for hassle-free napping - just set and snooze!.

Mobile app adoption is maturing, and app providers need to focus on retention strategies to ensure relevance in the marketplace, says Gartner.

For such a simple premise Little Alchemy is a delightful, absorbing game, and one that I would happily recommend for kids or adults.

In 2009, almost half of the top selling apps targeted young children, and 80% of top-selling educational apps in the iTunes store target children.

Nail Doctor is everything I hate about cheaply-made, cynical revenue-grabbing apps, combined with everything I hate about foot hygiene.

Good Technology has leaped aboard the wearables bandwagon, upgrading their enterprise mobile data security platform.

Apple is gaining traction in the health and medical research space with ResearchKit, the open source software framework.

The library system, including its online component, was already working fine for me. What do I actually need this app to do?.

IT grad, Tao Zhou, has completed an internship at a plant breeding and research company where he developed an app to help staff carry out field work.

CA Technologies is focusing on helping businesses succeed in the 'landscape where the app is everything' with an updated portfolio of products.

Spark Business is offering customers a Putti 'build your own' mobile-responsive website free for 24-months (RRP $19.95 per month).

Victoria University of Wellington's Faculty of Education has released its second Te Reo Maori learning app, Puna.

Superhero Workout app aims to make exercising fun by using gamification and a seven-minute routine, but does it work?.

Anti-stress Chromotherapy is a fancy name for a simple idea, packaging a basic one-action app as a mental health tool.

Microsoft brings Outlook to iOS devices and preview of Android, while Office is now available for free on Android tablets.

Escape digital chaos with Forest Live Wallpaper, the idle serene app turning phones into tranquil, leafy retreats.

Detective's Choice Volume 1 is an interactive, genre-heavy RPG text-based adventure game that takes players back to the 1930's.