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The days of simply having someone's name and phone number on your cell phone contact list are long gone. While this isn't completely new, there is an ever-increasing trend of giving people in your cell phone nicknames rather than entering their actual name.

The City of Duluth is bringing crime fighting into the 21st century, launching today (April 19) a new mobile application and website allowing citizens to anonymously turn in crime tips, images and videos about crimes or suspicious activity directly to law enforcement from almost any mobile phone or computer.

Smartphones are amazing devices to keep us connected, entertain us, and so much more. As fantastic as these devices may be, they pose a serious threat to users and those around them every day. Over the last four years, the number of distracted driving-related deaths has grown exponentially, from 93 in 2008 to almost 800 in 2011.

Being able to have instant professional quality photos used to mean lugging around a truckload of filters and lenses, not to mention a portable darkroom. Not anymore.

A while back, Words with Friends took the app store by storm. Now, it seems the Pictionary-inspired “Draw Something” has captured the creativity of aspiring artists and casual gamers.

Ladies If you are wondering why your man is spending so much time in the bathroom lately, look for his smartphone. Researchers have found that 1 in 2 men regularly take a cell phone with them into the bathroom and surf the net, vs. reading the newspaper.  Hmm technology at it's finest.

Soon you’ll likely turn to your smart phone for medical tests instead of the hospital. Scientist in Korea are in the process of developing an app to do medical tests.

Facebook plans to enter into the smart phone market in the next 12-18 months with a phone that they have codenamed ‘Buffy.’ And, yes, that’s because Mark Zuckerberg and company thinks the device will be an iPhone slayer.

50 percent of Americans said they'd use their smartphone to take secret video of others doing silly, sexy or gross things.  Half??  That seems high! The Harris Interactive poll questioned more than 2,000 people, 18 and older.  Researchers asked "who and what" people would record secretly if given the chance.

File this under "So why in the world did you buy one?" A survey by Ipsos OTX of 5,013 adults has found that 19 percent of smart phone owners have never used their device to access the Internet. Furthermore, 32 percent have never used an app, assuring that their smart phone Internet experience -- for which they are presumably paying a monthly charge for -- is extremely limited.

Like most people, I'm usually skeptical on the validity of emails forwarded through chains of people.  A couple people have sent me this video is from an TV station out of Kansas City, Missouri.  So it must be credible, right?  It's scary to think that predators would have the ability to find our kids (or us for that matter) via pictures we take and upload to our facebook pagers, twitter, and flic

So I was cruising around looking for some new apps on my EVO last night and I came across one that I thought was amazing, the new TurboTax "SnapTax".