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For a lot of people the day begins amid the chaos of a transit pressure-cooker. Agitated workers wedge onto trains or buses to make the stressful commute to work and arrive feeling frazzled, a state that only worsens as the day wears on.

Ready to ditch your wallet, cash and credit cards? A mobile payment app lets users make purchases with their smartphone without taking the device out of their pocket or purse.

The mobile industry is rapidly consuming many segments of the technology industry, but not without facing several challenges.

In the latest development of the intense rivalry between Research In Motion (RIM) and Google's Android-based smartphones, the latter has indicated it will end support for Blackberry's Gmail App, beginning Nov. 22.

Apple's App Store is huge, so to help you comb through the thousands of potentially awesome apps, be sure to try Crosswalk, the Pandora-like app finder that suggests new apps for you.

What you download from Apple's app store may not be safe; there are chances that some downloaded apps could cause you serious data loss, claimed a cyber security expert on Apple device security, who has been expelled by the company after he publicly revealed the flaw.

Tired of overspending? Confused about where all the money is going? A new iPad app aims to help users manage their finances.

Yahoo's new iPad app, Livestand, is now available in the App Store, and it's designed to be a one stop magazine content aggregator that lets you share what you're reading and discover new magazines.

Google released a Gmail iPhone, iPad and iPod app Wednesday hoping to streamline Apple users' Gmail experience and encourage more users to switch to the Google email platform. The new iPhone, iPad and iPod app was recalled due to a bug with notifications and Google pulled the iOS app to fix the problem.

The new Apple Store app allows customers to make online orders for in-store pickups, and even check-out from the physical retail stores directly on their own iOS device.

On Wednesday, Google's rumored updated Gmail app was released for Apple's iOS. It will be available on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch running on iOS 4 and up.

Google has finally revamped Gmail with a new design and swifter navigation features that users can switch to with a click of a button. So what's new?

Apple said its music-creating app, GarageBand, is now available for iPhone and iPod touch users.

Appcelerator raised $15 million in its latest round of funding, making the developer the largest third-party app publisher for both iOS and Android platforms.

Google is reportedly building a native Gmail application for the iPhone. Here's why that won't happen.

Instead of checking the local newspaper or social networks, a new app takes the guesswork out of finding local events and what is happening nearby.

A team of computer security researchers recently developed a proof-of-concept 'spy' app for the iPhone 4 capable of tracking typing on a nearby keyboard using the device's native accelerometer and gyroscope. Even a basic, widely available mobile device such as the iPhone is sensitive enough to enable the app to pick up data such as whether the keystrokes come from the left or right side of the keyboard and the relative distance between punched keys.

Apple has introduced its special Halloween App.

Android Market now accounts for more mobile app downloads than Apple and its App Store, thanks to Google's open-source strategy, according to ABI Research. The Android platform was responsible for 44 percent of all mobile app downloads in the second quarter of 2011, as opposed to iOS's 31 percent.

Whether they are on the social network or not, New York's convicted sex offenders have de facto Facebook profiles, as the state has released a Facebook app that gives access to its sex offender registry.

Dropbox is offering 5GB of free storage in an upcoming joint venture with HTC.