It is never too early to start looking for a gift perfect for mom for Mother’s Day. Use this handy flow chart from Verizon and follow the appropriate path to find the best smartphone or tablet accessory for her.
Celebrate Spanish Language Day with these Apps
April 23 marks Spanish Language Day. Today, there are approximately 400 million Spanish speakers, making Spanish the third-most-spoken language in the world, after English and Mandarin.
Throughout Spanish-speaking nations, a series of cultural events are held in schools, community colleges and universities, to celebrate the language.
But even if you can’t make it to a Spanish Language Day fest, these apps can help you better understand and appreciate the language.
Photo Translator
One of the most valuable apps when travelling abroad, Photo Translator allows you to take pictures of text and then translate the messages using language recognition. It supports more than 30 languages and also works perfectly for ordering food.
English Spanish Translator
Easy to use, the English-Spanish translator app has voice support, a valuable function if you are traveling abroad. It works best if it’s a Hispanic voice being translated; otherwise, the app will offer many different interpretations.
Tourist: language learn & speak
Specially designed for travellers, this app features useful Spanish phrases for common situations abroad. Beyond basic words such as gracias andamigo, other important phrases include ¿Dónde está el baño? (“Where is the bathroom?”), ¿Dónde están mis maletas? (“Where is my luggage?”) and ¿Que hay de comer? (“What is for dinner?”)
Toddler Spanish
If you want your toddler to learn Spanish, this app offers simple words and images that can help a child build a Spanish vocabulary while also building an English vocabulary.
For more click here.
Verizon Foundation Pledges $100,000 to ‘One Fund Boston’ to Assist Victims of Boston Bomb Attacks
The Verizon Foundation has pledged $100,000 to One Fund Boston to assist the victims of the April 15 bomb attacks and their families. The foundation also will provide a 1-to-1 match of employee online donations to One Fund Boston.
One Fund Boston was established by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino to assist families most affected by the bomb attacks.
“The thoughts and prayers of Verizon employees across the globe are with the victims, families and friends affected by this senseless tragedy,” said Rose Stuckey Kirk, president of the Verizon Foundation. “Verizon’s roots in the Boston community go back more than a century, and we’re committed to supporting the community during this crisis.
(Source: newscenter.verizon.com)
Hampstead Academy Students Win National Mobile App Design Competition
A team of eighth grade students from Hampstead Academy in NH are winners of a national competition to develop mobile applications that address a need or problem in their school and community. Their ‘Chow Checker’ app concept is one of 10 winning designs. The app will help people with food allergies avoid foods and ingredients they are allergic to – such as milk, eggs, peanuts and shellfish.
The Verizon Innovative App Challenge was created by the Verizon Foundation in partnership with the Technology Student Association to help boost student engagement and interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab will continue to work with the Hampstead Academy “Chow Checker” team to refine their project. Verizon will provide the teams with professional support and training to help bring their concepts to market. The final products will be made available for download from Google’s Play Store. In addition, Hampstead Academy will receive a $10,000 Verizon Foundation grant to advance STEM education at their school, and each team member will receive the new Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, courtesy of Samsung Mobile.
More than 470 student teams from across the country submitted concepts for the Verizon Innovative App Challenge. The Hampstead Academy Chow Checker team consists of seven students who will be invited to present their app at the National Technology Student AssociationConference in Orlando, Fla., in late June if they build the app by June 7.
For more info on the App Challenge, click here.
Get Ready For Earth Day in the Garden with these Apps
How will you celebrate Earth Day this year? A great way to commemorate Earth Day at home is to start a garden. You can use your smartphone with an app or two to help you have a successful gardening adventure.
To help you figure out what you want to plant in your garden and the optimum planting times for your area, check out the Garden Time Planner from Burpee. This app tells you when to sow seeds or transplant and has a large database of plants, where you can learn about their requirements, watch how-to videos and more!
Once you have purchased your tomatoes or petunias, download Landscape & Garden Calculators. This handy garden app tells you how far apart to plant what you’ve purchased, how much fertilizer to use, how much mulch you need, etc.
You want to be sure to stay on top of the watering regimen for a bountiful garden. The Garden Manager Plant Alarm lets you set alarms that remind you to weed, water and care for your garden.
For more suggestions from Verizon, click here.
Verizon Wireless Empowers Paterson, NJ Youth
Verizon and their Education Empowerment Program, with the help of the Paterson Public School and the Board of Education of Paterson, selected 20 students to compete in a competition to develop a new marketing plan for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2. Partnering with Samsung and SOTI, the School of Business, Technology, Marketing and Finance as a part of the John F. Kennedy High School in Paterson, NJ presented 20 students with Galaxy Tab 2 devices to help them with their marketing plans which will involve creating a plan and a video showcasing the very device that they will be using.
The program will focus on mobile learning and using technology in the everyday life to prepare them for higher education as well as the workforce. The goal is to have the program prepare the students for college and career success. Verizon will be providing the 20 students with free service during their 4 months with the devices and of course prizes for the best marketing plan. June 2013 is when the program will commence. The students, Verizon and a panel of judges will choose just 3 finalist of the 20 students. Voting will be online and open to the public to determine first, second, and third place winners.
Verizon has previously worked with other schools in Boston, MA and Newark, NJ.
For more info on this and other Verizon Wireless initiatives, check out http://news.verizonwireless.com/
These days you can do almost anything right from your smartphone, so the very creative people at Desk have put together a comprehensive Infographic detailing how one might run a business from a smartphone with thirteen different apps. Before you start downloading apps though, make sure your connected to America’s fastest 4G network, which delivers higher bandwidth and faster access to more of today’s
data-heavy applications.
data-heavy applications.
Click through to view SocialMedia Today’s infographic.
Bronx Academy of Promise Charter School Wins $10,000 Verizon Foundation Grant
Sixth-graders at the Bronx Academy of Promise Charter School in Mott Haven are among the winners of the Verizon Innovative App Challenge. A team of six students created the concept for an app, Quest Math, which can helps fellow students increase their speed in basic math by playing a mythology-themed game.
The contest, sponsored by the Technology Students Association and the Verizon Foundation, sought to boost students’ interest in math and the sciences by encouraging them to design a mobile app concept to solve a problem in their schools or community. The school was one of 10 winners nationwide. More than 1,000 schools applied.
Each winning team’s school will receive a $10,000 Verizon Foundation grant to support STEM programs and each team member received the new Samsung Galaxy Note 10, courtesy of Samsung Mobile. Most important each of the winning teams will work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab to learn about basic coding and build their app on the MIT App Inventor and Verizon will help bring their apps to market.
Introducing Verizon’s Powerful Answers Award
Last week, Verizon launched its Powerful Answers Award, an effort to discover ideas that deliver the best new solutions in three core areas of focus: education, healthcare and sustainability. The program is intended to spark innovative thinking and problem solving across industries and to generate ideas, solutions and answers for some of the world’s biggest challenges.
Winners, who will be announced in 2014 CES, will be chosen in each core focus area, with the top prize being $1 million and additional prizes of $850,000, $700,000, $500,000 and $285,000. Full details can be found on www.powerfulanswersaward.com or follow the conversation on twitter @VZWNews and use #VZPAA
How To Use Your Smartphone To Get Healthy
Getting in shape and staying healthy can be a struggle, especially as people lead such busy lives nowadays. If you’ve been feeling sluggish and out of shape and need a bit of motivation to kick-start an active lifestyle, your smartphone could lend a helping hand. Here are some top tips of how mobile phones can be used to help get you fit and feeling your best again… Try using a Social Network Support System, like joining diet and fitness groups on Facebook.
Check Your Health regularly for example, NHS Direct (iOS/Android) is a free app that can help assess any symptoms you may have. Or get help with creating a diet that works for you with MyFitnessPal (iOS/Android/Windows Phone/BlackBerry OS), a free application that has a database of over 2,000,000 foods. For more suggestions click through to the full article from Hive Health Media.
(Source: technewsworld.com)
