Can the Dash app train you to be a better driver? One year road test!

It’s a rare situation, reviewing an app which almost instantly becomes a service we use every day.The developers behind the Dash driving app are on a mission to help people become safer drivers, and to save those people money by being better drivers. This free app connects to your car’s computer (through the use of some kind of wireless adapter), and collects detailed information on driving habits and engine data. When combine with your phone’s GPS, users can can save extremely detailed mileage logs on every trip they take, get instant notifications on ...

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Bell to pay $1.25 million for astroturfing app reviews

Back in 2009, Apple decided to block over a thousand apps from its App Store in one fell swoop. Most of them had previously been tracked by users and journalists as having been astroturfed — review pages painted with extremely positive, poorly written comments from accounts that only seemed to review a certain developer’s products.Mind you, we’ve covered Samsung’s positive and negative astroturfing campaigns ...

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