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Mobile Minutes: Apple releases iOS 8.1; Google's big picture apps; Tracking apps; New faces for Android wearables

Apple releases iOS 8.1.2, it will anger users
Without any warning Apple has today released iOS 8.1.2 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users running iOS 8. But it isn?t the long awaited raft of bug fixes needed for users affected by the ongoing problems with iOS 8.
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Google tells developers to design apps for a billion users
As Google Inc. supplies more programs used by businesses, it?s asking developers to forgo complicated enterprise-management tools and focus on applications that would be useful to at least a billion people.
Read more on Bloomberg

It's 10pm, do you know where your kids are? (This app does)
The free app is designed to show families where each member is on a map?with his or her consent. Users opt in to get alerts when individuals have come and gone from home or work, including estimated arrival time.
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Google puts new face(s) on Android Wear smartwatches
Starting today and rolling out over the next week, you'll have a lot more watch faces to choose from. Google is devoting a new area of the Google Play Store to such faces, which you'll be able to download the same way that you now download apps.
Read more on USA Today