Great Green Apps for Smart Phones

Don’t you just wish you had every tool available to make your life simple and green right there in your pocket? Well look no further, because everything from world environmental news, to saving gas, to carbon footprints can be found in a handy smart phone application. Here are some top rated Green Apps for you iPhone, Android Phone, and Blackberry.

IPhone:

Green Gas Saver: Not that driving is a very eco-friendly thing to do, but you can improve your carbon footprint by improving your driving habits. This app alerts you when you accelerate too fast, take sharp corners, and brake too fast. It also gives you a score for each trip so that you improve. The fact that it’s free and can do a lot of good is…well…pretty good!

A Real Tree: Buy this app for only a buck, and a real tree gets planted in the real world. You can also plant your own virtual tree in your iPhone or iPod Touch. It’s a real way, to do some real good, for a good price, in an easy and virtual format. $0.99

Good Guide: Scan the barcode of an item you are thinking of buying, and get a detailed ratings of its health, environmental and social impacts. Not just for shopping, this app can also help you see where your current household items stand.

Green Genie: With hundreds of green projects, access to C02 calculators, and shared functions, this app will help you live a greener lifestyle with the rub of a lamp! Tech Crunch rates this app as the #1 green app in the store. $0.99.

New Wave and Pay Technology to Smart Phones

The iphones would be having a new technology in them soon,that is known as the "wave and pay technology".We can say that the fashion of credit cards is soon to get expired.
Payment transactions would become extremely easy with this new technology.The Near-Field Communication is the technology to be credit behind this easy transaction which is set to be taking place soon.A customer would merely wave or tap an NFC-equipped smartphone in front of a receiver to complete a transaction.The New York Times reports that an upcoming Apple iPhone--though it may not be the iPhone 5--will feature NFC capabilities.

"According to two people with knowledge of the inner workings of a coming iteration of the Apple iPhone -- although not necessarily the next one -- a chip made by Qualcomm for the phone's processor will also include near-field communication technology," writes the Times.

In addition, an NFC-equipped iPhone will reportedly share data with the customer's iTunes account. According to the Times, "One person familiar with the new Apple feature said the phone's credit card information would be tied to information currently used on iTunes, which would make it simple for customers to set up the new mobile payment method on the iPhone."

Cult of Mac recently reported that Apple is testing a "remote computing system" that allows the user to log into the Mac App store by tapping an NFC-equipped Apple laptop with an NFC-equipped iPhone.

Neither the Times's sources not Cult of Mac's tipster specified which iPhone Apple plans to release with this e-wallet technology.