There's not an app for that: CAC issues warning about avalanche apps

The smartphone is like the modern day, techy Swiss Army Knife. With the help of a few apps, it can control all kinds of devices, deliver all types of entertainment and information, and get you out of jams. Heck, it can evenbecome an actual pocket knife. But it can't do everything. The Canadian Avalanche Centre says that avalanche rescue apps can not effectively replace dedicated avalanche beacons.

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Apps App social FUSE Fuse Streamlines Your Social Networking Into One Mobile App

Fuse, a new mobile application that aggregates your social networking activity into one “fused” feed that you can then interact with, search, reply to and more, recently got an overhaul making it a more stable product — and one that’s now ready for the forthcoming iOS 7 operating system thanks to an upgraded look-and-feel.
The concept behind the app is simple: it brings all your social networks together under one unified interface. Currently, Fuse combines your accounts from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, with plans to offer support for Pinterest, Google+, Foursquare and other networks in the future.
Like most social apps, Fuse presents your updates in a stream-like format, allowing you to like/favorite, share, re-tweet/re-post, reply, and more. Plus, it lets you write posts and then share to all your networks at once — the way Ping.fm once did back in the earlier Web 2.0 days. You can also create and save searches that find your keywords and search terms across all your networks.
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Apps audience choice battlefield disrupt13 zula app Zula’s Mobile-First Teamwork Tool Lets You Spend More Time Outside Of The Inbox

Zula, a startup from Jeff Pulver, a co-founder of VoIP success story Vonage, and serial entrepreneur Jacob Ner-David, is hoping to make your life a little less reliant on your inbox. The app combines elements of enterprise collaboration and communication tools, as well as mobile messaging giants like WhatsApp, for a tool that targets enterprise but could also find a home with personal users as well.
The team’s priorities seem to have shifted slightly since the last time Zula popped up on our radar — at the time the Zulians were informally referring to themselves as working on a WhatsApp for businesses, but these days they’re much more amenable to the notion of opening up the app to the masses.
Today’s Zula isn’t a purely business play, as the team now looks as it more as tool for teams of all sizes to communicate more effectively. It certainly doesn’t hurt that the app itself is really rather handsome, too. The UI is remarkably clean and free of nearly all visual clutter, and it seems as though very design choice made here was for the sake of reducing complexity. The end result is an app that looks good and works well.
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