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The Crimson White
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The Crimson White

Tech Blog: Zip lets users ask and answer questions

Aaron Bonner • January 21, 2016

Star Wars or Harry Potter? Pepsi or Coke? Knowledge or Wisdom? These are the types of questions you’ll see in Zip – The Question/Answer App, a new app that allows anyone to ask questions and survey...

Pocket Points wants students to spend more time studying and less on their phone

Pocket Points wants students to spend more time studying and less on their phone

Caroline Babbin • October 21, 2015

Earn more for doing less. Those are the words that greet you when you open the increasingly popular app, Pocket Points. The premise of the app is simple--students open it in class and receive points when...

Drunk Mode tackles campus safety concerns

Drunk Mode tackles campus safety concerns

Bailey Shoenberger • September 17, 2015

Everyone knows someone who has a tendency to have a little too much fun on a Friday night. Maybe they are known for waking up and not knowing where their wallet is or where they were the night before....

Trebel Music offers free downloads to students

Trebel Music offers free downloads to students

Nina Clevinger • September 14, 2015

When Gary Mekikian and Corey Jones of M&M Media, Inc., needed a university to launch their new music-streaming service, Trebel Music, The University of Alabama was a top choice. “We wanted to make this...

New Rave Guardian app aims to protect students

Emily Williams • August 19, 2014

A new app designed to keep students safe will be available for the beginning of the new school year. The Rave Guardian campus safety system has been updated and will now be available as a smart phone...

FBI seeks to use apps to predict terrorist acts

Judah Martin • February 21, 2012

There seems to be a smart phone application for just about everything, be it storm alerts or GPS navigation. Most recently, however, the United States government began to push for its own terrorism app...

Local attorney develops application to help newly detained

Local attorney develops application to help newly detained

Alyssa Locklar • January 31, 2012

A Tuscaloosa attorney has developed a smartphone app to keep people from stressing about whom they ought to contact with their one call from a jailhouse. The application, called Busted, allows you to...