article_snippet: I’d recently got an iPhone and was downloading the apps that were just becoming available,’ her says.
article_snippet: Apps, short for applications — programs that can be downloaded to run on a smartphone — were few and far between in 2008.
article_snippet: Today, Apps, short for applications — programs that can be downloaded to run on a smartphone —’ve become essential to most people’s lives.
article_snippet: One program turns your mobile phone into an electrocardiogram, tracking heart rhythms and emailing the results to a doctor, while others allow patients to record blood pressure or blood sugar.
article_snippet: The researchers reported this can give users ‘a false sense of security’.
article_snippet: So, how can you know which apps you should use?
article_snippet: But on top of that, the app gave me a false sense of security.