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whether it's the card from a business associate or your hair stylist try using a few handy apps to hold on to valuable contact information all three of these free apps rely on your smart phone or tablet's camera to take a picture of the card so it can add the person as a contact in your address book but each app offers its own set of features card munch the business card reader from LinkedIn works best if you're already a linkedin member once a contact is uploaded the app will automatically connect you and that person allowing you full access to their profile camp card boasts that it can read 12 different languages and offers to sync your contacts with gmail and Exchange you can also share the contact information through text and finally scan biz cards will automatically send an email to your new contact with all of your contact info that's great if you're running short of the actual paper cards in addition you can organize context into groups and add follow-up appointments directly to your calendar from this app in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News