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App Economy has created almost half a million jobs

Could the app economy be the cure for the United States’ employment doldrums? A new report suggests that the nascent app economy spurred on by iOS, Android and Facebook apps has generated 466,000 jobs in the U.S. economy since 2007. … Continue reading

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Updated: Your Verizon Galaxy Nexus almost lost its Nexus

Updated. The Verizon Galaxy Nexus LTE handset is reportedly no longer a Google-supported developer phone, which could have software update implications. Droid-Life has some screen shots indicating that the CDMA Galaxy Nexus — and as well as Sprint’s Nexus S … Continue reading

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Spotify’s free time period is almost over for some users

Spotify’s US launch gave its users free unlimited music for the first six months via the PC. Now that time period is almost over for the folks who jumped in early to try Spotify out. Read more… Neowin.net

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Smartphones killing point-and-shoots, now take almost 1/3 of photos

Camera-equipped smartphones — devices we carry with us all the time — are now in spitting distance of outnumbering traditional cameras in the percentage of photos and videos taken with them. On Thursday, the NPD Group released a study that … Continue reading

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Hold those caps: The average web page is now almost 1MB

Mobile broadband caps might not be putting the hurt on most mobile subscribers yet, but data usage is going to keep creeping up. And that’s without people doing any more actual browsing. The HTTP Archive charted the growth of the … Continue reading

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