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Third-Party App Stores: Worth the Trouble?

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November 17, 2010
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Third-Party App Stores: Worth the Trouble? It's easy to rely on your phone's built-in store for mobile apps, but alternative stores such as GetJar and Handango may offer apps and extras that the native stores don't.
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The Beatles and iTunes: Making Sweet Music Together Beatles' albums are priced at $12.99 each. Individual songs cost $1.29, same as the highest price tier for best-selling tracks from other artists.
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Mobile Providers Form New Digital Wallet Venture AT&T, Verizon Wireless T-Mobile USA, announce a new digital wallet service allowing subscribers to pay for groceries and other retail items using their phones.
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Android Will Give NFC a Boost, but Challenges Remain Android-based smartphones with NFC (Near Field Communication) will help turn mobile phones into wallets.
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Leaks Expose Rebirth of Microsoft Kin Not-So-Smartphone Verizon resurrects two feature-challenged smartphones designed by Microsoft.
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Video: Samsung's Epic 4G is the Smartphone to Beat The Samsung Epic 4G sits atop the heap of high-end smartphones by virtue of its sharp display, front-facing camera, superior physical keyboard, and 4G speed.
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Android Phones Sweep Consumer Report Ratings, Beat Down the iPhone Consumer Reports says the best phones on the market are those that use Android.
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Windows Phone 7 Launch -- What Went Wrong? Microsoft only managed to sell 40,000 WinPho7 phones -- underwhelming, to say the least.
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Ears-on With Etymotic's Custom-Fit Eartips Canalphone vendor Etymotic Research recently shook up this market a bit by teaming with ACS, a British company that specializes in custom-made ear products, to introduce the Custom-Fit program.
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Across Age DX for iPhone Developers FDG Entertainment have taken their much beloved action RPG, Across Age, and re-released it for Retina-Display-enabled fourth generation iPhones and iPod Touches as Across Age DX.
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