Lots of news in the deals sector of technology. Microsoft cut the Xbox price to $299, from $350. A new $350 model, out next month, will include a 60 GB hard drive. … Another price cut comes fromthe Ooma internet-based phone service. It’s now $250, from an earlier $400, and it’s available at Best Buy. … AT&T hinted that it will soon offer all iPhone owners free Wi-Fi at AT&T’s 17,000 hotspots before yanking the deal off the web …
But most of the free news this week comes from the iPhone’s Ap store, which, says Apple, offers 25 percent for free and 90 percent below $10.
Here are some iPhone Apps roundups:
- 17 free iPhone Apps you need right now (PCWorld)
- Top 10 iPhone Apps to impress a date (Electric Pig)
- Top 10 iPhone Apps to get you promoted (Electric Pig)
- A look at business apps in the iPhone App store (Information Week)
- 20 Cool iPhone Apps (PC World)
- Top 11 iPhone Apps (Time)
- Top 5 must-have iPhone Apps for students (College On the Record)
- The 16 best free iPhone Apps (PCAdvisor)
- iPhone Apps we like: Pandora (Gizmodo)
- The iPhoneBlog forum enlisted readers to post reviews of iPhone apps and rewarding them with a 25 percent discount on accessories.
- And then there’s … Removing stubborn iPhone apps (iPhone Atlus)
Contests
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Write a clever haiku, win a Samsung Instinct from CrunchGear. It’s a weekly contest with the next one taking entries until noon on Tuesday, July 22. This week’s haiku should focus on sight and be tweeted to UseYourInstinct. (A haiku, by the way, is a short 3-line poem, consisting of 5 syllables, 7 syllables and 5 syllables. More details and rules HERE.
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