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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Teen Wins Apple's Billion-App Contest

The online store that offers third-party applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch has more than 35,000 applications available in 77 countries.

A 13-year-old downloaded the billionth application from the Apple App Store, becoming the grand-prize winner in the company's app countdown contest, the Apple said Friday.

Connor Mulcahey of Weston, Conn., will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod Touch, a Time Capsule backup system for the Mac, and a MacBook Pro. The billionth app was Bump Technologies' "Bump," which enables iPhones to share contact information from users' address books by bringing the devices close together.

The App Store, launched nine months ago, reached the billion-app milestone Thursday, according to Apple. The online store that offers third-party applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch has more than 35,000 applications available in 77 countries.

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