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A capacity crowd of app developers fills a conference room at the Cira Centre to pitch their products and network. This month, Apple announced that 3 billion apps had been downloaded from its App Store from among more than 100,000 titles in categories such as games, business, news, sports, and health.

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A capacity crowd of app developers fills a conference room at the Cira Centre to pitch their products and network. This month, Apple announced that 3 billion apps had been downloaded from its App Store from among more than 100,000 titles in categories such as games, business, news, sports, and health.

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Riverfest tickets see rise in price

NLR side adds new free events

By Kristin Netterstrom
Posted: February 9, 2010 1:27 a.m.

Riverfest tickets will cost more this year, but the Memorial Day weekend festival has added hotair balloon races and other free events on the North Little Rock riverfront.
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Labor Dept. secures back wages for employees

By The Associated Press
Posted: February 8, 2010 5:33 p.m.

The U.S. Department of Labor has secured nearly $62,000 in back overtime wages for 21 current and former health care workers of Davis Life Care Center Inc. in Pine Bluff.
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Court sets hearing on SWEPCO plant

By The Associated Press
Posted: February 9, 2010 12:05 p.m.

The Arkansas Supreme Court is to hear oral arguments on April 15 in a utility’s appeal of a ruling that voided its permit to operate a $1.6 billion coal-fired electric generation plant in southwest Arkansas.
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Warned regulators on Toyota, State Farm says


Posted: February 9, 2010 12:01 p.m.

The nation’s largest auto insurer said Tuesday that it alerted federal safety regulators in late 2007 about a rise in reports of unexpected acceleration in Toyota vehicles, the latest warning sign to emerge about the massive recall.
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3-D printing finding niche around world

Kits putting technology within consumers’ reach

By BRANDON BAILEY SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
Posted: February 8, 2010 2:49 a.m.

It may sound like a prop from a science-fiction movie or some garage inventor’s holy grail: a device that converts a computer file into a three-dimensional physical object.
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S With app market booming, some creators hit jackpot

By CAROLYN DAVIS THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Posted: February 8, 2010 2:49 a.m.

In the fast-moving world of mobile computing, small is all, and applications for BlackBerrys, iPhones, Droids and other gadgets are the sultans of software.
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