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Are Mobile Phone Applications Changing the Face of the Industry?

Steve Scher
07/24/2009 at 9:00 a.m.

The Apple iTunes Store sold over 1.5 billion applications in its first year. Developers are building competing applications for Palm, Google's Android phone, and other hand–held devices. Why are these applications so popular? Is everything in the tech industry going towards the mobile device? Who is designing all these applications? And what are some of the coolest apps out there? Today on "Weekday" we'll talk to some local app designers about the state of the industry.

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John Cook writes the Venture Blog for Puget Sound Business Journal.

Steve Murch is the creator of BigOven.

Ethan Lowry is one of the founding members of Urbanspoon. It's one of the most downloaded applications of 2008.

Victor Melfi is the chief strategy officer and senior vice president of VoiceBox Technologies.

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