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Top iPhone Apps: 6 Apps To Get You Started

So you’ve gone ahead and sprung for an iPhone. Now its time to skim through the App Store and download from the library of over 500,000 apps. So where do you start? Here are 5 free iPhone apps every beginner is bound to use.

Top essential iPhone apps

Pandora Radio

Pandora Radio is your own free personalized radio now available to stream music on your iPhone or iPad. Just start with the name of one of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and Pandora will create a “station” that plays their music and more music like it. Already a Pandora user? Even easier. Just log in. Pandora on the iPhone is fully integrated with Pandora on the web. Enjoy all your existing stations - and create new ones right from your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.
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Windows Phone ‘Mango’ Update: Android and iPhone Challenger?

Microsoft’s Windows Phone “Mango” update adds new features for consumers and the enterprise. But can it help Microsoft challenge Google Android and the iPhone?

Will Microsoft’s upcoming software update for its Windows Phones, code-named “Mango,” affect the company’s smartphone prospects?

Certainly Mango represents a substantial revamp of Microsoft’s mobile platform, which is struggling for adoption in the face of competition from Google Android and Apple’s iPhone. In contrast to those platforms, which offer gridlike screens of individual apps, Windows Phone consolidates Web content and applications into a set of subject-specific Hubs, including “Office” and “People.”

As Microsoft executives demonstrated for a small group of media and analysts during a May 24 press event in New York City, the new features include a redesigned Xbox Live Hub, home-screen tiles capable of displaying up-to-the-minute information such as instant messages and social-networking data, the ability to consolidate friends and colleagues into groups, and visual voicemail. All in all, Microsoft is planning to add some 500 new elements to Windows Phone.

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