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Podcasts Take Two
Using your phone to make some extra cash
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Mar 11, 2013
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Using your phone to make some extra cash
The mobile apps "Words With Friends" and "Fruit Ninja" provide a great distraction from work, but what about apps that can be the basis for work themselves? Are there apps that can be considered as a job creator? We'll find out.
An icon for the Google Maps app is seen on an Apple iPhone 4S on December 13, 2012 in Fairfax, California. Three months after Apple removed the popular Google Maps from its operating system to replace it with its own mapping software, a Google Maps app has been added to the iTunes store. Apple Maps were widely panned in tech reviews and among customers, the fallout resulting in the dismissal of the top executive in charge of Apple's mobile operating system.
An icon for the Google Maps app is seen on an Apple iPhone 4S. Many people are using their phones to for things like being a cab driver or a courier.
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The mobile apps "Words With Friends" and "Fruit Ninja" provide a great distraction from work, but what about apps that can be the basis for work themselves? Are there apps that can be considered as a job creator? We'll find out.

The mobile apps "Words With Friends" and "Fruit Ninja" provide a great distraction from work, but what about apps that can be the basis for work themselves? Are there apps that can be considered  as a job creator? We'll find out.