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Le Web 2009: Appsfire Announces iPhone App Star Award Winners

TechCrunch Dec 09 09

Here at Le WebAppsfire just announced the winners of the App Star Awards, which were handed out by the startup to developers of iPhone applications who came up with some innovative tools for the platform. Caveat: since these are upcoming apps, they aren't available on the App Store yet. But we have demo videos. Full story...

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