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Popular third party app store GetJar is holding its own holiday sale for the month of December. They’ve put up a dedicated site with a scrollable list of paid apps from A to Z which have been discounted to the low price of — free! With over 100 apps to choose from, you’ll find many popular titles have been discounted. I quickly skimmed over the list and was surprised to find hits like Age of Zombies, Beautiful Widgets (first app to surpass 1 million paid downloads), Fruit Ninja, and more.

To take advantage of this sale, you will of course have to download the GetJar app store, but if you don’t mind another app store on your device, then it’s worth it to get all the free apps. All these apps store competing against each other, giving away apps for free to attract customers — isn’t competition great! This particular sale is for a limited time only so hit the link after the break and start enjoying some free apps courtesy of GetJar.

Andy Rubin, SVP of Mobile at Google, recently announced that Android now sees 700,000 activations per day. The last time he gave such an update was in June of 2011, when Android was seeing 500,000 activations per day.

Amazon is offering up the HTC Rezound for a price that not even Dr. Dre can beat. The Rezound is a top tier device that hasn’t garnered the respect it deserves due to bad release timing (RAZR and Galaxy Nexus). Amazon is now offering the Rezound for only $149.99 to anyone wishing to sign up for a new 2-year contract or any existing customer with a qualifying upgrade. $149.99 really is an amazing price for a device that features specs like these:

The NFL has announced that NBC’s broadcasts of wild card Saturday, the Pro Bowl and the Super Bowl will be available online as well as via Verizon’s NFL Mobile app. This will mark the first time said events were streamed through a mobile platform and it comes as no surprise that their partner Verizon gets the honor. Here’s what Hans Shroeder, NFL senior vice president of media strategy and development had to say about the news:

WordPress for Android has been updated to version 2.0 and promises to make blogging on your Android device faster and easier. This newest version is chock full of new features including: tablet support, a new UI, and a new Post Editor. While these changes seem to make the whole experience more feasible, I still consider using my phone as a blogging tool to be a last resort option. On the other hand, Blogging from a 10.1″ tablet with laptop dock — something I could get used to. Let’s take a look at this recent update and some of the changes that you’ll see when using WordPress 2.0 for Android.

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