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MyBroadband; By Jan Vermeulen
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“App” has been voted the 2010 word of the year by the American Dialect Society, tragically beating out “nom” in a run-off vote. Most people know that “app” is hardly a new word, just a word that has newfound popularity outside the realm of geekdom. Similarly, the concept of the app store. Using a central repository for a platform's software isn't a new idea. Neither is attaching a price to that software. What is relatively new is the popularity of such software repositories.

“App” has been voted the 2010 word of the year by the American Dialect Society, tragically beating out “nom” in a run-off vote.

Most people know that “app” is hardly a new word, just a word that has newfound popularity outside the realm of geekdom.

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