PHOTOS: Verizon's 'Apply Your Ideas' contest winners

Verizon Wireless' "Apply Your Ideas" application development contest was open to all registered Verizon developers and offered a $50,000 cash grand prize as well as a $25,000 People's Choice award. Both apps also will receive 100 percent of revenues earned during their first 12 months of availability in the operator's forthcoming V Cast Apps storefront, slated to go live in the fourth quarter.

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