Apple's App Store: 25 billion downloads

Some lucky individual--we don't know who just yet--will collect an iTunes gift card worth a cool $10,000, as the App Store hits 25 billion downloads after just more than three and a half years in existence.

Apple's App Store has served up 25 billion downloads, the company announced today.
The iPhone and iPad maker's main Web site was festooned with a banner trumpeting the milestone, but the 25 billionth downloader--and consequent contest winner--has not yet been announced. That lucky individual will receive a gift card for the iTunes Store, worth $10,000. (That's a lot of Beatles ring tones.)

LG's WCD-800 goes wireless to power your phone

Using your smartphone while charging always has been possible, but LG's WCD-800 charging cradle gives you a bit more freedom to do so.LG's WCD-800

File this under the unique, but perhaps not entirely necessary, mobile accessories drawer. 

 In addition to the shiny new smartphones that it introduced last week at Mobile World Congress, LG also showed off a wireless charger that encourages you to use your device while it's receiving juice.

The WCD-800 is shaped like a cradle and can accommodate your phone in either a portrait or landscape position. So while you make calls, send texts, and watch a video, the charger uses electric coils located inside to power your device via magnetic fields.