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Quote Unquote Amazon.com has promised to make a paid app free every day in the Amazon Appstore, and today's app is Quote Unquote .

Quote Unquote is available as a free app in Google Play - but it's not really free, more on that later; it is normally priced at $0.99 in the Amazon Appstore. As we've noted before, there are sometimes differences in pricing between the two marketplaces.

Quote Unquote is described as follows:

Quote Unquote, a word game for your Android device, is a unique mix of crossword-style clues and pithy quotations. Solve clues by searching for the answers within quotes from some of the greatest minds of all time--and some of the not-so-great ones, too.

Some quotes are famous, some are wise, some are funny, and some are lies! See how savvy a player you can be as you work through puzzle after fun puzzle.

Winning Words of Wisdom

In Quote Unquote, every quotation becomes a puzzle waiting to be solved. Build the answers, solve the clues, and go for perfection by using every last letter!

And, best of all, Quote Unquote is free! There are 24 free puzzles for your puzzling pleasure, with more than 300 clues to solve. Additional puzzle packs are available for download, with even more on the way.

Quote Unquote is rated at 4.8 stars in Google Play. It is rated at 4.2 stars in the Amazon Appstore.

At 4.8 and 4.2 stars across the two markets, we'd "buy" this one now while it is free. Those wondering why you should buy this at all when it is free in Google Play should note that the Google Play version isn't really free: you need to pay for the extra puzzles as an in-app purchase.

The game normally comes with 24 puzzles but there are 84 in all, and with this being the FAOTD, all are free. In fact, it's clear the developer goofed with his description, describing it (above) as though it were the free version.

There is also a Quote Unquote app in the iOS App Store. The iOS version is free, but with in-app purchases as high as $3.99. The iOS version is rated at 4.5 stars for the current version and 4.5 stars overall.

You can see a slideshow of screenshots here.

Those who are considering "buying" a Free Amazon Appstore app might want to consider what it means to developers.

Amazon.com opened up the Appstore despite a lawsuit by Apple, which has previously trademarked the term "App Store." Microsoft has filed an appeal against that trademark, saying the term is too generic. Amazon.com has responded to the lawsuit in the same manner.

Quote Unquote Amazon.com has promised to make a paid app free every day in the Amazon Appstore, and today's app is Quote Unquote .

Quote Unquote is available as a free app in Google Play - but it's not really free, more on that later; it is normally priced at $0.99 in the Amazon Appstore. As we've noted before, there are sometimes differences in pricing between the two marketplaces.

Quote Unquote is described as follows:

Quote Unquote, a word game for your Android device, is a unique mix of crossword-style clues and pithy quotations. Solve clues by searching for the answers within quotes from some of the greatest minds of all time--and some of the not-so-great ones, too.

Some quotes are famous, some are wise, some are funny, and some are lies! See how savvy a player you can be as you work through puzzle after fun puzzle.

Winning Words of Wisdom

In Quote Unquote, every quotation becomes a puzzle waiting to be solved. Build the answers, solve the clues, and go for perfection by using every last letter!

And, best of all, Quote Unquote is free! There are 24 free puzzles for your puzzling pleasure, with more than 300 clues to solve. Additional puzzle packs are available for download, with even more on the way.

Quote Unquote is rated at 4.8 stars in Google Play. It is rated at 4.2 stars in the Amazon Appstore.

At 4.8 and 4.2 stars across the two markets, we'd "buy" this one now while it is free. Those wondering why you should buy this at all when it is free in Google Play should note that the Google Play version isn't really free: you need to pay for the extra puzzles as an in-app purchase.

The game normally comes with 24 puzzles but there are 84 in all, and with this being the FAOTD, all are free. In fact, it's clear the developer goofed with his description, describing it (above) as though it were the free version.

There is also a Quote Unquote app in the iOS App Store. The iOS version is free, but with in-app purchases as high as $3.99. The iOS version is rated at 4.5 stars for the current version and 4.5 stars overall.

You can see a slideshow of screenshots here.

Those who are considering "buying" a Free Amazon Appstore app might want to consider what it means to developers.

Amazon.com opened up the Appstore despite a lawsuit by Apple, which has previously trademarked the term "App Store." Microsoft has filed an appeal against that trademark, saying the term is too generic. Amazon.com has responded to the lawsuit in the same manner.

911 has become increasingly technology-laden in recent years, but when it comes down to it, a lot still relies on low-tech: the 911 dispatcher. However, while the service has been the savior of many, but it's hard to save anyone if you fall asleep. That's is exactly what happened in Montgomery County, Maryland when a would-be rescuer turned into Rip van Winkle.

A call came in from an apartment complex to Montgomery County, Maryland Fire and Rescue at about 12:30 a.m., although the exact date is unclear. A dispatcher answers the call, but he apparently falls asleep just a few minutes into the call.

Interestingly, a second dispatcher takes over, but the first dispatch, asleep and snoring, remains on the line as the caller reports her husband is unconscious. The snoring confuses the second dispatcher, who starts to think it means that the caller's husband is having difficulty breathing.

The second dispatcher then asked the caller if her husband was breathing and if what he heard, the snoring, was the sound he was hearing. First, the woman answered “Yes,” but then seconds later said that her husband hadn’t been breathing for some time.

Five and a half minutes into the call, the first dispatcher woke up and, nonplussed, picked up where he left off. He asked the woman for her address and continued on with the emergency call.

Although there was a delay, EMTs eventually arrived on the scene. The victim was transported to a hospital and was reportedly OK, with no ill effects from the delayed nature of the response.

In what may be alarming to some, Scott Graham, who is Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Assistant Chief, said that the dispatcher was 17 hours into a 24 hour shift when he fell asleep. That's correct; that 911 dispatcher was on a 24 hour shift.

Graham was quick to emphasize that in his experience, he had never before seen this type of incident. Graham said, “In my 24 years here this is the only time a dispatcher has ever fallen asleep on a 911 call."

He added that the dispatcher was only 20 minutes away from his next scheduled break, when the call came in and the incident occurred.

Although only Twenty minutes away from his rest break then, the dispatch is now on paid administrative leave, for an indeterminate length of time.

It could be a wake-up call for Montgomery County Fire and Rescue.

You can listen to the 911 call below.

This might be something Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin might consider, although he comes from the other side of the aisle. Felix Roque, the 55-year-old Democratic mayor of West New York, New Jersey, and his son, Joseph Roque, 22, were arrested early Thursday morning by FBI agents, on federal charges that the pair shut down a website advocating the elder Roque's recall after first hacking into the email accounts of their political foes.

The site in question was recallroque.com. The question is, how did the pair manage to take it down?

It was a decidedly low-tech method. After trying to determine the identity of the site owner by trying to meet with him, the younger Roque managed to reset the password to the email account that was used to register recallroque.com. Our guess is that he did so because the reset password question / answer was made far too easy, something many people are guilty of doing.

Once that was done, on February 8 at 4:49 pm, Felix Roque allegedly cancelled the domain name, causing the recall website to go offline. Cell phone records of the two Roques indicate the pair were in frequent contact during the eight hours during which Felix Roque took over the accounts.

In addition, there is other circumstantial evidence pointing to Felix Roque: browser records show he went to everyone's search engine of choice, Google.com and queried the search terms "hacking a Go Daddy Site," "recallroque log-in," and "html hacking tutorial."

According to the complaint, after the site was shut down, Mayor Roque used the messages retrieved from the hacked accounts to ID the people who involved in it. On February 9, he used his iPhone to call "Victim 1," a Hudson County, New Jersey government official, who had anonymously created the recall website. The older Roque then claimed to have proof that the official was involved with the site.

Roque allegedly told Victim 1, "A friend of mine, he works in the -- I can’t tell you -- three letters -- CIA. That's how I get information. So what I'm doing is not very kosher.”

It's interesting that he would say that what he was doing was not kosher. Roque could have been in trouble anyway, if the official had reported this to the authorities and if in fact it was true - which it was not. Roque's fictitious CIA friend could have been in hot water, as well.

The Roques are charged with causing damage to protected computers, gaining unauthorized access to computers in furtherance of causing damage to protected computers, and conspiracy to commit those crimes. In an ironic twist, Roque came to office after leading a successful recall against the previous mayor, Sal Vega.

In early April, Facebook swallowed up Instagram, spending $1 billion dollars for the acquisition. Now the question is why, as on Thursday, Facebook released its own photo taking - and sharing - app, Facebook Camera.

The release of Facebook Camera also came less than a week after Facebook's IPO, which has received a lukewarm reception from Wall Street. Although the stock rose to $33.03 as of Thursday's close, it's still nearly $5 below the IPO offering price of $38, and lawsuits have already been filed.

The Facebook Camera app is available in the App Store. Sorry, Android fans, it's only available for iOS devices. It is free, though.

On the other hand, the aforementioned Instagram is available for both Android and iOS. Is that sufficient reason to buy it for $1 billion? Not really. Remember, too, that the Instagram deal was Zuckerberg flying solo; the board was all but out of the picture when it came to negotiations.

That doesn't mean that Zuckerberg paid $1 billion for Instagram without knowing about Facebook Camera. He obviously would have (or should have) known about it.

Facebook said, "Today, we're introducing Camera, a new mobile app that makes using Facebook photos faster and easier."

It's true. The app is quite a bit easier to use than the rather cumbersome process of adding pictures to your Facebook timeline via the main Facebook app. As has been said before, ofttimes a dedicated app or piece of hardware beats a Swiss Army knife type multi-purpose item.

Coming so soon after the Instagram deal, there's no doubt Facebook Camera was in development long before the acquisition was a mote in Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's eye. Despite any similarities between the two, if you compare market share, Facebook has 900 million users. Instagram has 40 million.

While Instagram can upload to Facebook, it's obvious there are plenty of users who are
uploading photos without using Instagram. That said, we'd expect that once the deal closes (and it still needs regulatory approval) the lines between these apps will probably blur quite a bit.