Mobile apps have become a gold mine for developers, letting them make money from everything from productivity programs to bird-flinging games.

手机应用程序已经成为了开发者的金矿，让开发者通过销售扔小鸟的游戏(指愤怒的小鸟)获利而不是开发生产力项目挣钱。

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Rescuers got a stark lesson after Utah's Crandall Canyon mine collapse in 2007, when nine people died. Only one mobile robot made it down a borehole and onto the mine's floor.

在2007年犹他州的Crandall Canyon矿井崩塌事故中，机器人营救员们就遇到了这样的尴尬：在这起有九人丧生的事故中，仅有一台移动机器人完成了地底钻洞和矿井登录的工作。

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On a recent Friday afternoon, a friend of mine went into a big mobile phone store in the City to buy a new phone for his wife.

不久前一个周五下午，我的一个朋友去伦敦商业区一家手机大卖场为他老婆买一部新手机。

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Today, the big money in IT spending increasingly lies in tools to mine social media for product ideas, in mobile applications to enhance products, and in creating social interactions with customers to build brand loyalty.

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Whereas the largest players on the web are seeing heavy downloads based on name recognition and a shift in user behavior to more mobile-driven experiences, it appears that those same players have not yet figured out how to mine the field in terms of revenue.

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