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Mobile apps to spur broadband spending: U.S. tech czar

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government's new technology czar said on Thursday that new mobile phone applications could spur private investment in high-speed Internet connections, but Washington would also play a leadership role.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/internetNews?a=xKA7V07w7b0:K231O1H3tX0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/internetNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/internetNews?a=xKA7V07w7b0:K231O1H3tX0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/internetNews?i=xKA7V07w7b0:K231O1H3tX0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/internetNews?a=xKA7V07w7b0:K231O1H3tX0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/internetNews?i=xKA7V07w7b0:K231O1H3tX0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/internetNews/~4/xKA7V07w7b0" height="1" width="1"/>