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The Android Developer Challenge: Google has offered $10 million to developers for the coolest, most interesting, creative applications that will run on their new mobile operating system.
Android is the google sponsored operating system that they hope will run on all future phones, and with true google flair, they are offering some no-strings-attached funding to encourage developers to get involved.
If you want some of this money, you will need to move fast, though. They have split it into two packages:
Android Developer Challenge I: Happening now. You need to apply before March 3, 2008.
The top 50 entries each get $25K to fund their work, and then they also get the chance to apply for further grants (ten $275K awards and ten $100K awards)
Android Developer Challenge II: This part will only happen once the first android handsets become available - so we are talking the second half of 2008
As always - a breath of fresh air. Lets hope that some of those winning apps are good for learning!
If you want to find out more, visit the android site
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$10 million from Google for cool mobile apps
The Android Developer Challenge: Google has offered $10 million to developers for the coolest, most interesting, creative applications that will run on their new mobile operating system.Android is the google sponsored operating system that they hope will run on all future phones, and with true google flair, they are offering some no-strings-attached funding to encourage developers to get involved.
If you want some of this money, you will need to move fast, though. They have split it into two packages:
Android Developer Challenge I: Happening now. You need to apply before March 3, 2008.
The top 50 entries each get $25K to fund their work, and then they also get the chance to apply for further grants (ten $275K awards and ten $100K awards)
Android Developer Challenge II: This part will only happen once the first android handsets become available - so we are talking the second half of 2008
As always - a breath of fresh air. Lets hope that some of those winning apps are good for learning!
If you want to find out more, visit the android site
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- Apple U-turn Is Excellent News For Cross-platform App Developers!
The big news of the moment amongst App developers, is the surprise announcement by Apple that they are relaxing some key restrictions on how Apps can be made. In particular they say: ?we are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create...
- Even The Us Military Wants Mobile Apps!
There has been a flurry of news over the past few days including the words ?US Military? and ?mobile Apps? part one: DARPA, home of the pentagon?s technology research gurus, has announced it wants to buy an ?AppStore? to use for distributing mobile apps...
- What Is This Android Thing?
You may have heard the word Android being mentioned recently around the mobile phone world, well here is a quick post on what the fuss is all about. Android is a new-ish Operating System (OS) that has been developed by around 50 big names across the device...
- Nokia Buys Symbian ... And Then Gives It Away!
Nokia has just bought out the rest of the Symbian partners, giving it 100% ownership of the Symbian operating system, which it plans to "give away"! According to the The Register: Nokia has bought up the bits of Symbian it didn't already own...