Google

Google just wrapped up the second coming of its festive Android Developer Challenge , an invitation to all comers to submit awesome apps in exchange for cash prizes (a whopping $100,000 for winners in each category, plus $150,000 for the overall champion). What made ADC 2 an especially exciting event was the fact that Google turned voting over to the public with a special ADC app giving users access to nominees’ binaries, so the winners that you see here weren’t selected by a hand-picked group of VIPs alone — votes from around the world got factored into the results. It’s a great opportunity for ... Read Full Story

Google’s Android platform which was once backed only by HTC has come a long way since then. Many cell phone manufacturers are releasing Android based cell phones at the moment including Samsung, Motorola and Acer with its Acer Liquid A1 . Google created an Android Developer Challenge last year to give an incentive to software developers to create software for the Android platform. Since then a lot has changed and the Android Market place is hosting thousands of applications for Android cell phones. Today the winners of the second Android Developer Challenge have been announced. Three overall winners and three winners in distinct categories ... Read Full Story

We’ve seen a couple of heavy-hitting matchups in our Faceoff series in the last couple of weeks, with Google Android smashing Apple’s iPhone and Verizon trouncing AT&T recently. This week we have another clash of the titans, with Microsoft’s relatively new search contender Bing going head-to-head against incumbent Google for Mashable readers’ search supremacy. Who will be the winner in this week’s faceoff? You’ll have to cast your vote below and tune in on Friday for the results. Be sure to get your opinion in by noon PST on Friday to make it in time for poll closing. Also please let us know in ... Read Full Story

Sweet Dreams Android Google named the winners today in its second annual mobile apps contest. The top prizes for this year’s Android Developer Challenge went to: * Sweet Dreams, which lets you avoid late-night phone calls and save battery power * What is the Doodle?!, a multiplayer drawing game * WaveSecure, a security and privacy app. First place winners in any of the categories gets $100,000, second place earns $50,000, and third place wins $25,000. read full article: Check Out Google’s Favorite Android Apps (GOOG) .businessinsider.com Related Posts Business Tech : Acer Reveals Specs of Android Smartphone Mobile & Wireless : Google Maps Navigation ... Read Full Story

This year marked the second annual Android Developer Challenge , in which third-party developers competed for up to a $250,000 purse for the overall winner, as well as sizeable $100k, $50k and $25k 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes in each of 10 app categories. Throughout September and October, participating official judges as well as thousands of Android user judges tested out and voted on submitted entries — and now the final winners are in. Google posted not only the 30 winners in each of the 10 categories as well as the 3 overall winners, but have published an unabridged gallery of the top 200 ... Read Full Story