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Monday, November 12, 2007
$10 million for the best Google “Android”
While it sounds like something out of an Asimov novel or a lost Star Trek episode, the “Android Developer Challenge” that Google just announced is the search giant’s latest push for the mobile applications platform it announced Nov. 5.
The contest seeks the best mobile software for Android in areas such as social networking, media sharing, collaboration tools, gaming, mash-ups and news.
The top 50 entries received by March 3 will each get a $25,000 award to fund development. After that, there are 10 $275,000 awards and 10 $100,000 awards. More stages will follow.
The judges will come from members of the Open Handset Alliance.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin said: “We’ve built some interesting applications for Android but the best applications are not here yet and that’s because they’re going to be written by developers.”
(Image: Google)
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IBM meet Cognos. Microsoft meet Musiwave.
Adding to the ever-popular “Intend to Acquire” file, IBM said Monday morning it plans to spend $5 billion in cash to buy Cognos Inc. The Canadian company is a leading player in the field of “business intelligence” software, which helps large organizations collect, organize and present data.
This would be IBM’s 23rd acquisition to support its “Information on Demand” strategy, which Big Blue says combines “information integration, content and data management and business consulting services to unlock the business value of information.”
Meanwhile, Microsoft says it wants to buy Musiwave SA, a French mobile music company and a unit of Openwave Systems Inc. Microsoft said the deal would combine Musiwave’s relationships with music labels, device makers and mobile operators with Microsoft technologies such as Windows Mobile, Zune, MSN and Windows Live.
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