Android Developer Challenge winners announced

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engadgetmobile.com - 8/29/2008

Android Developer Challenge winners announced

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Google has wrapped up judging on its very first Android Developer Challenge , and some twenty dev shops (or in some cases, individual developers) are finding themselves considerably richer as a result. Of the fifty apps to make it through to the final round , ten have been awarded $275,000 ...

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android-developers.blogspot.com - 8/29/2008

Presenting the Winners of the Android Developer Challenge I

— android-developers.blogspot.com — Since we started the first Android Developer Challenge late last year, we all have been eager to see who the winners of $275,000 and $100,000 would be. All 50 applications that emerged from Round 1 of ADC I showed great promise, and these teams have ... (more) Presenting the Winners of the Android Developer Challenge I

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code.google.com - 8/29/2008

Android Developer Challenge Gallery - Android

— code.google.com — The final phase of Android Developer Challenge I is now complete. Out of 50 teams of finalists, 10 teams received a $275,000 award each and 10 teams received a $100,000 award each. All of the teams' hard work during the past several months is ... (more) Android Developer Challenge Gallery - Android

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android-developers.blogspot.com - 8/26/2008

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First Google Android Developer Challenge winners announced
Phones Review — ... integral theme, for example the grand prize winner. The grand prize winner was Locale, and application which automatically switches device settings based upon current location. If you check out the list of winning applications you’ll soon realise just why Google made them the winners. Obviously Google running this Android Developers Challenge was a great way to bring out the best the developers could come up with for Android. Winners list Source – Engadget ...

Google strips meat, grizzle off Android Market's bones, leaves just 13 apps
Engadget — ... applications having been removed today -- presumably a knee-jerk response to the knowledge that phones were starting to make their way into paying customers' hands. Truth be told, this was probably the plan all along; the Market had gotten a little dirty from both developer and Google testing, and we're figuring they were just looking to tidy things up a bit to make it presentable on launch day before it got nasty dirty with a flood of developers outside the confines of Google's own Android Developer Challenge. Either that, or there's some deep, dark conspiracy lurking ...