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Underwater robots, Google Moon, edible beetles and ID cards
Photo Microsoft held its annual Imagine Cup competition in July and silicon.com had a look at some of the best systems developed to tackle world issues in the Embedded Development category of the contest. Last month marked the... [04 Aug 2009]
Microsoft lays down developer challenge for Windows Mobile apps
News To sweeten the deal and to drum up excitement, Microsoft has also announced the Race to Market Challenge, a contest that will end with Redmond doling out touchscreen Microsoft Surface tables to four winning developers. [28 Jul 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Three clicks away from eight million people
Comment It grows without contest, with information and people adding to the total without challenge. Compiled at the IoD and various hotels in London over several days, polished on TG409 flying Bangkok to Singapore, and... [23 Jul 2009]
EMC ends bidding war with $2bn Data Domain deal
News NetApp started the contest for Data Domain on 20 May, with an initial bid of $1.5bn. The contest has just finished, with NetApp bowing out yesterday after EMC made a bid of $2.1bn on Monday. EMC has won... [09 Jul 2009]
Whitehall: DIY tech to protect against public service knife
News Cleveland pointed to the success of sites produced by the public during last year's Show Us a Better Way contest to find a better way of organising public information. Radical public sector spending cuts could spur... [11 Jun 2009]
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday unleashes record number of updates
News Microsoft has released 10 security updates fixing a record number of Patch Tuesday holes, including one for a critical hole in Internet Explorer 8 that was exploited as part of a hacking contest at CanSecWest conference... [10 Jun 2009]
Homeland Security hires ex-hacker
News He did concede that his new position would give him an unfair advantage in Defcon's 'Spot The Fed' contest in which people win prizes for successfully outing undercover government agents. Jeff Moss, founder of the Black... [08 Jun 2009]
Photos: Robots learn how to get friendly with humans
Photo It randomly generates the three hand shapes for the game and by using a range of sensors is able to tell whether it's won, lost or drawn the contest. Berti - which stands for Bristol Elumotion Robotic Torso 1 - can... [20 Feb 2009]
ConTest Listeners: A Concurrency-Oriented Infrastructure for Java Test and Heal Tools
White Paper The ConTest Listener architecture provides instrumentation and runtime engines to which writers of test and heal tools, especially concurrency-oriented, can easily plug their code. With the proliferation of the new... [09 Jan 2009]
Akamai Delivers Over 6 Gbps of Live Adobe Flash Video Streaming to 23,000 Simultaneous Viewers for Stickam
White Paper Off late, Los Angeles-based radio station KLOS and The Mark & Brian Radio Program ran a contest pair up two strangers who would ultimately wed. The station turned to Stickam for access to two-way live communications... [09 Jan 2009]
BT's Ribbit opens up to developers
News Ribbit is sponsoring a contest to encourage developers to come up with new applications for its platform. BT's Ribbit released its long-awaited web telephony platform Monday to developers, which BT hopes will help spur... [18 Nov 2008]
Got a Second Life? Get $10,000
News The maker of Second Life has launched a contest for the best application or project developed within the virtual world. Linden Lab will award $10,000 to the Second Life resident or team that comes up with an in-world... [12 Nov 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.11.08
Round-Up While the USA picked its next President in a history-making day, the BBC's blog kept the Round-Up in electoral stitches with news gems such as: 'The UK's Whipsnade Zoo solemnly informs the BBC that two American bison - named Barack and... [07 Nov 2008]
Yahoo! breaks down its 'garden walls' and lets developers in
News Open Hack 2008 programming contest augmented Yahoo! Yahoo! has already launched its new profiles site. This week phase two, when web developers can start sinking their teeth into Yahoo! s attempt to replace its present... [27 Oct 2008]
Google Android goes to Market with app store
News The company already has given developers millions of dollars in prize money, and another Android programming contest is coming. The first incarnation of the Android Market has more than 50 applications available for... [23 Oct 2008]
