Android Application Contest Prizes Rp 400 Million

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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Create you who want the challenge of making the application, the race Ericsson Applications Awards - Code for Cash 2011 worth trying. Moreover, the storied race promises no small prize, 30,000 euros or more than $ 400 million.

Competition was open to students and employees of firms that employ lower than 100 employees. Please note that participation will not be accepted individually, but of participants should be in the form of a team of two to four people. Participants must create Android-based applications (web or native) that uses at least one Ericsson Labs API and have a relationship with the theme "Connected Things."

"I really hope this can attract the best participants from Indonesia and become a winner," said Mats Otterstedt, President, Ericsson Indonesia, in a press release received Kompas.com.

The competition was divided into two parts, for students and one for the company. The winning team in each category will receive cash of 15,000 euros and mobile phones from Sony Ericsson. Sony Ericsson also will be one of the judging panel as one of its participation in the competition.

This is the second stage of the competition after a very successful inaugural event last year, which has been won by a student from Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland.

Winners of the application which was won by someone from Ireland, named CallerProfiler for Android, combining social networking with IP telephony that can show information from Facebook and other social networking sites when an incoming call is removed.

For detailed information about the application process and competition, please visit www.ericssonapplicationawards.com. The competition will last until March 31, 2011, and the results will be announced in June 2011. Among the selection process, Ericsson also held a little contest that could be won.