The second mini-competition in the Ericsson application awards is now starting and the prizes just got bigger and better!
Submit your members applications to Stage 2 at latest December 9 at 11.59 PM (GMT -08:00, Pacific Time)!
Ericcson, half of Sony Ericcson has announced that they are holding the Ericcson’s Application Awards, Code for Cash 2011 development contest.
The contest, which has a pot of $15,00 euro or around $20,000 American dollars, is open to any team of two or more developers anywhere in the world. The developers must use at least one Ericcson labs API and relate to the theme “Connected Thing”. Members from the full team of Sony Ericcson will help judge the contest.
The contest is in it’s second year. Last year a development team from Ireland won with an application they called “CallerProfiler”. CallerProfiler combined social networking with IP Telephony to display information from social networking sites when a call is received.
The deadline for entries is March 31, 2011 and the winners will be announced in June 2011, and again it’s open to developer teams of 2 or more anywhere in the world. For complete details, and information on how to get the Erricson Labs API kit go to http://www.ericssonapplicationawards.com for more details
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Article link : http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/Uplinq/news.asp?c=30357
Kicking off day two of Uplinq, Qualcomm's developer conference, the keynote from HTC's CEO Peter Chou focused on the company's design philosophy.
"We focus on a holistic user experience, in terms of how people work and live and stay connected," Chou said.
"Which is why we put so much effort into HTC Sense - to make technology work for you."
Pointing to the importance of games, Chou introduced Steve Perlman, CEO of game streaming service Onlive, which has a strategic agreement with HTC.
Saying that he couldn't do a live demo of its streaming gameplay service, because of the amount of internet traffic at the conference, Perlman showed a video of the service running on the HTC Flyer tablet and the wireless Onlive controller to play Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.
That vision thing
Agreeing with Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacob's opening keynote, Chou got a little visionary.
"The mobile revolution is putting a computer in every pocket," he said.
"Smartphones are bringing a new era, a new civilisation on a global scale, and it's happening very fast."
Big bang
Of course, as the CEO of public company, Chou had to mention some numbers. HTC sold 25 million smartphones in 2010; it's the fifth largest global phone brand.
In Q1 2011, it's already so 9.7 million smartphones, up almost three-fold.
Yet, even as an phone manufacturer, Chou was keen to point out that it was content developers who really push the market.
"We're entering a golden age of mobile development." he said.
"I like to see how people like you use these technologies to realise what is next. We want to drive what is next and that's mobile."
A helping hand
Building on this, Chou announced HTC Dev, a developers program that includes a web portal, SDK, documentation and source code, including 3D tech - something Gameloft has already used in its Spider-Man game.
HTC Dev will also include HTC OpenSense, so developers can integrate HTC's Sense UI within their applications.
The website (ww.htcdev.com) will go live in future weeks.
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Very good idea of the company HTC!
I thank Xda Devs having me on the Forum.
Cheers HTC ...
Edit: I just saw that link also mentioned: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103049
Thank you.
Don't know if everyone watch E3. But Sony and HTC release a partnership for PlayStation™Certified License Program
Sony Computer Entertainment Announces HTC As Part Of The PlayStation™Certified License Program
PLAYSTATION®SUITE RENAMED "PLAYSTATION®MOBILE"
Further Proliferate The PlayStation® Experience Across Mobile Devices
TOKYO, June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) today announced HTC Corporation (HTC) will join the PlayStation™Certified license program(*1). By collaborating with HTC, a global designer of smartphones and the world's first company to launch Android-powered devices, SCE aims to deliver the PlayStation® experience to even more users around the world.
"HTC is focused on delivering innovative mobile experiences for people everywhere and SCE's immersive world of gaming will bring compelling entertainment to HTC One customers across the globe," said Kouji Kodera, Chief Product Officer, HTC Corporation.
In addition to third party developers and publishers as well as a wide range of content developers who have agreed to develop content for PlayStation®Suite, SCE Worldwide Studios is developing attractive games. SCE is positioned to proliferate the world of PlayStation across mobile devices with the progress of content development and the expansion of PlayStation Certified devices. In conjunction with this development, SCE will rename PlayStation Suite to PlayStation®Mobile, and position it as a new platform.
SCE will further accelerate the expansion of PlayStation Certified devices and continue to collaborate with content developers to drive the delivery of compelling entertainment experiences through PlayStation Mobile.
About PlayStation®Mobile
PlayStation®Mobile marries fun, engaging PlayStation-style gaming with the convenience of PlayStation™Certified mobile devices and offers mobile users a superlative store navigation and purchase experience. It allows a wide range of developers to produce PlayStation-like game experiences in an easy, time-efficient development environment. PlayStation Mobile content is also compatible with PlayStation®Vita.
(*1) The license program to expand PS Mobile, dedicated for portable hardware manufacturers. SCE will not only license logos but also provide necessary development support. As of June 5, 2012, the line-up of PlayStation™Certified devices include the HTC One series of smartphones, HTC One™ X, HTC One™ S, and HTC One™ V. Content developed with official version of PlayStation®Mobile SDK will be available on those devices later this year, also Xperia™ arc, Xperia™ acro, Xperia™ PLAY, Xperia™ acro HD, Xperia™ S, Xperia™ ion, Xperia™ acro S from Sony Mobile Communications AB, and "Sony Tablet" S and "Sony Tablet" P from Sony Corporation. Model name may vary by region. Sales model may vary by area.. Software Development Kit is a set of development tools and software libraries. Developers are able to obtain this SDK by signing a license agreement with SCE.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/06/04/sony-and-htc-are-partnering-to-bring-playstation-certification-to-htc-devices/
great news
Well, it's great news, but I already posted a thread about this, though nobody seemed to notice
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1693425
I have a feeling this is going to hurt the One series devices though it brings a new market to light for HTC and Sony to work with, the phone is a phone plain and simple with the option of upgrading the battery and having external memory out of the users hands it's going to be hard to keep anyone interested in the merger considering you would have to keep the device plugged in all of the time and limited to maybe one game stored.
This would be great if we had 32gb internal and up too 32gb expandable, piggy backing a second battery but it's not a game console.
Break out the PS4 damn it.
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On October 29th, Rockstar Games' seminal PlayStation 2 hit Grand Theft Auto: Vice City will be 10 years old — and to celebrate the developer is bringing the game to mobile. We don't have much in the way of details just yet, but the game will be available on "a wide range" of iOS and Android devices later on this fall, and will feature "native high-resolution graphics." The port will also include "several enhancements" for the two mobile platforms, though what those extras actually are remains to be seen, as does the game's pricing. The launch follows last year's 10-year anniversary release of GTA III on mobile devices, which means we can likely expect to be playing GTA: San Andreas on our phones sometime in 2014.
I myself will be waiting patiently with my credit card getting ready to play this game. Lets just hope the graphics are a improvement over the last
More info here:
http://m.rockstargames.com/newswire...eft-auto-vice-city-10th-anniversary-plus.html
Courtesy of the verge
What do you all expect to see announced at MWC this February in Barcelona? I'm looking towards some nice HTC devices
VisionMobile has launched their new Developer Economics survey, which reaches across thousands of app developers and provides the data for their famous state of the developer nation reports. Now in its 5th edition, the new Developer Economics survey examines some of the hottest issues of mobile development, such as top mobile platforms, most widely used revenue models, and web vs. native development. Thanks to the sponsorship by BlackBerry, Mozilla, Intel and Telefonica it possible to provide these reports and additional insights, for free, to the entire mobile community. The results will be published in the form of a free report in July.
If you're an app developer, take the 10-minute survey and win great prizes. VisionMobile has 6 devices up for grabs (Two Samsung Galaxy SIII, two Nokia Lumia 920 devices and two BlackBerry Dev Alpha handsets).
We're happy to be part of the Developer Economics research, helping VisionMobile extend their reach and make sure more developers have a chance to make their voice heard. The survey is available at bnry.ws/ ds13 (please remove space )
I appreciate your help in this and hope that you take the survey as all application developers opinions count.
Thanks,
Greg R. Jacobs
CEO / Editor-In-Chief of BinaryWasteland.com