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Google Awards Android Dev Prizes, Introduces App Store

Posted by Soulskill on from the keeping-up-with-the-ijoneses dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A group of Canadian engineering students was one of 10 teams to win a $275,000 prize from internet search giant Google Inc. Their program, Ecorio, gives users the ability to reduce their environmental footprint with tools that provide transit options for trips, invest in carbon reduction projects, and share their tips with other users. Other winners included a taxi location app, a price comparison app, and a settings manager than changes your settings based on your location." Google has also started talking about their plans for Android Market, which is similar to the App store used for the iPhone. Ars Technica's coverage points out a blog post by Google's Eric Chu which notes that early handsets running Android will have a beta version of Android Market enabled.

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  1. Re:First app... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, at least from what I understand, we have...or at least I have, on my N810

  2. Re:Cathedral to APTs bazaar? by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 3, Informative

    They guarantee a stable ABI for the lifetime of a particular release of their OS. That's useless, if there are 5 distros you want to support, and each one has 3 versions in common use (pretty conservative estimate) then that's 15 different builds of your program you need to produce, test and distribute. This is completely absurd and is one of the major reasons only the truly dedicated try to distribute binary software on Linux.