AT&T awarded top
honors in its annual "Open Call - Apps for All!" developer contest.
The winners were selected for
innovation, marketability, ease of use, user interface and design.
Several of the top entries, including two grand prize winners, focused
on ways mobile apps can make positive change. One
Sweet World, which provides parents checklists they can use to
monitor child development, captured the $10,000
grand prize in the open category.
Sudoku Deluxe 2, winner
of the Brew Mobile Platform category, challenges gamers with over
10,000 puzzles at 4 playing levels and players earn points they can use
to 'plant' trees. The publisher, GOSUB 60, will make quarterly donations
to non-profit partner, Trees for Future. GOSUB 60's goal is to raise
enough 'tree codes' to plant 100,000 new trees to support Trees for the
Future's worldwide efforts.
- AndCAD from Talon Designs, won
the
grand prize for the Android category. This application allows users to
create simple geometric shapes, combined with notes, to develop plans
for art, architecture, engineering and manufacturing. - AirKast
took home the grand prize for the Java and BlackBerry category for its
AirBridge/TuneKast solution. AirBridge helps advertisers transition
from static text and banner advertising to rich media, video and
interactive graphic marketing that targets the geographic location of
mobile devices. Designed for radio stations, the AirKast solution,
TuneKast lets listeners interact with live broadcast content via their
mobile devices. - Honorable mention went to Alt12 Apps' Baby Bump application in the Android category.
BabyBump is a pregnancy app that keeps you informed about your
pregnancy and provides feature-rich tracking tools. - LooseHead
Software also took home honorable mention for their MobileScore
application in the Java and BlackBerry Category. MobileScore empowers
sports enthusiasts to create, publish and share rich media coverage of
live sports events directly from the field, using their BlackBerry
AT&T is
committed to providing developers with the tools they need to accelerate
their development efforts, the AT&T Developer Program hosted a Brew
Mobile Platform code camp April 13 and 14
at the Qualcomm headquarters in San Diego,
California. For more information on the code camp, visit http://developer.att.com
under the community page.