Well, with all the hooplah, reorganization, restructuring, yadayada going on at Nokia the past year or two you can’t really be surprised when you hear something to the effect of Navteq Developer resource NN4D being shut down. Well that’s exactly what we’ve been hearing around here and to yours truly no big surprise I guess! [...]
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Here’s a very cool opportunity I learned about in a tip from Kate Chapman, The Hungry Academy. What an amazing idea, to have people compete for an internship! In a nutshell… The Hungry Academy is an intensive program that will put you in a position to join our engineering team. It’s an exclusive program for [...] AS someone who’s had a heart incident in the past I can assure you that an initiative like this is a HUGE effort that could have potentially live saving implications… So, how do you start the process of building a nationwide registry of Automated External Defibrillators? Well, natural you turn to the power of the [...] An interesting competition being offered up to the ERDAS user community from Intergraph and DigitalGlobe. The competition challenges the user community to exploit tools from ERDAS and imagery from DigitalGlobe. Enter the challenge to get free imagery for your study and a chance to win five WorldView-2 scenes of your choice. In addition, three finalists [...] Here’s details of what’s known as a Proximity Platform from Rococo Software (Ireland) . The dev team tells us about it… Developers can use LocalSocial to build proximity-enabled applications that can react when near to a person, device or business of interest… whether you’re using NFC, WiFi or Bluetooth, it should be simple for the [...] Hey developers an interesting project from Microsoft Canada sent my way via a friend and colleague in Montreal – The Great Canadian Apportunity. The Great Canadian Apportunity is a mobile app development contest for Windows Phone 7. There are 9 prize packs to be won over 3 rounds of judging, including a Grand Prize of [...] Heads up on this annual Dev Fest in Pal springs as Esri is prepping for yet another gathering of developers and business partners looking to leverage Esri tools, APIs, SDKs, and developer resources. A few notable points: The Esri Developer Summit will kick off with a series of preconference seminars on topics such as Python [...] Via the SimpleGeo blog, today the team has rolled out a couple of pretty big announcements – enter SimpleGeo Places and SimpleGeo Context which are now in public Beta – sounds like Christmas has come early for mobile devs! Some details from Simplegeo… SimpleGeo Context provides relevant contextual information such as geographic boundaries, weather, and [...] Got a great idea for a mobile app or location aware service that targets the consumers of a specific brand or product? The GSMA today announced that it is now accepting entries for its Brand App Challenge – a competition in which mobile application developers create “brand apps” for a select group of global [...] An interesting event taking place in Australia September 4-5 – CrisisCamp Pakistan Floods. From the event planners… If you are interested in making a small difference in helping the humanitarian effort of attending to the short and long-term needs of the displaced peoples in Pakistan, register here (http://pkfloods-sydney.eventbrite.com/) The CrisisCamp will be on the weekend [...] An interesting competition just announced for developers… The Bluetooth Application Developers’ Contest. The contest will promote open source collaboration that will allow users to develop new and improved uses for mobile phones and PCs with the help of Bluetooth wireless technology. This out of LocationLabs (was Wavemarket) today, a new Location-as-a-Service Platform today, providing location APIs for developers to build next-generation location features in their applications. The Location Labs Platform includes the following services for developers: · Geofencing Service: Allows developers to leverage background processing on smart phones to create location-based triggers for their applications. For [...] |
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