Google offers $13m in prizes
Google recently released a tool kit which allows developers to build applications for its
“Android” platform, due for release next year. Google’s system is a
free software package for mobile phones that it says will make it easier to surf the Web from
cellphones.
The Associated Press reports that Google will award 50 $US25,000 prizes, 10 $US100,000 prizes and
10 $US275,000 prizes.
Motorla, Samsung, HTC and LG Electronics have agreed to install the Android operating system on some
of their phones, AP reports.
Google’s operating system will compete with several different established players, including
software from
Microsoft, BlackBerry’s Research in Motion, and Symbian, which is owned by Nokia and other large
mobile makers.
