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Android Top Gun Training Camp Post Session scheduled at June 2nd

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Announced from Android Top Gun

To celebrate the achievement we have made and give our camp life a brief summary, we would like to invite you to our Android Top Gun post session, which will take place at Bunker Hill Lane on Jun 2nd.

This will be our last gathering during the Training Camp, so we cordially invite you to come and join us.
Here is the detailed information:
Date: Jun 2nd, 2010
Time: 6:30 PM.
Place: 2593 Bunker Hill Lane,Santa Clara

Please be sure to attend on time.
We are looking forward to your arrival!

BeyondSoft  Consulting Training Team

Android Developer Hackathon Award Candidates

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From blog.android-android.net
mathiastck

Here are the details for our Clipboard History app. App name: AndroClip, by Ted Munnich, Matt Kanninen, Edward Leung, Kenneth Ng Description: A tool to keep track of your clipboard history Details: We took the sample NotePad application, and integrated it with the Clipboard Manager system service. The result was a database to store and access your clipboard history. -MK

Vinh
1. ShowUsLive by Vinh Lam and John Dell'Aera. 2. Have you ever been in Location A but want to know what's going on at Location B? What do you want to see? 3. This is a social app that enables you to ask the world to show you what they see live.

Francisco J. Carriedo
App: "Personal Timing Asistant", By: Francisco J. Carriedo, App that leverages the Speech Recognition and Text2Speech APIs to work as a Personal Timing Assistant., You can engage in a small conversation with your Androidy Timing Assistant to achieve your timed goals.
Important: Candidates, please bring one page of introduction of of you app to stick on the wall around dinner area during the event. So people can see you app beside the demo.

Posted Mar 16, 2010 5:57 PM
Pramod Rustagi
App Name: Handwriting Tutor TagLine: Proper Lettering for Kids By: Pramod Rustagi, Roberto Colecchia, Robert Sloan Description: Handwriting Tutor is an engaging game-like app to teach kids how to write the alphabet. Early stage learners have a difficult time writing properly, especially the correct order of letter strokes, and sometimes producing a mirror image of the letters. Handwriting Tutor rewards kids with 3D eye-candy, giving both audio and visual reinforcement.

Lawrence
App Name: Personal Genomics By: Melanie Swan, Michael Kolb, Lawrence Wong. App Description: Side-by-side comparison of consumer genomic services (23andme, deCODEme, & Navigenics) by loci and variants for 20 conditions (diabetes, cancers, heart disease, etc.)

Ben
App Name: CallerInfo; Creators: Ben Luu, Laura Klemme; Desc: Beside the phone number (and caller's name if in contact list), this application displays additional data for the incoming call such as city, state, and anything that users want to display. Here are some examples: "CA, Mountain View", "CA, Mountain View, my home town", "CA, Mountain View, my home town", "CA, Silicon Valley", and etc, Basically users have control of what they want to display or even disable the feature.

Senthil
Word Magic, by Senthil Pandurangan & Anuradha Raja A fun application for kids to identify missing letters for the picture shown. Word Magic is an excellent application for kids to have fun with words and their spellings. A picture is shown and the kids should select the missing letter for the picture. There are three flavors. You can choose missing letter at the beginning or in the middle or in the last or a challenge mode. The app is loaded with lots of fun features http://android.anusen.com

gillesde
Virtual Kaleidoscope by Gilles de Bordeaux, Joel Marty, Stephan Branczyk My app displays a kaleidoscope image using a subset of a picture from your camera or from a file. Shake the phone for new kaleidoscope effects. Move the phone up for more light and a brighter picture, or down for less light and a darker picture. Use built-in color filters to change the ambiance of the image. When you like what you see, save the image. http://www.flickr.com/photo...

Posted Mar 16, 2010 11:53 AM
S Sriram
Shortcuts (highlighting the "callme" Abbreviated app) by S. Sriram. Shortcuts is an android client that allows one to use any one of hundreds of abbreviated apps that activate various web services. The callme abbreviated app allows one to type in a shortcut i.e. "callme-twittername: "which then a) composes a message with a url and tweets it and b)allows the twitter user to access the senders google voice embed widget and c) have google place the callhttp://www.qcolon.com/demo/...

Jian Zhang
App name: Xeekunote Creator: Jian Zhang Desc: Feature rich personal info aggregater supporting voice memo, camera, photos, location, map, and an elegant content browser. web: http://xeeku.com

ashrafi
TimeMap, by Siamak Ashrafi Mapping your Google Calendar on a Google Map on Android Send alarm if someone is going to be late because of traffic [time/location/distance]. Show them points of interest on the route. [grocery store, hardware store, restaurants ] http://www.YLabz.com

Karl Pohl
the application I would like to demo developed as part of android hackathon 1. Name: FractCalculator Developer: Karl Pohl 2. one line description: to calculate the size of woodworking projects i.e. cabinets using fractional values 3. The user can use any number (fraction or full numbers) to calculate the physical size of a woodworking project i.e. Cabinets etc. and to store the information in a database for future maintenance/reference

Android Developer Hackathon Award Ceremony

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Android Hackathon Ceremony will be hosted by Silicon Valley Android Developers Group, in collaboration with Informal Android Developers Meetup which organized by Gorgi. We are going to invite all the developers who successfully finish an Android Apps at the Android Hackathon (organized by Gorgi) to demo their app, then we will arrange a vote to let all the audience to select the winners and award at end of the meeting.

The Android Hackathon and award are sponsored by the following sponsors

Diamond Sponsor: Google

Platinum Sponsor: Tech CU

Gold Sponsor:
GetJar
Admob

Venue Sponsors:
Hacker Dojo
Access Growth

Gift Sponsors
O'Reilly (12 Android book)
Marakana (2 free passes for a weeklong bootcamp training session)
GetJar ($50 download credit for each attendee tonight)
Plug and Play (Demo table for PlugandPlay's PACT event)
Embedded Works (2 months of data service from Embedded Works for one person)

Agenda

6PM: Food and networking
6:30PM Introduction
6:40PM Opening remark: Android Hackathon main organizer - Georgi Dagnall
6:45PM Android Hackathon developers demo
7:45PM voting rules and begin to vote
7:50PM Break
8:00PM Speakers & and judge comments
8:30PM Voting close. Announcement
8:40PM Announce Android Hackathon winners and rewards
9pm: Lucky Draw

Access Growth to support iphone android developers using Mobile Innovation Lab

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Access Growth LLC is announcing a specific program designed to support mobile developers through our Mobile Innovation Lab. We are actively seeking a few expert mobile developers that would like to participate as part time advisors and/or consultants to the Mobile Innovation Lab. In order to qualify you must have multiple applications already live on an app store and a minimum of one year experience after the first app was launched. If you are interested in learning more about this opportunity and additional benefits for getting involved please feel free to send Chris an email at chris.zelenka@accessgrowth.com

Please see below a current press release concerning the launch of the Mobile Innovation Lab.

Access Growth LLC, a growth consulting and innovation management firm is proud to announce the Access Growth Mobile Innovation Lab which is focused on assisting established mobile application developers with the resources necessary to strategically and efficiently reach the defined target market for their applications. The primary goal of the Mobile Innovation Lab is to work directly with mobile developers to accelerate development, maximize revenue potential, and dominate the competition. Access Growth has developed a complete ecosystem of channels to support go to market strategies for mobile applications into 27 countries and has made these channels available to both large mobile application development companies as well as individuals with a single app ready for market.

The following services are available for participants of the Mobile Innovation Lab:

App Promotion & Marketing
Development & Testing Support
Competitive Analysis
Market Analysis & Strategy
Monetization Plan
Business Growth Planning
IP Review & Protection Plan
End-User Testing
Strategic Marketing & Sales Plan
Launch Strategy & Implementation Support
Mobile Innovation Lab participants will be provided a place to work inside of the Access Growth Venture Center and can access the above services on a ala carte basis depending on their specific needs. Access Growth has developed a creative compensation model for mobile application development companies seeking to retain the firm for services and understands the unique problems many development companies face prior to scaling their applications.

Access Growth has partnered with Silicon Valley Android and Silicon Valley iPhone Business to support early stage developers with training and access to mobile development knowledge through specific programs and events designed for individuals learning about mobile development. Developers that go through training programs will be provided special discounts for services from the Mobile Innovation Lab in order to rapidly develop their product and be ready to hit the ground running once their applications go live.

Access Growth LLC is a global growth consulting and innovation management firm that was founded in 1989 to help companies successfully grow through a proprietary 360° commercialization process. The Access Growth team currently supports 27 countries and provides world-class growth strategies, innovation planning, and commercialization services to early-stage, emerging growth and Fortune 500 companies to quickly penetrate markets and drive top-line growth. To learn more, please visit www.AccessGrowth.com.

Google Released Android Developers Challenge II Winners

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 Google announced Android Developer Challenge 2 winners

Overall Winners

iconSweetDreams
SweetDreams is a revolutionary tool that will finally allow you to go to sleep without worrying about changing your phone settings in order to avoid unwelcome late night calls. You can even use those inactivity periods to save battery power as well, and of course forget about enabling WiFi, Bluetooth or ringtones volume ...
iconWhat the Doodle!?
'WTD!?' is a real-time online multiplayer game where one player tries to draw out a given phrase and others try to guess it. Features FFA and Team games, Global Highscores, Personal Face Doodles, integrated Voice Recognition and more! Real-time drawing!? Built for performance, you'll really see the magic at first doodle!
iconWaveSecure
WaveSecure is a complete mobile security solution that protects your device, data and privacy. 1. Track your phone's location and who is using it 2. Lock down your phone remotely, making it worthless to the thief 3. Backup all your data 4. Wipe out your data remotely 5. Restore your data May the phone be with you!

Education/Reference Winners

iconPlink Art
Plink Art is an app for identifying, discovering and sharing art. Take a photo of a painting, and the Plink Art servers will try to identify it. You can also browse our database of artwork by keyword or timeline and share your discoveries with friends.
iconWord Puzzle
The Word Puzzle is designed to provide a fun way to learn basic English words for preschool children. Kids can study spelling and pronunciation with flash card and check achievement with word puzzle. Interesting visual and sound interaction with awarding system helps kids to keep learning. Let kids play with your Android.
iconCeleste
An educational augmented reality app that displays the Sun, Moon, planets and their paths through the sky onto your camera view. You can navigate through the sky selecting celestial bodies to display interesting information about our solar system. See the exact spot on your horizon where the sun will rise and set.

Entertainment Winners

iconA World of Photo
Loosely inspired by the traditional "Spin the bottle", A World of Photo is a casual, geographic worldwide multiplayer online game with a social touch. Players spin their phones and will receive a photo from whomever in the world they pointed to. For best play experience, let the app run in the background.
iconSongDNA
Need any information on a song? Practicing for a big karaoke gig? Music quiz coming up tomorrow? The SongDNA widget allows you to quickly look up your favorite song's detailed information. It includes the lyrics, artist's bio, homepage, highest chart rank and video. Handy when you're training for your next karaoke gig!!
iconSolo
Solo is a great, easy to play and feature rich pocket guitar for your phone. A must for all guitar enthusiasts! Features include -Huge chord library with 380+ chords & diagrams -Load/save chord layouts -Play along with music on your phone -Overlay music & lyrics from the internet -Various strum modes, including shake strum

Games: Arcade/Action Winners

iconSpeed Forge 3D
Speed Forge: Heavy duty hover vehicles, normally used for mining are now seen in illegal races organized in abondoned factories and dark Marsian alleys. The rock crushing explosives once used in these machines now serve a different purpose...
iconGraviturn
Tilt your phone to move the red circles out of the screen while keeping the green circles. Infinite levels from very easy to nearly impossible. Compare your performance with other players after each level (online highscore and statistics).
iconMoto X Mayhem
Jump, lean, and race through seven levels of amazing motorbike action in the best side scrolling bike game! Lean forward and back on your motorbike as you climb hills and fly through the air using accelerometer technology. Witness realistic physics as your shocks recoil when you land jumps! Or just flick your rider around!!

Games: Casual/Puzzle Winners

iconWhat the Doodle!?
'WTD!?' is a real-time online multiplayer game where one player tries to draw out a given phrase and others try to guess it. Features FFA and Team games, Global Highscores, Personal Face Doodles, integrated Voice Recognition and more! Real-time drawing!? Built for performance, you'll really see the magic at first doodle!
iconTotemo
Unloose the spirit. Break the spell. Uncover the mystery hidden between the realms in a unique puzzle game. Storm your brain and relax your mind solving over 60 mind-soothing logic tasks. Play the survival mode for extra challenge and write your name into the on-line leaderboards. http://hexage.net
iconMazeness
The goal of the game is rather simple - you need to bring all the balls ( up to 4 per level!) to their goals at the same time, with help of barriers, teleports and holders. It seems simple at first, but it's not that easy. The difficulty is growing steadily from level to level.

Lifestyle Winners

iconSweetDreams
SweetDreams is a revolutionary tool that will finally allow you to go to sleep without worrying about changing your phone settings in order to avoid unwelcome late night calls. You can even use those inactivity periods to save battery power as well, and of course forget about enabling WiFi, Bluetooth or ringtones volume ...
iconSpecTrek
Improve your fitness with this revolutionary augmented reality ghost hunting game. Walk or run around using GPS and your phone's camera to find and catch virtual ghosts. You will experience a new adventure each SpecTrekking session. The game offers statistics, awards, titles, records, and most of all a whole lot of fun!
iconFoxyRing
FoxyRing makes your phone smarter by analyzing the ambient noise and adjust the ringer volume. Also: - Sleeping hours to silent your phone during the night. - Geolocated ringer profiles, change ringtone or make your phone vibrate only at work! - Widget to silent your phone for a timed period. - Great interface

Media Winners

iconBuzz Deck
BuzzDeck is the quick and easy way to get all the web content you care about most. Flick through your daily hit of favourite news topics. And get Twitter & Facebook updates alongside. BuzzDeck learns what you like and recommends cool new stuff. Simple, elegant & fast. NB: No landscape mode yet. http://mippin.com/buzzdeck
iconSPB TV
SPB TV is a highly usable IP-TV solution, optimized to run on mobile devices. SPB TV provides users with lots of channels in multiple languages with easy-to-use features and settings. No subscription fee! Requires a reliable 3G or WiFi network connection for proper streaming. Full-featured 60-days trial.
iconFxCamera
FxCamera enables you to take a picture with various effects. - ToyCam (Toy Camera Emulator) - Polandroid - Fisheye - Warhol (Andy Warhol-izer) - Normal *this app requires SD card*

Productivity/Tools Winners

iconWaveSecure
WaveSecure is a complete mobile security solution that protects your device, data and privacy. 1. Track your phone’s location and who is using it 2. Lock down your phone remotely, making it worthless to the thief 3. Backup all your data 4. Wipe out your data remotely 5. Restore your data May the phone be with you!
iconHoccer
Hoccer is your application for ad-hoc data exchange. Use gestures to "throw" your data through the air and let the recipients "catch" it. There is no need for prior exchange of contact details.
iconTasker
Tasker let's you link any Task (action set) to the Contexts (application, time, day, location, event, widget press) where it should run. Send an SMS at 3:15 Monday, make per-app settings or locks, map camera button to a menu, launch music app on headphone insert, timelapse photos, encrypt on-the-fly, the list is endless!

Social Networking Winners

iconCe:real - Everyday trends
Ce:real, What's happening in this world? Are you curious about real world? How about North Pole or an edge of Africa? Also, it can be your neighborhood. It is offering to you hot photo stories with Twitter trends keyword which has speed of lights. Enjoy millions of happenings in real world and you participate in it as well.
iconSocialMuse
Check out what users on the other side of the world are listening to! Find people with similar musical taste, or just explore the world through music. Browse other users' music libraries, listen to previews of their songs, and buy them if you like them. Check out their profiles on MySpace, Facebook and Last.fm.
iconSpotMessage
SpotMessage is a communication tool using GPS. Send a message designating a spot with Google Maps then the message will be notified when the recipient arrives at the spot. SpotMsg finds various uses; as an alarm reminding you of a task at a certain spot or for sending your friend a surprise message on his or her arrival.

Travel Winners

iconTrip Journal
Trip Journal is the ultimate trip tracking and sharing solution currently available on Android powered Smartphones. Impress your friends by sending them real time updates from the places you are visiting. GPS route tracking, record waypoints, photos & notes, trip statistics, KMZ & Picasa exports, incorporated Google Maps.
iconiNap: Arrival Alert
Ever wanted to get some sleep during a train ride, or a quick powernap on the bus to work? You either hoped to wake just in time not to miss your station, or set an alarm to wake you far too early... Using your phone's GPS it will determine where you are, and wake you when you are close to your destination!
iconCar Locator
Save your location whenever you park, and Car Locator will navigate you back to your car should you ever have trouble finding it. - Points in direction of your car using GPS and compass - Radar view, map view, and split view - Parking timer alarm GPS and compass must be enabled. This free version expires after 25 runs.

Misc Winners

iconRhythm Guitar
Plays like a real 6-string, 5-fret guitar. Strum and pick chords, make new chords, string them together to create songs, transpose songs to fit your vocal range. Great for songwriting, chord reference, learning radio hits, or even plugging into speakers and pedals.
iconAndrometer
Andrometer allows you to measure the approximate distance from you to an object that you can see. Uses GPS, accelerometer and geomagnetic sensor. Tips: - Keep as steady as possible - The further you walk, the more accurate the measurement - Must be outdoors with clear view of sky - Works best under 1 km
iconCalton Hill GPSCaddy
GPSCaddy allows golfers to quickly and easily map any golf course either out on the course using GPS or in the comfort of home using satellite imagery. Then, when they are playing the course, it uses GPS to tell them exactly how far they are from the significant features of the hole they are playing (green, bunkers, etc).

Mentor Graphics Acquired Embedded Android leader Embedded Alley

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DESIGN AUTOMATION CONFERENCE (DAC), San Francisco, Calif. July 30, 2009 – Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today unveiled its Android and Linux strategy, including the acquisition of Embedded Alley Solutions, Inc. (San Jose, CA), an innovative leader in Android and Linux development systems. By combining Embedded Alley’s Android and Linux products and services with the Mentor Graphics Nucleus® real-time operating system (RTOS), tools and middleware, Mentor can now provide device manufacturers with all the software they need to build their products, and work closely with them throughout their product lifecycle to supply tools and services at every stage.

“Mentor’s strategy acknowledges two strong trends we see in embedded device development today,” stated Glenn Perry, Mentor Graphics Embedded Systems Division General Manager. “One is a huge demand for Google’s Android platform in new, complex devices beyond the mobile phones for which Android was originally developed. The other is the growing use on multi-core processors of multiple operating systems, usually Linux and an RTOS like Nucleus. Our investment in Embedded Alley, and its products, open source expertise, and services, will allow our customers to innovate and build better products with power savings, performance optimization, and reduced system cost and risk.”

Mentor’s Android, Linux, and Nucleus products and services provide all the tools, runtime components and expertise required for customers to get to production with innovative products. This ecosystem for Android- and Linux-based devices is supported by leading semiconductor partners, including ARM, Freescale, Marvell, MIPS, RMI, and Texas Instruments (TI). In separate announcements today, Mentor Graphics revealed support for the ARM Mali graphics processing unit family, Freescale Power Architecture processors and Marvell Sheeva MV78200 Dual-core Embedded Processors. Embedded Alley was the first to market commercial Android tools and services in May 2009, for the RMI Au1250 SoC and the MIPS architecture.

“The Embedded Alley team is excited to bring our vast experience in open source development to Mentor Graphics,” said Pete Popov, CEO of Embedded Alley. “This is a huge win for our customers, who can now benefit from the combination of Embedded Alley’s services and development systems with Mentor’s products, services and outstanding support.”

“TI is pleased to learn that Mentor Graphics has acquired Embedded Alley, allowing Mentor to provide additional value to our customers developing with Android and/or Linux on our various TI solutions, including our OMAP35x platform,” said Gerard Andrews, OMAP35x product line manager, TI. “With the combined expertise from Mentor Graphics and Embedded Alley, we’re confident that they will be able to deliver innovative and even stronger multi-OS/multi-core products that inspire new Linux- and Android-based designs. We’re excited and look forward to seeing the synergy between these two companies and their solutions that ultimately addresses our customers’ key careabouts on an open software platform, community participation and support.”

Perry continued, “As early developers in embedded Linux, Embedded Alley is well-known in the open source community, both as active participants in major projects such as OpenEmbedded, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, and Linux kernel development, and as leaders in commercial development based on open source software. Their strong reputation follows them into the Android commercial tool market, now placing Mentor Graphics at the forefront of open source software in embedded devices.”

Embedded Alley gained a tremendous lead in Android solutions by investing early and building on their deep Linux/open source experience and technologies. As pioneers in the embedded Linux community, the Embedded Alley team has been instrumental in defining product offerings, shaping business models and building market strategies for embedded systems. Their unique approach to commercial open source products avoided “boxed” Linux distributions, and gave developers more flexibility and immediate access to the latest open source innovations.

For more information on the Mentor Graphics Android/Linux development ecosystem for multi-OS and multi-core development, visit the website athttp://www.mentor.com/products/embedded_software/android-linux-multicore/.

About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award-winning support for the world’s most successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of about $800 million and employs approximately 4,425 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/.

(Mentor Graphics and Nucleus are registered trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.)

For more information, please contact:

Larry Toda
Mentor Graphics
503.685.1664
larry_toda@mentor.com

Sonia Harrison
Mentor Graphics
503.685.1165
sonia_harrison@mentor.com

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