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OpenPlug is a Flex-based mobile SDK for Windows Mobile, iPhone, Android and Symbian. OpenPlug which was recently aquired by Alcatel-Lucent has thrown a contest called 100 Apps in 100 days. For this, Alcatel-Lucent has exposed a number of telecommunications APIs at openapiservice.com and openapilab.com.The contest is thrown to the TopCoder community to build 100 apps in 100 days using these APIs and there over 100 prizes to be won by developers, totalling over $165,000 in prizes!. And Alcatel-Lucent is making available, for FREE, the use of OpenPlug to members for the duration of the competition. To enter, register as a TopCoder member, register for the contest and build your application. Schedule Registration Opens September 1st at 10:00 PM EST 25-day Milestone September 26th at 10:00 PM EST 25-day Milestone October 21st at 10:00 PM EST 25-day Milestone November 15th at 10:00 PM EST Submission Deadline December 10th at 10:00 PM EST More more details, go to http://

Strategic Investment to extend processing footprint, support processing strategy and create more value for customers in Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa. Mumbai, 30 September 2010: MasterCard Worldwide and ElectraCard Services today announced that MasterCard has taken a 12.5% stake in Pune headquartered ElectraCard Services (ECS), a leading provider for credit and payments management. The investment in ECS bolsters MasterCard’s overarching global processing strategy by further extending MasterCard’s product offerings and enhancing services across the full spectrum of the processing value chain not only in Inida but also in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. Founded in 2006, ECS provides third party processing services and software for credit, debit and prepaid cards and EFT switching solutions to banks across 25 countries. ECS’ electra suiteprovides depth and capabilities to process in real time a variety of payment transactions. In India, ECS is the larges

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