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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://...

ELIPS Studio is a cross-platform mobile application SDK based on Adobe's Flex Builder. It leads the next generation of mobile application development environments and tools. Now software developers and creative designers can quickly develop for mobile some rich, connected or non-connected applications... and deploy them on any mobile platforms they want. ELIPS Studio is equally valuable for experienced mobile application developers who want extra productivity, and for Adobe Flash / Flex and web developers who want to reuse their RIA / RDA assets and create rich mobile applications. Generate native apps out of a single ELIPS Studio code base for Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, Symbian and more... How it Works: ELIPS Studio allows to code your app in ActionScript which cross compiles it to c++ and publishes to as Native apps. Check out a few Screencasts here http://www.openplug.com/resources/gallery . The latest update is that Alcatel-Lucent has acquired OpenPlug.