Victorian government kicks off $100,000 app development contest
The Victorian government is offering up to $100,000 to software developers in a contest to create applications out of 90 data sets on the data.vic.gov.au website.
The Victorian government is offering up to $100,000 to software developers in a contest to create applications out of 90 data sets on the data.vic.gov.au website.
While the iPhone has been a veritable gold rush for app developers it's debatable whether the opportunity still exists to make a killing with over 140,000 applications on Apple's AppStore, except of course for Apple.
Skype is shutting down Extras, the most important part of its program for outside developers, saying that demand for these third-party plug-ins has been weak.
Local software company, Once Technologies, has released the next generation of once:radix, an open source, Web-based application development environment that promises significant performance improvements and paves the way for load balancing of applications across mutliple servers.
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PayPal will soon open up its platform to third-party developers, allowing them to build applications with a range of money transfer options.
MySpace developers can now make their applications available for testing to anyone who is on their list of friends at the social-networking site.
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