AT&T Announces Open Call - Apps for All! Contest Winners

DALLAS, April 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- After setting the agenda for a groundbreaking year for the AT&T Developer Program at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2010, AT&T* recently awarded top honors in its annual "Open Call – Apps for All!" developer contest.

The AT&T Developer Program, rated by Evans Data as the top carrier developer program, announced in January that it will significantly enhance the program and add Brew Mobile Platform (BMP) to its SDK for quick messaging devices.  This year's Open Call competition featured a category devoted to the BMP platform for the first time, in addition to categories for Android Java and BlackBerry and an open category.  In addition, this year's Open Call – Apps for All! contest attracted more than 295 developer applications.

Held at CTIA Wireless 2010 in Las Vegas from March 23 to 24, the winners were selected for innovation, marketability, ease of use, user interface and design.  Several of the top entries, including two grand prize winners, focused on ways mobile apps can make positive change. One Sweet World, which provides parents checklists they can use to monitor child development, captured the $10,000 grand prize in the open category.

Sudoku Deluxe 2, winner of the Brew Mobile Platform category, challenges gamers with over 10,000 puzzles at 4 playing levels and players earn points they can use to 'plant' trees. The publisher, GOSUB 60, will make quarterly donations to non-profit partner, Trees for Future.  GOSUB 60's goal is to raise enough 'tree codes' to plant 100,000 new trees to support Trees for the Future's worldwide efforts.

Other category winners included:

• AndCAD from Talon Designs, won the grand prize for the Android category.   This application allows users to create simple geometric shapes, combined with notes, to develop plans for art, architecture, engineering and manufacturing.
• AirKast took home the grand prize for the Java and BlackBerry category for its AirBridge/TuneKast solution.  AirBridge helps advertisers transition from static text and banner advertising to rich media, video and interactive graphic marketing that targets the geographic location of mobile devices. Designed for radio stations, the AirKast solution, TuneKast lets listeners interact with live broadcast content via their mobile devices.
• Honorable mention went to Alt12 Apps' Baby Bump application in the Android category.  BabyBump is a pregnancy app that keeps you informed about your pregnancy and provides feature-rich tracking tools.  
• LooseHead Software also took home honorable mention for their MobileScore application in the Java and BlackBerry Category.  MobileScore empowers sports enthusiasts to create, publish and share rich media coverage of live sports events directly from the field, using their BlackBerry®.

Also, as AT&T is committed to providing developers with the tools they need to accelerate their development efforts, the AT&T Developer Program hosted a Brew Mobile Platform code camp April 13 and 14 at the Qualcomm headquarters in San Diego, California.  For more information on the code camp, visit http://developer.att.com under the community page.

For more information about the winners of the AT&T Open Call –Apps For All! contest or on AT&T's developer program, please visit http://developer.att.com.

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