Google: '$ 10 million for the best mobile software'

Google announced it would award $ 10 million to anyone who successfully developed the best complementary software for its upcoming mobile operating system.

Currently, Google is promoting the implementation of a project to research and develop free and open source software packages for mobile phones. The goal of the software package is to provide an easier experience for users in web browsing on mobile devices while giving Google more opportunities to sell ads and services in the future.

Google's mobile operating system will be developed based on the operating system source code platform for personal computers. The world's leading Internet search provider hopes the open source nature of the project will attract developers to create more software and improve its software. Thereby attracting more users to use smart phone products.

In order to win Google's award, complementary software should belong to one of the following software groups: a group of software that enhances interfaces such as standard personal interface screens, potentially complex social networking software groups combine data from the web with user data on the phone, such as combining a personal website with the global location of the phone . The products must be sent to Google within 2 / 1/2008 until March 3, 2008.

Finally, Google's jury will select 50 software to award prizes in the total number of products registered to participate in the contest. Of these, 10 software will be awarded $ 275,000. 10 other software received $ 100,000 prize. And the rest was awarded $ 25,000.

Google has yet to announce details of the 'grading' method of participating software, but insists: ' Winning software must be the software that appeals to users with a compelling user experience '.

Parallel to the launch of the software creation competition yesterday (November 12), Google also officially released a development support package on its new mobile platform.

Hoang Dung