Mobile Apps contest launched by Consumer Electronics Association

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The Consumer Electronics Association announced that nominations are now open for its second annual Mobile Apps Showdown. Mobile application developers can submit entries to be judged by a panel of tech experts. Final round judging will take place live at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show, to be held in Las Vegas from January 6-9, 2011.
The winner will be announced on January 8, 2011.

There are currently over 250,000 iPhone apps and 70,000 Android apps, according to AdMob. BlackBerry, Nokia’s Symbian and Palm’s webOS are three other operating systems with app stores. Juniper Forecast recently reported that the annual number of consumer-oriented application downloads is expected to increase to more than 25 billion by 2015.

All entrants will be acknowledged with write-ups, screenshots and a “Download Now” button on the Mobile Apps Showdown website. From all the entries submitted, 25 semi-finalists will be selected by tech veteran Robin Raskin and a team of mobile experts. The online community will also have a chance to vote for their favorites.

The top ten finalists move on to a live demo competition in front of a live and online 2011 International CES audience and a winner will be declared based on an audience applause-o-meter and an online vote.

Winners will be picked from each of five platform categories: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Nokia, and Palm Web OS. There will be a winner from the online voters as well as from the live audience vote at the Mobile Apps Showdown.

The Mobile Apps Showdown is an event by tech veteran Robin Raskin, who also created the extremely popular CES competition, Last Gadget Standing. In addition, Raskin and her company, Living in Digital Times, produce six CES-based TechZones and conference programs that feature technology and lifestyle, including technology for Health, Baby Boomers, Kids, Moms, Higher Education, and Sports and Fitness.

At the 2010 International CES, Clixtr won the live competition, while Gwabbit took home the online prize. Clixtr is a mobile app that turns smartphones into smartcameras. Its users create events, upload mobile photos, and create real-time event photo streams with the users around them. The online winner, Gwabbit, provides automatic email contact management (ECM) solutions for the contact cloud that automatically searches and identifies contacts embedded in emails and adds or updates that information to your information in a single click.

Rules of the competition

1. You must submit your applications before Nov. 31, 2010.

2. Your application must be available to the public now or delivered by Q2 of 2011.

3. Semi-finalists (25) and finalists (10) are selected from among all entrants by a panel of journalists and experts from the Netshelter Technology Media network.

4. Semi-finalists and finalists will participate in an online vote, which will affect, but not necessarily determine, the winners. (Judges will have the final word and the votes need to be checked for duplicates.)

5. Only finalists – 10 in all – will present at the Mobile Apps Showdown live event at the 2011 Consumer Electronic Show. The winner of the live event will be selected by the live audience.

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