The Ericsson Application Awards is a yearly, global competition that provides an opportunity for Android™ application developers to gain visibility and reach out to customers via Ericsson’s distribution channels. The competition is open to students and small companies, and is sponsored in cooperation with Sony. This year, the theme of the competition was “Apps for the Networked Society,” which focused on innovation connecting people, things and places to empower society. Check out the Ericsson Application Awards website for more information about the competition and the four finalists, along with information about the live webcast from the prize ceremony. And why not submit your own app next year?

Sounds like a fun and pretty useful challenge, right? In our opinion, it’s a really commendable idea, and we’d love to see more philanthropic initiatives like this.

Sign up for the challenge, and read all about it on the Ericsson Application Awards website.

The winning team from last year, Team HipSnip, has already benefitted from the EAA spotlight, as they have been able to secure angel funding for their business. You can read about their inspirational journey in this article on the EAA guest blogger site. Now that the doors for success have opened up for Team HipSnip, are you ready for your turn? If you are up to the challenge, take part in the first mini-challenge, which begins September 14. Learn how to get started here.

More information

• Watch this short message from Tommy Arngren, our fellow blogger from Ericsson.
• Get yourself started in the Ericsson Application Awards 2012.
• Read about EAA 2011 winners Team HipSnip.
• Check out the latest EAA news and stories at Tommy’s EAA blog.

Company category winners team HipSnip presented a well structured and thought through idea and application regarding personal shopping. Check out the Ericsson and the Ericsson Application Awards website to learn more about the winning teams and the competition.

From Sony Ericsson, Karl-Johan Dahlström, Head of Developer Relations, and Joakim Nelson, Head of Industry Collaboration & Asset Management, participated as a presenters and Karl-Johan was also part of the jury. Sony Ericsson is very pleased to have been part of this competition, and we’re looking forward to support next year’s competition also!

For more information about the event, the livestream and the competition itself, check out the Ericsson Application Awards website.

The Ericsson Application Awards is a global competition to inspire both aspiring programmers and hardcore coders to come up with useful widgets for mobile devices. The finalists are soon to be chosen, and the winner will then be presented on June 22.

For more details, check out the Ericsson Application Awards website.

A while back we wrote about the Ericsson Widget Awards, a global competition to inspire both aspiring programmers and hardcore coders to come up with useful widgets for mobile devices. Now the competition has entered its final stage and Ericsson is evaluating the contributions.

To conclude the competition and to select the winners Ericsson is organising a developer event on May 3^rd where you will be able to see some interesting demonstrations, listen to invited speakers and mingle with people from the mobile applications industry.

The event will take place in Stockholm, Sweden on May 3^rd. Check out the details and sign up for the event on the Ericsson Widget Awards website.

For those who remember, we have been pushing for the Ericsson Application Awards every once in a while, as it is one of the biggest and most professional developer competitions around. And now the competition is moving to the semi finals!

We’d like to congratulate the teams moving into the semi finals. Read all about it on the Ericsson Application Awards web page. We’re glad to see that Ericsson is going to run the competition next year also!

Hello,

I am a guest blogger from Ericsson and I work with applications and application stores. Now in cooperation with  Sony Ericsson Developer World we organize a global competition for developers and students.

Ericsson Widget Awards is a global competition to inspire both aspiring programmers and hardcore coders to come up with fun, useful and engaging widgets for mobile devices. Show off your creativity and compete for a total prize pool of € 30 000 and a trip to Sweden for the prize ceremony in April.

You only need basic skills in HTML, Java and CSS for mobile and to let your creativity loose and make a fun, useful, useless or just nutty widget. If you manage to charm the jury, you just might be the one to win!

The total prize sum is 30.000 EURO! Please submit your contributions before the submission deadline March 1 2011.

Register now and win tickets to Mobile World Congress and the WholeSale Application Community developer day!

http://game-r.verkstad.net/submit_register.php

The first stage competition of the Ericsson Application awards is now over, and the lucky winners were Team SnowBugs. They certainly made an impact on the jury with their Hollywood-inspired application video. Watch their video here.

Now it’s time for the second stage of the competition where you are asked to propose a convincing business opportunity for your application. The presentation (3-5 slides) should include problem statement, target group and business opportunities. Remember that is not too late to join on this competition yet. The deadline for stage 2 of the competition is December 10, 2010, and for stage 3 January 24, 2011.

Ericsson Application Awards is a competition open for students and small/medium sized companies. To take part of the competition you are asked to develop an application based on the Android platform (Web or Native) that addresses the theme “Connected Things” and makes use of at least one Ericsson Labs API. The winner will go home with € 15 000. Read more on the competition web site.