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Today seems like the gadget contest day…

Crunchgear posted about a contest that SteelSeries is holding, “Want to win some World of Warcraft loot?“. SteelSeries is a company that has a couple “Designed for World of Warcraft” items like a Keyboard and a cool mouse. You can become a fan of SteelSeries and win this cool gear:

• World of Warcraft MMO Gaming Mouse
• SteelSeries Zboard Limited Edition Keyset (WotLK)
• SteelSeries Zboard Gaming Keyboard
• SteelSeries 5C Limited Edition Mousepad (WotLK)
• SteelSeries QcK Limited Edition Mousepad (WotLK)
• Wrath of the Lich King Strategy Guide
• World of Warcraft Atlas Set
• $100 World of Warcraft apparel Gift Certificate
• World of Warcraft Trading Card Game -DoW 2 Player Starter Set
• World of Warcraft Miniatures Core Set Booster

Gear Diary posted today about a contest Sony is holding where you can score a $1200.00 HD Video Camera and more. Check the screen shot below for more prizes. Altogether, there are 5 places. Click the image below to enter.

Come on and click through to the site to catch the other 2 contests after the break…

$25,000 Grand Prize to be Won from Pantech
Jason Dunn shared with us over at Smartphone Thoughts that Pantech is doing something that has to do with Twitter I think. It’s called a Tweetstake, so yeah.

“The Matrix Pro by Pantech has a new home online: pantechmatrixpro.com, the first place to go for all you need to know about this exciting new smartphone. See the Matrix Pro’s unique dual-keyboard design in action; get the lowdown on all of the Matrix Pro’s great features; read blog entries highlighting the latest Matrix Pro news and reviews; get information about the upcoming Tweetstakes featuring a grand prize of $25,000; and follow handy links to purchase your very own Matrix Pro online. Visit pantechmatrixpro.com to experience the site for yourself.”

WOW! This and the next one would be mucho coin for opening my Pawn Shop/Check Cashing/Strip Club/Wine and Tobacco/Needlepoint shop that I have dreamed of running.

Win $10,000
The last one is one for the Developers. This one hit my inbox yesterday and this post gives me the perfect opportunity to share it. Everyone likes to win stuff, huh? You don’t have long for this one so hurry up and read the press release for the details…

Rhomobile Announces Additional Details for $10,000 Mobile Application Development Challenge

Mobile Application Development Challenge Expands Prize Packages and Extends Submission Deadline to May 24, 2009

CUPERTINO, Calif. – April 7, 2009 – Rhomobile today announced additional details for their Mobile Application Development Challenge including an extended deadline date and additional prize packages. The contest promotes Rhomobile’s Rhodes framework, which allows developers to write once to create native apps for all leading smartphones including iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android, and features a $10,000 grand prize.

“As a web developer I have always wanted to create mobile applications and now, with Rhomobile’s Rhodes, I can develop for multiple mobile phones without having to learn additional heavy weight programming languages,” said Makoto Inoue, a Mobile Application Development Challenge contestant. “The Rhomobile Mobile Application Development Challenge is a great opportunity for developers like myself to utilize Rhodes and push ourselves to be creative.”

The Rhomobile Mobile Application Development Challenge was organized as a way to encourage developers to experiment with Open Source and the Rhodes framework, which allows developers to write native applications for smartphones using HTML templates. Rhomobile is encouraging contest submissions that utilize the access Rhodes provides developers to smartphone capabilities such as GPS, PIM contacts and camera.

“Rhodes allows developers to write once for all five major smartphones using HTML and Ruby, providing ease-of-use and efficiency in creating robust native applications,” said Adam Blum, CEO of Rhomobile. “With the Mobile Application Development Challenge, we wanted to create an opportunity for developers around the globe to discover what Rhodes is capable of, while providing an incentive to push their creativity and our framework to the limits.”

The Mobile Application Development Challenge submission deadline date has been extended to May 24, 2009, enabling developers to use the latest release of Rhodes 1.0, with a first prize of $10,000 to the individual or company building the best mobile application. Additional prize packages will include iPhone 3G 16GB, AT&T (HTC) Fuze with Windows Mobile, BlackBerry Storm smartphones, Nokia N97 and G2 Google Android phones. The grand prize of $10,000 will be announced on June 1, 2009 and additional prizes will be announced at a later date.

Contest Requirements
-Registration deadline: April 15, 2009

-Application submission deadline: May 24, 2009 -Applications must run on at least two device operating systems -Downloads of the build versions for all of these applications must be made available for Windows Mobile, RIM and Symbian -Applications must operate upon synchronized local data via RhoSync

Criteria for Judging
Rhomobile will evaluate submissions in the following areas:

-Application Originality: value proposition to end users and usefulness of the application -User Experience: overall usability of the application -Device Leverage: demonstration of device capabilities -Code Quality: documentation and maintainability of the code

Availability
Register for the Mobile Application Development Challenge by April 15, 2009 at http://rhohub.com/contest.

The Rhodes framework is now available at http://www.rhomobile.com/download.

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