Check the android developers blog
We're really looking forward to seeing all the amazing applications that developers will create on an open mobile phone platform. In fact, you may even want to enter your application into the Android Developer Challenge -- a USD$10 million challenge sponsored by Google to support and recognize developers who build great applications for the Android platform
Nice, I want to participate. Because Italians do it better.
Yes, Italians do it better, and the original way. When there is a competition on innovative products, we are able to cut ourselves out in a sweep. The ADC FAQ page states that:
The Android Developer Challenge is open to individuals, teams of individuals, and business entities. While we seek to make the Challenge open worldwide, we cannot open the Challenge to residents of Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, and Myanmar (Burma) because of U.S. laws. In addition, the Challenge is not open to residents of Italy or Quebec because of local restrictions.
Local restrictions for challenges and prizes are mainly bureaucratic:
- Register your prize challenge to three public administrations. You've to fill up a separate form for each one
- You need a notary. Well, in Italy you needed a notary even to sell your bike, recently this procedure has been simplified.
- Just to let you know, prize challenges cannot damage Italian government's monopoly on ability games and gambling.
- Last but not least: you need to give a cautionary 20% of total prizes to Italy's government. It's called "to bail out", it translates "I do not trust you've got that much", doesn't it?
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