Tag: CONTEST

As if Angry Birds needed any more money or publicity, the makers of the bestselling iPhone and Android game just won $100,000 in Palm's PDK Hot Apps Competition. The competition was open to WebOS apps developed using Palm's PDK software development kit, and Angry Birds walked away with top honors in the paid apps category. A game called Glow Hockey also won $100,000 as the best free app in the ...

We (or some of us at least) celebrated Earth Day last month. As the name suggests, it's all about inspiring both awareness and appreciation for our beloved blue-green planet Earth. Bing, of course, celebrated the day in the only way it knows how... lots and lots of pretty photos! Microsoft has compiled the winners from four age groups (seriously, some of these photos are taken by 5-year-olds!) ...

The Netflix Prize Contest, a million-dollar challenge to improve the accuracy of the Netflix recommendation algorithm by 10%, has finally ended after close to three years. One team, BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos, claimed victory by showing a result of better than 10%, which kicked off a 30-day period where other teams would have a chance to top the leading score and win the million. That period has ...

Time is quickly running out for you to join the Screencast 4 Cash contest for a chance to win big by teaching others via screencast. To be eligible, entries must be submitted by 11:59PM CST on Monday, June 1st. So far, creative contestants have uploaded screencasts on everything from using MAME to being a Google search ninja. Just as before, entrants can submit an original screencast to be ...

I took Comodo's free Internet Security suite for a test drive when they released it last year, and was pleased with how it performed. The company has been a respected provider of firewall protection for years, so it was nice to see them develop a more complete desktop security solution. The free version is packed with great features, and is an excellent free antivirus/firewall/HIP product for ...

digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/01/16/itunes-grammy-contest-pick-the-winners-win-10-000-itunes-songs/";Are you the one in your circle of friends who always picks the winners correctly on awards night? Well, now's your chance to really shine. iTunes and iGoogle are giving away 10,000 iTunes songs to a select contestant who correctly predicts the Grammy award winners (or who ...

Who likes music by a wide variety of up and coming artists in many differing and unique genres? Who would like to be able to legally download that music to your computer and portable device? Who thought Spiderman 3 was the best of the trilogy? If you answered in the affirmative to all three of those questions, we're afraid there's no hope for you, my friend. If you said yes to the above two, then ...

Put those thinking hats on and grab those browser based ideas you have been storing in your head, the Firefox add-on contest is open. Firefox's annual Firefox Extension Contest, Extend Firefox, will give developers the chance to win the Ultimate Firefox Developer Kit which will include a trip to anywhere in the world, a Macbook Pro, bags and tshirts. Judges are looking for the next great web ...

Ahoy, mateys! Gather 'round the poopdeck for an important message from yer captains. Today, in honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day, we be givin' away a full license for CallBurner, a call recorder for Skype that we think is better than a chest full of pirate booty. To enter, all you landlubbers have to do is leave us a note in t' comment section. T' contest ends at 11:59 ET on September 21 (which ...

This is a little bit twisted. Emoticons started out their lives as text-based characters designed to resemble human expressions. They've evolved into cartoon smiley faces and in some cases, even 3D figures. Now Symantec wants to take things full circle by finding people who can emulate emoticons with... facial expressions. Symantec is holding a contest allowing you to submit a photo with a ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/microsoft/Vista_Ultimate_Giveaway_winners_speak_their_minds'; Earlier this year we had a little contest where we gave away 3 shiny copies of Vista Ultimate. Our three lucky winners have had some time to bathe in the cooling waters of Vista, and this past week we heard back from two of them: AJ and Shannon. How did they feel about Vista? AJ wrote: I must say, that eye ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Get_free_stuff_using_Google_Blog_Search'; I discovered something interesting when I was in college. If you want to win free tickets to a concert, it's not much use trying to be the 95th caller to the local Morning Zoo-style radio station. Just be the first or second caller to the local college radio station. In fact, once I remember the deejay saying ...

For those who have mastered their narrative skills with a camera and don't feel like waiting for YouTube to start sharing revenue, Zooppa (pronounced: zoo-pa) just might be your ticket to fame and fortune. As a new startup that's been stirring some buzz for a little while now, Zooppa melds user generated video with advertising for a unique business model. Businesses supply advertising briefs - ...

Just a quick reminder: our giveaway contest where you can win a totally free copy of Windows Vista ends at midnight (Eastern Standard Time) tonight, February 2. After the clock strikes midnight, we'll do our magical gee-whiz randomizing business, remove the duplicate entries (you didn't think that was going to work did you?), and pick not one, but THREE lucky winners. We'll contact those winners ...

We have three hot copies of Vista, sealed and ready, and we're just itching to give them away. These aren't hot as in stolen, but hot as in fresh. While Engadget has been putting Vista through the paces (and then some), we're willing to send off these three little boxes of newness to three lucky individuals... Of course, we'd love to hear back from you, and we're even willing to do a little ...