Hands-on launches new platform with $50k prize

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Tim Green Mar 27 2007, 11:00am

Hands-On Mobile is offering $50,000 to the creator of the most innovative app based on its new HOMBRE developer platform.

The contest is an integral part of the new HOMBRE Developer Network, which launches imminently. The new platform puts mobile development within reach of anyone who has built simple XML-based services.

HOMBRE uses a thin downloadable client, which the company claims provides endless opportunities to create cutting-edge apps such as social networking to customised phonetops to mobile storefronts. It’s the power behind the world’s most successful mobile connected game, World Poker Tour: Texas Hold ‘Em.

Hands-On’s CTO and SVP of product development Michael Temkin, said: “From a developer’s perspective, HOMBRE makes creating rich mobile applications as simple as web publishing. HOMBRE applications and content are automatically optimized for any handset, regardless of carrier, without compromising the user experience.

“By eliminating the need to individually port each application to more than a thousand handsets, HOMBRE cuts both development costs and time to market.”

HOMBRE Developers Kit will be available Q2 2007. For more information on this and the competition, go to www.gethombre.com.