The Mountain View Hackathon, Courtesy of Google

If there were any doubts left about whetherGoogle still had its eyes on the TV prize, the geeks will lead you to the truth. Last weekend in both Mountain View and London, developers were hacking new trails for Google,  which hosted its first-ever codefest for TV.

Read the full article here.

Agenda:

11AM: Tea, Wine, Music Dance, Social

11:45PM: Lightning Talk by entrepreneurs who are looking for co-founders & Partners

12:05: Speaker: The Entrepreneur who investing in Entrepreneurs

Hemant Taneja, Managing Director, General Catalyst Partners

12:20PM: Lunch (Pizza)

Event co-hosted with Startup Tea House

Food: sponsored by SVInnovation Center

Hemant Taneja

Managing Director

General Catalyst Partners

Hemant invests in early stage companies. His areas of special interest include disruptive energy solutions, and next generation mobile platforms.

Before joining General Catalyst in 2002, Hemant was founder and CEO of Isovia, a Boston-based mobile software and applications company that merged with JP Mobile in 2002, and was subsequently acquired by Good Technology in 2005.  Hemant recently founded “Advanced Energy Economy”, a non-profit organization focused on catalyzing regional energy innovation clusters across America.  This work is based on the pioneering work that he did in founding the New England Clean Energy Council, which received an award from the Department of Energy.  Hemant actively lectures at MIT and Stanford to inspire technical students on entrepreneurship as a vehicle for technical impact.

Hemant is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning an M.S. in Operations Research, an M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, a B.S. in Mathematics, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and a B.S. in Biology & Biomedical Engineering.

Investments
Information Technology Investments: Jumptap, Humedica, Sand9, Stripe, SynapDx, and TuneIn
Former board member of m-Qube (acquired by VeriSign in May 2006, Observer), SiteAdvisor (acquired by McAfee in April 2006) and Hunch (acquired by eBay in November 2011)

Energy investments: ARC Energy, C12 Energy, CLEAResult, Mascoma, Modular Wind, Stion and SunBorne Energy.

Tea & Art Collection

More detail at:

http://www.sventrepreneurs.net/events/58830432/

The Mobile Demo day is the launch pad for new product, new app, new startup to be launched in Silicon Valley’s most viable community.

Next Mobile Demo Day at May 28:

http://www.sventrepreneurs.net/events/38751272/
The Demo Day is in collaboration with

http://svandroid.org (SVAndroid)
http://svios.org
Startup Tea House
Startup Boot Camp : Entrepreneur Training

Presenters:

Floyd D’Aguiar, Founder, Floyd D’Aguiar

Julian Green, Founder CEO, Jetpac

RAJAN ANNADURAI, Founder CEO, Spozzle

Apply for demo or speak: goo.gl/8D29i

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Looking for co-founders, partner, core team members in your mobile / app startup? Join this special mixer at Roe restaurant, Lounge and Night Club in downtown SF. Lets make startup fun with music, tea, and social!

http://www.roe-sf.com/club.php

Roe will offer happy hour drink specials.

If you have a startup position including co-founder, partner, core team member, go ahead post as comments at this meetup.

Happy hour drink specials and order from the food menu too.

http://www.roe-sf.com/club.php

Sponsors welcome.

Service Providers: this is not the right event to look for client. You are welcome to attend our monthly biz event for free.

It has 180+ people registered through meetup, private registration (including past winners, and our sponsor Google), and volunteers.  Work and compete with a group of hard core engineers in the valley will be also be a great fun experiences!

Imaging your winning app to be featured in Google TV powered devices worldwide? I am sure you don’t have money to buy it.

Besides what is announced, I am sure there other great things you can image. Hey, thats what I can tell you before the event. Come to Google at 7PM Friday, you will know more Don’t miss this!

Per suggestion fro several members,  we had extended the registration deadline is 11:390AM Thursday. We will start to prepare badges after tomorrow.

More

http://www.svandroid.org/events/51143042/

When: Friday, April 20, 2012 7:00 PM

Where: Conference Room Olympus Mons Tech Talk at Google
1400 Crittenden road
Mountain View, CA 94043

Android Beginners 2-day Boot Camp

Android App Development has become in the thing, and with Android offering an ideal platform to develop this kind of mobile application development, aspiring developers strive to make the best use of this platform. Android app development projects have assumed greater significance, and the prime reason that has influenced the popularity of this mobile app development comes through the form of benefits offered by Android platform. Android platform is based upon Linux, which in turn paves way for smooth accessibility to attain a robust development environment, where Android also makes it easy for the developer to gather information quickly and to provide information accurately.

Course Benefits:

Android Boot Camp Training Course is a hands-on training for designing and building mobile applications using Android open-source platform. This complete hands-on course encourages students to learn by building increasingly more sophisticated and meaningful mobile applications for Android.

After completing the course work in this class you will

1. have a general idea of the Android Platform components

2. Be familiar with the Basic Android APIs
3. Be able to Build/Test/Debug/Publish your basic Apps

Prerequisite:

• Experience in basic programming is required

About the Instructor:

Dr. Sheng Yang

• Computer Science PhD at the University of Texas at Dallas. Master of Science at Tsinghua University
• Leading Instructor for T-mobile internal mobile training; have trained hundreds of android developers since 2009
•  Over 10 years of IT experience in both small and global teams on many projects; specialized in web application development, he led the team to architect and develop multiple systems to achieve organization’s strategic goals.

( pic)                              Mr. Lawrence Wong

• Mobile software developer at T-mobile, with extensive knowledge of Android smart phones, tablets
• Lead Architect developer at MetaWave Group, early adapter of Android platform and Google AppEngine
• Organizer at East Bay GTUG; Co-Organizer at Silicon Valley Android Meetup

Course dates: $498

Training Content:

• Android basic architecture
• Designing Android User Interfaces
• Using Android Data and Storage APIs
• Using Android Networking APIs
• Using Android Multimedia APIs
• Build/Test/Debug/Publish Your Applications

Updated event details with registration link is below/here: Some seats are still left, so register asap.

The original event announcement:

Apple had been fighting with Google’s Android at all the battle ground, one of them is the pantent lawsuit.  Motorola, a Google company tobe, also started similar tactic last year. This had created lots of pressure and cost to the OEMs and developers.

There had been a long tim negotiating unders the table, the source said.  However, the financial terms are still unknown. For sure, the OEMs are protected from the lawsuit from now on.

Apple or Google refused to make any comments to this news.

However, the bad part of this agreement is that, its limited to all the product released after April 1st 2012. So take your chance!

Source: Wall Street Tech Stories