Master Codemason Competition – The finalists announced

The three Master Codemason Competition finalists have been decided, and are all booked for their trip to TechEd next week.

We were really impressed by the range of entries we received, covering Lifestyle apps, Music & Video, Business, Utility, Travel, Education – there was social networking integration, business use scenarios, and informational/education apps prototypes submitted.

The three finalists were;

• Luis Ortega with The Follow me Clock
• Robert Crago with Musicradio
• Darko Radiceski with AAMHatcheye

Luis, Robert & Darko are all booked in for TechEd, and will present their applications live at Smackdown – so if you are at TechEd, come along to the Mobility Smackdown session on Friday afternoon and help judge the Master Codemason! If you couldn’t get a TechEd ticket, then keep posted on the Codemason’s Guild blog, we’ll update you with information live from the event.

The launch of Windows Mobile 6.5 and the opening to Windows phone users of the Windows Marketplace for Mobile have now been revealed as taking place globally on October 6th (US time). You can read the word from the Windows phone team here.

The opportunity for developers is to get your app’s into Marketplace now, so they are certified, signed and ready for users to access as the new range of Windows phones release.

DonK