Mobile Apps contest to win an ipad/join Bell Labs India

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[FONT="]Ready for a job that lets you innovate and build cool new applications?
Desire to win an ipad? [/FONT]
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We are looking for research engineers who are passionate about building novel, attractive and scalable applications/services on mobile hand-sets.

We want our selection process to be fun, intuitive and also reflect our work culture. So the first phase is a Mobile Apps contest to shortlist the right talent! This contest is a forum to express your creativity and skills and in the process win an opportunity to win an ipad and also join Bell labs, India as a Research engineer.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Please find the JD and interview process after the contest info.

Contest info:

There are three Mobile App options. You can select one of these.[/FONT]
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1. Build a ‘1-click’ photo-sharing app

100s of Millions of mobile users in India have phones with a camera, but is there a simple app that lets people share photos fast with their friends easily? (MMS is too expensive, slow for most, and how many have Picasa/Flickr accounts?). Design an app that makes it happen!

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[FONT="]2. Build [/FONT][FONT="]a configurable-privacy enabled ‘nearby’ friend finder app[/FONT][FONT="]

Several location-based friend finder apps are already there in the app market. We want you to design/build an app with similar functionality, but the differentiator being that the app should involve minimal revelation of location information of mobile users. Location information should be revealed to a friend, only when the friend is within a configurable ‘vicinity zone’. You get brownie points, if you can design techniques by which such functionality (or an approximation) can be realized, without the back-end server getting to know the GPS coordinates of the mobile users.

3. Build a mobile lifelog app[/FONT]
[FONT="]The concept of lifelogging, i.e. recording, archiving and visualizing all information in one’s life has been around for some time. We want you to build a mobile lifelog app that passively monitors and collects the traces of call-logs, sms, images/videos (captured from the phone) and GPS coordinates in the form of events and reports them back to a back-end server. The server provides Web APIs/service to graphically visualize this information. The server also facilitates posting some of these interesting events on Facebook as wall posts. [/FONT]
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[FONT="]Submission deadline: [/FONT]
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[FONT="] [/FONT][FONT="]Contest closes by Dec 15th, 2010. We evaluate submissions on a first come first serve basis. So send in your submissions as soon as you are ready.

To kick start this process, please send an email to #-Link-Snipped-# with the following details:-
1) Name, phone number
2) Current affiliation (company/university)
3) Current role
4) Tentative choice of app
5) Tentative submission date

The subject line should be 'Registration: Bell labs India Mobile Apps contest' [/FONT]
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Interview process: [/FONT]
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·[FONT="] [/FONT][FONT="]Mail your CV and code to Bell labs,India(blrindia@alcatel-lucent.com) with 'Bell labs India Mobile Apps contest' in the subject line. Entries without this subject line will be dis-qualified[/FONT]
·[FONT="] [/FONT][FONT="]If selected, be prepared for a telecon interview on coding and design choices[/FONT]
·[FONT="] [/FONT][FONT="]The shortlisted candidates will be asked to appear for a face to face interview in our Bangalore office[/FONT]
·[FONT="] [/FONT][FONT="]The first prize is an ipad. People who come second and third will win cool prizes too! Winners and top candidates will be evaluated for a position at Bell Labs, India as a Research Engineer.[/FONT]
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Job Description:
We are looking for highly motivated, high-caliber software engineers to become part of the advanced prototyping group of the Applications Department of Bell Labs India, Alcatel-Lucent. The charter of the advanced prototyping group is to work with researchers in building systems that take research ideas from a conception stage to products that are ready to be launched in the market. Given that the Applications Department’s focus is in developing innovative services and applications for emerging markets where the mobile handset is a predominant device, we are seeking individuals who have expertise in building mobile applications served by scalable back-end systems.

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