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Build a killer robot, win cash prizes
News BattleBots, a "battle-to-the-death" competition between remote-controlled robots, featured even more fun and destruction as the weekend wore on, when finalists fought it out for over $25,000 in cash and prizes.
[August 18, 1999, 10:41]
Google gets Code Jamming in the UK
News As well as the cash prizes on offer, the winners could find themselves working at Google. First prize is €2,500 in cash, with five second prizes of €1,000, and more smaller prizes. Google is on the prowl for talented developers in the UK and across...
[May 3, 2006, 18:00]
WorldWinner Delivers Twice as Many Games Each Day With IBM Informix Dynamic Server
White Papers Providing the most popular skill-based games, including SCRABBLE Cubes, Bejeweled 2, Zuma and Luxor, and a wide range of tournament options, WorldWinner brings together people who love to play games and thrive on the thrill of competing for cash...
[April 5, 2007, 1:00]
Merv Griffin's Crosswords
Downloads Win virtual cash and prizes in this dynamic competition. Play Merv Griffin? s Crosswords! Experience all the fun and excitement of the popular TV show ? now mobile. Select an avatar and battle the computer in your phone, racing the clock to enter...
[August 27, 2008, 8:00]
AirMiles
Downloads If you plan correctly, and keep track of your points, you could earn big prizes from the airlines. If you are a frequent traveler, you know that frequent flyer points are as valuable as cash.
[August 12, 2000, 8:00]
Chronic 2005
Downloads Beautiful Chronic Girls will be your inspiration as well as prizes and large cash tournaments. Plunge into a world of bad cops, loan sharks, pimps and body guards to win weekly prizes. Chronic 2005 is an online game based on the original DopeWars.
[March 7, 2006, 7:00]
Eden Communications Case Study: Frito Lay
White Papers In addition to the millions of consumers signing on to the Frito-Lay website to enter their codes and redeem their winnings, the campaign generates over 10,000 email help requests a week about prizes, activation codes, etc.
[August 25, 2009, 14:00]
Cowboy
Downloads Addictive gameplay You're a cowboy who catches cows, horses, money bags, and bonus prizes with his lasso. Extra gadgets There are gadgets that may be bought between levels, such as extra ropes, a winch, or a cash register.
[June 1, 2005, 8:00]
More than competitions at TopCoder these days
News It's been well over a year since I last visited TopCoder, and reviewed the Web site that features the novel idea of pitting developers against one another to solve problems in Java for cash prizes. The top performers in several categories for a...
[November 28, 2002, 11:53]
Tiscali buys Liberty Surf
News Italy's Tiscali bought French Internet service provider Liberty Surf Monday in a cash and stock deal valued at 900m euros (£569.5m), snapping up one of the last big prizes in the European ISP market's consolidation.
[January 8, 2001, 11:15]
£150,000 crypto cracking challenge launched
News The cash prizes offered are intended as modest rewards for some of the hard work that goes into coordinating the resources and effort required to surmount some of the very difficult technical barriers encountered in factoring large integers," said...
[July 24, 2001, 13:56]
Altnet to pay Kazaa users for file-swapping
News The rewards will range from free access to paid content to sweepstakes entries toward cars and big-ticket cash prizes. The value of the prizes will depend on how many customers Altnet can attract and how much the company can persuade them to offer.
[June 2, 2003, 7:36]
Deal or No Deal: Around the World
Downloads Travel to exotic destinations to collect Cash, prizes, and awards. With Deal or No Deal: Around the World experience the thrill of the hit TV game show with millions of fans worldwide. It features pick briefcases, see the prize boards, get advice...
[September 24, 2009, 6:29]
Merv Griffin's Crosswords
Downloads Win virtual cash and prizes in this dynamic competition. Play Merv Griffin''s Crosswords! Experience all the fun and excitement of the popular TV show - now mobile. Select an avatar and battle the computer in your phone, racing the clock...
[January 27, 2009, 7:00]
Intorine Best! Games Pack
Downloads In this dynamic game you control a cowboy that uses his lasso to catch different kinds of prizes: cows, horses, cash, etc. Games Pack contains six high-quality games that are easy to learn,and difficult to master.
[December 8, 2005, 7:00]
Nokia invests in Mozilla mobile browser
News Even though Mozilla browsers make up only a small fraction of the market, Firefox has earned rave reviews on Web logs, in newsgroups, in the computer press, and even scored a pair of prizes -- all before reaching its 1.0 release.
[June 18, 2004, 16:40]
Microsoft scheme pays users to search
News The program runs through April, at which point users can 'cash in' the tickets they get and trade them in for prizes or donate them to a charity. Microsoft's latest effort to encourage people to use its search service is called SearchPerks, which...
[October 1, 2008, 15:06]
£35,000 prize to crack 'PitBull'
News Offering cash prizes to the hacking community is a popular way for a company to show how secure, or insecure, its products are. A computer security firm announced Monday a $50,000 (about £35,000) prize to the first person who can crack its system...
[January 16, 2001, 9:14]
Facebook evolves into an attack tool for criminals
News Adding pressure to the rush to develop new applications for Facebook, PayPal is running a competition which closes on 24 August, offering developers cash prizes of up to AU$10,000 (£4,197) for winning applications.
[July 30, 2007, 8:18]
Open source specialists offered tech support bounty
News Developers joining the scheme will be paid for each issue they resolve, and can choose whether they want to be paid in cash or through prizes such as a Microsoft XBox console. OpenLogic, an open source software and services provider, has launched a...
[May 9, 2006, 11:10]
