Have you an application idea or need an app built for your business? Young talent has always been an important issue in technology and this is especially true for the Internet of Things. Developers, programmers, designers, gamers, coders, or IT students with interest in mobile development are invited to participate in four regional “Internet of Things” hackathon and accelerator series, sponsored by AT&T Developer Program and Intel.

The hackathons will take place in Palo Alto/Redwood City, Calif. on Sept. 16, New York City on Sept. 27, Denver on Nov. 1 and Los Angeles on Nov. 15. School projects and school teams will develop new mobile apps, websites, games in a concentrated but very creative atmosphere and lots of fun from scratch. The topics are chosen based on latest innovation in mobile and cloud world. Here, everything revolves around the development of mobile applications.

The long-term objective of the hackathon is to encourage school and educational students to introduce to the world of mobile and help them deploy new apps with website backends and fully hosted in the cloud. Participants are free to use C, Java, JavaScript, HTML, C #, Dot Net or XNA or any other language. The best applications will be awarded in three categories – 1st place ($1,000 cash) with an opportunity to pitch your hack at the National Accelerator Demo in Las Vegas, 2nd place ($500 cash) and 3rd place ($200 cash).

Mobile Future Forward

Intel has been cultivating a wide range of strategic alliances in the mobile world as it seeks to exploit the convergence of mobile and Telco platforms. It is an important partner with Microsoft in the producing PC chipsets and processor and now it is looking for telecom partners to promote its mobile chipsets on enterprise mobile applications.

Intel offers Intel App Game Interface that gives hybrid HTML5 applications the ability to accelerate native device level technologies. The App Game Interface is used for creating a rich graphical app for iOS or Android. In addition, the company also offers Intel XDK for building quality mobile apps for iOS tablets, iOS smartphones, Android tablets, Android smartphones, Google Play store, Amazon App Store, Mozilla App Store, Facebook App Center, and the Google Chrome store.

Any collaboration with AT&T (or any other telecom partner) will help Intel to conduct comprehensive testing and analysis of how their hardware/communication components use the network and to improve the quality, performance and usability of apps. AT&T’s Application Resource Optimizer (ARO), a free diagnostic tool for analyzing app performance, speed, network impact and battery utilization, can help developers create apps that conserve battery life, load pages faster and consume network resources in a smarter way, all of which improve the customer experience.

For more on the “Internet of Things” hackathon and accelerator series, mobile developers can visit http://iothackathon.co/ or sign up at http://hacknest-sr.eventbrite.com and follow on Twitter at https://twitter.com/IoTHackathon.