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Whether you’re planning your week, your day, or the next hour, The Weather Channel Mobile delivers the tools you need to be prepared. Unlike other weather applications, The Weather Channel offers interactive maps with customizable weather layers and neighborhood points-of-interest. Speech-enabled severe weather alerts will actually wake up your device and tell you about severe weather so you can get to safety. You can even share the alert, as well as other weather information, with others in your address book via sms or email. Read more about The Weather Channel for Android (Android Application)

SynchroSpot’s mission is to provide users with a whole new class of location-based mobile software. Location-based reminders allow users to input reminders into their phone and the phone will asynchronously alert them whenever they are near the given location with their reminder (e.g. Pick up milk the next time you’re at the supermarket). Advertisers and the user will also find the offers feature valuable. (e.g. A nearby clothing store offers you 20% off your clothing purchase if you stop in within the next 3 hours and show the ad on your phone). Advertisers can be large national chains or local mom and pop shops as even the smallest vendors will be able to manage their own ads via a web site. Read more about Synchrospot (Android Application)

Sustain helps throttle communication. Users can download news and RSS feeds relevant to their contacts and instantly share them. Users can also see which contacts would be the most likely to be in their vicinity. Unique features like auto-replies that trigger when particular calls are missed and reminders that pop-up when particular calls are answered allow users to maintain seamless interaction with their contacts. Read more about Sustain (Android Application)

For people who enjoy music and want to learn to play their favorite songs on a musical instrument, SplashPlay offers a mobile application that lets you practice and experience music in an easy and enjoyable way, wherever you are. SplashPlay features a virtual guitar that invites the user for a playful exploration of chords through the touch screen. Favorite songs and tuition videos can be downloaded and shared through the SplashPlay website. Chords appear in sync on the mobile phone and with optionally available hardware, also on the real instrument. Read more about SplashPlay (Android Application)

SocialMonster offers a rich set of functions that allow sharing of information under the context of an event where participants can interact with each other, post instant messages, map location tags, share photos, polls, etc. SocialMonster helps users build a circle of friends where relationships are maintained and discovered via social events. Users can discover mutual friends, new friendships, and keep existing relationships healthy. SocialMonster elevates traditional point-to-point communication to a context-based, group-oriented communication. Users can reach multiple parties without the hassle of making dozens of phone calls. Read more about SocialMonster (Android Application)

Text entry is indispensable in productivity and collaboration applications such as email, IM, and SMS. Without a large physical keyboard, slow text entry cripples these applications on touch screen based mobile phones. ShapeWriter lets the user simply slide a finger or stylus from letter to letter on a touch screen keyboard and lift to complete an entire word. The approximate stroke gesture is recognized as the intended word. ShapeWriter on Android supports three activities: WritingPad, gTalk, and Balloon Game. All three demonstrate and take advantage of ShapeWriter’s core technology. Read more about ShapeWriter (Android Application)

What if you were being attacked? Could you protect yourself and call for help at the same time? Could you dial 911? What if the phone could help? What if the phone could contact everyone in your SafetyNet telling them of your situation? Maybe provide your location? What if the phone could distract an assailant by sounding a loud siren plus activating a voice track announcing each function as it happens? What if your phone started capturing images of the scene? What if your phone could dial 911 and what if it did all of this by simply shaking it? Read more about SafetyNet (Android Application)

PedNav is an application that helps you plan your activities efficiently when moving around and interacting with an urban environment. It helps you select your daily activities using well-organized listings and lets you specify the time constraints for each of these activities while finding the most suitable public transportation and/or walking directions to each destination. PedNav is the ideal application for anyone who desires a one-stop shop for organizing their day, whether for a business trip, a shopping expedition, or an entertaining night out. Read more about PedNav (Android Application)

MyCloset can manage a person's fashion items through a mobile phone and can check weather information to select appropriate clothing. When taking a trip, MyCloset coordinates outfits by checking the weather at your destination and then generates a list of items to take with you on your trip. In addition to sorting by registration number, item name, and frequency of use, MyCloset can sort by the color features detected from the image. With an intuitive user interface and a charming design MyCloset offers a new user experience. Read more about MyCloset (Android Application)

mobeedo is a "mobile oracle" which displays exactly and only the information available on the mobeedo platform relevant to the users' current situation. The platform can be accessed by anyone for providing any kind of situation-specific information or services to be consumed via smart phones. Additionally a map in the background indicates the users' current location. Optionally one's track as well as "classical" POIs can be overlayed. When brought to the foreground, the map can not only be used to navigate, but the information relevant to that location can be provided. Read more about mobeedo (Android Application)