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The Smoke Alarm in Your Pocket and Other Winning Apps
One of the winners of Australia's Apps4Broadband competition was the Bop Smoke Alarm, which sends users an SMS (at a convenient time) when a smoke alarm's batteries are getting low, and allows you to switch off a false alarm without getting the ladder out
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The Australian Center for Broadband Innovation (ACBI), CSIRO, National ICT Australia, Intel, iiNet, Foxtel, Pottinger New South Wales Trade and Investment, and NBN recently chose the winners of the Apps4Broadband competition. The competition was launched to help Australians better understand what is possible through the smart use of broadband, says ACBI director Colin Griffith.
"We are on the dawn of a new 'App Age,' where next-generation broadband networks will allow us to better manage our home energy use, support the elderly living independently at home, as well as providing us with more personalized entertainment content by connecting people in their homes with services enabled by sensors and cloud computing," Griffith says.
TutorBee, a Web-based app that enables tutors to teach students remotely, won the Best App, Best Business-to-Business App, and Best Health, Education, and Social Services App awards. The app includes an online classroom, a marketplace where students can find tutors, and a scheduling system. "The core of what we are trying to do is to remove some of the geographical barriers to education," says TutorBee co-creator Chris Barwick. Pass the Popcorn, an app for chatting with friends while watching on-demand TV, won the Best Media and Entertainment App award. The app enables users to make their feelings known on plot twists.
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