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Google I/O conference was held two months ago ,the shocking news for me was that those who have attended the conference were gifted with a free Android phone .The Android phone given to everyone who attended the conference was a HTC Magic or otherwise called as “G2”.Are you worried that you did’nt attendit.Ok, i have a good news for you but it might cost you as this is available on eBay ,but it seems to take another few months to happen .In a very short span of time the bidding started, it went up to 8 bids,pushing the price to $200.Another interesting thing is the phone comes with a T-Mobile service which is free for a month,which is given for Google for all conference goers,and the bid was expected to go much higher.The pictures taken in Moscone West,the place were Google I/O conference took place were listed for the device on eBay,this shows that it is a real deal.A important thing is that the device has a Spiffy I/O logo on its back,which makes it worthy for another $50.Atlast the price went more than a triple and sold for $760 which is not bad for a gift.

ACM multimedia held a Conference ,The Multimeia Grand Challenge 2009 this conference aims in collecting information on specific problems and issues faced by the corporate like Google, Yahoo, Nokia, HP, Radvision and CeWe .The researchers from all over the world are encouraged to submit their ideas for facing the challenges of each of the company mentioned above.The ideas submitted will be gone through in order to win the Grand Challenge competition and the prizes are to be mentioned. The Researchers interested in taking part in the competition are requested to register in the appropriate websites before the deadline for submission gets over. So far six companies as put forward eight challenges. Please refer to the above links for participation.A idea from Yongl.