About Robin Raskin of 
I'm the former editor of PC Magazine, Editor in Chief of FamilyPC, and blogger for Yahoo!Tech. I've has spent the past 30 years exploring what it means to be a family in a digital world. I'm also the founder of Kids@Play and The Silvers Summit, a set of conferences and exhibitions in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association.
From Robin
This Just In! Mobile Apps Showdown news roundup
We had a great event and a lot of fun at this year’s Mobile Apps Showdown — and it didn’t go unnoticed. The event was ... More
Watch the Mobile Apps in Action
Even if you missed the Mobile Apps Showdown event, it doesn’t mean that you’ll miss out on seeing these great apps in action. We invited ... More
Clixtr Takes First Prize at MAS 2010 Event
Clixtr turns smartphones into smartcameras by leveraging location-based technologies and the rapidly improving quality of camera phones. Clixtr users create events, upload mobile photos, and, ... More
Gwabbit Snatches Victory in the MAS Online Vote
gwabbit for BlackBerry smartphones joins the award-winning gwabbit for Outlook, as an automatic email contact management solution for both desktops and mobile phones. Gwabbit scans ... More
Every Vote Counts!
The votes keep rolling in, and this is gearing up to be a tight race. The clock is ticking, and time is running out. But ... More
Meet our ten finalists
The Mobile Apps Showdown is heading down the backstretch. With the start of CES only days away, our panel of mobile experts from the ... More
Mobile Apps update: Make your vote count
Who says the best can’t rise to the top? Not us. Here at the Mobile Apps Showdown, we know that you know which apps have ... More
Stitcher: talk radio under one roof
Stitcher Radio is the leader in on-demand news and talk radio for mobile phones. With Stitcher’s free app, iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Palm webOS listeners ... More
Gravity: Tweet from your Nokia phone
Gravity on Ovi Store by Nokia is a fully featured Twitter client for S60 devices. It supports multiple Twitter and Facebook accounts, image uploading to ... More
Cisco WebEx Meeting Center
Cisco WebEx Meeting Center on the iPhone brings meetings in motion to a new reality; with this application, Cisco WebEx meetings can be taken wherever ... More
Our Host: Robin Raskin
...is a veteran tech journalist and founder of Living in Digital Times. She created the Showdown.Our experts:
How it works:
Mobile phone apps from any platform can enter. Our experts narrow the field to a Top 20 and then Top 10. We conduct an online vote to determine a 'people's' winner. All 20 semifinalists are invited to demonstrate their apps at the Mobile Apps Showdown stage in the North Hall during CES. The Top 10 appear before a live voting audience at CES to determine an event winner.
When: Saturday, 12:30 p.m., Jan. 9, 2010
Where: Room N255-257, LVCC, North Hall, 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
More info: robin@lastgadgetstanding.com
(800) 553-2399
Check out our other big CES event, Last Gadget Standing.
- automotive
- buy
- cameraphone
- city guide
- contact management
- eBay
- Entertainment
- free
- how-to
- iPhone
- Lifestyles
- location-aware
- mobile apps showdown
- mobile IM
- multi-network
- music
- my favorite apps
- navigation
- Nokia
- online auction
- photo-sharing
- photo effects
- photo filters
- photography
- Productivity
- radio
- remote access
- remote desktop
- safety
- search engine
- sell
- smartphone
- social media
- Symbian S60
- television
- tourism
- travel
- tutorials
- TV
- video
- voice calling
- vote
- what makes a great app
- Windows Mobile











