Two of MIT's Labs will be sharing at Accelerate this year. Come listen to Andrés Monroy-Hernandez speak about teaching programming to children and providing helathcare to poor countries, and Kristian Kloeckl speak about sensor networks built into cities to create real-time cities. Read more about the Design Track at Accelerate this year.

Internet staple cum search giant Google will be joining us at Accelerate: Scott McMullan, Partner Lead for Google Apps (ex-JotSpot), will be sharing on enterprise collaboration for cloud ISVs, from leveraging Google Apps to ways to fit yourself more effectively into the Google Apps ecosystem. Also hear an ex-YouTuber, Hong Qu, speak on learning about your customers online. Hong led YouTube's Asia localization strategy in his early days, is currently an established user experience guru in New York.

One of the higher profile exits in recent Singapore entrepreneurship history: tenCube's acquisition by McAfee (and then the latter by Intel) has more than one reason for celebration. An NUS incubatee[pdf], SiX (and former SPP) partner of SingTel (WaveSecure still distributed as PHONEsafe), Startup@Singapore winner and one of the first companies to pitch at e27's Unconference (now eChelon), tenCube's exit in 5 years provided inspiration to many entrepreneurs in Singapore.

Everyone know Apple iTunes as the #1 App store in the world. But do you know who's #2? Its GetJar.com, the App Store for the Long Tail (of mobile phones).
As of June 2010, TechCrunch reports Getjar has crossed 1 billion downloads to be the 2nd app store in the world. The trickle has turned into a torrent as GetJar has reported 3 millions downloads/ day as of late July 2010.

The MeeGo project combines Intel’s Moblin™ and Nokia’s Maemo projects into a Linux-based platform designed to give developers the broadest range of device segments to target, including netbooks and entry-level desktops, handheld computing and communications devices, in-vehicle infotainment devices, connected TVs, media phones and more – using Qt development framework. Learn more!

With a repository of APIs grew over 2000, and mashups at 5000, ProgrammableWeb gets you the latest on what's new and interesting with mashups, Web 2.0 APIs, and the Web as Platform. It's a directory, a news source, a reference guide, a community, and most recently, a part of Alcatel Lucent. Alcatel Lucent bought over ProgrammableWeb recently in June, and they will be joining us at Accelerate to share more about their plans for the future.