Global Mobile Award Winners Revealed

The winners of the 14th Annual Global Mobile Awards were announced last night by the GSM Association (GSMA). More than 450 companies submitted entries for the awards. The winners were as follows:
Best Mobile GameWinner: Gameloft - Real Football 2009Highly Commended: Digital Chocolate - AvaPeeps: FlirtNation
Best Mobile Music or Video ServiceWinner: BBC iPlayer on Mobile
Best Mobile Advertising ServiceWinner: Turkcell - Tonla Kazan
Best Mobile TV ServiceWinner: MobiTV - MobiTV
Best Mobile Enterprise Product or ServiceWinner: Vodafone - Vodafone Global Enterprise Best Mobile Internet ServiceWinner: Nokia - Nokia Sports Tracker Best Mobile Money ServiceWinner: Safaricom and Vodafone - M-PESA Best Mobile Handset or DeviceWinner: INQ - INQ1Highly Commended: Nokia - Nokia E71Highly Commended: T-Mobile - T-Mobile G1
Best Broadcast CommercialWinner: KT Freetel – ‘Show is…’ Best Mobile Brand CampaignWinner: R/GA London - Nokia Urbanista Diaries
Best Use of Mobile for Social and Economic DevelopmentWinner: Nuance Communications - Airtel-T9 India Consumer Vernacular Messaging Campaigns Best Network Technology AdvanceWinner: Nokia Siemens Networks - Flexi Multimode BTS Software defined HSPA/LTE
Best Service Delivery PlatformWinner: NewBay Software - LifeCache Social Networking Solution 2.0
Best Billing & Customer Care SolutionWinner: Expert System - COGITO Answers Best Mobile Technology BreakthroughWinner: RIM - BlackBerry Storm 9500 SurePress Screen The Green Mobile AwardWinner: Smart Communications - Alternative Power for Cell Sites program GSMA's CEO Award for Outstanding Environmental ContributionWinner: Nokia
Government Leadership AwardWinner: The Government of France
GSMA Chairman’s AwardWinner: Research in Motion (RIM)
The EMEA leg and final stage of the 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition also took place this week at the Mobile World Congress, where 15 nominees competed in five categories for the chance to pitch their innovative products and services against finalists from the Asia, Americas and Virtual legs of the competition for the title of 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award Champion.The winners of this were as follows:
Winner: Cootek, China (Most Innovative Wireless Device-centric Technology)
Global Finalist: Advanced Receiver Technologies, USA
Global Finalist: Intivation, Netherlands
And the five category winners are:
Most Innovative Wireless Device-centric TechnologyIntivation, Netherlands
Most Innovative Carrier Infrastructure or PlatformSunbay, Switzerland Most Innovative Mobile Application in a Vertical MarketWorldMate, USA
Most Innovative Consumer Application or ServiceMobile Nordic AS, Norway
Most Innovative True Mobile Start-UpAdvanced Receiver Technologies, USA
The GSMA’s Mobile Innovation initiative has also launched a new Awards format as part of the 2010 Global Mobile Awards. The Mobile Innovation ‘Grand Prix’ will showcase promising entrepreneurs from small and medium-sized companies developing and introducing innovative products and services that seek industry support in order to achieve market deployment. The first leg of the competition, the EMEA Tournament, will take place at the World Innovation Summit in Barcelona in June. Entry opens on 25 February 2009.There’s more information on the Mobile Innovation Grand Prix here.

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