GSMA Mobile Innovation Award Competition Winners

2010 Mobile Innovation Grand Prix

The two finalists from the ISRAEL Tournament winning trips to the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in February to compete in the Global Mobile Awards - Mobile Innovation Grand Prix championship were:

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Congratulations to all of our nominees for presenting some innovative ideas:

Most Innovative Carrier Infrastructure or VAS Platform

Siklu Wireless Communications (Israel) - Global Finalist
Mobixell Networks (Israel)
Telmap Ltd. (USA)
cVidya (Israel)

Most Innovative Enterprise Application or Service

LiveU Ltd. (Israel)
XSIGHTS (Israel)

Most Innovative Consumer Application or Service

MeeMix Ltd. (Israel)
waze (Israel)
TuneWiki (US)
fring (Israel) - Global Finalist

At the recent HiTBarcelona World Innovation Summit, GSMA Mobile Innovation played host to the Telecom track. As part of this event, we held the EMEA Tournament of our Mobile Innovation Grand Prix from which 2 overall winners arose:

EMEA HIT winners Ident Technologies and Electro Power Systems

IDENT Technology (Germany) & Electro Power Systems (Italy)

Congratulations to all of our nominees for presenting some innovative ideas:

· Solaiemes (Spain)

· Multiplied Media (Canada)

· Scalado (Sweden)

· AcCells (Israel)

· Novarra (USA)

· DeviceAnywhere (USA)

· Apisphere (USA)

· GreenFire Technologies (USA)

To read about the event and the presentations, check out our dedicated newsfeed, covered by Mobile Business Briefing Editor, Matt Ablott.

2009

The EMEA leg and final stage of the 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition took place February 16, 2009 at the Mobile World Congress, where 15 nominees competed in five categories for the chance to pitch their innovative products and services for 2 slots to compete in the 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Championship against finalists from the Asia, Americas and Virtual tournaments of the competition. And the winner is....

EMEA Tournament Global Finalists:

Intivation, Netherlands - Most Innovative Wireless Device-centric Technology
Advanced Reciever Technologies, USA - Most Innovative True Mobile Start Up
APiLINX received a special mention from our judges for best m-health innovation blending mobile & medical care for wellness and remote patient monitoring.

Asia Pacific Tournament Global Finalists:

Cootek, China - Most Innovative Wireless Device-centric Technology
TuneWiki, USA - Most Innovative Consumer Application or Service
Sentry Wireless received a special mention from our judges for Social Consciousness

Virtual Online (Israel) Tournament: