News
Forum Nokia winners revealed
Stuart O'Brien Nov 29 2006, 3:30pm
MobiTV and Telcogames were among the Forum Nokia PRO Award winners announced at Nokia World this afternoon.
MobiTV truimphed in the Best Music Service category for its MobiRadio product, while Telcogames was recognised in the Best Game Application category for its Silhouette (SiL) game.
Entry to the awards was open to the 400 members of the Forum Nokia PRO developer community, which range from start-up companies to established players.
The 2006 award winners were in six application categories - Games, Music, Imaging, Productivity, Enterprise and Branded Content - as well as 'Developer of the Year' and 'Innovator of the Year'.
The full list of winners of the 2006 Awards runs as follows:
Best Game Application: The Silhouette Game - Telcogames (UK)
Best Enterprise Application: ColorCAM(TM) - ColorZip (Singapore)
Best Imaging Application: WOWPix - Reallusion (US)
Best Music Application: MobiRadio - Idetic (US)
Best Productivity Application: SNAPin Self Service - SNAPin Software (US)
Best Branded Content Application: ShoZu - Cognima (UK)
Developer of the Year: Refresh Mobile - Mobizines
Innovator of the Year: SNAPin Software - SNAPin Self Service
Lee Epting, vice president of Forum Nokia, said: "The Forum Nokia PRO Awards provides an opportunity to highlight the work being done by companies pushing the envelope with the latest and most exciting mobile applications, services and enabling technologies in the market today.
The members of Forum Nokia PRO are at the forefront of driving breakthroughs that expanding revenue opportunities for operators and attracting a whole range of businesses seeking to leverage the smartphone explosion."
Judging of the 2006 Forum Nokia PRO Awards was conducted by teams of experts in Singapore, the U.K. and the U.S. The teams included:
Julie Ask, research director and senior analyst, Jupiter Research (U.S.)
Isabelle Chan, senior editor, ZDNet Asia (Singapore)
Colin Gibbs, reporter, RCR Wireless News (U.S.)
Ken Hyers, principal analyst, mobile wireless research, ABI Research (U.S.)
Glenn Letham, editor-in-chief, SymbianOne.com (Canada)
Christian Just, editor, ComputerBild (Germany)
Stuart O'Brien, editor, Mobile Entertainment (U.K.)
Marek Pawlowski, editorial director, PMN (U.K.)
Andrew Seybold, principal, Andrew Seybold Group, LLC (U.S.)
Brad Smith, data/IP editor, Wireless Week (U.S.)
Yan Yuelong, deputy editor-in-chief of Telecom World Magazine (China)
