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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Shortlist Announced for the 160 Characters Mobile Messaging Awards
160 Characters, the messaging forum, today announces the shortlist for the third annual Global Messaging Awards, the only industry awards that are solely dedicated to mobile messaging. As with previous years there has been a huge and diverse amount of entries from companies around the world, marking the important contribution that messaging applications and services make to the mobile industry.
Twenty one companies from nine countries made the shortlist for the seven different award categories:
Most effective device or software for data input
Zi Corporation (Canada) - Decuma V4
Chicago Logic Incorporated (USA) - delta2 keypad system
Best SMS and/or MMS Network Infrastructure
Mobile Interactive Group (MIG) (UK) - Votewinner
Echovox (Switzerland) - SMSconnect.com
Norwegain Broadcasting Corp (NRK) (Norway) - Returia
Best messaging application: consumer
iTagg (UK) - Mobicard
Lawrencekendall.com Ltd (UK) - Textataxi.com
Bubble Motion Pte Ltd (Singapore) - Bubble Talk
Best messaging application: business
Tyntec (UK) - Enterprise SMS
First National Bank (South Africa) - Clickatel
DataViz Inc. (USA) - Roadsync
Mobiqa (UK) - Mobi-tickets for the Red Bull Rail Storm
Best messaging application: public sector/not for profit
Incentivated Ltd (UK) - Safer Travel at Night (STAN)
Barfdaneh (Afghanistan) - Security alert subscription service in Kabul
Greenpeace (Argentina) - Green lobby mobileactivism
Best new mobile email and/or IM application
Followap (UK) - IMSC v4.5
Oz (Canada) - Mobile Email Solution
Visto Mobile (UK) Visto Mobile 5.5
Thumbspeed Inc (USA) - 3MC Mobile IM
Biggest impact of mobile messaging
ShoZu (UK) - ShoZu
Spinvox (UK) - Voicemail-to-text service
The award ceremony run in conjunction with Informa’s Global Messaging Congress will take place on the 24th May, in London on the first evening of the event.
Mike Grenville, chairman and founder of 160 Characters said: “The last year has seen messaging based applications and services continue to grow. With the addition of two new categories this year (best mobile email and IM application and biggest impact of mobile messaging) once again, the diversity and ingenuity of the award entries has been impressive.”
The 160 Characters, Global Messaging Awards celebrate this fact by rewarding the companies that continue to innovate in this space. By partnering with Informa’s Global Messaging Congress both organisations are underlining their commitment to furthering the possibilities of what can be achieved with this medium.”
About 160 Characters
Founded in 2001, 160Characters is the leading independent not-for-profit membership forum for mobile messaging professionals. With so many different issues and regulators impacting this new industry, it is vital that the industry is represented by a truly independent body.
160Characters aims to help grow the mobile messaging industry. It offers news, knowledge, networking and training and a voice for matters of concern to the industry be they providers of infrastructure, application developers, content owners or operators.
About Mike Grenville
Founder of 160 Characters. Developed the highly successful SMS conferences and exhibitions with Penton Media. Previous companies include British Airways, travel industry reservations system Galileo International, Bob Geldorf’s Deckchair.com, alerting company Adeptra. Available for conference development, chairman, industry speaker, articles, comment, and consultancy.
Mike Grenville 07974924289
About Global Messaging Congress
The Congress is the sixth annual event and is the largest and most established Mobile Messaging Event in the world with over 250 attendees from 32 countries in 2005.
Contact James Stackhouse, Marketing Manager,
james.stackhouse@informa.com +44 (0)207 017 5806
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