News: 14th Global Mobile Awards

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The nominees for 2009 are

Category 1 Mobile Entertainment

Category 1a Best Mobile Game

gameloft: Real Football 2009
Digital: Chocolate AvaPeeps: FlirtNation
MTS: MTS-City
Turkcell: MobiWar
CAPCOM: Biohazard 4 Mobile Edition

Category 1b Best Mobile Music or Video Service

mBlox: Myxer Music Tool Kit
Sony Ericsson: PlayNow
BBC: iPlayer on Mobile
Bharti Airtel: On-Demand Service
Shazam Entertainment: Shazam on iPhone

Category 1c Best Mobile Advertising Service

Vodafone Spain: Mobile Marketing Discovery Programme
Telstra: Telstra Mobile Codes
cellcity: DC2Go
Microsoft Ad Funded: Windows Live Messenger Mobile Client
Turkcell: Tonla Kazan

Category 1d Best Mobile TV Service

Telstra: Mobile FOXTEL™ from Telstra and BigPond TV
MobiTV: MobiTV
Yota: Yota TV
MediaFLO USA and AT&T: FLO TV - AT&T Mobile TV
Vodafone Netherlands: Vodafone TV

Category 2 – Mobile Services

Category 2a Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service

Vodafone: Vodafone Global Enterprise Limited
mFormation: mFormation Enterprise Manager (MEM)
Dexterra: Concert. Mobile Platform
Logmein: Rescue+Mobile
Vodafone: Mobile Broadband via the phone

Category 2b Best Mobile Internet Service

Blue Lion Mobile: Qeep
Nokia: Nokia Sports Tracker
Bharti Airtel: Airtel Job Search
Volantis Systems: Ubik.com
Palringo: instant messaging service on mobile

Category 2c – Best Mobile Money Service

Safaricom: M-PESA
Bharti Telesoft: Mobiquity mBanking
Monitise International: MONILINK
Total Access Communications: ATM SIM
Bharti Airtel: Financial Inclusion Service – Banking the UnBanked

Category 3 Best Mobile Handset or Device

Nokia: Nokia E71
T-Mobile: T-Mobile G1
INQ: INQ1
RIM: BlackBerry Storm 9500
LG: LG KS360

Category 4 Marketing & Promotion

Category 4a Best Broadcast Commercial

Bharti Airtel: Breaking Barriers
AT&T Mobility: The internet can’t hide
KT Freetel: SHOW
Vodafone: Summer Roaming Campaign
Smart: Bring Me Along

Category 4b Best Mobile Brand Campaign

Samsung: Everything in One Touch
R/GA London: Nokia Urbanista Diaries
IDEA: Cellular Education for all
Bharti Airtel: Communications dissolves boundaries
AdMob: Land Rover Campaign

Category 5 – Best Use of Mobile for Social and Economic Development

Bharti Airtel: Krishi Suchana - joint entry with IFFCO -Indian Farmers Fertiliser Co-operative
Nuance Communications: Airtel-T9 India Consumer Vernacular Messaging Campaigns
Ericsson: The Millennium Villages Project
Map International: Map International
Smart Communications: The Infoboard Community Solution

Category 6 –Technology

Category 6a – Best Network Technology Advance


Altobridge: Remote Community Solution
Alcatel Lucent: 9900 Wireless Network Guardian
Nokia Siemens Networks: Flexi Multimode BTS Software defined HSPA/LTE
ZTE: ZXSDR B8200 2G/3G dual mode baseband processor unit and ZXSDR R8860 2G/3G SDR radio head
Ericsson: Energy lean BTS

Category 6b – Best Service Delivery Platform

Dilithium Networks: Dilithium Content Adapter
NewBay Software: LifeCache Social Networking Solution 2.0
Funambol: Open source Mobile ’We’ push email and mobile sync
ByteMobile: WebGate Service
Surfkitchen: Mobile Internet Platform

Category 6c – Best Billing or Customer Care Solution

Expert System: COGITO Answers
Innopath Software: InnoPath 2 ActiveCare
Bharti Airtel: Offer of the Day
Bharti Airtel: e-Merge
Telefónica O2 UK Limited: O2 Customer Service Wrap and Retention Tools for AppleiPhone 3G in the UK

Category 6d – Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough

Texas Instruments: DLP Pico Chipset
RIM: BlackBerry Storm 9500 SurePress Screen
AeroMobile: GSM onboard Aircraft
ARM: Cortex-A8 Processor
Qualcomm: mirasol Color Display

Category 7b – Green Mobile Award

Smart Communications: Alternative Power for Cell Sites program
Nokia Siemens Networks: Environmentally Sustainable Business (ESB) initiative
Vodafone: Reducing Network Energy Use
Alcatel: Lucent Eco-sustainable Communications Transformation
Telenor: Climate Change Programme

Source:Global Mobile Awards 2009