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The 5th Annual Mobile Messaging Industry Awards Shortlist has been announced!
The overall winners and industry leaders will be announced at the Awards Gala Dinner on 8th May in Cannes at the Havana Club Restaurant. To book your place, call +44 (0) 20 7017 5506.
Mobile Messaging Awards
2008 SHORTLIST
Innovation in Messaging
For this category the judges are looking for what is new and in their opinion looks as though it has potential to make a difference to the world of mobile messaging:
- Bluebook - O2 UK
- Interactive Monitoring system for lone workers Complicity Active
- Monitoring Ltd, trading as SafetyInNumbersUK.com SpinVox Messenger - Spinvox
Messaging Infrastructure or Platform
Awarded to the product that has enhanced the existing messaging network by providing greater capacity, security, reliability or adds an additional application:
- AirGate platform - Airwide
- mBlox Financial Services
- Mobile Device Management - mFORMATION
Messaging Application or Service: Public Sector/Not for Profit
Awarded to the organisation that has used mobile messaging to the best effect by providing an effective information or feedback service, alerts or awareness campaign:
- mDubai-SALIK Toll Alerts - Ducont FZ LLC
- Obama Mobile - Distributive Networks and SinglePoint
- Save the Children mobile fundraising campaign - Incentivated Ltd
Messaging Application: Business
Judges will be looking for innovative and practical ways that enterprises have made the best use of mobile messaging in their business using this application:
- Metropolitan Life's Cover2Go Delivers Insurance Policies to Cell Phone Using Clickatell SMS Gateway
- Mobile Enterprise Messaging Suite (MEMS) - SOPRANO
- mobi-pass - Mobiqa
Messaging Application: Consumer
Awarded to the company with the product or service that has best stimulated consumers to use mobile messaging:
- IMPS-SMS Gateway - Acision
- Myxer Mobile Music Toolkit
- Windows Live Messenger -Turkcell
The 160Characters and Informa Mobile Messaging Awards cover the whole range of mobile messaging types from SMS and MMS, to mobile IM, mobile email and voice-messaging. Now in its fifth year, they are the only awards to focus on the mobile messaging industry.
Installed by default on nearly all of the three billion mobile phones around the world, SMS recently celebrated its 15th birthday and the number of applications for mobile text messaging continues to grow.
The awards recognise the important role that mobile messaging plays in the mobile industry today, the technology behind it and the varied applications that it is being put to.
A panel of distinguished industry judges will select the winners to be announced at the Gala Awards Dinner in Cannes on the 8th May 2008, immediately after the first day of the Global Messaging Congress.
For further details of the award ceremony and to book your table, visit www.globalmessagingcongress.com
