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CTIA Announces Winners of the Wireless Emerging Technology Awards and Technology Marketing Awards at CTIA WIRELESS 2006


April 6, 2006

Las Vegas, NV – CTIA–The Wireless Association today announced the winners of its Wireless Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards and the Technology Marketing Awards at the CTIA WIRELESS 2006 Convention taking place this week at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

 

The Wireless E-tech Awards program was designed to give industry recognition and exposure to the best wireless products and services in the areas of Consumer, Enterprise and Network technology.  Nearly 200 applications were submitted and judged on innovation, functionality, technological importance, implementation and overall “wow” factor.

 

Judges for the E-Tech awards included:

 

Business Week, Steve Wildstrom

CNET, Kent German

Fidelity Investments, Joseph Ferra

Forrester Research, Charles Golvin

General Catalyst Partners, John Simon

Jupiter Media, Michael Gartenberg

PC Magazine, Sascha Segan

RCR Wireless News, Tracy Ford

Siber Consulting, Richard Siber

Wireless Week, Rhonda Wickham

Yankee Group, Philip Marshal

 

The 2006 CTIA E-Tech Award winners are as follows:

 

Best in Show, as voted upon by CTIA WIRELESS 2006 attendees, went to Samsung for the Samsung T509 camera phone.

 

Category: Consumer Application - Healthcare/Public Safety/Transportation

1st place – Google for Google Local

2nd place - NAVIGON, Inc for Mobile Navigator 5.3 PNA Transonic 5000

3rd place - Telecommunications Systems (TCS) for Rand McNally StreetFinder Wireless

 

Category: Consumer Application - Messaging (SMS/MMS)

1st place – MobileLime for Mobile Wallet from MobileLime®

2nd place – OZ for OZ Mobile Email Solution

3rd place - 724 Solutions for 724 Solutions Thulean

 

Category: Consumer Application - Mobile Entertainment Application

1st place - Cognima for the SHOZU

2nd place - InfoSpace for the MEdiaNet 3.0

3rd place - Motricity/Action Engine/NellyMoser for Motricity's Fuel Client Platform - Content AP1

Honorable Mention - Motorola Inc. Connected Home Solutions for Motorola iRadio®

 

Category: Hardware - Mobile Accessory

1st place – Jabra for Jabra JX10

2nd place - Eastman Kodak Company/Kodak EasyShare Gallery for KODAK Picture Kiosk G4

3rd place - Advanced Wireless Solutions, LLC for Backup-Pal

 

Category: Hardware - Mobile Phone/Camera Phone

1st place - Motorola Inc. for Motorola SLVR L7

2nd place - Samsung for Samsung t709

3rd place - GreatCall, Inc. for JitterbugDial™

Honorable Mention - Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications for the Sony Ericsson W810 Walkman® Phone

 

Category: Hardware - Smartphone/PDA

1st place - Palm, Inc. for Palm® Treo 700w smartphone

2nd place - Samsung for Samsung i830

3rd place - Samsung for Samsung t719

Honorable Mention - Pharos Science & Applications, Inc. for Pharos Traveler GPS 525

 

Category: Hardware - Wearable Wireless Device or Fashion Technology

1st place – Plantronics for Discovery 645 Bluetooth Headset

2nd place - LG Electronics MobileComm for LG Style-I

3rd place - Motorola Inc. for Motorola and Burton Audex™ Jacket Series

 

Category: Enterprise Solutions – Convergence

1st place - Dell Inc. for Latitude D620/D820 Notebook Computers

2nd place - Lenovo for ThinkPad T60, X60, Z60 with integrated CDMA EvDO and GSM HSDPA 3G technology and service

3rd place - Tekelec for Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC)

 

Category: Enterprise Solutions - Location Based Services

1st place - Smarter Agent, Inc. for Smarter Agent's Recently Sold Homes Search (LBS - Location Based Service)

2nd place - NII Holdings, Inc. for iPhone Panic

3rd place - @Road, Inc. for @Road Technology Van

 

Category: Enterprise Solutions - RFID/Sensors/Machine to Machine/Telemetry/Device Management

1st place - Aeris.net for the AerFrame

 

Category: Enterprise Solutions – ROI

1st place – Accenture for Accenture Communications Featuring the Service Delivery Platform

2nd place - m-Qube, Inc. for m-Qube Mobile iQ Navigator

3rd place - NII Holdings, Inc. for PWAP

 

Category: Network Infrastructure - Most Innovative In-Building Solution

1st place - Lucent Technologies for Lucent Base Station Router (BSR)

2nd place – Nokia for Nokia Flexi WCDMA Base Solution

3rd place - Able Planet Inc. for LINX AUDIO™ VolP Phone

Category: Network Infrastructure - UMA Network

1st place - Kineto Wireless for Kineto IP-UNC

2nd place - Netrake for nCite Security Gateway

3rd place - Azaire Networks for IP Converged Network Platform (IP-CNP)

 

Editors: Photos of the E-Tech award winners can be downloaded from the following URLs until April 20, 2006:

1st place winners: http://files.ctia.org/img/ctia_org/E-tech_1st_Place_Winners.JPG

2nd place winners: http://files.ctia.org/img/ctia_org/E-tech_2nd_Place_Winners.JPG

3rd place winners: http://files.ctia.org/img/ctia_org/E-tech_3rd_Place_Winners.JPG

 

The Technology Marketing Awards program was designed to reward excellence in marketing communications and to give recognition to those who have demonstrated creativity and innovation while promoting a wireless product or service. Nearly 100 applications were judged on originality and creativity, ease of use, overall appeal, clarity of message and recall value.

 

Judges for the Technology Marketing Awards included:

 

BtoB Magazine, Ellis Booker

CNET, Franco Ruggeri

CWTA, Jason Kerr

M:Metrics, Mark Donovan

Modojo, Justin Davis

R&R Partners, Arnie DiGeorge

Venetian Interactive, Richard Depew

 

The 2006 CTIA Technology Marketing Award winners are as follows:

 

Best in Show, as voted upon by CTIA WIRELESS 2006 attendees, went to Nokia for the Nokia Experience Center Outdoor campaign.

 

Category: Best Overall Campaign

1st place – Motorola for Motorola RAZR & PEBL

2nd place - T-Mobile for Bubbles Campaign

3rd place - Amp'd Mobile for Entertain Yourself

 

Category: Broadcast Media – Television

1st place – Motorola for Motorola PEBL

2nd place - Cingular Wireless for Star Wars Exclusive Sponsorship

3rd place - T-Mobile for Coverage Braces

 

Category: Direct Mail & Collateral

1st place – Motorola for Motorola SLVR

2nd place - Cingular Wireless for American Idol

3rd place - Cingular Wireless for Star Wars Exclusive Sponsorship

 

Category: Mobile - Call to Action Mechanism

1st place - Vibes Media for Dallas Mavericks

2nd place – Bango for Web Trigger

3rd place - Amp'd Mobile for the Amp'd Mobile Launch

 

Category: Mobile - Charity and Public Service Program

1st place - Amp'd Mobile for the Text Message for Tsunami Relief campaign

 

Category: Mobile - Integration with a Live Event

1st place - Cingular Wireless for American Idol

2nd place - Amp'd Mobile for Amp'd Mobile Launch

3rd place - Vibes Media for the Wango Tango Concert

 

Category: Online - Banner Ad Campaign

1st place - Amp'd Mobile for Entertain Yourself

2nd place - T-Mobile for New Spin on Style- Juicy Couture

3rd place - Nokia for It's Your Life in There "Ed/Ringtone"

 

Category: Online - Email Campaign

1st place - Amp'd Mobile for Entertain Yourself

 

Category: Online – Website

1st place - Blue Mountain for Announcing New Muggins from BlueMountain

2nd place - Amp'd Mobile for Entertain Yourself

3rd place - Amp'd Mobile for Amp'd Mobile Launch

 

Category: Outdoor

1st place – Nokia for Nokia Experience Center

2nd place - Amp'd Mobile for Entertain Yourself

3rd place – Samsung for "World in Your Hand" Sculpture DFW Airport

 

Category: Print Advertising – Color

1st place - Amp'd Mobile for Try Not to Die

2nd place – Motorola for Motorola RAZR

3rd place - Motorola for Motorola PEBL


Editors: Photos of the Technology Marketing Award winners can be downloaded from the following URLs until April 20, 2006:

1st place winners: http://files.ctia.org/img/ctia_org/Marketing_-_1st_Place_Winner.JPG

2nd place winners: http://files.ctia.org/img/ctia_org/Marketing_-_2nd_Place_Winner.JPG

3rd place winners: http://files.ctia.org/img/ctia_org/Marketing_-_3rd_Place_Winner.JPG

 

About CTIA WIRELESS 2006

As the premiere global event representing the complete wireless, mobile computing and wireless Internet industry and the largest wireless show in the world, CTIA WIRELESS 2006 brings together all industries within the communications ecosystem and all those affected by wireless technology for three days of intense learning and networking. Visit www.ctiawireless.com.

 

CTIA-The Wireless Association is the international association for the wireless telecommunications industry, representing carriers, manufacturers and wireless Internet providers. Visit www.ctia.org.

 

For Further Information:

Cheryl Delgreco                        

Media Strategies                                   

[email protected]               

617-723-4004                                        

 

Karen Blondell

Media Strategies

[email protected]

310-325-6405

 

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