Thursday, November 15, 2007

GSMA’s Asia Mobile Innovation Awards 2007

15 Nov, 2007

Mobile Innovation winners unveiled
Finalists in the GSMA’s Asia Mobile Innovation Awards have been pitching their products this week to a panel of senior executives from mobile operators at the Mobile Innovation Programme Summit. The judges initially reviewed more than 50 entries before selecting the winners, who are:

Telegent Systems, USA (Most Innovative Wireless Device-centric Technology),
www.telegent.com
Telegent Systems’ Mobile TV Receivers are high-performance, ultra-low power, highly-integrated single-chip design solutions for enabling mobile TV in cellular phones and other portable media devices, supporting both analog and digital broadcast television standards.

3ple-Media, Netherlands (Most Innovative Carrier Infrastructure
or Platform),
www.3ple-media.com
Provides mobile operators with a complete environment for creation, management, analysis and delivery of multimedia services
Positions mobile operators at the centre of the content value chain and provides the commercial innovation for them to maximize revenues
Enables mobile operators to fully explore the rich, multimedia opportunity and work effectively with in-house, user generated and third-party content via agencies, media and brands

Integra Micro Systems, India (Most Innovative Mobile Application in a Vertical Market)
www.integramicro.com

Consilient Technologies Corporation, Canada (Most Innovative Consumer Application or Service).
www.consilient.com
Consilient® is a leading developer of push email, multimedia and advertising software for mobile phones. Ideal for the consumer market, Consilient Push™ is software that allows mobile operators to deliver low-cost push email on “regular” mobile phones. Consilient Push supports all popular email platforms and has an upgrade path to a full multi-media suite of content sharing and mobile social networking. Consilient's software is built using open standards and is known for giving customers the flexibility and choice they demand. Consilient Push was launched late in 2006 and is already deployed by carriers such as SingTel, AIS, and Vodacom.
Consilient was founded in 2000 and has offices in the US, Canada, and Southeast Asia.

Consilient was awarded the overall Mobile Innovation Award for its Push messaging application, which is re-branded as MobileM@il by its customer SingTel in Singapore. Singaporeans were the first in the world to receive the completely free mobile email service, launched in June. Consilient's mobile advertising server, adSpotz, integrates within the mobile operator's system and delivers smart text, banner and video ads in the mobile email on consumer phones.