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AND THE WINNERS ARE..
Wireless Innovation Contest 2007
The Wireless Innovation Network of BC (WINBC) is pleased to announce the winners of the fourth annual Wireless Innovation Contest 2007 (WIC’07). The award recipients are wireless companies and technologies from across North America that have proven to improve user experiences and operational processes.
Taking Care of Business - Public Sector: In Motion Technology (based in Vancouver, BC)
In Motion Technology provides cognitive wireless systems enabling public safety organizations to communicate life-critical information while in motion. In Motion’s vehicle-area networks dynamically sense and select the best network enabling an emergency medical response professional to send a patient’s electronic health record from an ambulance to a hospital while en route, a police officer to access video or driver records from a patrol car, a fire fighter to access building blueprints at the scene of a fire and a municipality IT director to provide the communications infrastructure to support these types of applications.
Taking Care of Business - Private Sector: Mobile Complete (based in San Mateo, CA)
Through Mobile Complete’s DeviceAnywhere™, content providers are able to develop, test, and monitor applications across the diversity of handsets and global operators with an ordinary Internet browser. Users no longer need to invest in device labs or even be physically present in the network.
Taking Care of Yourself - Home and Entertainment: SurfKitchen (US base in New York)
SurfKitchen is uniquely focused on enabling MNOs to deliver a superior mobile data experience by offering user-friendly interfaces to ensure simple, fast and intuitive discovery, consumption and repeat usage of mobile data services.
Taking Care of Yourself - Sports and Recreation: Limbo 41414 (based in Burlingame, CA)
Limbo 41414 has a solution that combines user entertainment with targeted advertising for media and MNOs, to increase ARPU for mobile operators. The flagship product, Limbo Auction, is a text-message-based game where users compete against other live players to find and retain the lowest, unique bid™ (the lowest bid that no other person has bid).
Taking Care of the Community: ComVu (based in Vancouver, BC)
ComVu’s automated PocketCaster system makes it one-button easy to broadcast live video from a mobile phone, archive it on a server for later viewing, and instantly publish to online communities, blogs, and TV broadcasters for breaking stories.
Here’s what a couple of the winners had to say:
"Mobile data revenues have consistently lagged in the North American marketplace, and the results of this contest speak loudly to the fact that the market here is trending toward a more dynamic mobile experience," said Tracy Allard, regional VP of North America for SurfKitchen. "The results of our WINBC award-winning deployment at Orange show that deploying an on device portal that provides a simplified, user-centric experience has led to a dramatic recovery of ARPU through increased consumption of data services."
"We are honored to be recognized for technology that improves operational processes, user experiences and life-saving services to the public," said Kirk Moir, president and CEO, In Motion Technology. "This further validates the need for our technology that helps people better communicate while in motion."
Nokia has been involved with the contest since its inception:
"Wireless companies across North America are proving that their creative and innovative solutions are driving economic and social changes not only on our continent, but around the world," comments Tom Nyberg, Director of Product Marketing, Multimedia, Nokia. "We’re happy to see the Wireless Innovation Contest go from strength to strength and are proud to work with WINBC and other industry leaders to raise the profile of wireless innovation in North America."
Runners up in WIC’07 are as follows:
- Taking care of business – public sector: Gogomo – Metadata Management
- Taking care of business – private sector: Innoviti Embedded – ZigBee point-of-sale (PoS) wireless solution
- Taking care of yourself – home and entertainment: Real Dice Inc. – Real Dice World
- Taking care of yourself – sports and recreation: Loc-Aid - Loc-Aid ACE
- Taking care of the community: Rave Wireless – Rave Guardian
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WIC 2007 TESTIMONIAL
"Wireless companies across North America are proving that their creative and innovative solutions are driving economic and social changes not only on our continent, but around the world...We’re happy to see the Wireless Innovation Contest go from strength to strength and are proud to work with WINBC and other industry leaders to raise the profile of wireless innovation in North America."
Tom Nyberg
Director of Product Marketing, Multimedia
NOKIA
"We are honored to be recognized for technology that improves operational processes, user experiences and life-saving services to the public...This further validates the need for our technology that helps people better communicate while in motion."
Kirk Moir
President and CEO
In Motion Technology
WINBC EVENTS
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2010 Opportunities - Vancouver, BC
April 23, 2007
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2007 Conference - Making Connections: Sharing Knowledge for Greater Innovation
April 17 & 18, 2007
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21st Angel Forum - Vancouver, BC
April 24, 2007
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Canada Pavilion / ICT Partnering
Mission to Hong Kong ICT Expo - Hong Kong
April 13 - 16, 2007
Wireless Trade Mission to Hong Kong
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April 16 - 20, 2007
MEM 2007
Mobile Entertainment Market
Monte Carlo
June 5 - 6, 2007
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UK Pavilion at West Africa Telecom
Lagos, Nigeria
June 5 - 7, 2007
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June 19 - 22, 2007
EXPOCOMM 2007
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 9 - 12, 2007
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