Barcelona<\/b>: The GSMA today announced the winners of the 18th Annual Global Mobile awards, held at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The winners were honoured in an afternoon ceremony hosted by writer, actor and comedian, David Walliams. <\/p>\n
Walliams entertained nominees and attendees with a comic introduction to the ceremony. He was joined on stage by representatives from sponsors McAfee, Myriad and Telmap, and media partners CNBC, Fortune and Time, who co-presented awards, as well as John Hoffman, CEO, GSMA Ltd., and members of the judging panel. <\/p>\n
\u201cThrough these awards, we are proud to shine the light on the mobile industry’s many innovators and leaders, from all corners of the world,\u201d said John Hoffman, CEO, GSMA Ltd. \u201cThis year’s new categories reflected the industry’s reach into many new sectors and we received more than 600 high-quality entries from across the mobile ecosystem. We would like to congratulate all Global Mobile Awards winners and thank the many hundreds of companies and organisations that support these awards by entering each year.\u201d <\/p>\n
Also announced today were the Government Leadership Awards, which recognise governments from around the world for their innovation and leadership in use of mobile technologies in the public sector. <\/p>\n
The winners of the 2013 Global Mobile Awards are: <\/p>\n
Best Mobile Health Product or Service <\/b>
\nMIPsoft for BlindSquare <\/p>\n
Best Mobile Education or Learning Product or Service <\/b>
\nMobilink for SMS Based Literacy program <\/p>\n
Best Mobile Product or Service for Automotive <\/b>
\nBMW i, MINI, Sixt and Vodafone Group for DriveNow Premium Car Sharing <\/p>\n
Best NFC \/Mobile Money Product or Service <\/b>
\nEtisalat for Flous – The Etisalat Commerce Programme <\/p>\n
Best Mobile Publishing Product or Service <\/b>
\nVer Se Innovation for NewsHunt <\/p>\n
Best Mobile Innovation for \u2018Smart Cities’ <\/b>
\nStreetline for Parker <\/p>\n
Best Mobile Enabled Consumer Electronics Device <\/b>
\nSamsung Electronics for Samsung GALAXY Camera <\/p>\n
Best Enterprise Mobile Service <\/b>
\nMobilelron for Version 5 Complete Enterprise Persona <\/p>\n
Best Consumer Mobile Service <\/b>
\nComviva for Mahindra Comviva’s mobiquity™ MFS platform powering mTicketing service for Bangladesh Railways <\/p>\n
Best Advertising or Marketing on Mobile <\/b>
\nMcCann Worldgroup (Hong Kong) for Chok! Chok! Chok! <\/p>\n
Best Network Product or Solution for Serving Customers <\/b>
\nNTT DOCOMO for Hanashite Hon’yaku, world’s first automatic voice translation service <\/p>\n
Best Product, Initiative or Service in Emerging Markets <\/b>
\nEricsson for Amazon Connection\u2013 a digital inclusion program in the Amazon <\/p>\n
GSMA mWomen Best Mobile Product or Service for Women in Emerging Markets <\/b>
\nAsiacell for Almas Line <\/p>\n
Best Use of Mobile in Emergency or Humanitarian Situations <\/b>
\nVodafone Foundation for Vodafone Instant Network <\/p>\n
The Green Mobile Award <\/b>
\nIndus Towers for Green Sites Project <\/p>\n
Best Mobile App for Consumers <\/b>
\nFacebook <\/p>\n
Best Mobile App for Enterprise <\/b>
\nEvernote <\/p>\n
Judges Choice \u2013 Best Overall Mobile App <\/b>
\nWaze <\/p>\n
Most Innovative Mobile App <\/b>
\nMcCann Worldgroup (Hong Kong) for Chok! Chok! Chok! <\/p>\n
Smartphone Application Challenge <\/b>
\nAT&T for Application Resource Optimizer (ARO) <\/p>\n
Best Application using Network APIs <\/b>
\nBharti Airtel Limited for my airtel app <\/p>\n
Best Smartphone <\/b>
\nSamsung Galaxy S3 <\/p>\n
Best Feature phone or entry level phone <\/b>
\nNokia Asha 305 <\/p>\n
Device Manufacturer of the Year <\/b>
\nSamsung <\/p>\n
Best Mobile Tablet <\/b>
\nGoogle and Asus for Nexus 7 <\/p>\n
Best Mobile Infrastructure <\/b>
\nSamsung Electronics for Smart LTE Networks <\/p>\n
Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough <\/b>
\nAccuris Networks for AccuROAM Wi-Fi: Making Wi-Fi a carrier driven extension of GSM for Offload and Roaming <\/p>\n
Best Cloud Based Technology for Mobile <\/b>
\nJasper Wireless cloud-based connected devices platform for machine-to-machine (M2M) and consumer electronics <\/p>\n
Best Mobile Safeguard & Security Products and Services <\/b>
\nAdaptiveMobile and Syniverse for Messaging Trust <\/p>\n
Outstanding LTE Contribution <\/b>
\nSK Telecom for 4G LTE with PETA Solution <\/p>\n
Outstanding Overall Mobile Technology \u2013 The CTO’s choice <\/b>
\nSamsung Electronics for Smart LTE Networks <\/p>\n
Spectrum for Mobile Broadband Award <\/b>
\nGovernment of New Zealand <\/p>\n
Mobile for Development Award <\/b>
\nU.S. Agency for International Development <\/p>\n
m-Government Award <\/b>
\nGovernment of Moldova <\/p>\n
The full list of winners and finalist for the 2013 Global Mobile Awards is available at: www.globalmobileawards.com\/winners-2013<\/a><\/p>\n The shortlist for the \u2018Best New Mobile Handset, Device or Tablet at Mobile World Congress 2013′ <\/b> will be announced between 10.15am and 10.30am (CET), Wednesday, 27 th February on both Mobile World Live TV and the Global Mobile Awards website. The winner will be honoured in a live presentation on Mobile World Live TV at 8.30am on Thursday, 28 th February. <\/p>\n In total, more than 170 independent analysts, journalists, academics and subject matter experts and 13 representatives from mobile operators throughout the world participated in the judging of the 2013 awards. <\/p>\n 2013 Global Mobile Awards sponsors include: McAfee (Apps of the Year), Myriad (Social & Economic Development) and Telmap (Connected Life Awards and Best Mobile Services). Market data for the \u2018Best Mobile App for Consumers’ and \u2018Best Mobile App for Enterprise’ categories was provided by Distimo. <\/p>\n Full information on the Global Mobile Awards can be found at www.globalmobileawards.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n -ENDS- <\/p>\n About the GSMA For more information, please visit the GSMA corporate website at www.gsma.com <\/a>or Mobile World Live, the online portal for the mobile communications industry, at www.mobileworldlive.com <\/a><\/p>\n Media Contact: <\/b>
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