
Barcelona: The GSMA today announced the winners of the 19th Annual Global Mobile awards, held at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The winners were honoured in an afternoon ceremony hosted by British actor, writer, presenter and comedian James Corden.
Corden entertained nominees and attendees with a comic introduction to the ceremony. He was joined on stage to present the awards by Jon Fredrik Baksaas, Chairman, GSMA and President and CEO, Telenor Group, Anne Bouverot, Director General, GSMA and John Hoffman, CEO, GSMA Ltd., as well as representatives from category sponsor Maxim Integrated, media partners CNBC, Fortune and Time and members of the judging panel who co-presented awards.
Now in the 19th year, the Global Mobile Awards once again showcase the outstanding level of innovation and creative products and services being developed across a diverse and growing industry, said John Hoffman, CEO, GSMA Ltd. With more than 680 high calibre entries this year, the competition was stronger than ever and it is a significant achievement to have been honoured today. The GSMA would like to warmly congratulate all Global Mobile Awards winners and recognise all those who took part for continuing to drive mobile communications into the future.
The winners of the 2014 Global Mobile Awards are:
Best Mobile Health Product or Service
Energize the Chain for Econet Wireless Vaccine Project in Zimbabwe
Best Mobile Education Product or Service
Enable Mobile Technologies for Magic Pencil
Best Mobile Product or Service for Automotive
Nuance Communications for Dragon Drive
Best NFC/Mobile Money Product or Service
Telenor Pakistan and Tameer Micro Finance Bank for Easypaisa
Best Mobile Publishing Product or Service
Wibbitz for Text-To-Video Technology
Best Mobile Innovation for Smart Cities'
Accenture plc and RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. for City1Tap
Best Mobile-Enabled Consumer Electronics Device
AT&T and Filip Technologies Inc. for FiLIP
Best Enterprise Mobile Service
AirWatch for AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Management, Version 7.0
Best Consumer Mobile Service
AT&T for AT&T Digital Life
Best Advertising or Marketing on Mobile
Hindustan Unilever Ltd., Lowe and Partners for Kan Khajura Tesan
Best Network-Based Solution for Serving Customers
GMCR Inc. for Globe Prepaid GoSakto: Create Your Own Promo
Best Mobile Product, Initiative or Service in Emerging Markets
Vodafone Foundation in India, the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) and the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women (CBFW) for RUDI Sandesha Vyavhar (RSV) project
Best Mobile Product or Service for Women in Emerging Markets
Telenor Pakistan and Tameer Micro Finance Bank for Easypaisa
Best Use of Mobile in Emergency or Humanitarian Situations
Smart Communications for Smart's SafePh: Yolanda Response
Best Mobile Product, Service or App for Accessibility or Ease-of-Use
Turkcell for Turkcell My Dream Partner
The Green Mobile Award
Grameenphone Ltd. for Climate Change Program
Best Entertainment App (Gaming, Music, Sports, Video)
Device 6
Judges' Choice - Best Overall Mobile App
CityMapper
Most Innovative Mobile App
PointGrab for CamMe
Smartphone App Challenge
Akbank T.A.S. for Akbank Direkt Mobile App
Best Smartphone
HTC One
Best Low-Cost Smartphone (sub-$150 wholesale price)
Nokia Lumia 520
Best Entry-level or Featurephone
Nokia 105
Most Innovative Device Manufacturer of the Year
LG
Best Mobile Tablet
Apple iPad Air
Best Mobile Infrastructure
Nokia Solutions and Networks with Telef nica O2 UK Limited for iSON Automation for Operations
Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough
Sensory Inc. for TrulyHandsfreeTM 3.0
Best Cloud-Based Technology for Mobile
Xively for Xively Cloud Services
Best Mobile Identity, Safeguard & Security Products/Solutions
SecureAuth IdP 2 Factor Access Control for the Mobile Enterprise
Best Solution for Growing Smaller or Independent Networks
Reach-U for Demograft
Outstanding LTE Contribution
KT Corporation for Wideband LTE-A Commercial Service
SK Telecom for Commercial LTE-Advanced Network
Outstanding Overall Mobile Technology - The CTOs' choice
KT Corporation for Wideband LTE-A Commercial Service
SK Telecom for Commercial LTE-Advanced Network
Previously announced were the winners of the Government Mobile Excellence Awards, the GSMA Chairman's Award and the GSMA Lifetime Achievement Award:
Spectrum for Mobile Broadband Award
The Government of the United Arab Emirates
The Economic Policy for Sustainable Mobile Growth Award
The Government of Spain
The Connected Government Award
The Government of Lebanon
Government Leadership Award
The Government of Botswana
GSMA Chairman's Award
Dr. Paul Jacobs, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Qualcomm Inc.
GSMA Lifetime Achievement Award
Rob Conway, Former CEO of the GSMA (Posthumous)
The full list of winners and finalist for the 2014 Global Mobile Awards is available at: http://www.globalmobileawards.com/winners-2014
The shortlist for the Best New Mobile Handset, Device or Tablet at Mobile World Congress 2014 will be announced between 10.15am and 10.30am (CET), Wednesday, 26th 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 between 9.00am and 9.15am (CET) on Thursday, 27th February.
In total more than 175 independent analysts, journalists, academics and subject matter experts throughout the world participated in the judging process, including the chief technology officers of 14 mobile operators who took part in judging the Outstanding Overall Mobile Technology award.
Full information on the Global Mobile Awards can be found at www.globalmobileawards.com.
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