MWC 2014 Mobile Awards

Source : GSMA MWC

Category 1: The Connected Life Awards

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 & 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 & RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. for City1Tap
Best Mobile Enabled Consumer Electronics  - DeviceAT&T & 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 & 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 6k
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* - 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 Telefonica O2 UK Limited for iSON Automation for Operations
Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough - Sensory Inc. for TrulyHandsfree™ 3.0
Best Cloud Based Technology for Mobile - Xively for Xively Cloud Services
Best Mobile Identity, Safeguard &amp - 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 - SK Telecom for Commercial LTE-Advanced Network
KT Corporation for Wideband LTE-A Commercial Service
Outstanding Overall Mobile Technology . The CTO’s choice - SK Telecom for Commercial LTE-Advanced Network - KT Corporation for Wideband LTE-A Commercial Service

Ubuntu TV looks promising

The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has a newcomer with quite an appearance. It is a TV, GNU Linux Ubuntu style, that intends to compete with similar offers by Google, Apple, LG, Sony and Samsung, with the idea of eventually entering into consumer's lives, or at least in their homes.


The Canonical product proposes a mix of features worth checking out like integration with smartphones running Android, Ubuntu or iOS. That is something we would really like to see, especially considering that what they are showing right now is only a proof of concept, not an actual product debut. The idea would be to embed the Ubuntu Operating System into TV's and