Global Mobile Awards at 2015 MWC

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Category 1 – THE CONNECTED LIFE AWARDS
1A BEST MOBILE INNOVATION FOR HEALTH
Trice Imaging and Qualcomm Wireless Reach for Mobile Ultrasound Patrol
1B BEST MOBILE INNOVATION FOR EDUCATION & LEARNING
EDUMOBI for EDUMOBI Mobile Learning Network
1C BEST MOBILE INNOVATION FOR AUTOMOTIVE
Ericsson for Connected Vehicle Cloud
1D THE NFC & MOBILE MONEY AWARD
Dialog Axiata for eZ Cash
1E BEST USE OF MOBILE FOR RETAIL, BRANDS & COMMERCE
Etisalat for Connected Commerce
1F BEST MOBILE INNOVATION FOR THE ‘INTERNET OF THINGS’
Jasper for Cloud IoT Platform
1G THE MOBILE CONNECT AWARD FOR BEST AUTHENTICATION & IDENTITY SOLUTION
Etisalat for Mobile Connect
1H BEST MOBILE ENABLED CONSUMER ELECTRONICS DEVICE
ZTE for Smart Projector

Category 2 – BEST MOBILE SERVICES
2A BEST MOBILE SERVICE OR APP FOR ENTERPRISE
Citi for CitiDirect BE Mobile
2B BEST MOBILE SERVICE OR APP FOR CONSUMERS
Bharti Airtel for One Touch Internet
2C BEST MOBILE CLOUD SERVICE OR APP
AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Management
2D BEST MOBILE ADVERTISING OR MARKETING
Mnet Mobile for Game On
2E BEST MOBILE NETWORK PRODUCT OR SOLUTION FOR SERVING CUSTOMERS
Alcatel-Lucent for VoLTE and Service innovation

Education with an innovative attitude

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In the book Inside Real Innovation the authors claim that, at the present time, we are in the middle of an innovation crisis because real innovation is not happening, at least not the one that would make a sizable impact in the world. They even go as far as to affirm that behind all 
bubbles or crises that nearly collapsed the world's economy, like the one that took place in 2008, there is a real crisis of innovation. 

In terms of Education, perhaps, we should consider examples from people like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and many others who have not finished their university education. They most likely abandoned their studies because it clearly did not fit their interests and vision of the future. Some of them might have thought it was a waist of their time dealing with a system that did not reward actual learning, but rather simply honored obtaining a particular grade. Or they might have just decided that it was time to face the real world ahead of time. 

Experts agree that nowadays most people who need to look up a word or the definition of something significant to their everyday lives commonly use Wikipedia substantially more than other sources. That is why this online encyclopedia is the largest and most popular in the world. Based on a recent announcement about security within Wikimedia, the idea that encrytped https browsing for all their projects will be a default option only if users are logged in, seems especially relevant to them when they realize it comes with a persistent feeling that someone seems to be particularly

Richard Stallman on the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame

Software freedom activist and developer Richard Stallman was inducted into the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame on june 26.

The Internet Hall of Fame is an annual awards program organized by the Internet Society. Its goal is to publicly recognize "a distinguished and selected group of visionaries, leaders and luminaries who have made significant contributions to the development and advancement of the global Internet."

Mr. Stallman was chosen for creating the GNU Project, authoring the GNU General Public License, and for founding the free software movement. He was inducted in the Innovation category which recognizes people who have made contributions that have "broken new ground with original thinking / creativity that has established new paradigms, eliminated obstacles or accelerated Internet advancements."

Besides Innovation, other criteria for evaluating the nominees include Impact, Influence and

Global Mobile Awards at MWC 2012

Source : GSMA MWC

Best Mobile App for Consumers

Rovio Entertainment Ltd. for Angry Birds Rio

Best Mobile App for Enterprise

Citrix Systems for Citrix Receiver

Judges’ Choice - Best Overall Mobile App

WhatsApp Inc. for WhatsApp

Most Innovative Mobile App

SwiftKey

Best Mobile Advertising & Marketing Campaign

Brandtone for Carling Black Label "Be the Coach"

Innovation in Mobile Advertising

Poken for the leading CMS for NFC

Mobile Marketing & Advertising Agency of the Year

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Best Enterprise Mobile Service

Fiberlink for MaaS360

Best Consumer Mobile Service

Google for Google Maps for Android

Best Network Product or Solution for Serving Customers

Turkcell for Turkcell TiklaKonus

Searching for the future e-commerce solution

2012 might very well confirm a drive towards what could amount to be a trending movement where different platforms could converge.

Keywords such as innovation and internationalization are more often becoming part of our vocabulary. The reason for this is that international markets are becoming a necessity, rather than an option, to fill up the gap left by the local options for companies to sell their products and services.

Similar to the convergence of internet, TV and phones into one device, a major

Facebook and Amazon plan to sell smartphones

While Android has proven to be tremendously successful for Google, Facebook is intending to compete for the enormous advertising market, as well as for similar opportunities which the search giant is enjoying at this moment.


The critical thing for the user to consider has to do with the well known issues and challenges in terms of security that the everyone would potentially face knowing that the much talked about 

Vision, Creativity and Determination to follow his heart

A Tribute to Steve Jobs 

"You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something. Your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that

169 euros for a device

If that does not sound like a sexy price for a small device capable of connecting to the internet, at least it looks affordable, and certainly appealing. Apparently, Google is planning to launch netbooks by the end of this 2010. Their idea would be to build a device that boots

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