The 4th Annual CTIA Emerging
Technology (E-Tech) Awards were announced at CTIA Wireless 2009.
Taking this year's Best in Show award is Top Global for its 3G UFO
Personal Hotspot, which provides instant mobile access to the Internet.
The winner of this prestigious award was determined by more than 40,000
combined online and text votes submitted by CTIA show attendees and
wireless industry professionals. iLoopMobile and OpenMarket provided
text-voting capabilities for this year's program.
The first place best phone/smartphone was that keyboard-tastic HTC Touch Pro2, followed by the BlackBerry Curve and Samsung Memoir. The winning lifestyle product was the Novatel Wireless MiFi 2352 Intelligent
Mobile HotSpot.
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4G - Service Management First: Openet, Openet's Fair Usage solution Second: FusionOne, FusionOne's Handset Transfer Solution
Third: Motorola, Inc., Motorola LTE Self Organizing Networks (SON) |
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Enterprise & Vertical - General Business Solution First: Sprint, TeleNav Vehicle Manager™ from Sprint Second: Intuit, Intuit GoPayment Third: Qualcomm, Gobi2000™ |
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Enterprise & Vertical - Healthcare Solution First: iVisit, iVisit RX
Second: Panasonic Computer Solutions Company, The Panasonic |
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Enterprise & Vertical - Energy or Utility Solution First: Aeris Communications & Kyocera Wireless, Aeris AerCommand |
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Green - Consumer Applications to Promote Green Practices First: ViralMesh, shopgreen Second: Nokia, Nokia Carbon Calculator |
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Green - Consumer Hardware First: Motorola Inc., MOTO™ W233 Renew Second: Suntrica, Suntrica's Solar-Powered Chargers
Third: USA Wireless Solutions, Biodegradable RPET Packaging by |
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Green - Green Network Hardware and Infrastructure
First: Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia Siemens Networks Flexi Second: VNL, VNL's WorldGSM Solar-powered GSM Base Station Third: Alcatel-Lucent, Alcatel-Lucent Sustainable Power Solution |
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Mobile Applications & Widgets - Healthcare/Public Safety/ First: Rave Wireless, Rave Guardian Second: WeatherBug, WeatherBug Protect Third: OnStar, OnStar Stolen Vehicle Slowdown |
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Mobile Applications & Widgets - Mobile Entertainment/Social First: FusionOne, FusionOne Network Address Book Second: MobiTV, Mobi4Biz Third: Intercasting Corporation, Intercasting's ANTHEM 2.0 |
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Mobile Applications & Widgets - Mobile Marketing/Mobile First: Greystripe, GS.Rich Media Ad Formats Second: Alcatel-Lucent, Mobile Enhanced Reality Third: FeedHenry, FeedHenry - the Complete Widget Services Platform |
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Mobile Applications & Widgets - Mobile Payments First: Sybase 365, mpass Second: First Data, First Data® GO-Tag™ Solution Third: Vesta Corporation, OneButton Top-Up |
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Mobile Applications & Widgets - Pro-sumer/Business Productivity First: Cisco, WebEx Meeting Center Second: Nuance Communications, Nuance Voice Control (NVC) 2.0 Third: Expert System, COGITO Answers |
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Mobile CE - Accessory First: AnyDATA, APT-210D Second: Samsung Telecommunications America, Samsung MBP-200 Third: Parrot Inc., Parrot MKi9200 |
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Mobile CE - Fashion & Lifestyle Products
First: Novatel Wireless, Novatel Wireless MiFi 2352 Intelligent Second: PowerFilm Inc., USB + AA solar charger Third: Zeebo Inc., Zeebo |
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Mobile CE - Phone/Smartphone First: HTC America, HTC Touch Pro2 Second: Research in Motion, BlackBerry Curve 8900 Smartphone Third: Samsung Telecommunications America, Samsung Memoir™ |
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Network Infrastructure - In-Building/Local Area Network Solution
First: Motorola Inc., Motorola's CDMA 9100 Series KeepMeConnected Second: Qualcomm, Femtocell Station Modem™ (FSM™) chipsets
Third: Agito Networks, Agito Networks RoamAnywhere™ Mobility |
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Network Infrastructure - Wide Area Network
First: Alcatel-Lucent, Alcatel-Lucent Software-defined
Second: Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia Siemens Networks Flexi Third: Fujitsu Network Communications, BroadOne™ LS LTE eNodeB |