2009 Fast-Pitch Platinum Award Winners Announced
This year's Fast-Pitch Platinum Awards were exciting and full of innovative pitches! AT&T decision makers reviewed entries from over 100 companies in this annual event at CTIA, held April 1-2, 2009, in Las Vegas, NV. The winners received a share in $70,000 of prize money and opportunities for inclusion in an AT&T distribution channel.
Fast Pitch Platinum Award Winner—Consumer Category
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TuneWiki is a social media player that offers song lyrics synchronized to the music playing, a one-click music video link, and music maps and charts based on actual playback count. It delivers new playback experiences on PC, Google Android, Apple iPhone/iTouch, Intel MID and a variety of other music-enabled mobile devices. |
The TuneWiki team threw a great Fast-Pitch—demonstrating their app's originality, support of lyrics in multiple languages, and broad platform support across a wide range of OEM devices. They also impressed with the depth of their research and support of Digital Rights Management. TuneWiki is a fun, robust app with broad appeal!
Fast Pitch Platinum Award Winner—Enterprise Category
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Boopsie took home the $25,000 grand prize in the in the enterprise applications contest. Boopsie is an application platform that revolutionizes mobile search for enterprises. Boopsie uses a multi-prefix incremental search from the device and then creates special indexes from any target data store to pull up results incredibly quickly. Moreover, it allows companies to quickly create applications to share information with their employees or customers—Boopsie has examples of this capability with their real estate multiple listing service application and WorldCat library applications. |
Much like mass adoption tools allowed anyone to become a Web programmer or blogger, Boopsie's platform allows anyone who can create a spreadsheet to create downloadable native mobile applications for Android, BlackBerry, J2ME, Palm OS, Symbian S60, Windows Mobile, and more. These applications are feature-rich with mapping, location/LBS integration and support for native services such as click-to-call, e-mail, and others.
Platinum Award Runners Up—Consumer Category
- DialPlus enhances voice calls before, during, and after with automatically generated Web content. Caller ID identifies unknown numbers and enhances known contacts with social network information. In-call and post-call SmartResults give you just the info you need when you need it. Making a phone call just got smarter!
- Intelligent Spatial Technologies' iPointer patented technology answers "What's that?" by enabling the user to simply point her mobile phone like a TV remote to get information about her surroundings. iPointer is wireless carrier-agnostic and needs only a handset with GPS, digital compass, and data connection.
Platinum Award Runners Up—Enterprise Category
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Intuit GoPayment enables Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) to accept credit card payments using their mobile phone. This enables the millions of SMBs that do work and need to collect payment in the field. SMBs can access the downloadable app or mobile web version to process remote payments. This solution is more cost effective and convenient than alternatives because it leverages a device the user already owns and carries, including feature phones and smartphones. GoPayment also saves users time in the back office via payments integration into QuickBooks accounting, as well as email and SMS receipts for customers. |
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The DiVitas Mobile Unified Communications solution (DiVitas Mobile UC) combines corporate voice and messaging applications (deskphone, contacts, IM, presence, and soon, push-to-talk) for businesses and places them on a Smartphone. Workers stay highly available while mobile by using familiar desktop tools and applications mobilized via a single, easy to use icon-driven interface, the DiVitas Client. These capabilities are made available reliably and cost-effectively over cellular and WiFi networks using DiVitas' patent-pending Environment Aware Roaming Technology. |
Platinum Award Honorable Mentions—Consumer Category
Acknowledgements
Huge thanks to all the companies who came to CTIA and pitched their amazing applications to
AT&T in this year's contest! Grateful acknowledgement goes to our judging panels from
AT&T as well as to our partners.
AT&T Executive Guest Judges — Enterprise Category:
- Carolyn Billings, Executive Director, AT&T
- Carlton Hill, Vice President Consumer Devices, AT&T
- Abhi Ingle, Vice President of Sales, AT&T
Fast-Pitch Partner Sponsors:
- Motricity, partnering with AT&T to provide developers with mobile content infrastructure services, including mobile platform development and systems integration.
- Forum Nokia, a leading OEM on the AT&T network, and supporting mobile application development through Forum Nokia resources.
- Symbian Foundation, dedicated to the creation of the most proven, open, complete—and free—mobile software platform in the world.
About AT&T Fast-Pitch
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AT&T decision makers and other partners. Stay tuned to devCentral for information on how to
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