CONTEST! devCentral Fast-Pitch Platinum Awards 2009

The Fall Fast-Pitch Platinum Awards were full of inspiring pitches! The event took place at CTIA, held on October 7-8, 2009 in San Diego, CA where AT&T reviewed over 60 entries. The winners received a share in $40,000 of prize money and opportunities for inclusion in an AT&T distribution channel.

Fast-Pitch Platinum Award Winner- Consumer

IQ Engines

IQ Engines recognizes and labels photos, monetizing images by matching them to relevant retailers and advertisers. Our image labeling engine is fast, accurate and scalable. Using your mobile phone's camera, point at any product to retrieve detailed information, reviews, prices, and purchase links. This free app makes searching for product information effortless and fast. IQ Engines puts the power of visual intelligence in your hands.

Fast-Pitch Platinum Award Winner- Business

HipVoice

HipVoice is designed to work inside and outside the four walls using your existing data connection. Its purpose is simply to enable voice communication between employees and ?eld of?ces. HipVoice's patent-pending voice technology will revolutionize any business by enabling communication in a manner that is entirely unobtrusive to the worker. HipVoice was built to run in the background of your device, leaving your primary applications undisturbed and its features are invoked only when requested by the user.

Platinum Award Runners Up- Consumer

Micello

This solution provides a unique indoor location-based service for mobile devices. Millions of people today use Google Maps to get to their destination. Micello goes one step further by extending a map inside locations, such as convention centers, shopping malls, college campuses, airports, and theme parks. Micello brings any location alive on a mobile phone by providing a navigatable map and a rich set of interactive services in the context of time and place. Micello creates communities for these places, providing you highly relevant information on your mobile device.

Evernote

If you can see it or think of it, Evernote can help you remember it. Type a text note. Clip a web page. Snap a photo. Grab a screenshot. Evernote will keep it all safe. Everything you capture is automatically processed, indexed, and made searchable. If you like, you can add tags or organize notes into different notebooks. Search for notes by keywords, titles, and tags. Evernote magically makes printed and handwritten text inside your images searchable, too.

Platinum Award Runners Up- Business

iVisit, SeeStar

SeeStar technology offers persons who are visually impaired a virtual "pair of eyes". Live images are transmitted to a remote assistant who can view the images, describe the person's surroundings, indicate the location of landmarks and pathways to destinations, or recognize object and print media. Additionally, SeeStar's object recognition technology provides visually impaired users with a mobile system that can easily and quickly detect and recognize specific objects.

P.O.D. Verify

This solution uses wireless document imaging for field services and transportation by using your cell phone and our patented scanner. This enables you to scan documents in your vehicle or office and transmit them to your company instantly. Improving cash flow, increasing productivity with the ability to email them to others, view on your own company web site, and bill for services immediately. This also eliminates the need to manually scan documents once they are returned to the office.

Honorable Mention-Consumer

Glympse

Glympse makes sharing your location with friends and family as simple as sending a text message or making a phone call. With Glympse, the common question of "Where are you?" is answered with a dynamic map of your current whereabouts, which updates in real-time.

Honorable Mentions- Business

iKnowWare, iKnowMobile

iKnowMobile is a web-based application that empowers companies to manage processes with real-time information anytime anywhere for visibility into sales, inventory, operations, and logistics. Your smartPhone connects your team to information like company sales, logistics, inventory, secure documents, and more. iKnowWare personalizes role-based processes replacing legacy systems into a single solution integrating marketing, sales, finance, operations, distribution and client interaction.

TreyWeir Media, Type2Friendly

Type2Friendly is the first website and mobile platform designed to help the 16 million Type 2 diabetics in the US find restaurants that serve diabetic friendly food. From their computers or smartphones, users can search for restaurant locations, nutritional data, websites and phone numbers by visiting type2friendly.com or type2friendly.mobi. iPhone users, who have the T2F application installed on their device, will be able to leverage their GPS location to find restaurants easier.

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