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Announcing the M-apps Awards: Asia's best
mobile applications Wireless Asia, the region's leading mobile industry magazine, today announced the winners of its inaugural mobile applications awards. Hong Kong mobile operator SmarTone picked won the best of the Wireless Web award, while applications developer Cherrypicks and Singapore start-up mPayment picked up the awards in the Java and SMS categories respectively. The awards, which attracted 70 entries from all over the Asia-Pacific region ex-Japan, were presented today by Wireless Asia publisher Conor McCabe. ""The level of innovation, both in business and technology, was unbelievable," said Mr McCabe. "Asia has some of the highest rates of mobile phone ownership of anywhere on the planet, and the results showed that when it comes to applications for the mobile device, Asian sets the pace for the world." Mr McCabe said the awards were aimed at bringing together and showcasing Asia's mobile applications expertise. "The success of the mobile Internet requires the combined efforts of software developers, games companies and expertise in m-commerce as well as the cellular operators themselves. "We believe these inaugural awards have well and truly achieved that goal. We thank all those who participated in this year's Awards and look forward to holding a bigger and better event next year." The M-Apps were open from July to September across the region and judged by a panel of experts from a shortlist selected by the Wireless Asia editorial team. The judges were: Bertrand Bidaud, regional head of telecoms research at Gartner Group; Ovum analysts, Jeremy Matthews, Nikki Murrell and Jackie Cooper; Chas Sweeting, co-founder of Wireless Forum Asia; and Kenneth Lui, Java architect at Sun Microsystems. The three winning entries found the right combination of innovation, technical prowess and business infrastructure support that edged out competing entries. The Finalists: Java
The Finalist: Wireless Web
In total, we received 70 qualified entries to the three categories from 12 Asian countries: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Taiwan. Hong Kong had the most entries with 24 submissions, followed by Singapore with 12 and Thailand with 10 entries. The number of entries per category were:
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