Mobility Public Relations today announced that it has been awarded Outstanding Achievement in Website Development by Interactive Media Awards™ for its work on MobilityWire®, a proprietary social newswire service the agency built for its clients. Mobile technology companies around the globe use MobilityWire to distribute company news to targeted trade media and make the news easily discoverable online. This Interactive Media Award recognizes that MobilityWire met and surpassed the standards of excellence that comprise the Web’s most professional work. The site was honored specifically for excellence in Public Relations.
The judging consisted of various criteria, including design, usability, innovation in technical features, standards compliance and content. In order to win this award level, the site had to meet strict guidelines in each area — an achievement only a fraction of sites in the Interactive Media Award competition earn each quarter.
“Delivering value to both clients and the media is key to success as a PR agency,” said John Sidline, managing partner at Mobility Public Relations. “Mobility Public Relations developed our MobilityWire social media newswire to help clients cast a wide net to media targets, create a permanent home for their news online, and provide journalists, bloggers and analysts with all the resources they need to cover our clients’ news. To be recognized by the Interactive Media Awards for MobilityWire is another important validation for the innovation we’re bringing to the practice of quality public relations.”
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BOLT earns double honors for Overall Consumer Mobile Application and Service Delivery Platform
The BOLT™ Mobile Browser from Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) has been named Runner Up in the 2010 Mobile Merit Awards in two categories: Best Overall Consumer Mobile Application and Best Service Delivery Platform. Recognizing companies, individuals and technologies that have shaped the way in which the world communicates, the 2010 Mobile Merit Awards program notes the excellence achieved in the global mobile industry.
Through nominations judged by an impressive list of mobile industry executives and members of the media, the Mobile Merit Awards are presented to outstanding companies for technologies within the mobile arena that will have the greatest impact on the market. The 2010 Mobile Merit Awards judges honored products, individuals, and technologies based on their industry impact, innovation, social importance, implementation and overall success factor. The Mobile Merit Award submission categories covered all aspects of mobility including: devices, infrastructure, applications, social/digital medium, 4G technologies, mobile marketing, and media.
“These Mobile Merit Awards for BOLT are further recognition of the hard work and commitment of the Bitstream development and engineering team,” said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, president and CEO of Bitstream. “2010 has already been a year of many important milestones for BOLT as we are surpassing 35,000 downloads a day on average, totaling over 7.8 million downloads to date. The latest version, BOLT 2.1, which we released late last month, is the most fully-featured release yet, and we look forward to feedback from our active user base as we are constantly making improvements to truly make BOLT the crowd favorite.”
The BOLT mobile browser was named runner up in the Best Overall Consumer Application category, a tribute to the popular cross platform app with millions of users across BlackBerry Smartphones , and all levels of Java-based mobile phones. The industry’s most fully featured mobile browser for phones of all types, BOLT is downloaded by more than 30,000 people around the world each day.
BOLT earned a second runner up award for Best Service Delivery Platform. BOLT’s server middleware provides carriers with the ability to better manage data consumption on their networks by compressing data up to 24:1 and using as little as 4 percent what a standard mobile browser would use, while at the same time delivering a superior Web browsing experience for handset manufacturers and their users.
“B2 Group is pleased to judge and participate in this year’s Mobile Merit Awards showcasing our thought leadership in the mobile industry by selecting companies, like Bitstream, that we feel represent the innovation taking place in the mobile market today,” said judge Bob Bilbruck, Managing Director B2 Group/ Mobiletain. “We congratulate all participants in the Mobile Merit Awards this year and look forward to seeing more great entries next year.”
Other notable 2010 Mobile Merit Award winners include GoTV Networks, Research in Motion, Nokia, Sybase 365, Sprint-Nextel, DeviceAnywhere, and Telepicture/TMZ.
The BOLT™ Mobile Browser from Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) has won the Mobile Applications – Entertainment / Social Networking category at the fifth annual CTIA Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards. The E-Tech Awards ceremony took place on March 24 during International CTIA WIRELESS 2010® in Las Vegas. The awards program recognized products in 15 categories in the areas of consumer electronics, luxury mobile, applications, enterprise, green solutions and network technology.
“CTIA WIRELESS marked three key milestones for the BOLT Mobile Browser,” said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, president and CEO of Bitstream. “Our adoption rate recently surpassed 25,000 new users per day, adding more than 1 million users in the month leading up to CTIA. During CTIA Bitstream announced the beta of BOLT 2.0, our newest browser that adds tabbed browsing to what is already the most fully-featured mobile browser in the market. But to have been selected as the best entertainment and social networking mobile application in the most prestigious industry award in North America by such an august panel of judges is true recognition for the hard work, innovation and imagination of Bitstream’s developers and engineers.”
CTIA E-Tech Awards winners were announced at a ceremony hosted by Robert Mesirow, vice president and show director for CTIA and Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies. More than 80 prominent media and industry analysts judged the entries based on innovation, functionality, technological importance, implementation and the overall “wow” factor.
“This year’s E-Tech Awards showcased the latest must-have products available for both consumers and the enterprise – from innovative applications, to green technology and luxury products,” said Heather Lee Landers, assistant vice president of marketing for CTIA. “We congratulate Bitstream on receiving a CTIA E-Tech Award.”
Mobility Public Relations was once again recognized as the best wireless and mobile technology PR firm by readers of the “GoMobile” newsletter who voted the agency a SUPERSTAR in the 2009 Mobile Star Awards.
The Mobile Star Awards recognize the top mobile products, success stories and visionaries as chosen by thousands of readers of technology news portal MobileVillage’s Go Mobile™ newsletter. The SUPERSTAR award is the highest honor given to Mobile Star Award winners.
SUPERSTAR winners are chosen by subscribers of MobileVillage’s Go Mobile™ – an e-newsletter that delivers headlines and links from top mobile technology stories on popular websites such as CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Computerworld, AppScout, and others. “Go Mobile” was launched nearly ten years ago and is now published every three weeks for thousands of readers.
Five Mobility PR clients were voted SUPERSTARS by readers of the “GoMobile” newsletter, taking home seven of the top awards in the 2009 Mobile Star Awards™.
The Mobile Star Awards recognize the top mobile products, success stories and visionaries as chosen by thousands of readers of technology news portal MobileVillage’s Go Mobile™ newsletter. The SUPERSTAR award is the highest honor given to Mobile Star Award winners.
Mobility PR Clients Winners Include:
- Consumer App – Web Browser: Bitstream – BOLT
- Consumer App- Entertainment or Media Service: Flycell – Flycell
- Visionary – Consumer Software or Services: Flycell’s Alberto Montesi
- Consumer App – Voice Over Internet: Talkster – talki
- Consumer App – Email or Messaging: Talkster – talki
- Developer & Enterprise Software – Application Development: Cascada Mobile – Breeze Platform
- Operator Software – Application or Service Delivery: Aicent – mBridge MMS Virtual Delivery
SUPERSTAR winners are chosen by subscribers of MobileVillage’s Go Mobile™ – an e-newsletter that delivers headlines and links from top mobile technology stories on popular websites such as CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Computerworld, AppScout, and others. “Go Mobile” was launched nearly ten years ago and is now published every three weeks for thousands of readers.
Anna Chagnon, CEO of Bitstream Inc. was named Best Executive in the Stevie Awards for Women in Business. The awards were presented at a dinner ceremony November 13 in New York. Bitstream itself was named a finalist in the Most Innovative Company category.
The 2009 Stevie Awards for Women in Business is an international competition recognizing the accomplishments of outstanding women executives, business owners, and the organizations they run. The awards are produced by the creators of the prestigious American Business Awards℠.
Stevie Awards were handed out in categories including Best Entrepreneur, Best Executive, Lifetime Achievement, and Women Helping Women at the gala event at New York’s Marriott Marquis Hotel on November 13. More than 1,100 entries from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted for consideration.
Chagnon was recognized with the Best Executive Stevie Award for successfully positioning Bitstream as a leading company in the mobile and wireless space. Credited with advancing Bitstream’s existing technologies and developing new innovative technologies, Chagnon has led Bitstream’s charge to truly change the face of the mobile market with its BOLT™ mobile browser.
With the introduction of BOLT, Bitstream has proved to be front and center in innovation and has driven the adoption of the mobile Internet. Since its introduction, over 2.6 million BOLT accounts have been created, with as many as 2.5 million pages being served up each day.
The BOLT mobile browser, built to be used on a wide range of mobile phones from simple “feature” phones to more advanced devices such as BlackBerry smartphones, has averaged greater than 50 percent growth in usage each month since the application made its public debut at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this past February.
“Winning this award is testimony to the hard work and dedication of the team making Bitstream a leader in developing technologies which have enhanced the lives of our users,” said Anna Chagnon, CEO of Bitstream. “I thank my colleagues and family for their support and look forward to another year of positive milestones in advancing the mobile market.”
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business are governed by a Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors that features many leading women entrepreneurs and luminaries in business. Members of the Awards’ Board selected Stevie winners from among the finalists. Finalists were chosen by business professionals worldwide during the preliminary judging period.
Details about the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the list of honorees are available at www.stevieawards.com/women.
Sentry is Recognized as Best Solution in “Test and Measurement” Category
The award-winning Sentry® content monitoring solution from Mixed Signals, the leading provider of digital content monitoring solutions, received another industry accolade yesterday when it won a coveted TelcoTV 2009 Vision Award for the best “Test and Measurement” solution.
Mixed Signals’ Sentry is a content monitoring solution that enables cable operators, satellite providers and telecom carriers to catch and eliminate video and audio errors in the TV services they deliver, thus ensuring that viewers enjoy an exceptional quality of experience (QoE). Sentry was recognized in large part for its new Audio and Video QoE Scoring System, which allows service providers to accurately determine the severity of video and audio glitches as they occur and how much these errors affect viewers’ QoE.
The TelcoTV 2009 Vision Award is just the latest award for Sentry, which has won several other prestigious industry awards, including most recently a 4 Diamond ranking in the Broadband Gear Report’s annual Diamond Technology Reviews. Mirroring its awards success, Sentry has been deployed by leading video service providers nationwide, including nine of the 10 largest U.S. cable television operators.
“Video service providers are competing fiercely and recognize that QoE is a key competitive advantage in both signing up and retaining the subscribers they’re fighting so hard for,” said Eric Conley, CEO of Mixed Signals. “The TelcoTV 2009 Vision award illustrates the importance that video service providers place on QoE and further, it shows that industry experts recognize Sentry as a superior technological solution for ensuring an exceptional QoE.”
Sentry’s Audio and Video QoE Scoring System takes into account human visual and auditory responses to gauge a subscriber’s frustration level over video and audio impairments. The real-time, 24/7 system detects, tracks and reports serious video errors, such as video tiling, black and frozen screen, simultaneously in literally hundreds of compressed HD and SD programs. This unparalleled analysis allows service providers to determine the errors that require immediate attention to preserve subscriber satisfaction.
Mixed Signals has also recently upgraded Sentry with the ability to identify audio volume issues in programming and commercials across an entire programming line-up, giving video service providers the critical information necessary to quickly fix dramatic volume changes that occur during channel changes and when commercials run. This new capability is particularly timely as proposed legislation is now before Congress that would require video service providers to address this pressing issue. The Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act would require video service providers to ensure that commercials not be any louder than the average volume of the programs they accompany.
RGB’s Video Multiprocessing Gateway Takes the “Innovation in Encoding” Category
RGB Networks, the leader in network video processing, announced that its Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) won a coveted TelcoTV 2009 Vision Award in the “Innovation in Encoding” category yesterday.
The VMG is a carrier-class video processing solution that enables service providers to deliver high-quality digital and IPTV-based video services in both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4/H.264. It won in the “Innovation in Encoding” category based on the integration of its, high-density content repurposing capabilities with a number of other value-added video processing functions, including ad insertion, transrating and grooming. Able to simultaneously transcode hundreds of MPEG-2 programs into MPEG-4/H.264, and vice versa, in real time, the VMG offers telco video service providers a highly versatile and scalable solution as they expand their video offerings.
“Winning a TelcoTV 2009 Vision Award is another validation of our unique approach to transcoding and of the ability of our Video Multiprocessing Gateway to help service providers of all sizes deliver advanced video and advertising services whether they use MPEG-2 or MPEG-4/H.264,” said Sanjay Dhar, Director of Product Marketing for RGB Networks. “By integrating transcoding with several other key video processing functions in a single, ultra-dense, carrier-class platform, the VMG offers a highly scalable and cost-effective solution for transitioning video service providers’ networks to an architecture than enables the delivery of personalized services.”
A key component of RGB’s innovative content repurposing solution, RGB’s next-generation approach to transcoding will enable video service providers to simultaneously deliver any video program to multiple devices – from televisions, to personal computers, to mobile devices – via any network and with pristine picture quality. This ability to easily repurpose many video sources, deliver them over multiple networks and to all viewing devices using a single, integrated video processing platform will dramatically reduce the operational complexity for video service providers to expand their offerings.
Alberto Montesi recognized as Executive of the Year finalist for 2009 International Stevie
Alberto Montesi, founder and CEO of Flycell, Inc., a leading mobile and online entertainment content company, has earned a Certificate of Finalist Recognition for Executive of the Year in North America in the 2009 International Business AwardsSM, known as the Stevies. The International Business Awards are the only global, all-encompassing business awards program honoring great performances in business.
Nicknamed the Stevie® for the Greek word “crowned,” the awards will be presented to honorees at a gala dinner on Monday, September 14 in the St. Regis Hotel in New York City.
Organizations all over the world are eligible to compete in The International Business Awards. This year’s honorees were selected from more than 1,700 entries received from organizations and individuals in more than 30 countries.
Montesi was recognized as a finalist for Executive of the Year for leading his international team at Flycell to create a digital entertainment service that is responsive to the consumer’s desires and needs, while staying at the forefront of technology innovations and trends in the space.
With Montesi’s guidance and expertise, Flycell has achieved profitability at a time when many companies in the digital entertainment sector are struggling to stay afloat. Despite the faltering economy, Flycell has experienced quarter over quarter growth, with revenue for the first half of 2009 nearly equal to revenues from all of 2008.
“Being named a finalist for a Stevie Award is an honor for me personally, but more importantly, is a testament to the continued success of Flycell,” Montesi said. “The Flycell team is focused on creating and delivering the cutting-edge mobile and digital entertainment customers are demanding. We have experienced exceptional growth, especially thus far in 2009. It’s undoubtedly been the collective effort of our entire company that I’m most proud of, and I applaud the whole Flycell global team for our success.”
Members of the Awards’ Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors and their staffs selected International Stevie winners from among the Finalists, which were determined by volunteer judges around the world during two months of preliminary judging.
“Despite the harsh economic climate, entries to the IBAs actually grew a bit this year, and that illustrates the increasing importance of The International Business Awards worldwide,” said Michael Gallagher, president of The Stevie Awards, presenters of the IBAs. “We congratulate all of the honorees, and we look forward to recognizing them for their achievements at our gala awards dinner in New York on September 14.”
Complete lists of honorees and other details are available at www.stevieawards.com/iba.
