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vVault Named Best of Show at Cellmania WAPPYAwards™ 2001

WIGeoGIS takes top honors for Most Innovative Application

March 21, 2001, Las Vegas, Nevada -- Cellmania today announced this year's winners of the Cellmania WAPPYAwards, the third international competition to recognize the best of mobile Internet, at an awards ceremony held during CTIA Wireless 2001 Show in the Sands EXPO and Convention Center. The WAPPY Awards recognize the most innovative applications of the mobile Internet, including those dedicated to news, sports and financial information. The event is sponsored by Cellmania, Hewlett Packard and AT&T.

Twenty-seven finalists were selected from more than 11,000 mobile applications in 97 countries based on several criteria, including ease of use, simplicity of transactions, effective personalization tools and a compelling reason to use a mobile site over other alternatives. The following winners were chosen from ten categories:

  • Best Mobile Marketplace: eBay (USA)
    Silver Award Winners: Homes.com (USA) and Seek.com.au (Australia)
  • Best Group Productivity: vVault (USA)
    Silver Award Winners: Aspiro (USA) and Covatron (USA)
  • Best Travel: MapQuest (USA)
    Silver Award Winners: 10Best (USA) and ExitSource (USA)
  • Best Games: Jamdat (USA)
    Silver Award Winners: Cosmic Infinity (Canada) and Ludiwap (France)
  • Best E-mail: Openwave Onebox Solutions (USA)
    Silver Award Winners: Magically, Inc. - Magicdesk 2.5 (USA) and Yahoo!Mail (USA)
  • Best News: Seattle P-I (USA) Silver Award Winners: Ananova (UK) and ABC-CBN News (Philippines)
  • Best Youth Interest: PFFT! (USA)
    Silver Award Winners: Etnoka (France) and Upoc (USA)
  • Best Entertainment: UB Mobile (Switzerland)
    Silver Award Winners: CitySearch (USA) and Ents24 (UK)
  • Most Innovative Application: WIGeoGIS (Austria)
    Silver Award Winners: FileatWill (USA) and GoZing (USA)
  • Best of Show: vVault (USA)

WIGeoGIS won for "Most Innovative Application" with its location-based Next-Door service available to mobile users in Austria. WIGeoGIS maintains a detailed database connected to a map server, allowing users to ask questions like, "Where is the nearest Chinese restaurant, and how do I get there?" The Next Door service provides business information and directions based on a user's cell I.D. number. Alternatively, users can manually enter a location by city and quarter, postal address or Autobahn KM. FileatWill and GoZing each took a Silver Award in this category.

VVault allows mobile access to desktop computer files. In addition to winning first prize for "Best Group Productivity," vVault was named "Best of Show" for its overall usefulness and effectiveness in reaching mobile consumers. With vVault, a user can upload files into public, private, or shared folders, and access those files from any desktop or mobile device. The service also allows users to e-mail or fax these files to others. An account includes 25 megabytes of secure storage space and 10 outbound fax pages.

"We are proud not only of today's winners, but of all 27 nominees who truly represent the best in their respective categories," said Dr. Ronjon Nag, CEO and co-founder of Cellmania. Cellmania sponsors the WAPPYAwards, along with HP and AT&T. "Deciding the winners was not easy, which is a testament to just how quickly the mobile Internet is evolving around the world."

This year's judges were: David Andrews, Senior Director of Marketing at Broadvision; Elisa Batista, Reporter for Wired News; John Robb, Director of Product Management for mSpect; Sven-Goran Elveborg, Director of Strategic Development for Jalda; Clark Bohmont, VP of Business Development for Cellmania; Ross Bridges, Business Development Manager for Hewlett Packard Mobile Services and Torbjorn Kanestrom, VP of Business Development for FAST. Cellmania invites nominations for both applications and judges. Please submit nominations to: mobile@cellmania.com.

To learn more about the Cellmania WAPPYAwards, and to Test Drive the winners, visit: http://www.cellmania.com/cgi-bin/cm_store/aboutus.jsp?SlugName=wappyawards

About Cellmania

Cellmania is the only full service provider of carrier and enterprise technology platforms to enable the building, promoting and equipping of mobile applications. Cellmania mEnterprise (build) is a mobile business platform, Cellmania mFinder (promote) is the world's largest mobile application directory, and Cellmania mStore (equip) is an on-line store for mobile products and services. All technologies are licensable, and customers include: Motorola, AT&T, Office Depot, Circuit City, Excite@Home, Orange and Airtel. For more information, see: http://corp.cellmania.com.

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