Handango Announces the 2006 Handango Champion Awards Winners | NewLC

Handango Announces the 2006 Handango Champion Awards Winners | NewLC
HURST, Texas -- September 14, 2006 -- Handango, the leading provider of mobile content, announced the winners of the Handango Champion Awards at the sixth annual Handango Partner Summit. Nominated by customers and judged by a panel of industry experts and media, the Handango Champion Awards were presented for BlackBerry(TM), Palm OS(R), UIQ, S60 and Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC and Smartphone applications in the following categories: Best Application for Work, Best Application for Play, Best Application for Life, Best New Application and Best Industry Application. A complete list of winners is available at http://www.handango.com/Awards/2006Winners.jsp.

At the awards ceremony, Handango also recognized seven content providers with "Developer of the Year" awards for outstanding software development, committed customer care and innovation. The winners of the Developer of the Year awards are:

BlackBerry: Cerience Corporation
Palm OS: RealDice Inc.
UIQ: DataViz, Inc.
S60: Mobile Systems, Inc.
Windows Mobile Pocket PC: Spb Software House
Windows Mobile Smartphone: Fizz Software Ltd
Tablet PC: Agilix Labs, Inc

"I would like to extend my congratulations to this year's winners and praise their successes," said Randy Eisenman, president and chief executive officer of Handango. "Receiving the title of 'Handango Champion Award Winner' is a noteworthy honor, as finalists are nominated by customers and winners are chosen by some of the sharpest minds in the mobile content industry."

Each Handango Champion Award winner will receive a prize package that includes a $5,000 marketing stipend, placement in a special edition of the Handango Champion Newsletter and a variety of other promotional opportunities. Winners and finalists will also be featured prominently on Handango's Web and on-device storefronts. The Handango Champion Award winners are:

BlackBerry
Best Application for Work - RepliGo Professional by Cerience Corporation
Best Application for Play - NEXT by Mobigloo
Best Application for Life - VoiceControl by MobileVoiceControl
Best New Application - SplashID by SplashData

Palm OS
Best Application for Work - MobiSystems Office Suite Professional 7 by Mobile Systems, Inc.
Best Application for Play - Multiplayer Championship Poker Texas Hold'em by RealDice Inc.
Best Application for Life - Pocket Quicken by Landware
Best New Application - BackupBuddy.net by Blue Nomad
Best Industry Application - PocketLingo Wall Street Dictionary by HLCSoft

UIQ
Best Application for Work - ImageExpo by SysOpen Digia
Best Application for Play - Intelligolf Birdie Edition by Karrier Communications
Best Application for Life - WorldMate by MobiMate
Best New Application - RoadSync by DataViz

S60
Best Application for Work - MobiSystems OfficeSuite by Mobile Systems, Inc.
Best Application for Play - SmartMovie by Lonely Cat Games
Best Application for Life - IM+: Instant Messenger by SHAPE Services
Best New Application - SBSH Papyrus by SBSH Mobile

Windows Mobile Pocket PC
Best Application for Work - Microsoft Voice Command by Microsoft Corporation
Best Application for Play - Spb Air Islands by Spb Software House
Best Application for Life - eWallet by Ilium Software
Best New Application - MobiTV for Pocket PC by MobiTV
Best Industry Application - HanDBase Professional Database Manager by DDH Software

Windows Mobile-based Smartphone
Best Application for Work - PhatNotes Smartphone by Phatware
Best Application for Play - Pocket Streamer by e-mobile software
Best Application for Life - SmartVideo by SmartVideo
Best New Application - WeatherBug Mobile by WeatherBug