UIQ Technology announces the winners of the UIQ application competition '08
Written by UIQ Technology
Thursday, 13 March 2008
Ronneby, Sweden, March 13, 2008 - UIQ Technology today announced the
winners of the UIQ Open, a developer competition aimed at finding and
showcasing the most innovative, useful and entertaining third-party
applications created with the UIQ open software development platform.
The UIQ Open is an application competition where software developers and software companies submit UIQ 3 applications in different categories on the UIQ Developer Community website. The competition ran from October until the end of December 2007. A jury of experts has spent the past few weeks intensively evaluating the submissions submitted from all parts of the globe. The winners of the competition are now appointed.
"This year's UIQ Open was even more successful than last year's competition. There was not only an increase in the total number of applications, they were more innovative in nature. Selecting winners for the UIQ Open was not an easy task" says Naresh Chouhan, Head of the Developer Program at UIQ Technology. "This enthusiasm for UIQ from third parties reflects the tremendous growth and prolific activity of the UIQ developer community during 2007."
The judging panel selected two winning applications in each of the five categories.
Category Application
Business: FlyingMoney Manager by FlyingBird Software
Mobile Documents by VISIARC AB
Mobility: Handy Weather by Epocware
IM+ All-in-One Mobile Messenger by SHAPE Services
Lifestyle: Spodtronic by Liquid Air Lab GmbH
The World Factbook by jDictionary Mobile
Entertainment: MicroPool by Gábor Fetter
Paintball 2 by Crazysoft
Utilities: Easy Search by WebGate JSC
GDesk by FiendSoft
Each winner will receive a prize package including: one of the latest UIQ phones; marketing packages for their application; an invitation to the UIQ Developer Fast Track event and more.
Their nomination in the competition came as great news to all winners:
"We are very excited to receive this award. The UIQ platform has enabled us to easily create a versatile business application, blending a touch-based interface with a rich mobile feature set," says Peter Lindgren, VP Marketing & Business Development at VISIARC AB.
"UIQ Open is an excellent event! It helps developers to get the recognition and promote their UIQ applications worldwide. For us getting this award is the best possible feedback we could get, we appreciate it a lot," reports Serge Borenko. Head of Software Development. at FlyingBird Software.
For further information about the UIQ Open competition, visit http://uiqopen.uiq.com
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