The winners of the 14th Annual Global Mobile Awards were announced last night by the GSM Association (GSMA). More than 450 companies submitted entries for the awards. The winners were as follows:
Best Mobile Game
Winner: Gameloft – Real Football 2009
Highly Commended: Digital Chocolate – AvaPeeps: FlirtNation
Best Mobile Music or Video Service
Winner: BBC iPlayer on Mobile
Best Mobile Advertising Service
Winner: Turkcell – Tonla Kazan
Best Mobile TV Service
Winner: MobiTV – MobiTV
Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service
Winner: Vodafone – Vodafone Global Enterprise
Best Mobile Internet Service
Winner: Nokia – Nokia Sports Tracker
Best Mobile Money Service
Winner: Safaricom and Vodafone – M-PESA
Best Mobile Handset or Device
Winner: INQ – INQ1
Highly Commended: Nokia – Nokia E71
Highly Commended: T-Mobile – T-Mobile G1
Best Broadcast Commercial
Winner: KT Freetel Show is
Best Mobile Brand Campaign
Winner: R/GA London – Nokia Urbanista Diaries
Best Use of Mobile for Social and Economic Development
Winner: Nuance Communications – Airtel-T9 India Consumer Vernacular Messaging Campaigns
Best Network Technology Advance
Winner: Nokia Siemens Networks – Flexi Multimode BTS Software defined HSPA/LTE
Best Service Delivery Platform
Winner: NewBay Software – LifeCache Social Networking Solution 2.0
Best Billing & Customer Care Solution
Winner: Expert System – COGITO Answers
Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough
Winner: RIM – BlackBerry Storm 9500 SurePress Screen
The Green Mobile Award
Winner: Smart Communications – Alternative Power for Cell Sites program
GSMA's CEO Award for Outstanding Environmental Contribution
Winner: Nokia
Government Leadership Award
Winner: The Government of France
GSMA Chairmans Award
Winner: Research in Motion (RIM) 
The EMEA leg and final stage of the 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition also took place this week at the Mobile World Congress, where 15 nominees competed in five categories for the chance to pitch their innovative products and services against finalists from the Asia, Americas and Virtual legs of the competition for the title of 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award Champion.
The winners of this were as follows:
Winner: Cootek, China (Most Innovative Wireless Device-centric Technology)
Global Finalist: Advanced Receiver Technologies, USA
Global Finalist: Intivation, Netherlands
And the five category winners are:
Most Innovative Wireless Device-centric Technology
Intivation, Netherlands
Most Innovative Carrier Infrastructure or Platform
Sunbay, Switzerland
Most Innovative Mobile Application in a Vertical Market
WorldMate, USA
Most Innovative Consumer Application or Service
Mobile Nordic AS, Norway
Most Innovative True Mobile Start-Up
Advanced Receiver Technologies, USA
The GSMAs Mobile Innovation initiative has also launched a new Awards format as part of the 2010 Global Mobile Awards. The Mobile Innovation Grand Prix will showcase promising entrepreneurs from small and medium-sized companies developing and introducing innovative products and services that seek industry support in order to achieve market deployment. The first leg of the competition, the EMEA Tournament, will take place at the World Innovation Summit in Barcelona in June. Entry opens on 25 February 2009.
Theres more information on the Mobile Innovation Grand Prix here.
