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VANCOUVER, B.C. – Sierra Wireless (SW:TO, SWIR:NASDAQ) and Wavefront, the community-based commercialization center for B.C.'s 1,000 wireless and new media development companies, announce the winners of the Sierra Wireless – Wavefront Developer Program.

The Sierra Wireless – Wavefront Developer Program was established to find best-in-class enterprise or consumer applications that take advantage of the mobile broadband and GPS capabilities built into Sierra Wireless PC cards, ExpressCards, and USB modems. Finalists created working prototypes and a team of six judges, including Parm Sandhu, TELUS; James Maynard, Wavefront; David Sonnen, Integrated Spatial Solutions, Inc (ISSI); Ed Schmit, AT&T; Steve Blaine, Sierra Wireless; and Trent Punnett, Sierra Wireless, chose the best-in-class winners.

Apisphere, Inc (www.apisphere.com) of Berkeley, CA: Apisphere for Outlook is a location-aware plug-in that enables Sierra Wireless users to automatically send and receive location-smart messages...

I had the pleasure of being a jury member for the 2008 Smaato 2008 Mobile Advertising Award. A great competition to showcase some great examples in mobile advertising, which is going to be a major source of revenue for our apps.

Smaato Advertising Awards

And the Winners….. drum roll: Congratulations to DialPlus! the Smaato Mobile Advertising Award winner for 2008!

Among the 11 Finalists, the Jury selected DialPlus as their favorite mobile application. San Diego based DialPlus won over the jury with its application that is showing visual information from the web for a phone number before, during and after a call.

As the winner, DialPlus gets free booth participation with Smaato at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and will have introductions to four first-class VC partners.

Finalist company Aka Aki (Berlin, Germany) will receive a special prize for participating with a free booth at the M-Days taking place in January in Munich, Germany – selected by the event organizer.

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For those of you not familiar, every week a group of mobile bloggers (Mobilists) take turns hosting and promoting the best blogs of the week. It's usually a great roundup of what is happening in our mobile community, so well worth the effort to check it out.

This week, and the last host of the year is C. Enrique Ortiz at About Mobility. Enrique does a nice job of summing up the posts ranging from technical, UX, 2009 predictions, and comments on how the economic crisi is affecting our small companies. A few interesting blogs on Trutap, a company that I have been pleased to be on the board of for the last year, and who has unfortunately given layoff notices to its staff, but still is working hard to uncover any last stones for funding or acquisitions.

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