Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, created an entire hall devoted to mobile applications, this year, called AppsPlanet.
App Planet is an “event within an event” and pulls the key players in mobile applications together in one hall.
But every year there’s an “off broadway” event, notes Mobile Crunch. It’s organised by Dotopen and finds many new apps largely because of its relationship with the 75 MobileMonday chapters worldwide. MobileMonday Barcelona exposes local mobile developers to foreign companies and markets.
The Mobile Premier Awards announced 20 finalists among grassroots startups chosen by their peers in partnership with MobileMonday, the global community of mobile professionals.
The event took place in Barcelona on February 15, in front of investors, operators, media companies, peer entrepreneurs, and press and influential bloggers. Early stage startup winners of the Mobile Premier Award in Entertainment included:
- Mobilizy
- Spendino
- RedSalvavidas
- MobiSiteGalore
- Mobile Acuity
- TaxiPal
- SendFlow
- Audioboo
- Soundtrckr
- Voicetap Technologies
- PercentMobile
- Bipper Communication
- Visionect
Their Wikitude World Browser is the leading Augmented Reality (AR) browse
Provides an integrated mobile and internet fundraising solution helping NPO
Prevention, reaction and cooperation for emergencies and disasters, assisted by mobile.
Build your own mobile website in minutes
Mobile visual search and interactivity – we make the world clickable.
A mobile taxi ordering service
SMS Text and Interactive Voice Response Messaging
Share your voice with your friends
Lets you discover new artists and meet new people based on where you are and what you’re doing
Carrier grade solutions which can help enhance ARPUs, Revenue and Retention
Understand your mobile audience
Makes any mobile phone safer and better adapted to kids
Thin client handheld device that will work for months without recharging
Other startup winners in innovation included;
- FonYou
- Cepa Mobility
- Aloqa
- Layar
- CloudMade
- MoSync
- Waze
Online Mobile Telephony
Enabling the disabled
Push based mobile service that proactively notifies you about interesting POIs, people, and services
Make layers that are informative, fun or entirely new experiences
Allows developers and consumers to realise the full potential of OpenStreetMap
Take away 80% of the cost to create mobile apps to many platforms.
Crowdsourced traffic & live maps meet geogaming
The Oregonian’s Mike Rogoway reviews Portland mobile developers who have built apps for Starbucks, The Wall Street Journal, Nike, Intel and other large firms.
Portland’s Urban Airship plans to announce today that it’s raised $1.1 million in venture capital to add software engineers and services.
Marshall Kirkpatrick has an in-depth profile on Scott Kveton a founder of Urban Airship, the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University and the OpenID Foundation.
Other Portland mobile developers include; Avatron Software (Games and utilities), Cloud Four (mobile app contract developer), Critical Path Software (Mobile apps for Clearwire and eBay), Handmark (mobile publishing for Wall Street Journal and the Portland Trail Blazers), MapWith.Us (Mobile maps), Night & Day Studios (contractor), Spotlight Mobile (Barnes & Noble, Nike and Intel), Stumptown Game Machine (Mobile game developer), Subatomic Studios (Fieldrunners game), Small Society (Starbucks, Zipcar and Whole Foods)
