The BlackBerry Alliance Summit, which is a networking event organised by RIM for application developers, has announced the winners of the BlackBerry Alliance Program’s EMEA Innovation Awards 2009. These awards are judged independently of RIM and – as the name suggests – are intended to find compelling BlackBerry applications and services from companies in the Europe, Middle East and Asia region.
The category winners this year were:
Life On BlackBerry: local search service Poynt
Entertainment On BlackBerry: Develop IQ's 7digital music store
Connect On BlackBerry: free IM and social networking service Nimbuzz
Driving Innovation in the Public Sector: Innova Telecom's communication solution for Seville City Hall
Transforming Enterprise Business Performance: a distribution and logistics solution from NTS
Accelerating Innovation for Entrepreneurs: Elondra’s Customer Relationship Management and Sales Force Automation solution for entrepreneurs and smaller businesses
Delivering Service Excellence: IT helpdesk outsourcing from e-office