When: October 7-8, 2009
Where: San Diego, CA
Event details
The Fall Fast-Pitch Platinum Awards were full of inspiring pitches! The event took place at
CTIA, held on October 7-8, 2009 in San Diego, CA where AT&T reviewed over 60 entries. The
winners received a share in $40,000 of prize money and opportunities for inclusion in an
AT&T distribution channel.
Fast-Pitch Platinum Award Winner- Consumer
IQ Engines
IQ Engines recognizes and labels photos, monetizing images by matching them to relevant
retailers and advertisers. Our image labeling engine is fast, accurate and scalable.
Using your mobile phone's camera, point at any product to retrieve detailed information,
reviews, prices, and purchase links. This free app makes searching for product information
effortless and fast. IQ Engines puts the power of visual intelligence in your hands.
Fast-Pitch Platinum Award Winner- Business
HipVoice
HipVoice is designed to work inside and outside the four walls using your existing data
connection. Its purpose is simply to enable voice communication between employees and field offices. HipVoice's patent-pending voice
technology will revolutionize any business by enabling communication in a manner that is
entirely unobtrusive to the worker. HipVoice was built to run in the background of your device,
leaving your primary applications undisturbed and its features are invoked only when requested
by the user.
Platinum Award Runners Up- Consumer
Micello
This solution provides a unique indoor location-based service for mobile devices. Millions of
people today use Google Maps to get to their destination. Micello goes one step further by
extending a map inside locations, such as convention centers, shopping malls, college campuses,
airports, and theme parks. Micello brings any location alive on a mobile phone by providing a
navigatable map and a rich set of interactive services in the context of time and place.
Micello creates communities for these places, providing you highly relevant information on your
mobile device.
Evernote
If you can see it or think of it, Evernote can help you remember it. Type a text note. Clip a
web page. Snap a photo. Grab a screenshot. Evernote will keep it all safe. Everything you
capture is automatically processed, indexed, and made searchable. If you like, you can add tags
or organize notes into different notebooks. Search for notes by keywords, titles, and tags.
Evernote magically makes printed and handwritten text inside your images searchable, too.
Platinum Award Runners Up- Business
iVisit, SeeStar
SeeStar technology offers persons who are visually impaired a virtual "pair of eyes". Live
images are transmitted to a remote assistant who can view the images, describe the person's
surroundings, indicate the location of landmarks and pathways to destinations, or recognize
object and print media. Additionally, SeeStar's object recognition technology provides visually
impaired users with a mobile system that can easily and quickly detect and recognize specific
objects.
P.O.D. Verify
This solution uses wireless document imaging for field services and transportation by using
your cell phone and our patented scanner. This enables you to scan documents in your vehicle or
office and transmit them to your company instantly. Improving cash flow, increasing
productivity with the ability to email them to others, view on your own company web site, and
bill for services immediately. This also eliminates the need to manually scan documents once
they are returned to the office
Honorable Mention-Consumer
Glympse
Glympse makes sharing your location with friends and family as simple as sending a text message
or making a phone call. With Glympse, the common question of "Where are you?" is answered with
a dynamic map of your current whereabouts, which updates in real-time.
Honorable Mentions- Business
iKnowWare, iKnowMobile
iKnowMobile is a web-based application that empowers companies to manage processes with
real-time information anytime anywhere for visibility into sales, inventory, operations, and
logistics. Your smartPhone connects your team to information like company sales, logistics,
inventory, secure documents, and more. iKnowWare personalizes role-based processes replacing
legacy systems into a single solution integrating marketing, sales, finance, operations,
distribution and client interaction.
TreyWeir Media, Type2Friendly
Type2Friendly is the first website and mobile platform designed to help the 16 million Type 2
diabetics in the US find restaurants that serve diabetic friendly food. From their computers or
smartphones, users can search for restaurant locations, nutritional data, websites and phone
numbers by visiting type2friendly.com or type2friendly.mobi. iPhone users, who have the T2F
application installed on their device, will be able to leverage their GPS location to find
restaurants easier.
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