BlackBerry Achievement Awards
The BlackBerry Achievement Awards (formerly the Wireless Achievement Awards) aim to recognize the cutting-edge contributions of creative thinkers, from all corners of the globe. The awards bring together a community of exceptional businesses, entrepreneurs and developers who push the boundaries of what's possible, inspiring others to take advantage of all things BlackBerry®.
Winners were announced at BlackBerry Live™ 2013!
2013 Winners and Finalists
Congratulations to the 2013 winners! Click on any of the logos to learn more details about each of the winners and finalists and their innovative solutions.
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Cine Hoyts Argentina
The Hoyts Cinema app was redesigned in Cascades™ to take full advantage of BlackBerry® 10 navigation, transitions and social experiences. Movie going has never been so easy: customers see movie listings, map the closest theaters, watch movie trailers and get their tickets as a QR code (Quick Response Code) – all from their smartphone or tablet. Groups can invite friends using Facebook® and can send out tickets and seat alerts to coordinate their movie night out. BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™) and Twitter® encourage moviegoers to share experiences by voting and writing reviews. Watch the video.
Cooklet
Foodies in kitchens around the world come together to share recipes, inspiration and delicious experiences using Cooklet on their BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablets and BlackBerry® 10 smartphones. Showing how development tools such as the BlackBerry® WebWorks™ SDK, Cascades™ and Adobe® AIR® can make highly inventive BlackBerry apps, Cooklet has made food and cooking a truly interactive, shared experience with pictures, directions, blogs, Twitter® commentary and soon links to Facebook®. Watch the video.
PriceCheck Pty Ltd.
PriceCheck Mobile for BlackBerry 10 takes shopping to a whole new level by using a BlackBerry® 10 smartphone to do the legwork and price comparisons, so customers don't have to be near a computer or store. The app accesses pricing for more than 30 million products on sale through the Internet and online stores in South Africa. Built using HTML5 and JavaScript® source code, the app is wrapped with Cascades™ and uses some feature plug-ins.
ING DIRECT Canada
ING DIRECT offers today's financially conscious customers a unique mobile banking experience on their BlackBerry® 10 smartphones. As well as making it convenient and secure to conduct transactions, the app focuses on increasing savings with "Orange Alerts" that push notifications to the BlackBerry® Hub when balances reach pre-determined thresholds. Other features such as "Small Sacrifices" encourage positive decisions about saving and financial information by sharing info through Facebook®, Twitter®, BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™) and YouTube®.
LoyaltyMatch Inc.
The RewardingYourself Loyalty Wallet combines loyalty functionality with shopping functionality to help customers manage, synch up, store and maximize all their loyalty rewards. This app checks whether it's better to use loyalty points or buy an item with cash. It can also check inventory, compare prices at other stores, and after taking a picture of a product's barcode, see if the item can be purchased with points. The app is also integrated with BlackBerry® Maps and BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™) and is powered by the LoyaltyMatch OnDemand Loyalty and Gamification SaaS platform.
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Translator Go Pro relieves frustrating language barriers on vacations or business trips by offering a simple mobile translating service on BlackBerry® 10 smartphones. Customers can record a sentence in their own language and have it translated into 50 languages, so speaking to locals and having them speak back is easy. Other features include a dictionary that teaches users how to pronounce words, a way to record unique ringtones, and access to the app from the BlackBerry® Hub to translate content when reading from a browser.
DIRECTV Latin America
As a large satellite TV provider in Latin America and the Caribbean, DIRECTV makes customer service for their five million customers a priority. Their app for the BlackBerry® smartphone will allow 4,000 technicians to manage an entire service call and work order process from their devices, as well as use Bluetooth® technology to validate and adjust satellite signal strength. The app has increased customer satisfaction, helped reduce the amount of customer return visits by 4X the previous average, and will deliver millions of dollars of productivity savings a year.
Mippin (Refresh Mobile Ltd.)
Publishers, large and small, who want a BlackBerry® app for their newspaper, magazine, blog or YouTube® channel can have one – in a four-step, 10 minutes or less process that's free. The BlackBerry App Generator is a self-service app builder that produces native apps for BlackBerry® smartphones and BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablets, including BlackBerry® 10. Since it was launched in June 2012, more than 17,000 apps have been created using the BlackBerry App Generator and are live in BlackBerry® World™.
Waytag
With Waytag, typing a five-line address into a BlackBerry® smartphone becomes a thing of the past. The app allows people to use their name as an address. People can locate and navigate to find each other using their unique one word location tag (a waytag), such as "Meet me at !Steven." Waytag has partnered with TomTom® to make finding and getting to people across 106 countries simpler and more convenient than typing a full address. Watch the video.
e-Cycle LLC
e-Cycle LLC has a simple, but meaningful mandate: offer enterprises a way to retire millions of mobile devices responsibly, by protecting data security, preserving the environment and generating buyback revenue. As a recipient of e-Stewards® certification, e-Cycle is on the frontline of ensuring that harmful, toxic chemicals from mobile devices are not sent to landfills but instead are recycled safely. Their buyback program reimburses costs for devices that can have more value in the market, which offsets the costs of a company upgrading to new devices.
Sussex Police
Sussex Police in the United Kingdom have created more than 20 apps for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet, making policing more effective, safer, cost-conscious, collaborative and community-friendly. These apps, which are in the hands of 120 frontline officers, include highlights such as Officer Briefing, Stop and Search (with integrated mapping), Electronic Witness Statements and a Crime Scene app that records pictures of a scene as digital evidence.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB)
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) has created several apps that dramatically influence healthcare for its patients, including one that helps the liver transplant team manage recipients, another that helps the pharmacy team share patient records, NORSE used by the neuro team to provide specialized advice to UK regional hospitals providing information associated with a patient's record and unified communications solutions that keep clinical teams connected. When hospital porters were given BlackBerry® smartphones with a custom application, it revolutionized patient movement throughout the hospital. The app sends out electronic requests for patient pickups, shows porters tasks closest to their locations, indicates special equipment needs and saves the countless steps involved in returning to a central location to pick up new assignments.
EducationApps Limited
Founded by a 20 year old, still full-time student at Stanford University, EducationApps Limited has made its mobile-centric learning platform and 13 apps available on BlackBerry® 10 smartphones. The apps consist of three modules that make studying more engaging. The School module means students can receive assignments and messages from any of their teachers on the platform; The Study module lets students browse, sample and purchase content; and the Friend module adds a social element to learn with classmates.
Nobex Technologies Inc.
Many BlackBerry® enthusiasts are familiar with Nobex Technologies' innovative mobile app that lets people listen radio stations on the go and share the experience and chat with friends through BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™). Now Nobex Radio for BlackBerry 10 continues its inventiveness with a newly designed BlackBerry® 10 app. It adds podcast functionality that allows people search and subscribe to thousands of podcasts, with notifications sent to the BlackBerry® Hub when new episodes are available. Watch video.
SkyPark Café
The SkyPark Café in Hyderabad, India is a first of its kind, a BlackBerry-equipped, NFC-enabled café. The innovative location is set up with BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablets and NFC points to pay for transactions, share documents and multimedia, as well as check in to social networks like Foursquare®, Facebook® and Twitter® by just tapping another NFC-enabled device. The venue also features a BlackBerry® Music Gateway that plays music to customers like a jukebox.