Winners of the Global Mobile Awards 2012 – At MWC 2012

At the Mobile World Congress 2012 we saw the GSMA awards, where the best companies and products are awarded from the votes they received for being the best. To make it simple, Samsung Mobile has been awarded for being the best Device Manufacturer for the previous year after their multiple devices which had made millions of sales, and the total sales in the end of the year recorded 325 million, with Samsung setting a target of a million sales every day in 2012.

Here is the list of award categories and the winners:

• Best Mobile App for Consumers – Rovio Entertainment Ltd. for Angry Birds Rio
• Best Mobile App for Enterprise – Citrix Systems for Citrix Receiver
• Judges’ Choice – Best Overall Mobile App – WhatsApp Inc. for WhatsApp
• Most Innovative Mobile App – SwiftKey
• Best Mobile Advertising & Marketing Campaign – Brandtone for Carling Black Label “Be the Coach”
• Innovation in Mobile Advertising – Poken for the leading CMS for NFC
• Mobile Marketing & Advertising Agency of the Year – [am.o.bee]
• Best Enterprise Mobile Service – Fiberlink for MaaS360
• Best Consumer Mobile Service – Google for Google Maps for Android
• Best Network Product or Solution for Serving Customers – Turkcell for Turkcell TiklaKonus
• Best Product, Initiative or Service for Underserved Segments – Safaricom for Grundfos
• mWomen Best Mobile Product or Service for Women in Emerging Markets – Etisalat, Qualcomm, D-Tree International and Great Connection Inc. for Etisalat Mobile Baby
• Best Use of Mobile in Emergency or Humanitarian Situations – UBL Omni for Transparent and Efficient Cash Disbursement Service after the 2009 IDPs Crisis and the 2010 Flood Crisis
• The Green Mobile Award – Flexenclosure for E-site
• Best Mobile Health Innovation – Etisalat, Qualcomm, D-Tree International and Great Connection Inc. for Etisalat Mobile Baby
• Best Mobile Innovation for Education or Learning – OnPoint Digital for CellCast Solution
• Best Mobile Innovation for Automotive, Transport or Utilities – Ford Motor Company Ltd. for Ford SYNC with Emergency Assistance
• Best Mobile Money Innovation – Etisalat, MasterCard and Oberthur Technologies for Etisalat Commerce
• Best Mobile Innovation for Publishing – Financial Times and Assanka for The Financial Times Web App
• Best Smartphone – Samsung for Samsung Galaxy S II
• Best Feature Phone or Entry Level Phone – Nokia for Nokia C3-00
• Device Manufacturer of the Year – Samsung
• Best Mobile Tablet – Apple for Apple iPad 2
• Best Embedded Mobile Device (Non-Handsets) – AT&T for Garmin GTU 10
• Best Mobile Broadband Technology – KT for KT’s Premium WiFi Solution
• Best Infrastructure Technology – Alcatel-Lucent for lightRadio Network
• Best Technology Breakthrough – Vodafone Group PLC for Quad Rate Technology: An Evolved Path Doubling the Efficiency of Mobile Voice
• Best Cloud Based Technology – Appcelerator for Titanium Integrated Development Platform
• Best Technology Product or Solution for Safeguarding and Empowering Customers – Cloudmark for Cloudmark Mobile Messaging Security Suite
• GSMA Chairman’s Award – Joint Winners KDDI, NTT DOCOMO, INC. and SOFTBANK MOBILE
• Government Leadership Award – Government of the Republic of Colombia

India top Spam Source according to Kaspersky – Indonesia and South Korea follows

According to the antivirus and security company Kaspersky, India is the top spam producing country in the whole world while it was two other countries from Asia which followed India. Spam has been on the rise always, and at one time it was Nigeria and the African countries doing the highest of it. Lately India had become the highest spam producing nation, and still holds the position. It contributes to 11.5% of the total spam that is produced all around, and Indonesia took the 2nd place with the 8.1% spam distribution.

• The amount of spam in email traffic remained unchanged compared to December and averaged 76.2%.
• The percentage of phishing emails also remained unchanged compared to the previous month and accounted for 0.02%.
• Malicious files were found in 4.3% of all emails, an increase of 0.3 percentage points compared to December’s figure.

Here is the list of the top 10 spam producing countries:

• India
• Indonesia
• South Korea
• Brazil
• Peru
• Vietnam
• Italy
• Great Britain
• Poland
• Argentina

The list proves that the top six countries which produce spam have the Asian and Latin American countries. The top 20 countries in the world saw a percentage change of not more than one percent. UK was out of the top 10 list in December, but the increased number of spam from there in January brought it directly into 8th position.

Sony to rename Ericsson venture as Sony Mobile Communications

Sony has completed its buy-out of Ericsson from the Sony Ericsson handset joint venture, confirming that the business will be renamed Sony Mobile Communications. The company said that it would take the mobile phone market as one of the serious sides, and the mobile phone business as one of the vital elements in the electronics business, with the aim of accelerating convergence between Sony’s lineup of network enabled consumer electronics products, including smartphones, tablets, TVs and PCs.

The companies first announced the agreement in October 2011, at which point Ericsson highlighted “declining synergies in combining network and handset operations.” Ericsson today said that its gain on the transaction will be “approximately SEK7.5 billion (US$1.1 billion),” which will be reported as part of its first quarter 2012 results.
Under the terms of the agreement, Sony and Ericsson have also entered into a broad IP cross-licensing agreement.

Sony Ericsson is one of those brands which joined the bandwagon led by HTC and Motorola which said that they got poor results during the Christmas this season. When Sony Ericsson launched a 4G LTE based mobile phone recently, they didn’t put the name Ericsson anywhere and it was just Sony which was branded. Now the focus would be on Sony during the Mobile World Congress where we could be seeing any official public announcement of gadgets after the buyout is done.