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Mobile Apps Showdown: A History |
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Mobile Apps That Changed the World
The people know a good app when they see one. That’s what Mobile Apps Showdown has always been about. But what’s happened to past winners? See for yourself.
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| January 2013 |
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| MyScript© Calculator |
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| In an unprecedented Showdown, MyScript Calculator from Vision Objects won both the online and the live vote for Best Mobile App. Fast forward: It’s now featured in the newest set of Apple TV commercials. So is Solar Walk, a contender from last Spring’s Mobile Apps Event in NYC. |
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To see their winning presentation live |
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| January 2012 |
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| Magisto |
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| A fantastic app that takes your pathetic scraps of mobile videos and turns them into interesting, well crafted movies (your friends and relatives appreciate this app most of all). Magisto continues to grow, receive funding, and registered users - it now has 5 million of them. |
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See their winning presentation |
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| January 2012 |
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| Macaw |
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| Macaw, a health tracking app from US Preventative Medicine, one of the first and still one of the most robust health applications, has continued to announce strategic partnerships and position itself for growth. Most recently they integrated with MapMyFitness, a digital fitness app, to provide Macaw users interactive mapping and personal training logs to track both indoor and outdoor exercise. They also won the 2012 CTIA Awards shortly after our Showdown. |
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CES 2012 Video |
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| June 2012 |
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| Life360 |
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| BMWi Ventures thought Life360 was so compelling that it just made a huge investment in the mobile company. One of the first programs used to help families safely track their loves ones through geo-location, the app is used by more than 14 million families. |
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CE Week 2012 |
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| January 2011 |
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| DriveSafe.ly |
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| One of the first apps to incorporate text-to-speech technology to keep drivers attentive, it has had millions of downloads and probably saved lives. It reads your emails and texts to you while you drive. Based on iSpeech, its own voice recognition engine, the company has gone on to partner with others like Evernote and was recently featured on the Today Show as an essential app for travel. |
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CES 2011 Video |
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| January 2011 |
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| Line2 |
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| Line2 touted its app as a way to give your phone a second line, whether you use it to separate business and personal calls or use it to stop carrying two cell phones. In 2012 it continued to be the editorial dream app. |
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Ces 2011 Video |
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| 2010 |
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| Clixtr |
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| Since October 2008 this app has been at the forefront of snapping photos and sharing photo albums. They won our Mobile Apps Showdown in 2010. Today it’s still used to actively share events and photo-streams. According to their website, the company was bought by RadiumOne. |
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CES 2010 Video |
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| 2010 |
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| Gwabbit |
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| Gwabbit is still an important lifeline for anyone who uses Outlook or Blackberry Mail. It can strip the contact information out of a mail message and enter it directly into your contact database. The company also offers cloud-based email contact solutions. |
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CES 2010 Video |
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Think you’ve got what it takes to get the people’s attention?
Enter now!
Mobile Apps Showdown 2013 at CE Week |
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