iPieces, Kurio7, and Life360 Named Winner of Mobile Apps Showdown AT CE Week

Posted: 06.28.2012, 11:42am

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Robin Raskin

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Best Mobile Applications Determined by Live Audience and Online Vote

NEW YORK, June 28, 2012 – Living in Digital Times today announced the winners of the highly anticipated Mobile Apps Showdown award at CE Week. The award honors promising mobile apps across all categories. Life360, an app that lets you locate and track family and friends, has been named the winner of the online vote. Pressman Toy’s iPieces, an interactive board game, and Kurio7, a family-friendly Android tablet, both won the popular vote (in an unprecedented tie) as determined by audience applause at CE Week.

Thirteen promising new apps appeared live on stage to a packed house, where the voting audience determined the winner. Online voters selected a People’s Choice winner over a week of online voting.

The Mobile Apps Showdown is co-hosted by the Application Developers Alliance. Other notable entries included SolarWalk, a 3D exploration of the solar system, Personal Capital, a financial wealth manager, and Nokia Developer’s Wordament. To see the full list of entries, visit the Mobile Apps Showdown website

Hosted by Robin Raskin, founder of Living in Digital Times, and featuring 3 minute live app presentations peppered by quick response app-trivia questions for the audience, the Mobile Apps Showdown has become a classic way to expose audiences to the latest in this explosive product category.

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