The Wireless Applications and Mobile Media (WAMM) Awards were created to showcase the best in wireless and mobile media, the WAMM Awards recognizes the most innovative mobile application and media developers, their organizations, and the platform and infrastructure providers upon which the applications are built and delivered. Awards will be given in a broad range of categories, as selected by leaders in the industry and individual voters. Winners are recognised at the live event and via a global web broadcast. The 2011 WAMM Award Winners are recognised below:

The 2012 WAMM Awards will be held on Thursday October 18, 2012. Information about the upcoming awards will be announced in February. Stay tuned!

Mobile App Innovators Honored at 2011 WAMM Awards

ATLANTA, Oct. 21, 2011 – The Wireless Technology Forum (WTF), the largest not-for-profit wireless association in the Southeast, today announced the winners for its 2011 Wireless and Mobile Media (WAMM) Awards, the regions premier mobile applications award ceremonies.

The WAMM awards were created to recognize the industry’s leading innovators in mobile applications and mobile media. The following are the winners representing the best mobile application and mobile person of the year awards:

• Best Business and Vertical Industry Solutions Application: McKesson
• Best Game Application: Angry Birds (Rovio)
• Best Retail, Shopping and Commerce Application: Starbucks
• Best Social Media Application: LinkedIn
• Best Video, Music & Audio Application: Pandora
• Best News and Media Application: ESPN
• Best Overall Application: Google Maps
• Mobile Commerce Person of the Year: Jack Dorsey (Square)
• Mobile Media Person of the Year: Louis Gump (CNN)
• Mobile Consumer Applications Person of the Year: Bob Kupbens (Delta Air Lines)
• Mobile Business Applications Person of the Year: Adam Clark (Fiserv)
• Mobile Person of the Year: Tim Cook (Apple)

The master of ceremonies for this year’s awards was Jeff Mucci, CEO and editorial director, RCR Wireless News. In addition to the awards ceremony, which was held in Atlanta at the AT&T Mobility Auditorium, the audience was thoroughly engaged by visionary presentations from Cameron Clayton (The Weather Channel), Ian Gellar (Pandora) and Jay Lee (ESPN).

A new addition to the 2011 awards was the recognition of the “most innovative mobile companies to watch in Georgia”, which included FreebeePay, TripLingo, SaasMob, Centrafuse and ZOOZ Mobile.

2011 WAMM Awards Sponsors: