Japan Developers Win BREW Awards

At the BREW 2004 Developer Conference in San Diego, awards to honor stand-out BREW products and services were announced in six categories. EZFM and EZ Naviwalk won 1st prize in the Best Entertainment and Best Location-Based categories, respectively. Other Japanese entries from Edia Co., MediaSeek Inc., and Namco were selected as finalists in the information, entertainment and productivity categories.

Best Productivity /M-Commerce Application:
Winner: Mobile Banking - China M-World Co., Ltd. (China)
Finalists:
2D Code Reader - MediaSeek Inc. (Japan)
Smart Traffic™ - Pharos Science & Applications (U.S.)

Best Entertainment Application:
Winner: EZFM - NANO Media, Inc. & ITOCHU Corp. (Japan)
Finalists:
Magic Photo - IBSnet Co., Ltd. (Korea)
Takio no Tatsujin - Namco® Ltd. (Japan)

Best Game Application:
Winner: JAMDAT® Bowling 2 - JAMDAT® Mobile Inc. (U.S.)
Finalists:
Battle Baseball 2004 - GAMEVIL Inc. (Korea)
Sword of Troodon - Troodon Entertainment Technology Co., Ltd. (China)

Best Location-Based Service Application:
Winner: EZnaviwalk - Navitime Japan Co., Ltd. (Japan)
Finalists:
OKMap - Chengdu ChinaOK Network Technology Corp. (China)
Vindigo® City Guide - Vindigo Studios (U.S.)

Best Communications Application:
Winner: RocketMMS™ - Rocket Mobile Inc. (U.S.)
Finalists:
Tencent QQ - Tencent Technology Ltd. (China)
WMail 2.0 - Wiz Technologies (Brazil)

Best Information Application:
Winner: Weathernews - Weathernews Americas Inc. (U.S.)
Finalists:
JTB Norikae Jikuhyou - Edia Co., Ltd. (Japan)