On 8th May in Cannes, Informa Telecoms & Media and 160 Characters announced the winners for the fifth annual Mobile Messaging Awards in Cannes, the only industry awards that are solely dedicated to mobile messaging.

The winners were this year for the five different award categories:

Innovation in Messaging

• Bluebook - O2 UK

Messaging Infrastructure/Platform

Awarded to the product that has enhanced the existing messaging network by providing greater capacity, security, reliability or adds an additional application:

•  mBlox Financial Services

Messaging Application/Service: Public Sector/Not for Profit

• Obama Mobile - Distributive Networks and SinglePoint

Messaging Application/Service: Business

• Metropolitan Life's Cover2Go Delivers Insurance Policies to Cell Phone Using Clickatell SMS Gateway

Messaging Application/Service: Consumer

• Myxer Mobile Music Toolkit

Mike Short, Chairman, Mobile Data Association and one of the judges said:

"The variety and depth of innovation in Messaging continues to surprise us. Just a few of these listed entries will provide ideas to help the industry move onto a new level. Messaging is helping us to re-examine the importance of voice, as we continue to evolve from a verbal to a visual world of Communications.”

More details on each of the above winners and the full short listed entries can be viewed on the 160 Characters website here:
www.160characters.org