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I haven’t been able to see all the presentations and companies due to the 2 track running simultanuously but definately some very promising startups selected. Here are the winners from Under the Radar | Mobility! Congratulations to all the companies for a great show. I will write more on my impressions and personal favourites during next week.

Best in Show Winner - Overall:
Greystripe

Category Winners:

MEDIA SHARING
Judges:Sharpcast
Audience:Pixsense

VIDEO
Judges:ComVu
Audience:Juice Wireless with JuiceCaster

MARKETING/ADVERTISING
Judges:Greystripe

TRANSACTIONS
Judges:Mobo
Audience:Mobo

SOCIAL MESSAGING
Judges:Loopt
Audience:Loopt

MOBILIZE
Judges:Plusmo
Audience:Plusmo

VOICE MESSAGING
Judges:TalkPlus
Audience:TalkPlus

IMAGING
Judges:MotionDSP
Audience:ScanR

Overall Audience Choice Winner: Loopt

Some of my pictures of the conference can be viewed here at Flickr.

I’m off in a couple of hours for San Francisco and Bay Area for a week. Highlight should be on November 16, where IBDNetwork hosts its sixth one-day Under the Radar: Mobility event, which will feature 32 emerging startups in the mobile sector. Under the Radar will take place on at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, CA.

I’m looking forward to learn more about all these exciting startups and to meet some friends working in mobility. Will report here on all this of course. Be back soon!

On November 16, 2006, IBDNetwork will host its sixth one-day Under the Radar event, which will feature 32 emerging startups in the mobile sector. Under the Radar will take place at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, CA.

You’ll see a collection of companies in areas such as mobile content/video; sms and messaging; location/presence; voice services; marketing and advertising services; and a host of enabling technologies. It’s always a steller line-up of stealth companies and certainly a gathering of leading industry insiders and top-tier press/bloggers, a great chance to learn about the future of mobility- it’s challenges and opportunities from consumer adoption to monetization of services. Other participants include CNET-Fox Interactive-Google-Microsoft-Motorola-MTV-Qualcomm-Orange-Yahoo! and more.

I’m going to the conference, together with Ignacio Mondine, who will present his company Daem Interactive at the conference. It’s going to be very interesting to see and meet all those startups innovating wthin the mobility area; I’m especially interested in the real innovative companies and how they deploy their market strategy in function from different markets such as US and Europe.

Companies currently confirmed are:

4info | Admob | BubbleMotion | CascadaMobile | ComVu | Daem Interactive | EQO | Flurry | GreyStripe | Juice Wireless | Loopt | MobiFusion | Mobileplay | Mobo | MotionDSP | Nexage | Ontela | PayWi | Pinger | Pixpulse | Pixsense | Plusmo | Rocketalk | Renzoo | ScanR | Sharpcast | TinyPictures | Veeker | Voxlib | Winksite

I haven’t seen such a bunch of startups working in mobile together for a while… How about you?

Now here come the goodies for my blog readers:

m-trends.org readers can submit the best “under the radar” mobility company not already on the currently confirmed company list (see above); in other words you can digg one of your favourite mobile startups into the conference! – the winner will get a ticket to the conference ($495 value) and will get mentioned on the “under the radar” blog, as well as a “profile” post on the winning company as well.

Debbie Landa, CEO and Founder of IBDNetwork (the organizers of the conference) will judge herself the best submission done here at m-trends.org. All you need to do is send me an email (click my name in the sidebar) with subject “Under The Radar” and mention the startup you think should be present at the conference. Deadline for contest entries is Wednesday November 8 at midnight (CET) - which will give the winner a week of lead time to make travel arrangements.

And for those who don’t win or participate to the contest, m-trends.org readers receive the discounted price of $425 (save $70) by registering here (just mention m-trends.org).

Oh btw: anyone who would like to meet me while in SF or Bay Area between November 15-21, drop me a line too