The highest ranking award in the field of mobile communication is Global Mobile Award and the 2007 Edition has been announced. It consisted of 9 categories and many subcategories which are given below with the name of winner in each category:

1. MOBILE INNOVATION FORUM

1a. Most Innovative Technology: Winner is Polymer Vision for the World’s first rollable display.1b. Most Innovative Mobile Application or Content: Winner is ShoZu mobile for two applications called Zucasts and Share-it.

2. MOBILE ENTERTAINMENT2a. Best Made for Mobile Game: Winner is I-Play for the Fast and The Furious Tokyo.2b. Best Made for Mobile Music Service: Winner is Vodafone for Mein PC.

2c. Best Made for Mobile Video Service: Winner is Marble Media for Shorts in Motion: The Art of Seduction

2d. Best Made for Mobile Infotainment for Sports & News Content: Winner is EMPICS Ltd for GameOn.

3. MOBILE SERVICES 3a. Mobile Enterprise Product or Service: Winner is Telepo Ltd for Fixed-Mobile Convergence Solution and Orange PCS Ltd for Business Everywhere.3b. Best Mobile Messaging Service: Winner is 3UK for connectivity between Windows Live Messenger with 3 users.

4. MOBILE HANDSETS4a. Best GSM Mobile Handset or Device: Winner is Samsung Electronics Co Ltd for SGH-D900.4b. Best 3GSM Mobile Handset or Device: Winner is Sony Ericsson - Sony Ericsson K800 Cyber-Shot ™ phone and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd - SGH-Z560.

5. MARKETING AND PROMOTION 5a. Best Broadcast Commercial: Winner is Turkcell for Turkcell-im came, boredom’s gone’ and Ancel - Ancel Baby’s Berp5b. Best Mobile Advertising: Winner is Qwikker for Virgin Mobile V-Festival

6. BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE

6a. Best Use of Mobile for Social & Economic Development: Winner is GrameenPhone Ltd for Healthline.

6b. Best Ultra Low Cost Handset: Winner is Motorola for MOTOFONE F3.

7. TECHNOLOGY

7a. Best Radio Access Product or Service:Winner is ip.access for femto3G.

7b. Best Network Quality Initiative:

Winner is Commprove Ltd for Netledge 3G Radio QoS.

7c. Best Service Delivery Platform: Winner is mFormation Technologies - mFormation Service Manager (MSM)

7d. Best Billing or Customer Care Solution: Winner is IDEA Cellular Ltd for CARE – SMS based Self-Service Solution

7e. Best Roaming Product or Service: Winner is TECORE Wireless Systems - TECORE Over-the-Air Local Prepaid Roaming Service

8. CHAIRMAN’S AWARD

Winner is Mo Ibrahim - founder and chairman of Celtel International

Taken from Global Mobile Award website.

The history of International Women’s Day is a history of taking action. The event originated in 1908 when women garment makers in New York demonstrated to demand better working conditions. They worked in appalling conditions, earned half of men’s wages, died prematurely from poor health and didn’t have the right to vote.

In 1910 an international conference of women resolved that each year a day should be set aside to press for women’s demands. Since then International Women’s Day (IWD) has been celebrated around the world each year on March 8. From its inception International Women’s Day has stood for equality between women and men.

At the same time in England, women were meeting and marching to demand the right to vote. The Suffragettes adopted the colours of Green, White and Violet to stand for their slogan “Give Women the Vote”. Since then these colours have been used to symbolise the struggle for women to obtain equal rights

In Sydney, IWD was first celebrated in 1928 at a rally that called for equal pay for equal work, an eight hour day for shop workers, no piece-work, a base wage for the unemployed and paid annual holidays. Rallies and marches have been held throughout Australia every year since.

Of course, much has improved since then, but we still have some way to go to achieve equal opportunity for women, not only in Australia but throughout the world.

So IWD is about remembering the battles long fought to build a society that is just and fair to all its members a society in which diversity, tolerance, safety, social justice and equality between women and men is a given. And its about celebrating what women have done, are doing and can do.

THE IWD COLOURS

Purple, Green and white are the official international women’s colours.The colours originated from the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), in the UK in 1908. The colours were said to represent:ð     White for purity in public as well as private lifeð     Purple for justice, dignity, self-reverence and self-respect (and representing the women’s vote)ð     Green for hope and new life. The colours unified the women’s movement and emphasised the femininity of the suffragettes. The tricolour of the WSPU soon became a visual cue for the women’s movement in other countries. Purple, green and white were worn on International Women’s Day and were used for other women’s movement banners and posters.  More recently, two changes have occuredð     the use of the colour white has more recently been rejected as ‘purity’ is a controversial issue and attitudes towards the role of ‘purity’ from women differ greatly.ð      the introduction of the colour gold representing ‘a new dawn’ has been commonly used to represent the second wave of feminism 

PINK IS NOT A COLOUR REPRESENTING WOMEN’S ADVANCEMENT

The use of pink for girls and blue for boys represents the unfortunate gender socialisation and female oppresion that occurs at a very early age. Thus many feminists historically decried the use of pink to represent females. Of course there is nothing wrong with the colour pink - it’s just that when it is used to positively represent women it in fact does quite the opposite.  Purple is the correct colour to be used if representing women’s advancement. Purple with green represents traditional feminism, purple with gold represents progressive contemporary feminism. The good thing abut women’s progress means that you can of course use any colour to represent your female focus … brown anyone ?

Can’t do it!” “I can’t do math” “I just can’t do physics” “I just can’t focus” “I just can’t set goals” “I just can’t change that about myself” “I can’t control that part of my own life nor do I intend to start anytime soon”

I can’t is my ultimate pet peeve. It allows millions of perfectly intelligent and gifted people an excuse to not achieve success in a certain aspect of life, whether it is math, a negative characteristic, personal goals, exercise, dieting, life, money, or success. These two words “I cannot” gives a fantastic escape from having to take responsibility of a part of one’s life. 

I personally have stopped using those lives ruining words several months ago. And so should everyone who all read this… Right now! Because I can personally say that I have been happier in the last six months than in the past four years of my life. Just recognizing the fact that I am responsible for my emotions, actions, and thoughts have turned me into the genius I was born to become. 

Sure Bobo over there is better than you at math, and can learn as much as you in half the time, but does that matter for you? Does the fact that you need to work twice as hard deny you the ability to master the subject? Heck NO! History has shown over, and over again that determination and hard work always triumphs over intelligence. 

Take responsibility for your life, your actions, your mind, and your future. Seriously, famous doctors at one time could not comprehend medical terms; famous billionaires at one time could not afford a roof over their heads. But gosh darn it; do you know what they did? They said “How can I learn? How can I change? How can I become? What can I do to rectify this situation?” Nobody cares more about your future more than you do, so don’t deny yourself of your success by telling yourself “I can’t, I can’t, I can’t”

If you have been told your entire life you cannot excel at a certain aspect of your life, I am here to free your mind, and assure you that you can achieve anything you can imagine, through determination, hard work, and proper knowledge. 

Take responsibility of your own life today, and once you do, you will achieve the happiness, wealth, and health you’ve always dreamed about.