Computerworld Announces 25 ”Best Practices in Mobile & Wireless” Award Finalists for 2006; 10 Honorees from 25 Finalists to Be Announced and Recognized at Gala Ceremony on May 24, in Orlando, Florida
FRAMINGHAM, MA – MAY 3, 2006 – Computerworld, the Voice of IT Management, today announced 25 finalists for its annual "Best Practices in Mobile & Wireless" awards program. From this prestigious field of finalists, judging will continue and 10 honorees will be selected and recognized at a gala ceremony on May 24, 2006. The ceremony will mark an upbeat conclusion of Computerworld's upcoming, and fourth annual, Mobile & Wireless World Conference (MWW), taking place May 22-24, 2006, at the Ritz-Carlton Grande Lakes in Orlando, Florida.
The finalists for Computerworld's 2006 "Best Practices in Mobile & Wireless" awards program are:
Category: Business Evolution through Mobilizing Field Workers
Finalists (in alphabetical order by company):
GE Consumer & Industrial, Louisville, Kentucky
Primerica Financial Services, Duluth, Georgia
Streets Heaver, Lincoln, Great Britain
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Austin, Texas
Warren County (Public Safety Network), Lebanon, Ohio
Category: Deploying Wireless Mobility in the Enterprise
Finalists (in alphabetical order by company):
Airport Authority Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Children's Medical Center Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga, Canada
Medtronic, Minneapolis, Minnesota
US Army, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey
Category: Innovation and Promise
Finalists (in alphabetical order by company):
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Coppin State University, Baltimore, Maryland
Ripon Police Department, Ripon, California
TNT Logistics North America, Jacksonville, Florida
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Category: Managing Cellular Mobile Data
Finalists (in alphabetical order by company):
Dubai eGovernment, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Electrical Safety Authority of Ontario, Mississauga, Canada
Globe Telecom, Mandaluyong City, Philippines
Kone b.v. Elevators & Escalators, Den Haag, Holland
United States Postal Service, Washington, DC
Category: Transforming the "Brick and Mortar" Enterprise
Finalists (in alphabetical order by company):
Great Plains Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
St. John's University, Queens, New York
SureXpress, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha, Nebraska
West Edmonton Mall, Edmonton, Canada
"Mobile and wireless initiatives in today's enterprises are often examples of the most cutting-edge applications of technology today," said Ron Milton, Executive Vice President, Computerworld. "The organizations and professionals judged to be finalists in Computerworld's 2006 'Best Practices in Mobile & Wireless' Awards Program have demonstrated how true value can be derived from mobile and wireless enablement."
Computerworld's "Best Practices in Mobile & Wireless" Awards Program for 2006 is sponsored by Intel and Cingular Wireless.
For more information about Computerworld's Mobile & Wireless World Conference, visit http://www.mwwusa.com .
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