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Best of SP&PPC mag - Awards and Judges Comments

Hal Goldstein — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:02:54 -0600

Perhaps, what I am most proud of in producing the magazine is our annual Best Software Awards. If you haven't seen the results yet in this our eighth year, check out our awards site. You can also pick up a copy of our final issue, the Super Resource Guide, due out this month with awards results and details.

Great side-scrolling platformer Nicky Boom (being) released for several mobile platforms

Werner Ruotsalainen — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:03:01 -0500

Nicky Boom was a nice platformer game released for the Commodore Amiga and MS DOS back in 1992 (Wiki page HERE).

Nominations suggestions for awards - a couple of days left

Hal Goldstein — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:26:36 -0500

Our judges are getting ready to vote in the 8th annual Best Software Awards. For almost three weeks a draft of the nominations has been public. The public until is invited to suggest nominations or that product should be un-nominated until Wed, July 16. Lead blogger and nominations manager Werner Ruotsalainen makes all final decisions.

The multiplatform Bible of using your handset as a modem

Werner Ruotsalainen — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:45:19 -0500

Now that I’ve become a proud owner of a super-mobile HP TC1100 Tablet PC, using mobile devices (smart phones) as external modems have became essential for me. Up until now, I’ve done most of my Web browsing, YouTube watching outdoors with some of my mobile devices.

Awards nominations in "beta". Tell us what you think.

Hal Goldstein — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:52:04 -0500

Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine’s 8^th annual Best Software Awards is in full swing. The awards help users select the best Windows Mobile applications, utilities, and games, while honoring companies that produce outstanding software.

The preliminary list of Windows Mobile Windows Mobile nominations is ready for public viewing and comment.

2008 Best Software Awards Schedule

Hal Goldstein — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:13:56 -0500

Why there’s no Best of Everything Software in 2008 --- Only a few days for 2007 package

Hal Goldstein — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:49:37 -0600

Given this week’s discussion of coolest apps, I feel comfortable briefly discussing Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine’s Best of Everything Software Package and Best of Everything Demo CD. For three years we have offered what IMHO is the best software package ever (content and value) in the history of any computer operating system!

Basically, we approached Best Software Award winner and finalists. We offered them year long publicity on-line, in print, and on a Demo CD, plus banner advertising. In exchange our partners provided us with a limited number of software licenses which we sold as a package.

We will stop taking orders for the 2007 Best of Everything Software Package, on Thursday, January 24. That gives customers just one week to register the software they want to use in the package, since we close down our registration site January 31. Due to contractual obligations, no exceptions can be made about registering software after January 31. (The registration process makes sense by visiting a clone of the actual registration site.)

We actually planned to have a 2008 Best of Everything Software Package and Demo CD. In fact we had well over 70 vendors and 100 products already signed up as late as November.

So why cancel in 2008?

What are the Coolest Apps and Services?

Hal Goldstein — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:45:31 -0600

I asked our bloggers to answer this week: "what are the coolest apps and services for your Windows Mobile device?" You've already seen Mike, Nate and Ben's post. Hopefully, we'll see more responses.

Actually, I have the same question to you -- what is (are) your favorite/coolest app(s) or service(s) for your phone or Pocket PC? You can interpret "cool" any way you want. We may well publish your thoughts in the magazine, which is a great way to thank the developers.

What about me? I am going to tell you the coolest apps for me this past month.

2007 Best Software Award Winners Announced

Hal Goldstein — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:05:41 -0600

If you are looking for software, check out this year’s winners, finalists, and nominees of the 2007 Best Software Awards.

If you want to make your Windows Mobile device even more valuable, study the expanded Pocket PC (touch screen) and Smartphone (no touch screen) category structure for the awards.

How to pronounce Werner's last name + how-to videos

Hal Goldstein — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:00:28 -0500

If you read these blogs, visited other Windows Mobile web sites, or are familiar with our Best Software Awards process, you might be a little curious about Werner Ruotsalainen . (FYI -- Werner is Finish and lives and works in Hungary.)

A few minutes ago David Seagull, our marketing manager and I made three different videos about different aspects of the Best Software Awards 2007. As you may know, Werner has done an incredible job as Nominations Manager, expanding our number of categories and helping finalize our nominations list.