TuneWiki Wins Top Innovator Spot at the GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Competition

Winners of the mobile Android Developer Competition, wins most Innovative Consumer Application and APAC Global Finalist, with a top innovative new mobile social media player

(PRWEB) November 19, 2008 -- TuneWiki, a consumer media company that allows people to experience music with others in their social network, won the "Top Innovators" in the GSMA's 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition most Innovative Consumer Application category, and won the "APAC Global Finalist" award.

Playback of music and lyrics

The momentum and interest we've seen from our global community in more than two hundred countries has been tremendous, and we will continue to listen to our users, taking their feedback and building innovative features into our Social Media Player.

TuneWiki's social media player is the first to integrate music and video with legal, synchronized lyrics and a social network. The lyrics, data and synchronization are contributed by the community, using wiki technology and are been licensed from the publishers.

TuneWiki MusicMap displays the approximate geographic location of people listening to specific songs and artists. LiveCharts allows consumers to access a real-time music popularity list by country or state, and listen to music from other cultures with lyrics translation to their preferred language.

TuneWiki is the Global Finalist / regional category winner and will compete on the position of "Global Champion", at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to be held on February 2009.

"It's an honor to be recognized in GSMA's Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition," said Rani Cohen, founder and CEO of TuneWiki. "The momentum and interest we've seen from our global community in more than two hundred countries has been tremendous, and we will continue to listen to our users, taking their feedback and building innovative features into our Social Media Player."

TuneWiki, a first prize winner of the Android developer competition sponsored by Google, and a popular iPhone application, will be available for mobile Linux, Android, iPhone, Moblin, WinMobile, J2ME and Symbian.

The prestigious Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition encourages and showcases innovation in the global mobile space by providing the opportunity for early-stage, cutting-edge companies to present ideas to leading industry investors and mobile operators. These companies participate in a tournament style competition and chase the ultimate goal of winning the GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Championship title.

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