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mBlox scoops two prizes at 2008 Global Messaging Awards
Best Messaging Infrastructure and Best Consumer Messaging Application/Service - May 14, 2008
London, UK and Cannes, France - 14 May, 2008 - mBlox, the world's largest mobile transaction network, has won the 2008 Mobile Messaging Award for Best Messaging Infrastructure for its Financial Services and a joint award win for Best Consumer Messaging Application/Service for Myxer's Mobile Music Service. The awards were voted on by a panel of distinguished industry judges, and were announced on Thursday 8th May at the Global Messaging Congress Gala Awards Dinner in Cannes, France.
mBlox Financial Services Award
Supporting the growth of financial services in developing markets, mBlox's Financial Services product opens up banking solutions where the existing bricks and mortar or web infrastructure are not in place. The award for Best Messaging Infrastructure is testament to the security and reliability of mBlox's services which are ideally suited to powering mobile banking solutions. An example of this being mBlox's services deployed through Atrait in Africa.
Myxer's Mobile Music Service Award
Myxer's Mobile Music Service, provides promising independent bands and labels the means to share and promote songs, photos, ringtones and wallpapers directly from their own website, social networking profile or blog via mobile devices. Powered by mBlox, it includes MyxerTags, a widget made up of a snippet of code that visitors can place in their MySpace page or on their own website or blog to promote their favourite band, giving listeners access to artist content and information directly from their mobile.
"We strive to make the best possible transaction network available to mobile businesses worldwide," said Andrew Bud, Executive Chairman of mBlox. "These awards recognise our success in two crucial markets - financial services and mobile music. In both, consumers receive great value from our partners' messaging applications running over our network. For financial services, the award recognises the investments we have made to build the world's best application messaging infrastructure. The award for Myxer's service shows what can be accomplished by partnering outstanding business creativity with the best supporting platform."
About mBlox's Financial Services
mBlox's Financial Services ensure that banks benefit from simple transaction processes with reliable delivery to customers on multiple networks, on virtually any handset, in countries around the globe. Both partners and banks benefit from guaranteed response times, message and service delivery tracker receipts whilst the simplicity of the service combined with the well-understood messaging medium of SMS means that end-users can easily use its services.
About Mobile Music Toolkit
The Myxer service provides independent bands and labels the means to share and promote songs, photos, ringtones and wallpapers directly from their own website, social networking profile or blog using mobile devices. Powered by mBlox, it includes MyxerTags, a widget made up of a snippet of code that visitors can place in their MySpace page or on their own existing website or blog to promote their favourite band, giving listeners access to artist content and information directly from their mobile.
Removing the technology barriers between music fans and independent bands, Myxer opens up the power of the mobile platform to millions of potential music lovers. It enables bands to forge a bond and a commercial relationship directly with fans and market themselves to potential fans in their own space. Myxer's Mobile Music Service not only helps independent bands monetise and promote their music but also allows them to build communities around it.
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About mBlox Inc.:
mBlox is the world's largest mobile transaction network. The company specializes in simplifying the complexities, commercial and technical, of mobile billing and message transmission for our clients. Via a carrier-grade network, mBlox enables companies to communicate with mobile subscribers on more than 500 carriers in 180 countries, millions of times each day. The company has U.S. headquarters in Silicon Valley, with EMEA headquarters in London, Asia headquarters in Singapore and offices around the world. For further information, visit www.mBlox.com.
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