After a suspense-filled delay due to the volcano, the SIMagine contest’s winners have been announced this evening at SIMposium event in Rome. The organizer SIMalliance, the partners Sophia-Antipolis, Samsung and Oracle|Sun and the sponsors Orange, Telefonica and Telecom Italia, are proud to have awarded €150,000 worth of prizes.
The most innovative, usable, well designed and showing the highest commercial potential projects are:

Best Start-up Projects category:
- Gold Prize: Elliot Klein, Benoit Richard, Ian Gertler for eVOTZ
- Silver Prize: Silje Vallestad, Olav Balandin, Arvid Torset for Bipper
- Bronze Prize: Alberto Gasparini, Giovanni Agazzi, Paolo Portioli for Radio Touch

eVOTZ	Bipper	Radio Touch

Best Mobile Telecoms Applications category:
- Yiannis Hatzopoulos for Islamic SIMcard
- Xiang Zhou, Chungang Xue, Chi Song for Linkedia
- Dr Mamello Thinyane, Dr Hannah Thinyane for mKratos

Islamic SIMcard	Linkedia	mKratos

Prizes sum up to €150,000 including a whole range of support & coaching services (see details online at www.simagine.info/awards). Sophia Antipolis, Europe’s leading mobile telecom cluster, brings together all the ingredients required for successful project winners, offering:
- Housing: 24 months period in Eurécom ParisTech international incubator specialized in mobile industry
- Coaching services: a team of experts from SKEMA Business School, VENTECH and the law firm Kahn & Associates.