Meet the Nominee of the Day (14), Bambuser, Sweden

Company Bio

Bambuser converts your phone into a mobile streaming device allowing you with a simple software broadcast shows, videos live from your mobile to the internet, connect and chat with your viewers and engage in a discussion. It is location aware, and hence, combines GPS along with Google Maps to instantly place your location.

Country

Sweden

Website

http://www.bambuser.com

SIME Profile

http://sime.nu/09/awards/rising-stars-of-the-north/bambuser/

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Meet the Nominee of the Day (13), bMenu, Norway

Company Bio

bMenu delivers a mobile publishing system for creating and maintaining your mobile portal. It offers a user friendly drag & drop editor, search integration, RSS, automatic adjustment and compression to the mobile phone size and full support of ad systems. We also have a unique patented system which enables portals to link in full size websites which bMenu automatically converts to a mobile version.

Country

Norway

Website

http://bmenu.com/

SIME Profile

http://sime.nu/09/awards/rising-stars-of-the-north/bmenu/

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Meet the Nominee of the Day (12), Issuu, Denmark

Company Bio

Issuu is the leading digital publishing platform delivering exceptional reading experiences of magazines, books, catalogs, reports, and more. Users can create beautiful digital editions simply by uploading their publications to publish their documents across all digital platforms.

Country

Denmark

Website

http://issuu.com/

SIME Profile

http://sime.nu/09/awards/rising-stars-of-the-north/issuu/

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Muxlim (Finland), a global Muslim community interviewed by Tech Crunch UK

Muxlim is a great friend of the SIME house. Their CEO and founder Mohamed El-Fatatry was a speaker at SIME Copenhagen last October. And Muxlim has been nominated for the SIME Awards Mighty 36 this year. We found this very interesting interview by Tech Crunch on Muxlim where Mohamed El-Fatatry talks about how he is empowering the whole Muslim community and trying to change the perceptions of Muslims in the global scene.

Past coverage by SIME on Muxlim here

Muxlim at Mighty 36

And interview by Tech Crunch below:

The text is here

Catch Muxlim this year at SIME 2009 Stockholm

Meet the nominee of the day(11), Joikuspot, Finland

Company Bio

Share your phone’s 3G internet connection over WiFi. Connect your laptop to web everywhere using your mobile phone via Wifi. Replace USB modems and Bluetooth with JoikuSpot software

Website

http://joikushop.com/

Country

Finland

SIME Profile

http://sime.nu/09/awards/rising-stars-of-the-north/joikuspot/

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Jury Motivation

This really creates wlan everywhere
— Pasi

Meet Pasi and the rest of the jury here

Meet the Nominee of the Day (10), Ball-it, Finland

Company Bio

The company aims to become the leader in the development and production of real-time wireless sensing solutions. These solutions include enabling devices and modules as well as core software components for implementing consumer level User Interfaces. The company is operating with a network of world-leading sensor and wireless technology vendors.

Country

Finland

Website

http://www.ball-it.com

SIME Profile

http://sime.nu/09/awards/rising-stars-of-the-north/ball-it/

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Jury Motivation

Ball-it brings Wii-like experience for rest of the world.
-Pasi Niittymaki

Meet Pasi and the rest of the jury here

Read an interesting coverage by TradeVibes / Venture Beat on Ball-it here

They seem to have a technology that could potentially make motion detection part of our lifestyles. We wish them all the very best in their journey and looking forward to having them at SIME. Might be cool if they could do a demo of their product at SIME, don’t you think?

ZPS Software files for bankruptcy

It has come to our attention (through ‘vonknut’ in the comments section of the Zero Point Software Rising Star Page which has been removed) that Zero Point Software (ZPS), a Danish gaming development company that was nominated for the SIME Awards, Mighty 36 have filed for bankruptcy. Clearly, a sad moment for all those folks involved.

Read their statement here

From all the sources we checked during the month of June (when we began the Awards shortlisting process), there was no sign of any brewing trouble, but of course it was through the online lens and no direct interaction with the company or the people associated with it. But it turns out that the company did file for bankruptcy during early July.

Our apologies for overlooking this till now, but as advised by the chairman of the SIME Awards Jury, Pontus Schultz, we have removed ZPS from the Mighty 36, and will instead nominate another company in the final round to be released during October 14th. That is, instead of releasing 12 companies (as scheduled) in Round 3 of Mighty 36, we would release 13, one more from the big list of nominees that can be found at the Mighty 36 site here to make the cut into the Mighty 36. Thanks ‘vonknut’ for pointing this to us.

View info on Mighty 36 here