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Gala Award Ceremony March 18 at the ThinkMobile Conference and Expo in New York City NEW YORK, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Awards in over thirty categories of mobile applications will be awarded at the First Annual Mobie Awards in a gala red carpet celebrity hosted ceremony in an art deco Grand Ballroom in the New Yorker Hotel, New York City, March 18. The Awards are in association with ThinkMobile, March 18-19th, a major mobile conference and expo, produced by Mediabistro.com (a division of Jupitermedia Corporation, Nasdaq: JUPM). (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090303/NY77930-a ) (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090303/NY77930-b ) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090303/NY77930LOGO-c ) With the introduction of the Apple AppStore last year mobile applications has emerged as a wildly popular phenomena, with Apple reporting over half a billion downloads of apps to its iPhone in the first six months and the Mobie Awards is the first major Award established solely to honor excellence in mobile applications. "We have receive thousands of nominations online for the best mobile applications and our judges of mobile industry professionals are reviewing all of them to find the best ones in over thirty categories," said Jonathan Sarno, founder of the six city iPhone Boot camps and executive producer of the Mobie Awards. "The Mobies recognize those who excel at taking advantage of all the added features mobile applications offer, such as location based services and game development using the accelerometer and the touch screen and we are only at the start of what is possible when faster and more robust graphic cards and more integrated HD video with motion sensors show up in the devices in the near future. It will be really exciting to see what apps developers come up in the next few years." This year almost all the nominations were for iPhone apps but the awards are open to all mobile applications and with Google's Android, Microsoft, Palm, BlackBerry, HTC, and Nokia with Symbian and other device platforms opening app stores later this year competition among platforms for the best mobile applications should get really heated in the next eighteen months to two years." To help promote achievement the Mobies provides its winners with the notable Mobie award plaque and an icon for the winners' websites or publications. Mobie Award winners, finalists and semi-finalists have an opportunity to promote the recognized entry and the firm or professionals that created it, with the recognition, prestige and public relations opportunity associated with being selected by the panel of judges of industry professionals. In additional Mobie winners will receive over $50,000 in total worth of training workshops in advanced iPhone development from the producing sponsor the iPhone Boot Camp. For a full list of semi-finalists, visit http://www.mobieawards.com/. About the iPhone Boot Camp The iPhone Boot Camp offers three day intensive workshops in iPhone Development taught by leading iPhone Developers in six American cities. It is a privately-held company in New York City founded by Jonathan Sarno with the mission of facilitating the creation, consulting and training of developers in mobile applications, currently now only for iPhone but in the future on other mobile devices. The ultimate goal is to create a pool of talent to draw upon to create a company/community to develop apps together and fill the growing demand. The workshops as part of a greater conservatory to nurture mobile development talent in both design and engineering. About ThinkMobile Nancy Hill, President-CEO of AAAA and Marko Ahtisaari, CEO and Co-Founder, Dopplr have joined the ThinkMobile keynote speaker lineup. ThinkMobile, a expo and conference on Mobile Content & Marketing Strategies will take place March 18-19, 2009 in New York City at the New Yorker Hotel. Matthew Snyder, CEO and Founder of ADObjects, Inc. serves as Conference Chairman. About mediabistro.com mediabistro.com started over ten years ago with a series of salon-style events for the New York media community. Today, mediabistro.com parties have spread to 22 cities, and the mediabistro.com Web site is the hottest place for media/publishing/content people to find jobs, share resources, and connect with each other. One million unique editors, writers, television producers, graphic designers and other "content" people visit http://www.mediabistro.com/ each month and generate more than 6 million page views to keep up with the industry and find features that include daily media news, classes and seminars, and recruiting services. About Jupitermedia Corporation: Jupitermedia Corporation (NASDAQ:JUPMNASDAQ:www.jupitermedia.com), headquartered in Darien, CT, is a leading global provider of images, news and original information, career Web sites and events for information technology, business, media and creative professionals. All current Jupitermedia press releases can be found online at http://www.jupitermedia.com/corporate/press.html. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090303/NY77930-a http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090303/NY77930-b http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090303/NY77930LOGO-c http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Mobie Awards CONTACT: Jonathan Sarno, Executive Producer, 2009 Mobie Awards, mobieawards.com, , +1-212-767-9722 Web Site: http://www.mobieawards.com/

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