Global Mobile award winners announced

It was an evening full of stars and surprises, with a special guest appearance by legendary actor, director and Sundance Institute founder and president Robert Redford, who introduced the GSMA's Mobile Entertainment Awards ahead of his keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress on Wednesday, 13 February 2008.

Awards were presented by actor, writer and producer Isabella Rossellini, Bollywood actress Sherlyn Chopra and, from the music world, Black Eyed Peas front man will.i.am.

The 2008 GSMA Global Mobile Awards Winners can be viewed here: www.globalmobileawards.com/winners.shtml.

Congratulating the winners, the GSMA's CEO Rob Conway said: "Each year as the influence of mobile communications spreads further to enhance more and more aspects of peoples' lives, the scope of the awards become greater, and the competition becomes more intense as a result. Because the mobile world is such an amazing universe of opportunities, its gravitational forces are pulling other industries into its realm – Internet, finance, advertising, music and film.

"Many of tonight's winners reflect that premise, and as we celebrate 20 years since the foundations for global mobile communication were laid, they demonstrate not only how far we have come, but also the limitless possibilities of where innovation and inspiration can take us in the years ahead."

Winners in the Technology category provided presentations of their successful entries in a special session at the Mobile World Congress on Wednesday afternoon.

The Global Mobile Awards 2008 are sponsored by Qualcomm. Ericsson and Verisign are category sponsors.