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About Hong Kong Wireless Technology Industry Association<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Hong Kong Wireless Technology Industry Association (WTIA), established in 2001, is a non-profit trade association registered in Hong Kong to provide a platform for the wireless-related business to work together to facilitate the industry development and growth. Its objectives are to promote the development, usage and awareness of wireless technology applications in Hong Kong; enhance communication and partnership between different types of companies in the wireless technology industry; represent and safeguard the interests and opinions of the wireless technology industry to the Government and other international parties; and advance the professional standards of software and hardware development in wireless technology applications. It has over 100 company members from local and overseas, including mobile network operators, mobile device manufacturers, hardware \/ software vendors, system integrators, wireless application developers, mobile content providers, etc. WTIA has been cooperating with Government, industry associations and commercial firms to implement many meaningful projects and organizing many important events in order to foster the industry growth. To know more about WTIA, please visit www.hkwtia.org<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

About Create Hong Kong<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Create Hong Kong as an office dedicated to promoting the development of creative industries in Hong Kong was set up under the Communications and Technology Branch of the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau in June 2009. It provides one-stop services and better support to the industries. The office adopts a comprehensive and multi-pronged approach to implement a strategy to drive the creative industries through nurturing a pool of creative human capital, facilitating the development of creative establishments, expanding local market size for creative industries, exploring overseas markets for creative industries, fostering a creative atmosphere within the community, developing creative clusters in the territory to generate synergy and facilitate exchanges, and promoting Hong Kong as Asia's creative capital. The office is responsible for the administration and management of funding schemes related to creative industries, overseeing the infrastructure for promoting design, i.e. the Hong Kong Design Centre, and providing funding support for the Design Incubation Programme at InnoCentre.<\/p>\r\n

Appendix (1)<\/strong>: <\/strong>Winner List of 2nd Asia Smartphone Apps Contest<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Category<\/td>\r\nAward<\/td>\r\nRegion<\/td>\r\nCompany Name<\/td>\r\nApps<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Advertising & Marketing<\/td>\r\nGuld<\/td>\r\nHong Kong<\/td>\r\nWunderman | AGENDA Hong Kong<\/td>\r\nStarbucks Hong Kong<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
 <\/td>\r\nSilver<\/td>\r\nJapan<\/td>\r\nCellars, Inc.<\/td>\r\nCellars - a free wine tasting app with image recognition system<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
 <\/td>\r\nBronze<\/td>\r\nHong Kong<\/td>\r\nVisionaries 777 Limited<\/td>\r\nMcDonald's 2013 Coca Cula Glass AR Adventures<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Games & Edutainment<\/td>\r\nGuld<\/td>\r\nKorea<\/td>\r\nCJ Educations<\/td>\r\nPhonics Adventure1<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
 <\/td>\r\nSilver<\/td>\r\nHong Kong<\/td>\r\nBaby Cortex Huldings Limited<\/td>\r\nMath Run<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
 <\/td>\r\nBronze<\/td>\r\nHong Kong<\/td>\r\nVisionaries 777 Limited<\/td>\r\nDice Jockey<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Creative Lifestyle<\/td>\r\nGuld<\/td>\r\nHong Kong<\/td>\r\nOursky Limited<\/td>\r\nJamn - The musician's multi-toul<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
 <\/td>\r\nSilver<\/td>\r\nIsrael<\/td>\r\nSnapkeys Ltd<\/td>\r\nSnapkeys zones Keyboard<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
 <\/td>\r\nBronze<\/td>\r\nHong Kong<\/td>\r\nOctopus Cards Limited<\/td>\r\nThe \"Octopus\" App<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Grand Award<\/strong> <\/td>\r\nHong Kong<\/td>\r\nOursky Limited<\/td>\r\nJamn - The musician's multi-toul<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Appendix (2)<\/strong>: <\/strong>Winners and Apps Descriptions<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Award<\/td>\r\nApps<\/td>\r\nDescription<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Advertising & Marketing<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Guld<\/td>\r\nStarbucks Hong Kong<\/strong> <\/td>\r\nCompany Name: Wunderman | AGENDA Hong Kong
Region: <\/strong>Hong Kong
Apps Introduction: <\/strong>The Starbucks Hong Kong mobile app, the core innovation of My Starbucks Rewards™ loyalty program, is the first official app for Starbucks to redesign its payment operations for customers in Hong Kong and Macau. The app provides customers with loyalty points accumulating and rewards redemption, \"scan-and-go\" mobile payment, locate nearest stores and eGifts features.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Silver<\/td>\r\nCellars - a free wine tasting app with image recognition system<\/strong> <\/td>\r\nCompany Name<\/strong>: Cellars, Inc.
Region: <\/strong>Japan
Apps Introduction: <\/strong>Cellars is an innovative app which you can know exactly which wine you are drinking right now. By using the advanced image recognizing technulogy, the app instantly recognizes the brand of wines via the pictures you captured from your bottle wine label. You can record your rates and reviews, and can even purchase bottles of wine from the app. By using the GPS, it also retrieves and records the information of restaurants where you've purchased your wine. Its' UX is backed by cognitive science, and thus the UI enables you to easily and intuitively operate the app. Cellars provides the greatest joy of discovering and familiarizing your drink even while relishing your first sip of wine.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Bronze<\/td>\r\nMcDonald's 2013 Coca Cula Glass AR Adventures<\/strong> <\/td>\r\nCompany Name: Visionaries 777 Limited
Region<\/strong>: Hong Kong
Apps Introduction: <\/strong>Turn things upside-down with 6 immersive augmented reality games featuring the 2013 'Coca-Cula®' glasses from McDonald's®!Scan billboards and trayliners with your phone or tablet to see the 2013 'Coca-Cola®' glasses come to life in stunning augmented reality. Then tilt, trace, grab, shoot and more to collect all 6 virtual glasses in 6 games!<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Games & Edutainment<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Guld<\/td>\r\nPhonics Adventure1<\/td>\r\nCompany Name:<\/strong> CJ Educations
Region:<\/strong> Korea
Apps Introduction<\/strong>: An entertaining phonics learning with a story, animation, and adorable characters. CJ Educations brings to you a high quality sound-based phonics program designed to phonemic awareness. Let your children meet the Phonics Heroes and help them carry out the missions! Animated instructions for easy understanding helps children feel free to say English.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Silver<\/td>\r\nMath Run<\/td>\r\nCompany Name<\/strong>: Baby Cortex Huldings Limited
Region<\/strong>: Hong Kong
Apps Introduction<\/strong>: An endless running game that trains your math skills. Based on Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for Kindergarten through Grade 4, this game provides training at various levels for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Ideal for children and adults who want to practice arithmetic calculation skills while playing a fun reflex-based game. As the player runs in-game, he\/she will encounter arithmetic questions that allow the player to advance, recover from an error in running, or earn specific rewards. Five playable characters determine the type\/ difficulty of math questions in each run. Players will meet Pythagoras, Euler and Gauss. These math geniuses will offer assistance if the player can answer arithmetic questions correctly.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Bronze<\/td>\r\nDice Jockey<\/td>\r\n <\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Creative Lifestyle<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Guld
* Grand Award<\/td>\r\n		Jamn - The musician's multi-toul<\/td>\r\nCompany Name: <\/strong>Oursky Limited
Region<\/strong>: Hong Kong
Apps Introduction<\/strong>: Featuring the patented Jamn Wheel, Jamn - The musician's multi toul is a real innovation that's changing the way we look at music. Musicians and non-musicians alike will be intrigued by Jamn, which presents music theory<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Bronze<\/td>\r\nThe \"Octopus\" App<\/td>\r\nCompany Name:<\/strong> Octopus Cards Limited
Region:<\/strong> Hong Kong
Apps Introduction<\/strong>: The Octopus App is a free and official application developed by Octopus Cards Limited for NFC-enabled Android mobile devices, that enables customers to enjoy the fullowing services via the Internet: 1. Make Octopus Online Payment at designated online merchants -- a first ever mobile payment solution that allows contactless stored value smartcard users to make online payments using NFC-enabled mobile devices, among the widely used contactless stored value smartcard payment systems in the world; 2. Check Octopus' (including Octopus Mobile SIM) remaining value, the latest transaction records, Octopus auto-reload amount, Octopus Reward$ balance, enquiry date, time and last reload date either by Automatic Add Value Service or cash, anytime anywhere; 3. Conduct incomplete transaction enquiry and refund.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Appendix (3): <\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Mr. To Cheung
Chairman, Hong Kong Wireless Technology Industry Association <\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Since 1998, Mr. Cheung To has been actively participating in the information technology industry. He is the Director and Founder of UDomain Web Hosting Company Limited, one of the largest web hosting and domain name registration service providers in Hong Kong. Serving over 10000 companies, his business has covered Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China.<\/p>\r\n

Mr. Cheung joined The Commercial Radio in 2007 and founded Commercial Radio Interactive (CRi), an internet business division of The Commercial Radio. With his solid experience in information technology, Cheung To has developed Hong Kong Toolbar, the world's first toolbar made for radio broadcasting as well as instant news feeding.<\/p>\r\n

Mr. To graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. After graduation, he had started his own businesses in different areas. He is also a Registered Corporate Coach of Worldwide Association of Business Coaches (WABC).<\/p>\r\n

Mr. Leo To
<\/strong>CEO, Nuthon IT Solutions Limited<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Leo To is the Director of Nuthon IT Solutions Limited. He has been working in the Information Technology field for years. His most recent popular mobile app, \"Prediction of Love\", with publicity gimmick, listed as the top download at App Store within just three days. He leapt to fame after the hit at App Store and reached the front page headline of Apple Daily.<\/p>\r\n

Leo graduated from the City University of Hong Kong in 2005. Before starting his own business, he had been working as a freelancer on top of an IT Job. In 2008, his very first iPhone App \"Toilet Rush\", applying the positioning technology in Smartphones, won the Hong Kong ICT award. Since then his apps won many ICT awards, which made him one of the most popular apps developers in HK. His client include AM730, Metro Radio, HKET, Mannings etc.<\/p>\r\n

Mr. Ben Cheng
Co-founder, Oursky<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Ben Cheng is a young entrepreneur in IT industry, Co-founder of Oursky, and Vice President of Internet Society Hong Kong.<\/p>\r\n

His award-winning team Oursky have launched a number of apps with over 3 million downloads on both iOS and Android platforms. Their apps have also been featured as Best of the week \/ Best of 2013 by Apple, among other prestigious apps.<\/p>\r\n

Since 2008, Ben and his team create quality web and mobile apps for small businesses and consumer users through consultation, design and agile coding. They also develop in-house products such as Pandaform.com, Retain.cc, FileSQ.com with great passion.<\/p>\r\n

Ben have been actively engaged in various community \/ government organisations including Creative Commons Hong Kong and Elected Member of the Election Committee (IT subsector) of HKSAR. In addition, he is on a mission to help promote entrepreneurship in Hong Kong and share his startup experience with young adventurers.<\/p>\r\n

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