The time has come to cast your ballots for the 2013 BlackBerry Achievement Awards! Using BlackBerry technology to help power innovation, the awards celebrate ideas coming to life. Everyone is encouraged to vote, so visit the website before April 15^th at 5pm ET to help us determine this year’s winners.  

A special category that is near and dear to our hearts is the App of the Year award. This year, Cine Hoyts Argentina, Cooklet, and PriceCheck Pty Ltd have been nominated as finalists. Make sure you check them out before voting for your favorites.

The full list of 2013 nominees is as follows:

App of the Year:

1. Cine Hoyts
2. Cooklet
3. PriceCheck Mobile

Putting Customers First:

1. ING DIRECT Canada
2. LoyaltyMatch Inc.
3. MMMOOO

Mobile Innovation of the Year:

1. DIRECTV Latin America
2. Mippin (Refresh Ltd.)
3. Waytag

Making the World a Better Place:

1. e-Cycle Solutions
2. Sussex Police
3. University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB)

Entrepreneur of the Year

1. EducationApps Limited
2. Nobex Technologies
3. SkyPark Café

This year’s winners will be announced at BlackBerry Live in Orlando, Florida. The award recipients will receive a series of incentives for their participation. Prizes for first place include: travel and accommodations to BlackBerry Live 2013, conference passes, extensive BlackBerry training, BlackBerry 10 smartphones and more.

For more on the BlackBerry Achievement Awards and BlackBerry Live, make sure you visit our landing pages at http://www.blackberrylive.com/special-programs/achievement-awards/about and http://www.blackberrylive.com/ respectively.

Do you have a nominee that you’re rooting for? Let us know who your favorites are in the comments below!

Here’s your chance to get recognized! BlackBerry is now accepting developer nominations for the BlackBerry Achievement Awards.

The BlackBerry Achievement Awards (formerly the Wireless Achievement Awards) have been renamed to highlight the diverse BlackBerry community. These awards aim to recognize and reward exceptional developers, business leaders and entrepreneurs at the annual BlackBerry Live conference hosted in Orlando, Florida in May 2013.

With the rebranding of the BlackBerry Achievement Awards, a series of new award categories have also been introduced to make sure we recognize the wide variety of BlackBerry success stories.

Award categories include:

1. App of the Year
2. Putting Customers First
3. Mobile Innovation of the Year
4. Making the World a Better Place
5. Entrepreneur of the Year

To be considered for an award, nominations must be received by March 22, 2013.

Award recipients will receive a series of incentives for their participation. Prizes for first place award recipients include: travel and accommodations to BlackBerry Live 2013, conference passes, extensive BlackBerry training, BlackBerry 10 smartphones and more.

To read more about the BlackBerry Achievement Awards, recipient prizes and the selection process, please visit: http://www.blackberrylive.com/special-programs/achievement-awards

Check out the nomination page for more details or feel free to email achievementawards@blackberry.com

Since we launched this great program we’ve been overwhelmed with the reception that it’s received from the community.  Through the power of social voting and Twitter, you nominated 227 people and voted 2,000 times for developers, evangelists and contributors that exemplified our community’s creativity and collaborative spirit.  The BlackBerry Developer community is thriving both on  and offline!

Last night at our BlackBerry Jam Americas TweetUp, the winners across six categories were honored. They were:

• Must-Follow BlackBerry Developer on Twitter
• Must-Read BlackBerry Developer Blog
• Must-See BlackBerry Developer Evangelist
• Most Helpful BlackBerry Team Member on Twitter
• Most Helpful Contributor to the BlackBerry Developer Forums
• Best Open Source Contribution

(Drum Roll) and the official winners were:

Must-Follow BlackBerry Developer on Twitter

Jerome Carty (@jcarty)

Software Engineer developing BlackBerry® PlayBook and smartphone apps under Kisai Labs, Blaq for PlayBook Dev

Must-Read BlackBerry Developer Blog

pinoybbdev.com

The Philippine BlackBerry Developer Groupor pinoyBBdev, formed April 2010, is the only Research In Motion (RIM)-sanctioned developer community in the Philippines. The group aims to provide information about the latest in BlackBerry development, and in BlackBerry and RIM as a whole.

Must-See BlackBerry Developer Evangelist

Demian Borba (@demianborba)

BlackBerry Developer Evangelist, Professor at UC San Diego, Adobe Community Professional.

Most Helpful BlackBerry Team Member on Twitter

Adam Stanley (@n_adam_stanley)

BlackBerry Developer Relations; Mobile Web specialist: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript

Most Helpful Contributor to the BlackBerry Developer Forums

Peter Hansen (@peter9477)

President of  Engenuity Corporation, an organization that has had extensive experience developing custom software for industry.

Best Open Source Contribution

Kyle Fowler (@kfow35)

Client Developer for foursquare, fourplay app and blaq for BlackBerry Developer

We’d like to give a special shout-out to all those who participated in this year’s 2012 BlackBerry Developer Community Awards!   Please congratulate them on Twitter.   So what did you guys think? Is there a category that you’re gunning to hold the title for the next time around? Let us know in the comments below.

To wrap up the 2011 BlackBerry® Developer Challenge, Research In Motion® (RIM®) and the BlackBerry Partners Fund have announced the final round of Recognition Award winners at BlackBerry DevCon Europe. Overall, we were very excited to see all the apps that were submitted to the developer challenge from around the world – they showcase the creativity of the BlackBerry developer community and your amazing talents. Keep these great apps coming in 2012 and remember to #BeBold!

Congratulations to these Recognition Award recipients! They receive a package with prizes consisting of tickets to the now sold-out BlackBerry DevCon Europe, a BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet, BlackBerry® smartphones and more.

• Best B2C app developed for a customer by an agency or ISV – Yemeksepeti by tmob
• Most useful enterprise application – MDC Mobile Data Collection by Gulliver
• Best website conversion using the BlackBerry WebWorks platform – Salzburger Nachrichten Mobil by Salzburger Nachrichten
• Most creative implementation of Super App characteristics – InStyle.de by ISEC7
• Top performers – Most innovative use of Payment Service and/or Advertising Service – Bellshare
• Academic – Most compelling app created by a student or faculty member – Polar Slide by Dustyroom

For more information on the BlackBerry developer challenge and to read the press release visit: http://www.blackberrypartnersfund.com/challenge.