22 August 2011

Poynt Wins First Place in the Productivity & Tools Category of Nokia's Calling All Innovators Contest

Poynt Corporation, a global leader in mobile local search and advertising, has been awarded First Place in the Productivity and Tools category of Nokia's "Calling All Innovators 2011" mobile app and games development contest.

The Nokia Calling All Innovators global competition encouraged app and game developers from around the world to submit mobile apps in 17 categories for the chance to share in a total of $10 million (USD) in cash and prizes. Poynt competed against more than 800 entrants for top honors.

First place winners in each category receive a $150,000 (USD) cash prize and remain in the running to win additional grand prizes which include major marketing campaigns. One game and one application will be chosen as grand prize winners. The grand-prize winners and runners-up will be announced at an award event later this month to be held at Nokia's U.S. flagship office in Sunnyvale, California.

The "Calling All Innovators 2011" Contest used a unique blend of consumer and expert judging to determine the category winners. The initial judging was based on total app downloads by consumers and sales totals in Nokia's Ovi Store.

The top 10 apps in each category (five paid apps and five free apps) advanced as category finalists and were then judged by an expert panel of judges from AT&T and Nokia. Nokia chose this blend of consumer and expert judging to help ensure that the best apps were not only the most popular apps but also provide the best user experience.

"Nokia phones continue to provide great, rich user experiences and Ovi Store continues to grow in popularity," said Andrew Osis, president and CEO of Poynt Corp. "We are honored to be selected as first place category winners and are happy that Nokia users and the expert judges feel our app is worth highlighting."

Poynt is a convenient and timesaving GPS-enabled mobile application that connects consumers to local businesses, events, restaurants, movie theatres, gas prices and weather information at the moment they are looking to buy or acquire products or services. Poynt provides consumers with the ability to move beyond discovery of their local area to view movie trailers and reviews, buy movie tickets, click-to-call businesses, get directions, browse listing websites, read reviews and book dining reservations.

Poynt is available as a free download for users in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Australia on BlackBerry® smartphones, BlackBerry PlayBook™ tablet, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, Android, Windows Phone 7 and Nokia devices from the respective App Stores. Poynt is also available via Over the Air download at m.poynt.com.

About Poynt Corporation Poynt Corp. (about.poynt.com) is a global leader in the mobile local advertising space. Its Location Based Search (LBS) application, Poynt (www.poynt.com), enhances a user's ability to connect with the people, businesses and events most important to them. Poynt is available on iPhone and iPod Touch, Android, Nokia QT and Windows Phone 7 devices, BlackBerry® smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook™ Tablets in Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia. Poynt Corp. entered the mobile publishing space with the recent acquisition of an advertising publishing platform in January 2011. K