Awards

Al Gore and the BBC win International Emmy Awards

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By Chris Michaud

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore won another honor on Monday when he received the Founders Award at the International Emmy Awards, which also gave a top prize to a controversial British television film about the assassination of President George W. Bush. Read more

Posted on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Idol Worship at American Music Awards

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By Dean Goodman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The American Music Awards resembled a greatest-hits version of "American Idol" on Sunday, as two former contestants of the hit talent show, Chris Daughtry and Carrie Underwood, each won three prizes. Read more

Posted on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

MTV Europe Awards rapped for ignoring local Acts

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By Lars Brandle

LONDON (Billboard) - The latest edition of MTV's Europe Music Awards was designed to resolve carping about a lack of exposure for European acts on the global broadcast. But the jury's still out as to whether it succeeded. Read more

Posted on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Wii Sports sweeps Board at Game Awards

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LONDON (Reuters) - A Nintendo computer game that allows players to practice their golf swing or fine-tune their tennis stroke in their living room has won six Bafta awards. Read more

Posted on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Eclipse 500 Very Light Jet is big Winner of 2007 IDEA Awards

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The results of the 2007 International Design Excellence Awards (2007 IDEA Awards) have been announced. The awards, sponsored by BusinessWeek, are presented by the Industrial Designers Society of America.

The big winner is the Eclipse 500 Very Light Jet by design firm IDEO and Eclipse Aviation. The Eclipse jet won in IDEA's research, interaction design, and transportation categories.
Overall the Eco Jet got two gold IDEAs and one silver award plus one Catalyst honorable mention. More details about the Eclipse 500 can be found on the Eclipse Aviation site. Read more

Posted on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:21:16 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Human Giant use Twitter at the MTV Movie Awards

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Social messaging service Twitter gets some exposure at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday. The guys from the MTV Show Human Giant are twittering live as they get ready for the show, walking the red-carpet and being in the audience.

So in case watching the MTV awards on TV is not enough, you can check out on Twitter what the guys are up to.
Quote from the Human Giant blog:
"Follow us during the Movie Awards with Twitter. Seriously. All of us are going to be Twittering throughout the night. We’ll be on the red carpet, backstage at the show and hitting the after parties, so you know we’ll have lots to say about it all. Stuff like who was robbed, who hooked up with who, who drank too many soda pops, etc. " Read more

Posted on Sat, 2 Jun 2007 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Japan Game Awards 2006: PS3 wins 3 and Wii gets 1

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The Japanese Game Awards 2006 have been announced. These awards are part of the Tokyo Game Show.

In the future division, Sony won 4 awards for Sony PS3 games. Nintendo only has won one award.
The award winning PS3 games are: Gran Turismo HD, THE EYE OF JUDGMENT and Heavenly Sword. Read more

Posted on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

The 10th Webby Awards Nominees Are Here

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The Webby Awards Nominees were named in over 65 categories today.

New categories this year include Political Blog, Business Blog, Podcast, and Best Use of Video or Moving Image. NPR received with six the most nominations of any organization this year. Voting is open now. Cute Overload made it into the best Blogs, which is cute.

Winners will be announced on May 9, 2006 and honored at The 10th Annual Webby Awards on June 12 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. The gala event, hosted by comedian Rob Corddry (he is funny alright) of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Read more

Posted on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:26:20 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Blog-X Awards - Vote for I4U Network Member Gear Live!

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Andru Edward's Gear Live Blog got nominated for the Blog-X Awards.

Gear Live is under the final 10 blogs in the Blog-X Awards. Techweb is giving the Blog-X Award to the best independent tech blog of 2005.

Gear Live is on the I4U Network since day one and has grown rapidly in very short time. We are very proud to have them in our network.
Please Vote for Gear Live, so Andru can stay awake around the clock the next year with the $500 Starbucks Coffee Card TechWeb is awarding the Blog-X winner.
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Posted on Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:08:11 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

The Webby Awards have been Announced

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The most famous internet awards have been handed out again. Interestingly several prestigious categories have been won by UK sites.

BBC News won in the news category and The Guardian won the Newspaper category. UK's Virgin Radio wins the Radio category. BBC also scores in the Music category. Are US sites loosing their edge?

See all Webby award winners here. See also this press-release.

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Posted on Wed, 4 May 2005 01:17:05 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Computex Trends and Awards

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Asus P505 wins Computex award. The Computex 2004 Trade-Show attracted this year close to 118,000 visitors. That is 16 percent more compared to last year.

One big trend were Personal Video Players. MacWorld UK and The Register have good articles about that. This Christmas MP4 player will be much bigger than they are now. Many manufacturers will be offering them.
Large LCD TVs were another focus point for the Computex. Digitimes has a story with photos about the LCD TVs exhibited.

Computex also puts out awards. Asus wins an award in the mobile products category for its P505 Smart Phone. First International Inc wins in the same category with a bluetooth enabled MP3 Player.

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Posted on Tue, 8 Jun 2004 00:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

CES 2004 Innovations Awards

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On December 15, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
announced the Best of Innovation Awards.

A lot of the winners are products that we have featured on I4U. The Fisher (aka Sanyo) Pocket Digital CamCorder won in the category Video. In the wireless communications category the HipTop (aka Sidekick) from Danger won. Another one worth mentioning is the TAZ MP4 Player, which won in the personal electronics category.

UPDATE 01/08/04:
CES 2004 Live Report

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