APC Internet Technology Awards 2007
22nd March 2007 - APC congratulates all the finalists and winners of the APC Internet Technology Awards. They were nominated and selected by Australia's toughest judging panel: APC readers. The Awards were announced at a gala dinner at Sydney's Star City Casino Astral restaurant, and sponsored by Microsoft. In attendance were some of the Internet's biggest players, as well as the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts and Deputy Leader of the Senate, the Hon Helen Coonan. Read a transcript of her speech.
 Senator the Hon Helen Coonan speaks at the Awards |
THE WINNERS AND FINALISTS
INTERNET TECHNOLOGY OF THE YEAR 2007
The APC Internet Technology of the Year Award 2007 has been won by Telstra for its BigPond Wireless Broadband on the Next G network service. Wireless broadband delivered over Telstra's next generation 3G network has the broadest coverage of any mobile network in Australia with full broadband speed across the network. It's one of the earliest wide scale commercial rollouts of HSDPA mobile technology in the world. APC readers recognised this as a major achievement.
 Telstra BigPond's managing director Justin Milne accepts the award |
MICROSOFT SPECIAL AWARD FOR INNOVATION
The major sponsor of the APC Internet Technology Awards, Microsoft Australia, provided its own award for best use of Microsoft technologies. It was won by Si-Mi, an innovative social marketplace for digital content from Melbourne.
 Si-Mi, winners of the Microsoft Special Award for Innovation |
ALL THE WINNERS AND FINALISTS
Each of the categories below has three sub-category winners (plus finalists), and an overall category winner. The sub-category winners are the clear winners of their particular segment. The one which most easily won its segment took out the overall category award.
BEST INTERNET DEVELOPMENT TOOL
BEST INTERNET DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM
BEST COLLABORATION & PUBLISHING PLATFORM
BEST WEB SERVER HARDWARE
BEST WEB HOSTING
BEST INTERNET SECURITY
BEST NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY
- Overall category winner: Cisco Catalyst Series 6500 Switch
BEST BROADBAND OPERATOR
BEST WIRELESS BROADBAND
- Overall category winner: Telstra BigPond Wireless Broadband on Next G network
BEST MOBILE INTERNET DEVICE
- Overall category winner: Intel Centrino Duo notebook technology
BEST INTERNET MARKETING TECHNOLOGY
BEST VoIP TECHNOLOGY
BEST WEB-BASED APPLICATION
- Overall category winner: Intranet Dashboard