UIQ Technology announced the winners of the UIQ Open, a developer competition aimed at finding the most innovative, useful and entertaining third-party applications created with the UIQ open software development platform.

The UIQ Open is an application competition where software developers and software companies submit UIQ 3 applications in different categories on the UIQ Developer Community website. The competition ran from October until the end of December 2007. A jury of experts has spent the past few weeks intensively evaluating the submissions submitted from all parts of the globe. The winners of the competition are now appointed.

The judging panel selected two winning applications in each of the five categories.

• Business: FlyingMoney Manager by FlyingBird Software
• Mobile Documents by VISIARC AB
• Mobility: Handy Weather by Epocware
• IM+ All-in-One Mobile Messenger by SHAPE Services
• Lifestyle: Spodtronic by Liquid Air Lab GmbH
• The World Factbook by jDictionary Mobile
• Entertainment: MicroPool by Gábor Fetter
• Paintball 2 by Crazysoft
• Utilities: Easy Search by WebGate JSC
• GDesk by FiendSoft

Each winner will receive a prize package including: one of the latest UIQ phones; marketing packages for their application; an invitation to the UIQ Developer Fast Track event.