Ralph was elected at the Telecom Day 2003, the Dutch mobile industry annual event. The candidates were selected by a professional jury, including KPN Mobile's CEO Cees van den Heijkant and Unico Glorie, prior Board Member of Endemol. Ralph Cohen, who has more than ten years of entrepreneurial experience in international sales, marketing and business development for Internet, multimedia and wireless technology, was delighted with his nomination.

The platform will support both JAVA- as well as SYMBIAN-enabled mobile devices. A very large content portfolio is already available, including news, sports, music clips and bloopers. IceMobile expects its content portfolio to be extended over the following months with both national as well as international content. Consumers can very easily download the required video player by sending an SMS to the systems of IceMobile. Video's will be offered through IceMobile's own channels and through third parties, such as Mobile Operators.

The application is to provide cyclist fans with real-time information during the entire Vuelta tournament. Information includes the current position of the cyclists, the overall ranking, daily news items and a comprehensive map of the daily stage, with the current position of the leading group.

The application, to be launched on Vodafone Live!, enables consumers to send an MMS as a postcard to a physical mailbox. The only thing consumers have to do is to send a picture with their mobile phone, together with a short text and a postal code. The addressee receives the postcard at home within two days.

Mobile Sports Trackers are innovative JAVA -applications for mobile phones that enable sports fans to keep track of their favorite sport, player or sports event, anytime, anywhere.
Through a direct connection with Europe's largest Sports databases, every major sport event can be offered real-time in a dynamic way using customized state-of-the-art graphical interfaces. The JAVA-applications require a one-time download by an End-User to any JAVA-enabled mobile phone. All popular sports are offered!
Once downloaded, the application provides users via GPRS with real-time information such as scores, rankings, news, statistics and more. Other functionalities are possible, including the integration of pictures, video's of goals and other key events.
Mobile Sports Trackers can be provided in a fully personalized look & feel.

The Excellence in Digital Media Award reward European?s most innovative New Technologies & Content formats. Special attention is set on the design, production and delivery of the concept. Six companies, originating from six different European countries, were nominated for the prestigious award by Van Dusseldorp & Partners.

MeJay, the virtual VJ, wins the TV Meets the Web Excellence in Digital Media Award. The award, in its first year, is for the most innovative and effective, multi-platform content concepts.

Amsterdam, May 19 - MeJay, a virtual VJ application and concept developed by IceMobile, a mobile application developer, in cooperation with EasyConcepts, a rich media and interactive marketing solutions provider, has won the TV Meets the Web Excellence in Digital Media Award.

The award, in its first year, is for the most innovative and effective multi-platform content concepts. Companies entering had to demonstrate concepts involving a combination of television, radio, internet, mobile services, print, outdoors media and partners.

MeJay is an application that allows viewers of TMF, a full MTV Networks daughter, to take control over their TV. By surfing to the TMF site, viewers can create a virtual VJ and add a spoken message through the phone. The most original and best MeJay's are aired seven days a week between 21:00 and 22:00.

The TMF site allows complete customisation of a MeJay. Subsequently the viewer can enter his personal and unique presentation through a phone. Thanks to the software, MeJay will lip-sync the message entered by the viewer. Once finished, the viewer sends his message via the internet directly to the TMF TV studios and receives an SMS when their message is about to be aired. MeJay can be experienced at http://www.mejay.net/presentation

The integration of TV, internet and telephone fits perfectly into the European strategy of MTV/TMF and will be exported to other European MTV stations in Europe throughout the year. It is also being trialed by MSN in the UK. MeJay has already won the Silver Spin Award, a Dutch media award, in 2002.

"The jury was impressed by the simplicity and creativity of the MeJay concept, with its personalised and animated cartoon, combined with the viewer's voice recorded by telephone. Multi-platform concepts are often difficult to realise, and it is strong and easy to understand combinations like Mejay that involve audiences the most. In addition, the format provides the broadcaster with cheap but entertaining programming, as well as a small revenue stream through the premium rate phone calls," explains Monique van Dusseldorp, CEO and Founder of Van Dusseldorp.

The award was presented at Van Dusseldorp's 5th Annual TV Meets the Web Seminar, held last week in Amsterdam, and the winner was selected from a shortlist of six finalists. The event explored how the digital media industry in Europe is restructuring to achieve profitability.

As a result of winning the award, ICEMOBILE and Easy Concepts will receive a year's free membership to the Van Dusseldorp Corporate Network that is valued at Euro 13,000 and provides:
* Extensive presence and promotion across online properties (Europemedia.net, TV Meets The Web);
* Participation at Van Dusseldorp industry events
* Copies of research and market data reports and four free days research a year

Special attention is set on the design, production and delivery of the concept. Six companies, originating from six different European countries, are nominated for the prestigious award.
IceMobile will present its concept during the TV Meets the Web Seminar on May 15th and 16th 2003 at The Royal Tropical Institute, in Amsterdam.

It was launched by IceMobile, in cooperation with MTV, in January 2003. Mejay is unique because it combines, for the first time, TV, Internet and (mobile) phone.
The SpinAwards are THE awards in the Netherlands for creativity in interactive communication. They are awarded yearly to the best concepts in the business. To win an Award the case should not only excel in creativity but also in effectiveness. Because that is the main target in interactive communication: seeing, experiencing and doing!

Companies including among others Microsoft and Bertelsmann, will be among the first to launch FaceClip. Other European and non-European countries are planned over the next months.