Computerworld Announces 25 ''Best Practices in Mobile & Wireless'' Award Finalists for 2006; 10 Honorees from 25 Finalists to Be Announced and Recognized at Gala Ceremony on May 24, in Orlando, Florida.FRAMINGHAM Framingham (frā`mĭnghăm'), town (1990 pop. 64,994), Middlesex co., E Mass., on the Sudbury River between Worcester and Boston; settled 1650, inc. 1700. , Mass. -- Computerworld, the Voice of IT Management, today announced 25 finalists for its annual "Best Practices in Mobile & Wireless" awards program. From this prestigious field of finalists, judging will continue and 10 honorees will be selected and recognized at a gala ceremony on May 24, 2006. The ceremony will mark an upbeat conclusion of Computerworld's upcoming, and fourth annual, Mobile & Wireless World Conference (MWW MWW Municipal Waste Water MWW Most Wanted Website ), taking place May 22-24, 2006, at the Ritz-Carlton
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The finalists for Computerworld's 2006 "Best Practices in Mobile & Wireless" awards program are: Category: Business Evolution through Mobilizing Field Workers Finalists (in alphabetical order by company): GE Consumer & Industrial, Louisville, Kentucky Primerica Financial Services, Duluth, Georgia Streets Heaver, Lincoln, Great Britain Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Austin, Texas Warren County (Public Safety Network), Lebanon, Ohio Category: Deploying Wireless Mobility in the Enterprise Finalists (in alphabetical order by company): Airport Authority Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Children's Medical Center Dallas, Dallas, Texas Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga, Canada Medtronic, Minneapolis, Minnesota US Army, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey Category: Innovation and Promise Finalists (in alphabetical order by company): Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts Coppin State University, Baltimore, Maryland Ripon Police Department, Ripon, California TNT Logistics North America, Jacksonville, Florida Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Category: Managing Cellular Mobile Data Finalists (in alphabetical order by company): Dubai eGovernment, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Electrical Safety Authority of Ontario, Mississauga, Canada Globe Telecom, Mandaluyong City, Philippines Kone b.v. Elevators & Escalators, Den Haag, Holland United States Postal Service, Washington, DC Category: Transforming the "Brick and Mortar" Enterprise Finalists (in alphabetical order by company): Great Plains Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma St. John's University, Queens, New York SureXpress, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha, Nebraska West Edmonton Mall, Edmonton, Canada "Mobile and wireless initiatives in today's enterprises are often examples of the most cutting-edge applications of technology today," said Ron Milton, Executive Vice President, Computerworld. "The organizations and professionals judged to be finalists in Computerworld's 2006 'Best Practices in Mobile & Wireless' Awards Program have demonstrated how true value can be derived from mobile and wireless enablement." Computerworld's "Best Practices in Mobile & Wireless" Awards Program for 2006 is sponsored by Intel and Cingular Wireless. 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