Dow Jones VentureWire Announces Investors' Choice Awards at Third Annual Wireless Ventures Conference.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2004 Award Recognizes 10 Wireless Start-Ups with the Most Potential for Success Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance VentureWire announced the recipients of its Investors' Choice Awards at its third annual Wireless Ventures private-equity conference held in Redwood City, Calif., on April 20 and 21. The award recognizes start-up technology companies that are best positioned for long-term success in the wireless- and mobile-communications industry. The recipients of the Investors' Choice Award, in alphabetical order, are: -- Airvana, Chelmsford, Mass., which provides wireless-data equipment for carriers based on the CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. 2000 1xEV-DO standard (www.airvananet.com). -- Aligo, San Francisco, which provides server software, applications and services for wireless devices (www.aligo.com). -- Good Technology, Sunnyvale, Calif., which provides wireless e-mail and messaging software for handheld devices (www.good.com). -- MetroFi, Mountain View, Calif., which provides residential Wi-Fi broadband network services (www.metrofi.com). -- Microwave Photonics, Los Angeles, which provides a suite of products based on a new switched distributed antenna system As defined by PCIA - the Wireless Infrastructure Association, and it's DAS Forum, A Distributed Antenna System ,or DAS, is a network of spatially separated antenna nodes connected to a common source via a transport medium that provides wireless service within a geographic area or (www.microwavephotonics.com). -- Millennial Net, Cambridge Mass., which provides hardware and software for self-organizing, wireless sensor networks (www.millennial.net). -- PolyFuel, Mountain View, Calif., which provides fuel-membrane technology for portable electronic devices (www.polyfuel.com). -- Sonim Technologies, San Mateo, Calif., which provides IP-based instant communication applications (www.sonimtech.com). -- Visto, Redwood City, Calif., which provides wireless-messaging technology for personal and corporate use (www.visto.com). -- Vocera Communications, Cupertino, Calif., which provides hands-free, voice-controlled communications system (www.vocera.com). The event was produced by Dow Jones VentureWire, which is published by Dow Jones Financial Information Services See Information Systems. , a unit of Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones Newswires is the real-time financial news organization owned by Dow Jones. Founded in 1882, its primary competitors are Bloomberg L.P. and Reuters. The company reports more than 420,000 subscribers -- including brokers, traders, analysts and fund managers -- as of July . VentureWire is the premier source of news, networking and information about private technology companies, venture-capital firms and the people who manage and finance them. More than 300 business leaders, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and industry analysts attended the conference and judged the competition. They selected the 10 award winners out of 54 closely held companies Closely held company A company who has a small group of controlling shareholders. In contrast, a widely-held firm has many shareholders. It is difficult or impossible to wage a proxy battle for any closely-held firm. that were invited to present their business plans. The Wireless Ventures conference examines strategies that can generate revenue and profit in a market where opportunities are increasing, but proven business models are still hard to find. Topics at this year's conference included the spread of mobile wireless via WiFi, opportunities in broadband wireless and WiMAX, the outlook for wireless voice over IP, and the new ways to allocate radio spectrum. Richard A. Shaffer, editor in chief of VentureWire said "the outlook for the wireless industry is getting better and better, and the Investors' Choice Award winners are in prime position to take advantage of these opportunities." Keynote speakers at this year's event included: Sam Arditi, general manager and vice president, Cellular & Handheld Group, Intel; Mark Ashida, general manager, Wireless & Networking Infrastructure; Rajit Gadh, director, Wireless Internet for Mobile Enterprise Consortium, University of California-Los Angeles; Preston Marshall, program manager, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), U.S. government agency administered by the Department of Defense (see Defense, United States Department of). ; John Muleta mu·le·ta n. A short red cape suspended from a hollow staff, used by a matador to maneuver a bull during the final passes before a kill. [Spanish, small mule, crutch, muleta, diminutive of , chief, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. ; and Scott Stainken, general manager, Global Wireless e-Business, International Business Machines. About Dow Jones Financial Information Services Dow Jones Financial Information Services produces focused, sector-specific online newsletters and industry events (www.djnewsletters.com, www.venturewire.com). The group is a unit of Dow Jones Newswires (www.djnewswires.com), which provides real-time news for financial professionals in the equities, fixed-income, foreign exchange and energy markets, and also offers news for financial firms' Web sites. 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