Winners Announced For 2002 MIT Sloan eBusiness Awards.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2002 eBay Named "Business of the Year," Vodafone Wins for "Global Reach," RIM Takes "Disruptive Technology A new technology that has a serious impact on the status quo and changes the way people have been dealing with something, perhaps for decades. Music CDs all but wiped out the phonograph industry within a few years, and digital cameras are destined to eliminate the film industry. " MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan today announced the winners of the 2002 MIT Sloan eBAs (eBusiness Awards), which recognize companies and individuals that have successfully achieved excellence in technology innovation. In conjunction with the eBAs and eBusiness Day@MIT, April 17th has been decreed eBusiness Day in Massachusetts by Acting Governor Jane Swift Jane Maria Swift (born February 24, 1965) is an American politician from Melrose, Massachusetts. A Republican, she served as Acting Governor of Massachusetts from 2001 to 2003. Swift is the first woman to serve as a Governor of Massachusetts (albeit unelected). . Winners in nine primary award categories and six industry award categories were named at the 4th Annual MIT Sloan eBusiness Award Ceremony earlier tonight at MIT's Kresge Auditorium Kresge Auditorium is an auditorium building for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located at 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was designed by the noted architect Eero Saarinen, with ground-breaking in 1953 and dedication in 1955. . Primary Award Category Winners -- Communications Technology - Research in Motion -- Financial Services - E*Trade -- Health Care - Inhale Therapeutic Systems -- Internet Services - eBay -- Media / Entertainment - ReplayTV (SONICblue) -- Operations - General Electric Atheros Communications -- Global Reach - Vodafone -- Enabling Technology - NTT DoCoMo (NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc., Japan) Founded in 1991, NTT DoCoMo is a spinoff of Japan's NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) which provides wireless services, including cellular, paging, satellite and maritime and in-flight telephone services. -- Social Responsibility - Grameen -- Business Transformation - IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) -- Rookie of the Year Rookie of the Year may refer to:
-- Disruptive Technology of the Year - Research in Motion, Blackberry, PDAs -- MIT Students' Choice: Google.com Industry Award Category Winners: -- Communications Technology - Research in Motion -- Financial Services - E*Trade -- Health Care - Inhale Therapeutic Systems -- Internet Services - eBay -- Media / Entertainment - ReplayTV (SONICblue) -- Operations - General Electric "Together with the eBAs, the Center for eBusiness@MIT has watched e-business transform the economy while creating new opportunities and challenges, and the eBAs, born during the dot.com boom, continue to recognize technology innovation in business today," said Glen Urban, co-director, Center for eBusiness@MIT. "As e-business evolves further and becomes an ever more important part of business, the eBAs and the Center for eBusiness@MIT look forward to continued recognition of leadership in this field." "We are thrilled to honor this year's winners, who have shown strong leadership and innovation in using e-business technologies to achieve success across multiple industries," said Jay Livens, eBAs co-executive producer. "The landscape of e-business has changed dramatically since last year's awards, but we believe that in this economy, implementing e-business technologies is more important than ever. This year's winners have embraced e-business as a core ingredient for success." Full descriptions for each award category can be found at www.mitawards.org/awards_categories.asp. In addition to this year's nine primary award categories, six industry-focused awards were added to recognize e-business leadership in vertical markets. Award nominations opened on November 1st, 2001, and by January 18th, when nominations closed, 784 nominations had been submitted. This year's 784 total nominees marked the most in the eBA's four-year history and underscore the Awards' growing popularity among business leaders, technology innovators and their influencers throughout the world. Winners were selected through several phases of evaluation involving MIT Sloan students and industry, media and academic experts. For more information on the eBAs, please visit www.mitawards.org. About the Awards The MIT Sloan eBAs were founded in 1999 to recognize and award successful innovation in eBusiness. The awards, which are entirely student run, have quickly become the premier event recognizing global advances and leadership in the field of eBusiness. This reputation is largely due to the support and sponsorship of leaders in the academic and business communities. Previous sponsors of the Sloan eBAs include Fleet, Scient, Dell, GM, Visteon, Nokia, Microsoft, British Telecom The telephone and communications carrier that provides services in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It used to be a division of the British Post Office, but was privatized in 1984 under Margaret Thatcher's administration. , PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. . Jury members responsible for choosing the winners of past shows have included Michael Dell Michael Saul Dell (born February 23, 1965, in Houston, Texas) is the founder and CEO of Dell, Inc. Biography Early life and education The son of an orthodontist, Dell was born in to an upper-class Jewish family and attended Herod Elementary School in Houston, , Bill Porter, the editors of Newsweek, Red Herring Red Herring A preliminary registration statement that must be filed with the SEC describing a new issue of stock (IPO) and the prospects of the issuing company. Notes: , The Financial Times and Fast Company and the chairmen and CEOs of Nortel, BellSouth and Intel. |
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