AT&T has announced that TuneWiki, a social media player app, won the top prize in the company's Fast-Pitch Platinum Awards contest, while Boopsie, a mobile search app, won the grand prize in the enterprise app development contest.

AT&T said it is the first major telco to have a developer relations program and now has more than 20,000 developers registered in its program which encourages them to make apps for handsets running on various platforms such as BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Java, Palm OS and Symbian.



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The company said TuneWiki and Boopsie bested 100 mobile consumer and business apps that took part in the 4th annual Fast-Pitch Platinum Awards contest held at CTIA Wireless 2009 in Las Vegas.

TuneWiki, which bagged the $25,000 grand prize in the consumer category, will be promoted on AT&T's premier wireless application portal MEdia Net, which may be accessed by over 77 million wireless customers across the US.

"TuneWiki is a social media player application that offers song lyrics synchronized to the music playing on select music-enabled mobile devices in real time. Available for a variety of devices, TuneWiki also offers location-based technology to signify nearby users currently listening to TuneWiki, along with the playlists of those users," said AT&T.

Also winning $25,000, Boopsie "uses a multi-prefix incremental search from the device and then creates special indexes from any target data store to pull up results incredibly quickly".

"It allows businesses to create applications quickly and easily to share information with their employees or customers. Boopsie recently launched this capability with its real estate multiple listing service application and WorldCat library application, making it simple for businesses to share any information on a mobile device," said an AT&T press release.

The company adds that "Boopsie's platform allows anyone that can create a spreadsheet to create downloadable native mobile applications for Android, BlackBerry, J2ME, Palm OS, Symbian S60, Windows Mobile and iPhone. These applications are feature rich with mapping, location/LBS integration and support native services such as click to call, email and others."

Once it passes testing and certification, Boopsie will be featured online and in print versions of the AT&T Certified Solutions Catalog.

Named the winner among 50 consumer application developers, The application offers lyrics in multiple languages (English, Japanese, Hebrew and Korean), and features a one-click music video link, music maps and charts based on actual playback count.