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International Award for Innovation

Shortlisted entries for the Big Chip International Award for Innovation

The Big Chip International Award for Innovation celebrates 10 years of Big Chip and 60 years since the invention of the first stored program computer in Manchester.

This category is open to any project from anywhere in the world. Anyone can nominate their own project, or a project executed by a third party.

"Nominated projects must demonstrate exceptional innovation in digital media or digital technology. Example projects might be a new on-line service, a new use of digital technology in a product or service, or a new Internet business model."

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Cybertill Ltd

Cybertill creates breakthrough technology in USA and Canada

- The project was the migration of the EPoS system used in the UK by one of Cybertill's customer for use in their North American stores.

- At the same time, we developed a ground-breaking new system which enabled handling of the complex North American tax regimes for each transaction at the point-of-sale in real-time.

- We used the US Certi-Tax application to do this. Certi-Tax is primarily for accountants. We stretched its boundaries, at the same time creating a new retail market place for the product.

- For our customer, this breakthrough has eliminated manual and time-consuming processes.

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New Concept Gaming Limited

jOG

jOG is a unique standout video games accessory that will work with existing games consoles and games. It enables users to enjoy their favourite video games with an exciting immersive experience in game control similar to Virtual Reality, whilst at the same time benefiting from aerobic exercise – i.e. if you want to run in the game, you really have to run on the spot to go.

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PhoneFromHere.com

PhoneFromHere.com

Voice remains the most efficient human interface. No other means allows people to communicate complex ideas so quickly. PhoneFromHere.com brings voice communication to the web, and makes it as easy as just speaking. This isn't like Skype or Click-to-Call. There's no software, no configuration, no forms and no phones. You just talk, and the webpage becomes your handset. You can talk to individuals or whole communities.

The service is currently available for iGoogle, MySpace, LinkedIn and Tesco's internet phone. It forms a key part of the Twiddla.com online collaboration tool, winner of an innovation award at SXSW 2008.

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Last Year

• The Big Chip Innovation Award (which was open to North West entrants only) was won by 3Bview with 3Bclean
• Winners of the Best Use of Homeworking award Yuuguu were also awarded a commendation for the Big Chip Innovation award