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This month’s winner of the celebrated Beta tester award and free EQO prize pack is EQO user Bobby Rohrkemper. Bobby Rohrkemper had been trying for nine months to connect to our servers on his Sony-Ericsson k800i. For nine months (that's enough time to have a baby), whenever Bobby tried to start EQO Mobile he got the “EQO Mobile service is temporarily unavailable” error. Despite what this message was claiming, our fantabulous service has been available, continuously, for the last nine months. Incidentally, this is the second most annoying error message of all-time (the “Data Network Error” being the hands-down most annoying error message of all-time). Bobby, who is on the Orange network in Switzerland, tried every possible solution that he could think of and all of the possible solutions that Chris and I could throw at him. It seemed as if nothing was going to work; however, in mid-February Bobby’s persistence paid off. The combination of a helpful how-to post on our forum, the proper APN for Orange Switzerland (‘internet’), and the application of these settings to Bobby’s Java applications seemed to do the trick. For his patience and stick-to-ativeness, Bobby Rohrkemper incontestably deserves EQO’s Beta Tester of the month award for February!

EQO was announced the winner of the BCTIA Most Promising Startup award last night at a ritzy awards gala in downtown Vancouver. This Yahoo article provides a few more details if you'd like to know more. This is an honour for our team and really affirms all of the crazy hard work we have put in here as a group. Funny thing, as EQO CEO Bill Tam was accepting the award, they showed a movie composed of pictures yanked from my Flickr page mentioned in this post. It's great to be recognized like this, but we still have a lot of work to do. There are a lot of exciting things still to come from EQO, watch out for us.

Chris
EQO Customer Evangelist