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If you’re like me, you yearn for an awards ceremony that truly means something. After all, exceptional achievement deserves exceptional recognition. This Thursday – tomorrow night – from 5:00-7:00 PM, is one of those opportunities. It is with great honour and pleasure that I announce that EQO has been nominated for a prestigious SPIFFY Award!

The SPIFFY Awards recognize the most outstanding telecommunications start-ups in Silicon Valley, as judged by the members of the Service Providers Forum (SPiF) of the Telecom Council of Silicon Valley. The SPIFFY's consist of 8 award categories (nominees are listed on the event website):

The Edison Award for Most Innovative Start-Up
Ground Breaker Award for Engineering Excellence

The San Andreas Award for Most Disruptive Technology – This award is for the most game-changing startup to present at the SPiF meetings. It is offered to the company whose progress is most likely to disrupt markets, and change the way people do things – SOON TO BE EQO’s!!!

The Fred & Ginger Award for Most Supportive Carrier
Graham Bell Award for Best Communication Solution
The Core Award for Best Fixed Telecom Opportunity
Prodigy Award for the Most Successful SPiF Alumni
The Zephyr Award for Best Mobile Opportunity

If you’re in the Bay Area tomorrow night, make sure to get your hands on some last minute tickets as it promises to be an exciting night. Just think – in just over 24 hours you could be watching our resident hero, EQO CEO Bill Tam, gracefully accepting this year’s San Andreas Award! I have exactly the same amount of time to finish getting ready for the exclusive SPIFFY Awards party that I host at my pad every year... Sorry folks, this one’s by invite only.

For more information on this year’s SPIFFY's, visit the Telecom Council's event site.

It's that time again! Second only to Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa and Chinese New Year's momentous annual events, 2008’s Mobile World Congress (formerly GSMA, now MWC) officially began in Barcelona today.

For those of you who don’t know, this event combines the world’s largest congress for the mobile industry with a leading-edge exhibition that showcases the very latest developments in mobile from around the world (I know, I couldn’t be more excited too!!!).

The Mobile World Congress, which runs from February 11-14, 2008, is the premier event for the global mobile industry, which is why of course that EQO is in attendance again this year! If you happen to stop by the show this year, make sure you come look for our local hero, Bill Tam (of current esteemed EQO CEO fame). He’ll be doing the rounds at the show and would love to talk to you about all the cool and exciting new things that are happening at EQO right now -- like our brand-spanking new awesomely-cool first Facebook application: EQO Vibrator (the name says it all...REALLY).

We also officially announced the GLOBAL expansion of our award-winning Mobile VoIP service at the show today. What does that mean for you, the EQO blog reader? Well, if you don’t already have EQO now couldn't be a better time to get it – no matter where in the world you are. If you already have EQO, make sure to tell all your friends who couldn’t access our voice service (and cheaps texts, and free IMs) in the past that they can now get up and running.

Also, just a reminder to you all that Valentine’s Day is this Thursday – if you’ve forgotten to get your sweetie something like I tend to do every year – be sure to check out MWC if you’re in the area. If you’ve ever been to a huge tradeshow like this, you already know there’s is tons of free swag to be had that would serve as great last minute gift ideas... nothing says loving like corporate branded promotional items.

Lastly, in case attending MWC doesn’t float your boat – and if you live in and around the Vancouver area, today is also the last day to attend the Pontiac GMC Canadian Championships in Whistler, BC, featuring men and women competing in Downhill and Super Combined events on the new Wild Card/Jimmy's/Lower Franz's course – which I highly doubt will be anywhere near as exciting as what’s happening at MWC.

A few weeks ago, at the Symbian Smartphone Show in London, our CEO, Bill Tam, spoke with bnet.TV about the upcoming Symbian version of EQO. Check out Bill's interview with Nicole Scott here.

Peter
EQO Customer Support

EQO CEO Bill Tam recently appeared on the Tech Talk with Craig Peterson podcast.  You should probably listen to it because its tech that talks to everyone.  Seriously now, Craig and Bill give you the run down on what EQO is all about.

Listen to the Podcast here.

Chris
EQO Customer Evangelist

I had previously reported that EQO was named to the 2007 Red Herring Top 100 list for showing promise towards becoming an emerging disruptive tech company. Further to this fantastic news, EQO CEO Bill Tam did an interview with Sean Wolfe of RedHerring.tv. It is a riveting interview that talks about the wireless industry and how EQO fits in. I recommend giving it a watch.

Watch EQO CEO Bill Tam on RedHerring.tv with Sean Wolfe.

Chris
EQO Customer Evangelist

A couple weeks ago I attended DemoCamp Vancouver to give some of the local tech geniuses a demo of the new EQO Mobile. Sadly an iPhone turned up and I got bumped, but I still managed to get some time to show the wonders of EQO Mobile to the interested parties. After the demo I met Tod Maffin who requested an interview with us. EQO CEO Bill Tam was up to the task and here is the end result in video form:

CBC Technology Interview with Bill Tam

Bill talks about the company, the product, and even gives a demo of EQO Mobile in action using a Toronto and a Vancouver phone. If you are interested in seeing first hand how EQO Mobile works, give Bill and Tod a watch. Thank you Tod Maffin for an excellent interview.

Chris
EQO Customer Evangelist

The Right Honorable Bill Tam, CEO of EQO, had the privilege of talking to Michele Steele of Forbes.com last week.

Check out the Video!

Send your fan mail to me and I'll pass it on, he's a busy man.

Chris
EQO Customer Evangelist

Are you a big EQO fan? Have you always wanted to hear the sweet, sweet voice of EQO CEO Bill Tam? If the answer is yes, and surely it is, check him out at the Emerging Messaging Technology Webinar brought to you by Ferris Research. Attendees are in for a real treat because it's not just Bill Tam presenting, a whole slew of technology celebrity superstars will be eloquently informing you of the future of messaging and how their companies fit in. It'll be good times. I'll be there and by there I mean here. Because it's a webinar you can be anywhere, you don't even have to wear pants, but I will be wearing pants and probably my Bill Tam t-shirt to match. Seriously people, despite my unserious plug, this is a serious event and will offer serious insight into cutting edge messaging technology. Most importantly, it's free, check out the rap sheet for more information: