The time has come to cast your ballots for the 2013 BlackBerry Achievement Awards! Using BlackBerry technology to help power innovation, the awards celebrate ideas coming to life. Everyone is encouraged to vote, so visit the website before April 15^th at 5pm ET to help us determine this year’s winners.

A special category that is near and dear to our hearts is the App of the Year award. This year, Cine Hoyts Argentina, Cooklet, and PriceCheck Pty Ltd have been nominated as finalists. Make sure you check them out before voting for your favorites.

The full list of 2013 nominees is as follows:

App of the Year:

1. Cine Hoyts
2. Cooklet
3. PriceCheck Mobile

Putting Customers First:

1. ING DIRECT Canada
2. LoyaltyMatch Inc.
3. MMMOOO

Mobile Innovation of the Year:

1. DIRECTV Latin America
2. Mippin (Refresh Ltd.)
3. Waytag

Making the World a Better Place:

1. e-Cycle Solutions
2. Sussex Police
3. University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB)

Entrepreneur of the Year

1. EducationApps Limited
2. Nobex Technologies
3. SkyPark Café

This year’s winners will be announced at BlackBerry Live in Orlando, Florida. The award recipients will receive a series of incentives for their participation. Prizes for first place include: travel and accommodations to BlackBerry Live 2013, conference passes, extensive BlackBerry training, BlackBerry 10 smartphones and more.

For more on the BlackBerry Achievement Awards and BlackBerry Live, make sure you visit our landing pages at http://www.blackberrylive.com/special-programs/achievement-awards/about and http://www.blackberrylive.com/ respectively.

Do you have a nominee that you’re rooting for? Let us know who your favorites are in the comments below!

With things winding down here at BlackBerry® Jam Americas 2012, it’s time to wrap up the week and it has definitely been a busy one on the Inside BlackBerry blog family. Donny, Luke and I all agree: It has been one fantastic week here in San Jose. We saw new BlackBerry 10 announcements, great workshops, new tooling, partner demos and even a music video tribute. We were here capturing all the action as it happened. Check out our BlackBerry Jam Americas wrap video. Listen to what the attendees wanted to share and you’ll see what an awesome vibe the show had.

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Thanks for tuning in to another great BlackBerry Jam event, keep it locked to the Inside BlackBerry blogs for more details on upcoming BlackBerry Jam events in Europe and Asia, the new BlackBerry Jam for Enterprise events and of course all your official BlackBerry 10 news.

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