Concrete Software Nominated Again: 2005 Handango Champion Awards

  • Date: April 15, 2005
  • Posted by: Concrete Software

Today, Handango, the leading provider of mobile downloads, announced the finalists for the fifth annual Handango Champion Awards, which recognize outstanding mobile software developers and their applications. The 2005 Handango Champion Awards finalists were determined by customer votes on Handango’s Web site, www.handango.com, and Handango partner sites.

Winners will be announced at the annual Handango Partner Summit in Miami, Florida on June 23, 2005. Awards will be presented for BlackBerry®, Palm OS®, Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC and Smartphone as well as Symbian OS™ UIQ and Series 60 applications in the following categories:

  • Best Application for Work
  • Best Application for Play
  • Best Application for Life
  • Best New Application
  • Best Industry Application

A complete list of finalists is available at: http://www.handango.com/Awards/2005Finalists.jsp

Concrete Software is nominated for Best Application for Play for its Aces Texas Hold’em – No Limit™.

“It is always a pleasure to honor and reward these extraordinary software development companies and their exceptional applications,” said Randy Eisenman, president and chief executive officer of Handango. “Our customers hand-selected these finalists as the best-of-the-best from Handango’s catalog of more than 50,000 applications. These finalists should be proud of their accomplishment in such a dynamic industry.”

At the luxurious awards ceremony, Handango will also present “Developer of the Year” awards to one company for each mobile operating system. The “Developer of the Year” award acknowledges outstanding overall accomplishments in development, marketing and business practices.

Each recipient of a Handango Champion Award will receive an awards package including a $5,000 marketing stipend, placement in a special edition of the Handango Champion Newsletter and a variety of promotional opportunities. Handango will also feature the winners and finalists on Handango properties and provide additional marketing support to the winners.

New Release: Aces® Omaha

  • Date: February 21, 2005
  • Posted by: Concrete Software

Concrete Software, a leading mobile software company, released its follow up hit to Aces Texas Hold’em™ for mobile phones with Aces Omaha – No Limit™. The new release was immediately noted, receiving an 8 out of 10 rating from What Cellphone Magazine for this months published issue. UK’s best-selling mobile phone buying guide previously made Aces Texas Hold’em – No Limit™ game, the game of the month and was thrilled with Aces Omaha™ calling it “A highly addictive game.”

Aces Omaha – No Limit™ is played very similarly to Texas Hold’em which has become extremely popular being shown on television all over the world. With Omaha each player has four cards and has to use two of the four with community cards to make a poker hand.

Aces® Texas Hold ‘Em, #1 Casino Game

  • Date: February 27, 2004
  • Posted by: Concrete Software

Aces Texas Hold’em, the poker game Concrete Software released in January, has been a big hit with the mobile phone market. Early in February the new Palm version was released and has shot to the top of the Palm Casino list, holding steady as the number one best selling casino game for Palm.

With all the hype and excitement around the Palm release, Concrete Software promises the next version to bring even more poker excitement using all the feedback they’ve received from their customers.