Award Winners 2006

Changing Times Award Winner

MySQL AB develops and markets a family of high performance, affordable database servers and tools. Our mission is to make superior data management available and affordable for all. We contribute to building the mission-critical, high-volume systems and products worldwide. MySQL AB is defining a new database standard. This is based on its dedication to providing a less complicated solution suitable for widespread application deployment at a greatly reduced TCO. MySQL's robust database solutions embody an ingenious software architecture while delivering dramatic cost savings. With superior speed, reliability, and ease of use, MySQL has become the preferred choice of corporate IT Managers because it eliminates the major problems associated with downtime, maintenance, administration and support.
 

Changing Times Award Runner Up

Sulake is an interactive entertainment company specialized in developing, publishing and distributing multiplayer online games and communities. Sulake's top brand franchise, Habbo Hotel, is an online game environment designed for teens and has become one of the most popular and fastest growing teen websites in the world.



TAGSYS is the global leader in item-level RFID infrastructure. TAGSYS provides RFID systems and tags for end-to-end item-level tracking that automates labor-intensive processes, authenticates and safeguards goods, and enables real-time inventory and asset visibility. RFID tags provide electronic identity to items and are often called smart labels, as they are replacing traditional bar codes.
 

Changing Times Next Gem Award

IIcera is pioneering wireless soft modem platforms for next generation mobile phones and wireless terminals. To enable this, Icera has developed a breakthrough baseband processor and advanced wireless modem technology, which exceed the requirements of manufacturers in delivering high performance, low power and cost-effective multimode wireless devices.
 

Challengers 2006

CCP has the goal of becoming a leading massively multiplayer game company. With the launch of EVE CCP has established itself as one of the leading companies in the field, winning numerous awards and receiving critical acclaim worldwide. EVE Online is the world's largest game universe with over 75,000 dedicated subscribers who play this Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game (MMORPG) in a single, connected environment. Art, technology, and unbridled imagination fuse to create a persistent universe where everyone has a place with a gaming enjoyment that has no boundary. Players take on the role of spaceship pilots seeking fame, fortune, and adventure in a huge, complex, exciting, and hostile galaxy.



"garlik gives individuals and their families real power over the use of their personal information in the digital world. With a pioneering range of semantic-web services, garlik enables consumers to find, manage, correct, remove or even promote details about themselves online. garlik is one of the first web-scale commercial applications of semantic web technology. Hailed as the core of the