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Last month we announced that Absolute Software’s Computrace Mobile was nominated for a  Stevie Award for “New Product or Service of the Year – Software as a Service.” Computrace Mobile has now been selected as a Finalist for the awards!

During the month of preliminary judging, Absolute Software joins 11 other companies listed as finalists in this category. Final Stevie winners will be determined in the final judging that began this week. If you took the time to vote for Computrace Mobile, thanks!

The names of Stevie winners will be announced at the 2009 awards dinner and presentations in New York’s Marriott Marquis Hotel on Monday, June 22.

Absolute Software’s Computrace Mobile has been nominated for a Stevie Award!

The Stevie Awards were created to honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and people worldwide. This is the 7th year of the Awards. Last year Absolute Software’s sales team won the 2008 “Best Sales Team” award, and this year we’re being nominated for “Favorite New Product.”

This new category for the American Business Awards, known as The Stevies, recognizes favorite new products in 12 different business categories. Computrace Mobile is nominated under “Favorite Software as a Service.”

Click here to vote for Computrace Mobile for the People’s Choice Stevie Award for Favorite New Product. You can alternatively go here and enter Short Code I402T to vote. Voting will close on June 1, 2009.

In November, Absolute Software announced a closed beta for expanding Computrace Mobile for  the BlackBerry® platform. On Monday, Computrace Mobile for BlackBerry devices went live!

Computrace Mobile delivers asset management, data protection and geolocation tracking for the popular BlackBerry line of smartphones (versions 4.2.1 and later). A couple of months ago, we shared a beta experience from John Halamka, CIO, Beth Israel Deaconess & Harvard Medical School, who described his experiences using the platform. He has completed the 60 days of beta testing now, saying:

“I depend on my BlackBerry to run five different organizations, $100 million in annual budgets, and 800 emails a day. The Computrace Agent enables me to track my Blackberry via its internal GPS. Also, it enables my staff to track my location to an accuracy of about 20 meters.”

If you’re an existing Computrace customer, you can manage your mobile phones from the same portal. This gives our customers the ability to quickly and easily manage their data devices, reducing operational costs and losses from theft. If a computer or smartphone protected with Computrace goes missing, you also have the ability to remotely delete sensitive data. Learn more from the press release here.

Computrace Mobile is also supported on all Windows Mobile® 5 and 6 handheld devices including the HP® iPAQ, HTC® Touch, MOTO Q™, Samsung® BlackJack and Treo®.

As we announced about a month ago here on the blog and on Absolute.com, Absolute Software has been running a closed beta of its existing Computrace Mobile for the BlackBerry platform!

John Halamka, CIO for Caregroup, is one of our beta testers and he recently shared his experiences with the product on his blog, saying:

“Although the Absolute products are primarily encryption, tracking, and data protection systems, they are also a very cool geotracking system for Blackberry owners (with their consent).”

In addition to recognized benefits of tracking his BlackBerry, and wiping the data if it does go missing, John realized he could share the login for the Computrace Customer Care center with his family, so they’d always know where he was.

I had a chance to correspond briefly with John by email about his experience with the new service. John says that he’s never had a mobile device lost or stolen before, although had a close call when he left a Palm with personal information on an airplane. His current BlackBerry has contact information, no insecure corporate data, but the new Massachusetts Data Protection regulations have prompted an evaluation of products to encrypt / protect corporate mobile devices.

John Halamka was not a previous customer of Absolute Software, so this is his first experience using Computrace. He describes the installation process of the tracking agents to his MacBook and BlackBerry as “seamless”. You can read his full experience here.

Computrace Mobile is expected to be generally available for the BlackBerry for corporate customers in 2009. If you’re a journalist interested in doing a review, contact Absolute for a private demo.

Computrace Mobile currently is supported on all Windows Mobile 5 and 6 handheld devices including the HP iPAQ, HTC Touch, MOTO Q, Samsung BlackJack and Treo 750.