Press Release: British, Swedish and Austrian entrepreneurs win the EU’s “Nobel prize” for ICT

A communications solution that offers businesses access to fixed-line phone services anytime, anywhere, an automatic scanner that digitises books in minutes and a software translation system that avoids the need for reprogramming are the Grand Prize winners of the European Information and Communication Technology (ICT) awards for 2007. These three Grand Prizes worth €200,000 each, were won by British, Swedish and Austrian firms. Seventeen more prizes, of €5,000 each, were awarded to ground-breaking technologies from five other countries. The 20 prize winners were selected by the European Commission from a record number of 450 applicants, from 30 countries.