Texas Startup Blog written by Alexander Muse

ShopSavvy nominated for a 2008 Crunchie!

December 29, 2008

I am pleased to announce ShopSavvy, our mobile barcode scanning application, was nominated for a 2008 Crunchie in the ‘Best Mobile App’ category.  Thanks to everyone who nominated us.  The winner for each category will also be chosen by reader voting. Please vote for ShopSavvy. Voting ends on January 5, 2009 at Midnight PST. You may vote up to once per day.

The 2008 Crunchies is the second annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. The Crunchies are co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, and TechCrunch. Best of all, the internet community is invited to choose who wins.

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Want to learn more?  ShopSavvy™ is a shopping assistant developed for Google’s Android mobile phone platform and is one of T-Mobile’s featured applications in their 2008/2009 US and EU launch. Users can scan the bar code of any product using their phone’s built-in camera. ShopSavvy will then search for the best prices online and through the inventories of nearby, local stores using the phone’s built-in GPS. ShopSavvy won Google’s Android Developer Challenge and is available in Google’s Android Market. Follow us on twitter.

Visit our website at http://www.biggu.com.