Based on a recent, independent analysis of small businesses, GlassHouse Mobile has named the recipients of their “Best Small Business Mobile Advocate Awards” in three categories.

Runner Technologies, a leading provider of Address Verification and Cleansing software for Higher Education, and AscendoSoft Inc., a software and services Value-Added Reseller with extensive Credit Union experience, today announced a strategic partnership to extend Runner’s CLEAN_Address product suite into the Credit Union and Community Bank markets.

Just in time for the customary round of New Year’s Resolutions-making but way ahead of schedule in already fulfilling them, Cell2Get.com is proud to announce its revamped e-commerce infrastructure to serve web surfers with speed and safety.

BI Consulting Group announced today the winners of the 2009 BICG Insight Award. Honorees include the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), PNC, and Motorola. The BICG Insight Award recognizes excellence, innovation and creativity in the areas of business intelligence (BI) and enterprise performance management (EPM).

Brainlike (www.Brainlike.com) provides proprietary hardware and software solutions that make smart sensors even smarter, transmitting crucial information that is needed for analysis while filtering out false alarms through “noise” or “clutter” during transmission of data. The company’s sensing technology— developed for U.S. military surveillance and refined for commercial monitoring — greatly reduces customers' costs while increasing efficiency for defense, environmental, equipment and human health monitoring.

Discountcell.com, a leading retailer of cell phone accessories, has been certified by the State of Oregon as a Women Business Enterprise. This opens the door for buyers interested in meeting diversity purchasing goals the opportunity to purchase these items at a discount from a certified company.

Internezzzo Media announces the release of the first series of radioactive ringtones created by Henry Gibson. From the mind that brought us "Is the Frog the Farmer's Friend?," "The Alligator" and "My Potato is Falling Off," these unique ringtones come in three flavors: urgent, frantic and berserk. Gibson's wild and wacky comedy ringtones for all ages are available for download at www.thumbplay.com.

Popular Electronics Inc. is a retailer and wholesaler of GSM unlocked cell phones, all multi-region DVD players, travel voltage converters/transformers and 220 volts electronics/appliances since 1998. Popular Electronics has redesigned its website to help customers with their questions and needs for the newest GSM unlocked cell phones. This website provides accurate specifications and prices.

BI Consulting Group, LLC today announced that President and Founder Amy Mayer was selected as a recipient of the 2009 Young Entrepreneur Award presented by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. According to the Business Journal, the awards program was designed to recognize outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic, growing businesses. Mrs. Mayer was selected from a pool of 38 nominations by a panel of independent judges. Award winners were announced in a special pull-out section of the July 24th issue of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.

Stratix Corporation, a leading mobile enterprise solutions innovator, announced its partnership with Vangard Voice Systems, Inc., the innovative provider of the AccuSpeech® Mobile Voice Platform (MVP) for voice powering mobile enterprise applications. These applications enable Stratix enterprise customers to further accelerate their existing mobile applications with faster voice-directed mobile transactions designed to improve mobile worker productivity, increase customer responsiveness and cut operational costs.

Wattpad, the world’s most popular ebook community, provides insight on ebook market penetration in its June 2009 Global Ebook Metrics Report. This comprehensive report covers both country and handset/manufacturer data based on ebook usage of subscribers of over 450 mobile operators in 160 countries.

Highlights from the report:

• Wattpad is the world’s most downloaded mobile ebook applications with 3.1M downloads, at least 60% more than other mobile ebook applications such as Amazon’s Stanza and Kindle.