From correspondents in Uttar Pradesh, India, 08:13 PM IST

Impetus Technologies (www.impetus.com), the pioneers in outsourced product development and engineering services has received the Sony Ericsson Developer World India Award 2009. Impetus nominated its highly innovative application “GeoScrapper”- a mobile application which provides Location Based Services and Social Networking.

Great Indian Developer Awards is India’s first and premier awards for the software developer ecosystem that recognizes organizations and products that are contributing to the evangelism, productivity and innovation excellence of the Indian developer ecosystem. The winners were announced and honored at the Great Indian Developer Awards 2009 ceremony held on 25th April,2009 in Bangalore. The three day event was attended by delegates from mobile operators, software companies, equipment providers, Internet companies and media and entertainment organizations. Seven winners qualified for a 100 day mentor program to become a “Sony Ericsson Certified Developer” .

Impetus’ GeoScrapper is a mash up application providing Location Based Services and Social Networking. It is a GPS-based navigation system using Google Maps, where users can share information related to any interesting location by posting scraps and comments within their social community, which then gets displayed on the Map.

Speaking on the achievement, Mr. Praveen Kankariya, CEO, Impetus Technologies said, "We are truly privileged to be recognized in this Award Competition. This is a moment of joy for the entire Impetus family. We have again proven that we are fast becoming a major player in the exciting and high-growth domain of mobile and wireless application software. We are doing some exciting work in the upcoming mobile technology space, and this recognition will only serve to inspire and motivate us more.”

As a winner, Impetus is entitled to “Business and Technical mentorship” program conducted by Sony Ericsson and four industry experts, that will lead to the ‘Sony Ericsson Certified Developers’ certification.

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