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Ducont WINS at the Microsoft RAD Awards 2003!

Ducont’s Mobile Payments application – mDirham - has won the ‘Special Award – Most Innovative’ category at the fourth Microsoft European Retail Application Developer (RAD) Awards that were held this year in Paris on April 9, 2003. The other nominees in this category for the 2003 RAD Awards were Marks & Spencer and QSA (both from the United Kingdom). Last year’s winners in the same category were Unipower Solutions Europe.

About mDirham
Ducont’s mDirham (or Mobile Dirham) is an innovative, bilingual (Arabic and English) payments solution that promotes mobile commerce using the latest wireless technology. The application superiority stems from the fact that mDirham has brought the general retailers and the government together to have a common payment platform for their services. Consumers can now dynamically shop for goods of even small values while merchants are not burdened with the high cost of transactions that erodes their profit margin. mDirham is a secure, speedy and simple solution that is set to revolutionize online payments and m-commerce.

About the Awards
Year after year, innovative software developers, working both at independent firms and within the IT departments of retail organisations, create applications and solutions that deliver impressive business value to the retail community. Microsoft is pleased to sponsor the RAD Awards Program, which seeks to identify and honour such developers for their accomplishments.

The Microsoft European RAD Awards 2003 dinner was held in conjunction with the Global Retail Technology Forum in Paris, France, on the evening of Wednesday 9th April 2003. At that time, the RAD Award winners were announced in an exclusive awards ceremony.

 

To know more about the RAD Awards, visit http://www.microsoft.com/europe/rad