Key to MobileDay win: Everyone has phone

BOULDER — MobileDay Inc.’s chief executive Jim Haid didn’t seem at all surprised when an audience of business professionals at the Boulder Theater picked his company’s mobile application as the Innovation of the Year.

“Everyone here does conference calls,” he said, looking out over the milling crowd at the Boulder County Business Report’s 13th annual IQ Awards event held Oct. 3. “Everyone here has a mobile phone. Everyone here who has tried to set up a conference call on their mobile phones can relate to the frustration, the pain.”

Haid’s Boulder-based company has created a mobile app for iPhone and Android smartphones…