A Danish company that provides switchboard services for corporate mobile phones, a Czech startup that organizes Internet news into more than 650,000 categories, a Swedish maker of technology that lets users control their computers just by moving their eyes, and a French startup that simplifies the problem of creating content for hundreds of different brands of cell phones. These are some of this year's winners of the Red Herring 100 award for the best startups in Europe in 2008.

The list of 100 winners was announced Tuesday at the Red Herring Europe conference in Malta. With more than 200 attendees including entrepreneurs and investors, the conference focuses on the specific challenges of entrepreneurship in Europe and serves as a showcase for many of the Red Herring 100 Europe winners and the 100 finalists who did not make it into the winners’ circle.

Celebrated winner Newstin, the Czech upstart, started out developing knowledge management systems, but it now focuses on aggregating news in 10 languages, ferreting out content from 150,000 news sources around the world. Tobii, based in Danderyd, Sweden, has developed products enabling the severely handicapped to use computers but foresees much wider application in the mass market. Streamezzo, based in Paris, provides a development platform that reduces the headaches of publishers who want their content to appear on mobile phones that use a broad and growing diversity of operating systems and technologies.

The complete list of winners follows.