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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
NAVTEQ Announces North American Global LBS Challenge Semi-Finalist Winners
CHICAGO, March 1 -- NAVTEQ (NYSE: NVT), a leading global provider of digital map data for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, announced the North American semi-finalists for the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge(TM). The Challenge is a program encouraging application developers from around the world to build innovative location-based service (LBS) applications that work with portable devices using dynamic positioning technology and NAVTEQ(R) maps.
Over 140 companies registered LBS applications, with 14 semi-finalists now advancing to final judging, which will be conducted on April 6 at CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas. The semi-finalists represent a broad spectrum of wireless applications in four categories: Navigation, Business Applications, Entertainment and Leisure, and Social Networking. Semi-finalists were selected based on each competitor's commercial feasibility, functionality and design.
Executives from wireless carriers, hardware and device manufacturers, industry analysts and venture capital firms in the wireless industry will select the 2006 North America grand prize winner from the pool of semi-finalists. NAVTEQ will name one winner per solution category, presenting each with $10,000 cash and $75,000 in NAVTEQ data licenses for up to one year. Of the category winners, one will be designated the Grand Prize Winner, and receive $50,000 cash and $100,000 in NAVTEQ map data licenses for up to one year (in lieu of the category prize).
The following companies and their respective LBS applications will advance to the final official judging at CTIA in April (listed by category):
2006 GLOBAL LBS CHALLENGE SEMI-FINALISTS
Navigation Category
Company: Intelligent Spatial Technologies
Application: The iPointer device associates coordinates received from a
GPS device with a built-in magnetic compass to identify an unknown
landmark.
Company: Skyhook Wireless
Application: A browser toolbar/plug-in, called Loki, that allows WiFi
users to identify their current location and incorporate it into their
Internet browsing session.
Company: TCS
Application: TCS Places is a location-enabled white-label application for
maps, directions and points of interest. TCS Places extends the reach of
leading consumer-brands to mobile consumers by combining branded content
with easy-to-use mobile functionality.
Company: Route 66
Application: An onboard cell phone navigation product that provides turn-
by-turn driving, biking or walking directions.
Business Applications Category
Company: Tierravision
Application: A fully-featured location-based enterprise solution that
allows users to create their own LBS content and share it with other
users.
Company: Astroleap
Application: An application that allows vendors to deliver coupons,
advertise and send special discount offers to a consumer's GPS-enabled
mobile device.
Company: Clarity Communications
Application: Where2Talk(TM) is a location-enabled Push-To-Talk (LEPTT)
application that combines the communication immediacy and group call
capabilities of PTT with location information to create a truly unique
service of particular value to enterprises (using handsets or a desktop
interface).
Company: e-Pro Realty
Application: A real estate LBS solution helping buyers and/or real estate
agents find properties for sale using live data.
Entertainment & Leisure Category
Company: Loc-AID Technologies, Inc.
Application: LOC-AID(R) Treasure is a location-based treasure hunt game
played on a mobile phone.
Company: Cutlass Inc.
Application: A gaming application allowing players to engage in cell
phone-based messaging of proximity clues on where to locate a "host
hideout".
Company: Tikgame
Application: Jewel Chaser(R), a 3D LBS game, puts players in the role of
detective, deciphering clues and navigating their way through the real
world in order to capture runaway thieves.
Social Networking Category
Company: Knowledgewhere
Application: Mobile Pooch allows users to adopt and customize a virtual
pet to share interactive games, buddy lists, and virtual experiences with
friends and family.
Company: Kamida
Application: Socialight is a platform for organizing and distributing
location-based content, allowing personal and professional producers to
publish location-based messages containing images, text and sound.
Company: Proxpro
Application: An application that provides mobile proximity-based social
networking, business intelligence and job seeker tools for the smart
professional.
NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge Awards Ceremony
CTIA Wireless
April 6, 2006 at 3 pm
Rooms N258-260, Las Vegas Convention Center
About NAVTEQ
NAVTEQ is a leading provider of comprehensive digital map information for automotive navigation systems, mobile navigation devices, Internet-based mapping applications, and government and business solutions. NAVTEQ creates the digital maps and map content that power navigation and location-based services solutions around the world. The Chicago-based company was founded in 1985 and has approximately 1,900 employees located in 131 offices in 23 countries.
NAVTEQ and Global LBS Challenge are trademarks in the U.S. and other countries.
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