Orange Offers 3DVU's 3D Image Navigation Application, Navi2Go

April 10, 2008 3D Virtual World Mobile Navigation - 3DVU the premier global provider of 3D Image Navigation and Location Services announces product launch with wireless operator, Orange UK (17 million mobile customers) to provide Navi2Go Orange adds Navi2Go, 3D Virtual World Mobile Navigation, to Travel section. Faro, Portugal - Orange Partner Camp - April 10, 2008 -- 3DVU the premier global prov ......

NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge(R) - Americas Winners Announced

April 3, 2008 Ten 23 Wins Grand Prize in Annual Location-Based Developers' Program - NAVTEQ announced yesterday during an awards ceremony at CTIA WIRELESS 2008 that Ten 23 is the Grand Prize Winner of this year's NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge -- Americas. LAS VEGAS, April 3, 2008 -- NAVTEQ (NYSE:NVT) , a leading global provider of digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle navigation, a ......

CTIA-The Wireless Association Announces Best Practices for Location-Based Services

April 3, 2008 WASHINGTON, DC – CTIA- The Wireless Association® today unveiled "Best Practices and Guidelines for Location-Based Services (LBS)." With strong support from the nation's leading carriers and input from LBS providers and industry stakeholders, this voluntary initiative was developed to promote and protect consumer privacy through user notice and consent. "Guarding the privacy of ......

Tele Atlas Announces Call for Entries for 2008 LBS Innovator Series “Maps in Apps” Contest

April 1, 2008 Maps in Apps is part of the Tele Atlas LBS Innovators Series, an ongoing program held in conjunction with Tele Atlas DeveloperLinkSM to help foster innovation and enable application developers to increase their visibility, credibility and success with key participants in the industry including investors, carriers and technology providers. Tele Atlas’ Commitment to Web and Wireless Lo ......

TruePosition Identifies Seven Key Drivers for LBS Success

April 1, 2008 Significant Advancements in Technology, Applications, and Marketing To Boost Uptake of Revenue-Generating Location-Based Services CTIA Wireless 2008 BERWYN, Pa.-- TruePosition, Inc., one of the world’s leading providers of complete, wireless location solutions and a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, today announced the Seven Key Drivers for Success of Location-Based Service ......

Got Content? Unique LBS Content Brokerage Service Launched

March 29, 2008 GPSContent.com seeks to match prequalified content datasets with the right OEMs and applications, for maximum mutual benefit (Boston, MA) March 28, 2008 – Location Based Strategy, a LBS consulting firm, today announced the launch of a new initiative designed to match prequalified content datasets with OEMs and application developers seeking to differentiate their offerings via content ......

Reminder - WHERE Developer Contest (Spring 2008)

March 28, 2008 Hey Developers: Build something cool on the WHERE platform, and you can win cash and major distribution opportunities. We're partnering with some of the biggest names in the mobile industry to award great prizes and really put winners in the spotlight. Start working on the next big thing now. Prizes... Grand prize * $5,000 cash * GPS handset * Receive an applicat ......

Save The Date - Webcast, How to build mobile GPS applications

March 20, 2008 Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 12pm Eastern Time (GMT - 5) How to build mobile GPS applications for the WHERE 2008 Contest Learn how to create an entry for the WHERE Developer Contest. Build something cool on the WHERE platform, and you can win cash and major distribution opportunities. http://where.com/presentation/ live web conference on April 3rd at 12pm noon Eastern Time (GMT ......

Location-Aware Social Networking Feature Enables Location Sharing from Laptops and Phones

March 20, 2008 Skyhook Wireless Announces MyLokiTM the Location Sharing Service BOSTON, MA – March 17, 2008 – Skyhook Wireless, provider of the Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS), today released MyLoki, a new service included in the latest version of the popular Loki location platform. MyLoki is a location sharing service that feeds your Loki location to personal blogs, social networking sites like ......

10 of 15 Semi-finalists in 2008 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge – Americas Are Built on WHERE Platform

March 13, 2008 uLocate Communications has announced that ten of the fifteen applications selected as semi-finalists in the 2008 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge – Americas were built on WHERE™. These semi-finalists used the WHERE Developer Program to turn creative ideas into mobile location based applications. The WHERE Developer Program is North America’s dominant platform for Mobile LBS application de ......

LOCR and Skyhook Wireless To Jumpstart Geo-Tagging

February 29, 2008 locr, the geo-tagging focused photo-sharing community, and Skyhook Wireless, provider of the Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS), today announced a partnership to bring Wi-Fi positioning to locr's geo-tagging community. Partnership the first to bring accurate Wi-Fi positioning to photo market Boston, MA, February 29, 2008 — locr, the geo-tagging focused photo-sharing community, and Sky ......

Watch highlights of the 2008 Awards Ceremony in Barcelona

February 26, 2008 Didn't make it over to Barcelona, Spain for the recently Navteq LBS Challenge awards? No problem as Navteq has now made video clips available for your viewing. Several Video clips provided include: Global LBS challange award, 2008 Welcome Industry Highlights LBS Challenge Highlights Sponsors Awards Ceremony See the videos at http://www.meta-fusion.com/kongre ......

GyPSii partners with Shanghai Rannuo and China Unicom for mobile-location services at Olympic Games

February 22, 2008 GyPSii, the world’s leading geo-location and mobile social networking provider, has partnered with Shanghai Rannuo and China Unicom to launch its GyPSii service during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The GyPSii service combines social networking, mobile, location and web 2.0 technologies to offer China Unicom users a seamless mobile lifestyle experience. It will allow users to crea ......

Reminder - Registration for NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge – APAC Extended One Week

February 21, 2008 NAVTEQ, a leading global provider of digital map data for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions (LBS), has announced that the registration deadline for the Global LBS Challenge – APAC (Asia-Pacific) has been extended from February 29, 2008 to March 7, 2008. Developers Can Now Register Until March 7, 2008 Chicago, IL- February 19, 2008 – NAVTEQ (NYSE: NVT), a leading glob ......

LBSzone Alert, Feb 20, 2008 - A weekly update on mobile technologies and location-based services

February 21, 2008 Another LBSZone Alert has been released... enjoy this edition for the latest developments in the area of location-based services. Hello from the Spatial Media LBSzone... We pick up this week where we left off last Wednesday, below in our spotlights we offer up some notes from the final 2 days at last week's MWC event in Barcelona, Spain... enjoy. Also of interest this week, details of ......

1-800-FREE411 and Dial Directions Expand Free Directory Assistance

February 20, 2008 Jingle Networks & Dial Directions Create DA Industry First; Callers Can Speak Starting Location; Receive SMS With Turn-by-Turn Directions to Any Listing 1-800-FREE411 and Dial Directions Expand Free Directory Assistance to Include Voice-Activated Driving Directions via SMS SAN FRANCISCO & MENLO PARK, Calif.- Jingle Networks, Inc., the leader in free voice search and operator of ......

deCarta Appoints Strategic Sales Director for New German Office

February 19, 2008 Expanding market for LBS services fuels European demand for location and navigation enabling technology from deCarta SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 19 -- deCarta, the leading supplier of software and services for the Location-Based Services (LBS) industry, today announced that it has established a new office in Dusseldorf, Germany, to meet customer needs in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DA ......

Carmenta presents the next generation of maps on mobile phones

February 14, 2008 Göteborg, February 11, 2008 – Carmenta AB, supplier of innovative geospatial technology, today launched Carmenta Mobile at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Carmenta Mobile is a high performance map engine for mobile phones. It is one of the first, if not the first, mobile phone platform able to handle the new kind of 3D map data that is starting to emerge from map data suppl ......

NAVTEQ Announces European Winners of Global LBS Challenge(R)

February 13, 2008 UbiEst wins overall prize in application developers' contest BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 13 -- NAVTEQ (NYSE: NVT), a leading global provider of digital map data for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, announced today at Mobile World Congress 2008 that UbiEst is the European grand prize winner of this year's Global LBS Challenge. The winning application, UbiSafe, is an ......

uLocate Communications Enhances and Extends Buddy Beacon Functionality

February 13, 2008 Revolutionary friend finding service offers cross-carrier interoperability on five mobile carriers, as well as applications on iPhone and Facebook Boston, MA - February 13, 2008-- Today, with the release of a new version of Buddy Beacon™, uLocate Communications introduced the world’s most advanced location enabled mobile friend finding service. With Buddy Beacon, users can choose w ......