NAVTEQ, announcdes the
semifinalists of the Americas edition of the NAVTEQ Global LBS
Challenge.
Fourteen contestants have been selected to move on to Final
Judging in Americas and the winners will be announced during an awards
ceremony on April 2, 2009 during CTIA Wireless 2009 in Las Vegas. The
awards ceremony is open to all CTIA attendees and will also be
broadcast live online at www.LBSChallenge.com. The semifinalists, by category, for NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge - The Americas include:
Content
- CellSoul, Inc: Azinfo by CellSoul is a mosque-locator and a location-based timings calculator for Muslim prayers.
- Loci Smart, LLC: Loci Smart provides localized and personalized
content, ads, maps and directions to users based on profile preferences. - Yojo Mobile, Inc: Yojo Mama finds parents what they need, when and where they need it most.
Entertainment & Leisure
- Creativity Software: Rough Guides Mobile Travel Guide is a location
aware city guide with User Generated content and social networking
features. - Cutlass: Hollywood-USA is a GPS tour guide to movie locations
nearest you and includes RSS news feeds from The Hollywood Reporter and
social networked Make-a-Scene.
Navigation
- Gowrabattini, Inc: Where is My Car helps you to never wander for a
parked car - park the car, set the location, navigate back to the car. - TrafficZag, Inc: Traffic Share facilitates location of traffic events such as accidents among commuters.
- Urban Mapping, Inc: URBANWARE Parking provides drivers with
accurate and timely off-street parking information that can be
incorporated into LBS applications.
Enterprise Category
- Duzine.com LLC: GR8USEDCAR’s mission is to help consumers identify, locate and negotiate the purchase of a great used car.
- Lightpole: Trulia is a real estate search application that allows
users to obtain real estate information whenever, however they need and
wherever they are. - T+1 Solutions: Taxi4me on your phone will get you the best and
trusted taxi service for your desired trip, in your home town or when
traveling.
Social Networking Category
- Colombia Games: ToGetThere allows people that want to share a ride
to create a trustful community that helps to save the earth by
traveling together. - Dial Plus Inc: DialPlus enhances the standard phone call experience
by automatically and simultaneously providing dynamic, contextually
relevant visual information about the called or calling party before,
during and after the call is over. - HS Latin America: Dimdix uses location social networking to track your friends and meet people around you.
“Now
in its sixth year, the Global LBS Challenge continues to drive
innovation in the LBS space and surface new, creative,
pre-commercialized LBS applications and the talented developers behind
them,” comments Marc Naddell, vice president, partner & developer
programs, NAVTEQ. “NAVTEQ has once again secured an impressive line-up
of official judges, all of whom have vast experience in evaluating
applications and solutions for go-to-market channels, and reflecting
the diverse value chains where NAVTEQ’s professional grade maps have
created such powerful solutions.”
The Prizes
NAVTEQ and sponsoring companies are
offering prizes that contribute to a global prize pool of over $5.5
million dollars US in cash, tool and data licenses, and handsets,
making the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge one of the industry’s most
rewarding developer competition.