duzine.com LLX's Beacon allows any J2ME GPS-enabled cell phone to map, track and share its geographic location.The companion website enables users to provide additional details, publish locations to a MySpace widget, interact withothers nearby, upload photos, and perform a host of other actions associated with their physical location.Elloqor Solutions Inc.'s Milogo is a friend-finder service that works across wireless carriers. Milogo shows location offriends and colleagues on a map displayed on mobile phones, integrates text messaging to facilitate the coordination ofsocial gatherings and copies text messages to recipient's email.Jentro Technologies GmbH's activepilot offers local search, car and pedestrian off board navigation with traffic avoidanceand spoken street names, traffic information on commute routes, public transportation and flight information, personalsecurity and community services information.loopt, inc. delivers a social mapping service. Using location-based technologies, loopt lets users know where their friendsare by automatically updating their locations on a map on their mobile handset and the Web."The prevalence of location and navigation services in the wireless industry today can be attributed to the innovationdemonstrated by the LBS developer community, and demonstrated by proven companies such as Smarter Agent. TheGlobal LBS Challenge strives to foster and accelerate developers and the LBS industry," commented Winston Guillory,Senior VicePresident - Consumer and Enterprise, NAVTEQ. "NAVTEQ is impressed with the caliber of submissions received andanticipates a robust judging event and awards ceremony at CTIA in Orlando."The 16 semifinalists will be judged by an elite panel of executives from wireless carriers, hardware and devicemanufacturers, industry analysts and venture capital firms in the wireless industry. NAVTEQ will name one winner persolution category, presenting each with $10,000 cash and $75,000 in NAVTEQ data licenses for up to one year. Of thecategory winners, one will be designated the Grand Prize Winner, and receive $50,000 cash and $100,000 in NAVTEQmap data licenses for up to one year (in lieu of the category prize). In addition, many of the Global LBS Challengesponsors, including Autodesk, deCarta, ESRI and KnowledgeWhere, are also offering cash and prizes to the winningsubmissions. The global prize pool is valued up to an unprecedented $2 million. All winning applications will beannounced at the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge Awards Ceremony at CTIA Wireless 2007 -- 3 pm on March 28, 2007,in Orange County Convention Center's Valencia Ballroom.About Smarter AgentSmarter Agent(R) is creating a communication revolution by combining the powerful capabilities of mobile location basedservices (of which GPS is the most well-known technology) with real estate content about properties, neighborhoods andinteresting places around you. CTIA, the telecommunications industry association, named Smarter Agent the Winner inits Emerging Technology Awards LBS/GPS category. Smarter Agent has been awarded 3 patents governing the use ofGPS and location-based services in the real estate vertical.For more information, visit http://www.smarteragent.com.About NAVTEQ
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