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Finalists: 2008 Dow Jones VentureWire Wireless Innovations
Intelligent Spatial Technologies
Developers of patented location-based services and technologies that allow users to “point” their cell phones and receive information about selected buildings, landmarks, and points of interest (POIs).
Knowtate™
The creator of a patented solution that hyperlinks anything in the physical world to bring the power of the online world to the real world and enables wireless users to interact with the hyperlinked objects.
Planet 9 Studios
The developer of RayGun™, the first 3D navigation, friend finding and social networking application, enabling users to share their mobile position, see their friends as 3D avatars and communicate with them via SMS or VOIP.
Pongr™
A technology company delivering an enhanced shopping and info-tainment experience by combining mobile phones, the Web and the physical world, offering mobile location-based ads and empowering mobile consumers to quickly and easily check prices via text messaging, mobile cameras and mobile email.
Smarter Agent
A service that combines mobile location technology, such as GPS, with information about real estate, neighborhoods and interesting places around a given location.
Speak With Me, Inc.
A voice-activated technology company that provides a natural language search platform for mobile and embedded devices enabling users to speak to their devices in natural tones.
Spime
A leading provider of end-to-end location-enabling technologies and solutions such as turn-by-turn navigation, location widget platform and secure user plane for location (SUPL) to mobile handset OEMs and ODMs, mobile network operators, LBS platform providers, mobile handheld application developers and semiconductor manufacturers.
Finalists: 2007 Dow Jones VentureWire Mobile Technology Summit
Embience
A mobile technology company that equips brands, advertisers and content providers with tools to build wireless applications and promotions.
Slifter
Using a user's zip code or a phone's GPS/LBS, Slifter allows shoppers to search local store inventory for products, view product information, images and store locations and maps.
RoboCal
A service that allows users to access calendar application information via any phone, as well as related location information.
Smarter Agent
A service that combines mobile location technology, such as GPS, with information about real estate, neighborhoods and interesting places around a given location.
Socialight
Socialight lets you use your mobile phone to discover right here, right now information about places all around you and share it with your friends.
Finalists: 2007 Dow Jones VentureWire Innovations Conference
5o9
A client-server software provider that makes the Internet local, mobile and personal.
Bones in Motion
A location-aware mobile active lifestyle service provider.
Intercasting
Intercasting is a mobile social networking gateway provider.
Slifter
Using a user's zip code or a phone's GPS/LBS, Slifter allows shoppers to search local store inventory for products, view product information, images and store locations and maps.
Locatrix
An Australian developer of mobile social networking and location-based content solutions.
loopt
A social mapping service provider that provides users with automatic updates of friends’ locations via maps on mobile handsets and the web.
Plazes
A Web service for geo-social navigation. Share your location and stay connected with friends.
Spark Parking
A provider of parking management services through wireless sensors and mobile payments.
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