Tele Atlas Showcases Finalists of LBS Innovator Series “Attendee Choice Awards” at CES; Voting Now Open
Las Vegas, Consumer Electronics Show 2008, January 7, 2008 — Tele Atlas (FSE: TA6, EUNV: TA), a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location-based solutions, today opened the voting for the annual Tele Atlas LBS Innovators Series “Attendee Choice Awards at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2008.” Based on the usability, innovative use of location information and market potential of their LBS applications, three finalists were selected to demonstrate their new location-based solutions in the Tele Atlas booth (#9841, Central Hall) at CES.
Finalists JotYou, Smarter Agent and Socialight are showcasing their applications at CES with Tele Atlas; a winner will be selected in a live voting event at the conference. CES attendees are invited to view the demonstrations in the booth and then to vote via SMS or paper ballot for their favorite application. To vote via SMS, attendees can select favorite application by sending their vote to 47647 with their choice: TA1 for “JotYou,” TA2 for Smarter Agent, and TA3 for Socialight.
The featured finalists are:
§ JotYou: a location-based messaging system for mobile phones that allows users to send messages to friendsat specific locations and times, set geo-reminders, andmanage geo-games, road rallies, scavenger hunts and more using mapping and tracking. JotYou can run directly on many types of mobile phones, and is also available on the WHERE™ platform; it can use either GPS, or WiFi location technology from Skyhook Wireless.
§ 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: a location-based social media platform, supported by Autodesk® LocationLogic™ and Skyhook Wireless platforms, that lets mobile phone users access and share local information, personal experiences and media from any source, including the community around them.
One grand prize winner will be awarded $25,000 cash and a license to Tele Atlas map data valued at $50,000 and two runners up prizes of $10,000 cash and a license to Tele Atlas map data valued at $20,000. Additionally, Tele Atlas named three semi-finalists in the contest: ISpatial Technologies’ iPointer, V-ENABLE (Mobile411™) and Pongr.
The second annual “Attendee Choice Awards at CES” 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.
About Tele Atlas LBS Innovators Series
The Tele Atlas LBS Innovators Series features the Attendee Choice Awards at CES, the Tele Atlas LBS Innovators Series held at the Wireless Innovations Conference and VentureWire Mobile Technology Summit produced by Dow Jones, and the Maps in Apps contest. More information on the programs, including details for submitting applications, is available at: http://www.teleatlas.com/LBSseries.
About Tele Atlas
Tele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic content that power some of the world’s most essential navigation and location-based services (LBS).The information is the foundation for a wide range of personal and in-car navigation systems and mobile and Internet map applications that help users find the people, places, products, and services they need, wherever they are. The company also works with business partners who trust its digital map data to delivercritical applications for emergency, business, fleet, and infrastructure services. Through a combination of its own products and partnerships, Tele Atlas offers digital map coverage of more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The company was founded in 1984 and today has approximately 2,500 full-time staff and contract cartographers at offices in 24 countries and uses a sophisticated network of professional drivers, mobile mapping vans, and more than 50,000 data resources to deliver highly accurate and up-to-date digital maps. Tele Atlas is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TA6) and on Euronext Amsterdam (TA). For more information, visit www.teleatlas.com.
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For additional information, please contact:
Erin Delaney
Tele Atlas
617-721-1923
erin.delaney@teleatlas.com
Christine Needles
Porter Novelli for Tele Atlas
608-251-0441
christine.needles@porternovelli.com
