iST iPointer System Selected As LBS Challenge Semi-Finalist

location based services

Orono ME – March 14, 2006 – Intelligent Spatial Technologies, Inc. (iST), a technology leader in location-based services for mobile users, announces the selection of its iPointer system as a NAVTEQ LBS semi-finalist. iST will demonstrate the iPointer system at CTIA Wireless 2006® in Las Vegas in the Navigation / POI Look-up / Traffic category for the final judging.

Over 140 companies entered this year’s NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge with 14 semi-finalists advancing to the final judging, which will be conducted on April 6 at CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas. The contest encourages location-based service (LBS) applications development in portable devices using dynamic positioning technology and NAVTEQ® maps. Contestants enter LBS-based wireless applications in four categories: Navigation, Business Applications, Entertainment and Leisure, and Social Networking. Judges selected the semi-finalists based on each competitor's commercial feasibility, functionality and design.

iST’s iPointer system empowers users to explore a defined area, pointing and learning at will. Users point iPointer’s hand-held device at an item of interest and press a button. Informed of the user’s position through a combination of GPS and digital compass information, iST’s geospatial database identifies the target and sends information over a wireless network to be displayed in text, visuals and audio for the user. The iPointer technology has the potential to be embedded into a number of pervasive computing devices, such as cell phones and PDAs.

About Intelligent Spatial Technologies, Inc.
Founded in 2003 and privately held, Orono Maine based iST develops location-based services and technologies for mobile users. iST has developed the iPointer system, a pointing technology that enables specific content about selected landmarks to be delivered to a mobile user, based on geographic location and orientation. iPointer answers mobile users’ questions “where am I and what am I looking at?” For more information on iST, its technology and products, visit the company’s website www.i-spatialtech.com.

About NAVTEQ
NAVTEQ is a leading provider of comprehensive digital map information for automotive navigation systems, mobile navigation devices, Internet-based mapping applications, and government and business solutions. NAVTEQ creates the digital maps and map content that power navigation and location-based services solutions around the world. The Chicago-based company was founded in 1985 and has approximately 1,900 employees located in 131 offices in 23 countries.

About CTIA WIRELESS 2006
As the premiere global event representing the complete wireless, mobile computing and wireless Internet industries and the largest wireless show in the world, CTIA WIRELESS 2006 brings together all industries within the communications ecosystem and all those affected by wireless technology for three days of intense learning and networking. Visit www.ctiawireless.org.




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