Tele Atlas Announces LBS Innovators Series Finalists

location based services

Finalists to Present Applications at Dow Jones VentureWire Wireless
Innovations Conference
SAN FRANCISCO, April 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wireless Innovations
Conference -- Tele Atlas (FSE: TA6, EUNV: TA), a leading global provider of
digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location-based
solutions, today announced the finalists of the Tele Atlas LBS Innovators
Series event held in conjunction with the Wireless Innovations Conference
produced by Dow Jones VentureWire.
Based on the business potential of their LBS applications and
attractiveness to venture capitalists, eight finalists were selected by Dow
Jones to present their new location-based solutions to venture capitalists
and industry experts at the 2007 conference, being held this week at the
Sofitel San Francisco Bay in Redwood City, CA. This exclusive opportunity
is a key component of the ongoing Tele Atlas LBS Innovators Series, a
program designed to help enable wireless application developers to expand
their visibility, credibility and success with key participants in the
industry, including investors, carriers and technology providers. The
featured finalists are:
-- 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, a mobile social networking gateway provider;
-- GPShopper, a mobile marketing technology company connecting consumers
to offline, real-world purchase point locations;
-- 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; and
-- Spark Parking, a provider of parking management services through
wireless sensors and mobile payments.
"The Tele Atlas LBS Innovators Series is designed to help foster
ground- breaking application development and we are pleased to help shine a
spotlight on the exciting and fast-growing LBS developer community," said
Darren Koenig, wireless market director, Tele Atlas. "By collaborating with
Dow Jones to bring together pioneering LBS application companies with
representatives from the industry community, we hope to further increase
awareness for this burgeoning market, as we all work together to cultivate
the next wave of applications."
For additional information regarding the Dow Jones VentureWire Wireless
Innovations Conference, please visit
http://wirelessinnovations.dowjones.com/.
To learn more about the Tele Atlas LBS Innovators Series and upcoming
events, including a series of Digital Mapping Webinars, please visit
http://www.teleatlas.com/LBSseries.
About Tele Atlas DeveloperLink
Tele Atlas DeveloperLink is a free online networking resource for
developers of Internet, mobile, and other next-generation digital map
applications. The service provides sample data, technical tools, and
business resources to help developers reduce time to market and increase
their potential for success. Members gain access to Tele Atlas' peerless
database of geographic content, and to the world's largest community of
geographic application developers. Developers can sign up to receive
additional information via Tele Atlas DeveloperLink(SM) at
http://developerlink.teleatlas.com
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.
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. Tele Atlas also works with business partners who trust its digital map
data to deliver critical applications for emergency, business, fleet and
infrastructure services. The company was founded in 1984 and today has
approximately 2,400 full-time staff and contract cartographers at offices
in 24 countries. Tele Atlas 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 http://www.teleatlas.com.
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