Tele Atlas LBS Innovator Series Names Socialight’s LBS App as “Attendee Choice Awards” Winner
Written by Tele Atlas
Thursday, 31 January 2008
Boston, January 28, 2008 Tele
Atlas, a leading global provider of digital maps
and dynamic content for navigation and location-based solutions, today
announced Socialight (www.socialight.com) the winner of the second
annual Tele Atlas Attendee Choice Awards at CES 2008. Based on the
application usability, innovative use of map data and market potential
of their LBS applications, three finalists were selected to demonstrate
their new location-based solutions in the Tele Atlas booth at CES
earlier this month. Visitors to the Tele Atlas booth cast ballots and
SMS votes for their favorite finalists: JotYou, Smarter Agent and
Socialight, with Socialight selected as this years winner.
Socialights location-based social media platform, supported by
Autodesk® LocationLogic and Skyhook Wireless platforms, lets mobile
phone users access and share local information, personal experiences
and media from any source, including the community around them. Through
the platform, users can connect with content and information relevant
to their exact location, almost anywhere in the world.
"It's an honor to be selected as the Tele Atlas LBS Innovators Series
Attendee Choice Awards winner at the world's largest consumer
electronics show," said Socialight Co-Founder Dan Melinger. "We're
passionate about letting people see a new layer of context on the real
world and hope the momentum generated through the Series will pique
additional interest in our platform, and the space in general."
The second annual Attendee Choice Awards at CES was 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.
As the grand prize winner, Socialight will be awarded $25,000 cash and
a license to Tele Atlas map data valued at $50,000. As runners up,
JotYou and Smarter Agent will each receive prizes of $10,000 cash and a
license to Tele Atlas map data valued at $20,000.
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.lbsseries.com.
About Tele Atlas
Tele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic content that power
some of the worlds 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 deliver critical
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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