NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenger Extends Registration Deadline to 18 December 2009 for India region
Written by NAVTEQ
Wednesday, 09 December 2009
Prize pool now valued at over $10 million US in cash and data licenses from NAVTEQ and sponsors
NAVTEQ announced the registration deadline for the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge has been extended one week from Friday, 11 December 2009 to Friday, 18 December 2009 for the India region. A completed solution is not required at the time of registration. All India registrants will have until 29 January 2010 to submit their solutions but must first complete registration. The regional winners of the Global LBS Challenge for India will be announced on 29 April 2010 in New Delhi.
The competition is open for pre-commercialized applications for any platform and any device, with a global prize pool of $10 million US. For more information on this year's competition, go to www.LBSChallenge.com.
Sponsors for this year's competition include: Alcatel-Lucent, AtlasCT, Bing Maps, deCarta, DeviceAnywhere, DigitalGlobe, GPS Business News, HTC, Imagination Technologies, Intel, Mobile Distillery, Tanla and The Code Project.
First launched in 2003, the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge is a world-wide competition conducted by NAVTEQ Network for DevelopersT (NN4D), daring application developers around the world to build innovative location-based services (LBS) using dynamic positioning technology and NAVTEQr maps. Integrating the accuracy and richness of NAVTEQ digital map data and LBS content facilitates the timely evolution of the next wave of location-aware applications.
The Global LBS Challenge has become the premier event in the LBS industry for shining the spotlight on global LBS innovation and opportunity. Over 32% of the finalists from the past six years have gone on to receive venture capital funding or launch commercially-distributed applications.
Registration deadlines for the other regions of the competition are as follow:
EMEA: closed
North America: closed
India: 18 December 2009 (extended)
South America: 12 February 2010
Asia-Pacific (APAC): 5 March 2010
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