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The Editor Glenn Letham Hello from the Spatial Media LBSzone... Wow, I go away for one day and look what happens... I'm sitting in on a meeting with some Forum Nokia execs at Adobe MAX and they ask me if I've heard that Nokia bought Navteq... I almost dropped! I heard the big news while getting the low-down on what Nokia will be doing with Flash and more specifically Flash Lite now at release 3. IMHO this is also pretty huge when you consider this, Nokia is essentially an Internet company (and you thought they simply made phones!). With some 900 million Nokia devices out there the company now boasts an even larger developer community (3.4 million Forum Nokia members + the Navteq developer base) the company is the largest enabler of Internet connectivity out there. With a firm commitment to shipping Flash 3 enabled devices and now the assets and geospatial data holdings of Navteq thrown into the mix you can see how significant developing for the mobile device user is going to be. Enter Adobe... I admit I'm not terribly familiar with their portfolio, but after yesterday I'm convinced that the application devlopment tools they are providing are second to none.

It was first thing Monday morning when I saw the announcement... Forum Nokia had launched a new developer community, one focused on Flash and dedicated to helping the developer port Adobe Flash content to the mobile environment... pretty huge really! The developer portal is part of a larger mandate of the company to support Adobe Flash Lite 3.0 as part of a strategy to deliver a rich Internet experience to Nokia device users. So to recap, simply put, the Creative Pros developer community now exists to help the developer optimize existing Flash desktop content for the latest Nokia mobile devices. See www.forum.nokia.com/creativepros. If your at all curious about these developments then I urge you to check out a few of the useful resources that these players offer. These include Forum Nokia; Nokia Creative Pros Community (for everything and anything mobile and Flash!); MOSH (think mobilize and share); The Adobe Developer Connection; Adobe AIR Developer Center (useful for Flex, Flash or HTML/Ajax developers). Stay tuned for more on this. Not interested in mobile geospatial application development yet? Perhaps you should be!

[Send your comments, announcements, tips, tricks, gripes, or kudos to Glenn
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The 2008 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge

Eight previous NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge® participants have received venture capital funding and nine past LBS Challenge winners have launched commercial applications on major wireless carriers.

Register your non-commercial LBS application in the 2008 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge in one of three regions: Americas, Europe-Middle East-Africa (EMEA) or Asia-Pacific(APAC). This could be your year.

Dream. Develop. Win
  


RECENT LBSZONE FEATURES

You'll find regular feature articles, commentary, application spotlights, developer zone tips and other original feature content at LBSzone. We're also open to your article submissions so if you have an LBS focused paper, solution, case study, or other article feel free to contact us and send us your submission - info@lbszone.com is open 24/7 around the Globe!
Analyzing the Impact of Nokia’s Acquisition of NAVTEQ - Ok, the news of the acquisition has settled in now but what what does it really mean and what does it means for Navigation, Mobile 2.0 and the GeoWeb? Blair Swedeen is the Principal of Partenza Consulting, a consultancy providing strategy, product, marketing and business development consulting services to the Location-Based Services industry. Previously, he spent three years managing NAVTEQ's pedestrian mobile content product line, Discover Cities. Blair provides our sister resournce at LBSzone with some insight and analyzes the $8+ billion deal.

Sony Ericsson Application Shop: More Than Just Selling A market for third-party applications and content is an integral part of the smartphone promise. Educating users about the capabilities of their smartphones is key to realizing this promise. Recent changes in Sony Ericsson's tactics are designed to address this issue. Richard Bloor over at our partenr site on SymbianOne jumps in and covers this topic.

 
Win $25,000 when you put Maps In Your Apps!

Location information enhances all kinds of applications; we’d like to see yours. This contest is for consumer and business applications that include mapping or location as a functionality enhancement.

One grand prize: $25,000 cash, $50,000 in Tele Atlas map data.
Two runners up prizes: $10,000 cash and $20,000 in Tele Atlas map data.

Visit TeleAtlas for more information and to register. Hurry, contest ends soon!
  

LBSzone NEWS & INDUSTRY ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Innovation Takes Center Stage at Adobe MAX 2007
  • Adobe Launches Flash Lite 3
  • Forum Nokia announces 'Creative Pros' community, supporting Web development and design professionals
  • Nokia to Acquire NAVTEQ
  • LBS Developers Look to ESRI for a Competitive Edge in the NAVTEQ LBS Challenge
  • Do More, Carry Less; GPS and Your Smartphone using Live Search for Windows Mobile
  • Pitney Bowes MapInfo and Quocirca release Location Intelligence White Paper
  • Four out of ten business users in Nordic region use mobile e-mail
  • Got mobi? How about joining dotmobi mobile advisory group (MAG)
  • CRH subsidiary automates field service operations with Tensing Field Vision
  • Sony Selects Open Interface North America?s BLUEmagic 3.0 for Personal Navigation Devices
  • Analyzing the Impact of Nokia?s Acquisition of NAVTEQ
  • Timmons Group Partners With ESRI on GIS for Public Works Seminar Series
  • Spime Inc Sponsors the Location 2.0 Summit - SiRFecosystem for LBS
  • GeoSpatial Experts Introduces ArcPad Edition of GPS-Photo Link Software
  • New High-Speed Nokia N95 Now Shipping Nationwide
  • Mio Technology Launches Entry-Level GPS Priced Right for the Holidays
  • CNET Launches Call for Entries for Best of CES Awards
  • Telogis Inc. Intelligent GPS Location Technologies Ranks No. 70 in the Inc. 5000 Top Companies
  • AND launches online editable map for navigation
  • Palm Centro Brings Palm Ease of Use to Traditional Mobile Phone Users for $99.99
  • Multimap Drives Car Buyers to Dealerships with its Ground-breaking API v1.2
  • Sprint Expands Mobile Broadband Portfolio with Novatel Wireless 2-in-1 USB Modem
  • AppLocation Announces MOBILEFusion Release
  • Intel, Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks Collaborate on Global WiMAX Interoperability
  • Sling Media Launches SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian OS as US Sales Start for High-Speed Nokia N95
  • Tele Atlas and MAD MAPS Team Up to Deliver Custom Tours for Digital Map Users
  • NAVTEQ(R) Map Data and NAVTEQ Traffic(TM) Services Selected by Teletrac
  • Tele Atlas Maps Featured in New Mio Personal Navigation Devices
  • WHERE Developer Platform on the Nokia N95
  • NAVTEQ Map Data and NAVTEQ Traffic Services Selected by Teletrac for Use in Navigation Products
  • Hemisphere GPS Announces Centimeter Accuracy with New Eclipse Dual-Frequency GPS Receiver Technology

  • Editor's LBS Application Tip of the week... Zonetag, enables users to add location information to their photos. ZoneTag is a research prototype release from Yahoo! Research Berkeley, not a “certified” Yahoo! product.

    • Do you have news about a new product, application, web service, developer tool, mashup, or ??? contact us at press[at]gisuser.com

     
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    EVENT UPDATES

    Browse this section to learn about mobile technology / wireless industry conferences, training, seminars, webinars, and relevant events. Feel free to make a suggestion for future consideration or contact us to promote your event.

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    The Navteq LBS Challenge
    Develop... Dream... Win... this year's North American and European challenges have kicked off. APAC Registration Opens October 29. Thinking about entering but need an LBS Platform?? Check out the Autodesk Location Services Developer Program

    Forum Nokia Tech Days 2007
    Join Forum Nokia in Miami for an intensive, two-day developer conference focusing on emerging technologies and new channel opportunities. October 10-11, Miami, Florida and November 13-14, Palo Alto, California

    Smartphone Summit
    Smartphone Summit Presents 'Smartphone Enterprise Solutions 2007' - An exclusive conference event at The Moscone Convention Center, dedicated to bringing you the top Smartphone mobile/wireless based Enterprise Solutions from all Smartphone OS platforms including Symbian, PalmSource, Microsoft, RIM, Apple and Linux. The targeted attendee demographic includes both enterprise users as well as developers and I.T. professionals.

    deCarta devCON'07
    deCarta is pleased to host its third annual devCON November 13th - 15th, 2007 at the Dolce Hayes Mansion in San Jose, CA

    SiRF Location 2.0 Summit
    The SiRFecosystem’s first annual Location 2.0 Summit and Awards, brought to you by SiRF Technology, brings together the early adopters, industry leaders and developers who are setting the direction for the future of location-based services technologies and markets to guide the development of exciting new applications for this rapidly growing wireless market segment. Tuesday, October 23rd. St. Regis Hotel, 125 3rd Street, San Francisco CA

    Send your event info to editor[at]gisuser.com
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    Recent notes from the AnyGeo Blog & The Glenn 95 Blog

  • ESRI Public Works seminar series reminder
  • do you Twitter? Now you can tweetr your webcam photos
  • Microsoft Virtual Earth adds 10TB of new imagery
  • Minneapolis Bridge Routing Application built with ESRI’s Web 2.0 Mapping solution
  • GeoCommons gets a data update and some developer tools to share



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