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The Editor Glenn Letham Hello from the Spatial Media LBSzone... Once again CTIA Wireless IT is just around the corner. The event will offer developers and mobile technology innovators a chance to connect with others, showcase some creative apps, and maybe pick up a few ideas from some of the leading names in mobile. Once again, LBS will be quite prominent at CTIA and opportunities are plentiful for you to have a very productive 3 days in the Bay area. Nokia will be front and center and pretty much everywhere (also, look for the S60 team)- Experience the possibilities of anytime, anywhere Internet, including services that will be part of Ovi, Nokia’s recently announced Internet services offering. Explore N-Gage and SNAP mobile games; play, sync and manage music; watch videos with Sling player and Orb; and check out Nokia Maps and GPS – all on their latest Nseries multimedia computers and Internet tablet, including the new N81 and N95 (now optimized for North America). If you want to connect with some Nokia people I suggest you check out the Nokia MOSH Party – Tuesday, October 23 at Ruby Skye. Also on Tuesday, the Nokia S60 team will be hosting an evening with S60, a cozy event designed to make you more familiar with anything and everything S60 - see more Here. If you can get to San Fran on Monday there's lots of pre-conference activities including the Smartphone Summit - a fantastic lineup of presenters. There's also NAVTEQ Connections 2007 - Participants at this one-day event will have the unique opportunity to network with and hear from industry-leading developers, device manufacturers, wireless carriers and solution providers bringing location-enabled services and technology to the mobile world. Finally, on Tuesday (Oct 23) there's the first annual SiRFecosystem’s Location 2.0 Summit. Andrew Seybold, one of the most respected and influential champions of mobile wireless innovation, will be hosting this invitation-only event. Finally, here's a tip on an interesting panel “Commercializing Location Based Services,” taking place in Room 200, Oct. 23, 1:00-2:30 p.m. These are just a sampling of the LBS-centric activities taking place at CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment... maybe I'll see you there!

[Send your comments, announcements, tips, tricks, gripes, or kudos to Glenn
or simply contact info@lbszone.com]
 
 
The 2008 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge

Eight previous NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge(R) 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
  


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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!
Welcome to the sporty, rugged, GPS-enabled Trimble Nomad mobile handheld - A new, powerful, rugged mobile device recently hit the shelves thanks to Trimble... enter the Nomad. This sporty work horse provides your mobile workforce with a powerful 806 MHz Processor, VGA Display, Integrated GPS, Wireless, Optical Capabilities, Integrated Bar Code Scanner, Digital Camera Options and Up to 1 GB Flash Memory... Sweet! The Nomad's design and features make it a powerful mobile computing solution for public safety, land surveying, field service, engineering and construction, utilities, mapping, military and other outdoor or service-related applications

Develop Rich Mobile Applications with the help of Forum Nokia and Adobe Recently, while much of the business world's attention was on the Nokia / Navteq deal, a team from Nokia (I should say Forum Nokia) was hard at it in Chicago at the annual Adobe MAX conference. I have to admit, I wasn't sure what to expect when I first got there, however, that soon changed once I started hearing all the news and putting all the pieces of the puzzle together. This article looks at how Adobe and Nokia are making it simple for developers to create rich mobile applications using Flash Lite

 
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

  • WHERE GPS Widget Platform Announces New Content From Leading Web Properties
  • Applists.com to Bring Better Quality Apps to iPhone By Uniting Owners and Developers
  • Seventy Percent of Mobile Workers Prefer Smartphones to Laptops for Reliable Web Connectivity
  • CSR works with Yingda for China-wide deployment of location technology
  • GETAC to Showcase Fully Rugged PCs at Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Expo
  • TeleNav Track Improves Customer Care for Federated Service Solutions
  • ProClip USA, Inc. to Provide Custom-Made, In-Vehicle Device Mounting Solutions for TomTom
  • Carolinas HealthCare Selects Ekahau for one of Nation’s Largest Healthcare System RTLS Deployments
  • Nationwide Wireless Solution Enables Instant Field Data Analysis
  • White Paper: Managing the Mobile Enterprise: Now and in the Future
  • Nordisk Mobiltelefon Selects Networks In Motion to Provide Navigation and Group Finder Services
  • NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge(R) Launches With Global Sponsors Autodesk and Nokia
  • Garmin launches Plug 'N Play Sat-Nav for Your Phone
  • SimplyTrak chooses Mapsolute for fast and detailed tracking
  • MobileLocators.com Announces Enhanced Mobile Phone Tracking Security
  • Webraska and masternaut launch GPS Navigation and Mobile Resource Management for BlackBerry
  • White Paper: Security: The Wireless Revolution is Here
  • Develop Rich Mobile Applications with the help of Forum Nokia and Adobe - a Report from MAX
  • Beta Tip - Use your Nokia N95 or other location-enabled smartphone to send a TIK via Locatik
  • Event of Interest - Nokia N95 Photo Gallery Exhibition
  • Images From Adobe MAX 2007
  • Garmin Mobile(TM) XT: Plug 'N Play Maps for Your Phone
  • Mayor Bloomberg and Nokia to Challenge New Yorkers to Properly Dispose of Unwanted Mobile Phones
  • Glide Mobile Delivers Missing Web Publishing and Social Networking Tools for the iPhone
  • Movial Selected by ARM to Create a Free Open Source Platform For Next-Gen Mobile Applications
  • U.S. Postal Service Expands Nationwide Wireless Data Solution With AT&T

  • Editor's LBS Application Tip of the week... MOSH, a mobile client that enables mobile device users to mobililze and share their content... upload your photos, videos, demoware, wallpapers or ??

    • 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

    Attendee Choice Awards 2008
    Three consumer LBS application developers will be chosen to showcase their solution in the Tele Atlas booth at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2008, with live SMS voting on which applications the attendees like best.. Submit your application for the Tele Atlas Innovators Series Attendee Choice Awards 2008 contest.

    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

    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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  • Microsoft Virtual Earth adds 10TB of new imagery
  • Minneapolis Bridge Routing Application built with ESRI’s Web 2.0 Mapping solution
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    SUGGESTED READING

    Enterprise Mobility: How to Unshackle Your Mission-Critical Applications - Multi-national enterprises must be prepared to reckon with a mobile workforce that will grow larger every year, driven by the requirements of global business and the increasing need to stay in close contact with customers and increase productivity while keeping an eye on the bottom line. The paper describes how the Good Mobile Messaging solution addresses those key issues, and finally, provides two case studies of recent Good Technology customer deployments.

    Maintaining Communications During Emergencies - This white paper examines the challenges and strategies to keep your communications system up and running through the next potentially tragic event, from terrorism to natural disasters - learn how you and your business can maintain operations through smart planning.

    Building Reliable IP Telephony Systems - This whitepaper,"Building Reliable IP Telephony Systems" defines reliability & availability and compares various IP telephony vendors and how they ensure high availability. System design and architecture dictate the type of redundancy that can be deployed to increase reliability.

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