Whirlpool local websites for Italy, Finland, Spain, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Rumania, Portugal, Polonia, Sweden, and soon Hungary, Russia, Czech Rep. and Slovakia integrate online store locator services by UbiEst to provide to online visitors information and routes to reach assiatance centres ans points of sale based on proximity criteria.

Ubiest and Aepona have signed a partner agreement under which UbiEst will provide its leading suite of location-based applications for Aepona to integrate with its Universal Service Plat

Ubiest and Aepona have signed a partner agreement under which UbiEst will provide its leading suite of location-based applications for Aepona to integrate with its award-winning Universal Service Platform. (PRWeb Feb 20, 2009)

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Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, today announced it won the highest ranked Expert Jury Award from the Mobile Monday Peer Awards 2008 given out in conjunction with 3GSM Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Feb. 11-14. The awards were determined as part of an evaluation and selection process that was conducted during the first day of this week's conference.
Funambol was chosen by an expert jury representing a global cross-section of leading mobile operators, search engines, online portals and wireless startups. Funambol presented its ad-funded mobile email solution and discussed its recent market traction of being deployed commercially at customers with a combined subscriber count of over 300 million users.

Winners to be revealed at awards ceremony during CommunicAsia in Singapore

Winners to be revealed at awards ceremony during CommunicAsia in Singapore

Movidilo, a leader in multimedia mobile phone applications, will attend the 2009 Mobile World Congress, taking place in Barcelona from 16th February to 19th February at the Fira de Barcelona.

) July 23, 2009 -- Mob4hire is pleased to announce that it has signed a co-marketing agreement with NAVTEQ - the leading global provider of digital map, traffic and location data that enables navigation and location-based platforms around the world. This will allow the NAVTEQ mobile developer community to take advantage of Mob4hire's global community of 14,000 testers in 105 countries in order to test their applications in the fragmented world of mobile.

NAVTEQ's Marc Naddell comments on Mob4Hire collaboration

) January 26, 2009 -- NAVTEQ, a leading global provider of digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle navigation, today announced from the Telogis GeoBase Technology Summit 2009 its participation as a platinum sponsor. At this symposium, NAVTEQ is highlighting its world-wide map database offered through the Telogis platform. Additionally, NAVTEQ is providing overviews of other products available to Telogis customers, including NAVTEQ Transport™ and NAVTEQ Traffic™.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, today announced it will preview its new ad-based open source mobile email solution at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 1114. The company will also demonstrate a new version of its award-winning mobile email and PIM sync software on the latest mobile devices and platforms, including Apple iPhone, Google Android, RIM Blackberry, and more. Funambol will be located at stand #1J46 in Hall 1.

) August 31, 2009 -- Atlanta based Discrete Wireless, Inc. today announced the release of MARCUS® SpeedLimit, a new real time alert function that will notify fleet managers and owners when a vehicle moves faster than a posted speed limit while traveling on major highways and motorways. Additionally, this information is available on secondary roads in 60 cities throughout the United States. MARCUS® SpeedLimit is an improvement on the existing speed alert functions that have been available for the last 10 years. Previously, drivers had to travel faster than a pre-determined set speed before the GPS would generate an alert. With the MARCUS® SpeedLimit product, real time alerts are sent when a driver travels 10mph faster than the posted speed limit of a specific road.

) April 7, 2009 -- Governments looking to stretch fleet-related resources and increase productivity should plan to participate in a webinar hosted by ESRI and NAVTEQ on ArcLogistics software and NAVTEQ map data. The online seminar takes place April 8, 2009, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (CDT).

) December 3, 2008 -- The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) announced the winners of the 2008 Best of ITS Awards. The awards were presented during a special ceremony of the ITS America Annual Meeting and Exposition held in conjunction with the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems in New York.

Presented by ITS America, the Best of ITS Awards is the only program in the world that honors the most innovative, effective, and influential achievements in the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) industry. This highly competitive program recognizes the organizations whose projects have demonstrated specific and measurable outcomes and exemplified innovation by establishing a "new dimension" of performance.

NAVITIME Wins the Grand Prize at the 2009 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge®, APAC Edition

NAVITIME Wins the Grand Prize at the 2009 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge®, APAC Edition

) June 24, 2009 -- Nextar™, a designer and marketer of bold and new consumer electronic products with mass appeal, has announced the introduction of its first model to include Nav N Go navigation software. The feature-rich unit, model 43LT, comes with a free lifetime subscription for on-demand, real-time traffic reports.

Nextar 43LT GPS Navigation System with Nav N Go Software Offering Lifetime Free Traffic Updates

) July 24, 2009 -- With its line up of key players, original and all encompassing agenda and the recent confirmation of context guru 1020Placecast, innovator waze and LBS behemoth NAVTEQ as sponsors, MetaPlaces09 promises to become the new star event of the mobile and web location service world.

MetaPlaces is the first conference to focus on the next wave of innovation and revenue generation for mobile and web-based LBS. To do that the event brings together
The majors names: Yahoo!, Google, Nokia, Publicis
The classic players: W3C, Mobile Marketing Association, IETF, CDT
The innovators: Open Street Map, Senses Networks, Loopt or Boost Mobile

) February 12, 2009 -- O3SIS AG, a leading provider of carrier-grade mobile software solutions today announced that it will be presenting its leading edge advertising based Living Phone Safe product at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain from February 16-19 (stand 2D15).

The mobiSiteGalore team will be available for live interaction, at Fira de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Feb 16 – 19.

) May 12, 2009 -- Plusmo, Inc., the leader in mobile widgets, applications and application store solutions, was named the global winner of Nokia's "Calling All Innovators" Hackathon for mobile application developers, held last week at the inaugural Nokia Developer Summit in Monaco. The developer contest was held to celebrate the much anticipated launch of the Nokia N97. Plusmo's Rocket mobile app, a social location widget which displays a user's nearest friends on a map, was built on-site by Plusmo developers during the 24-hour Hackathon coding competition.

) February 4, 2009 -- Treasuremytext is a web service used by texters the world over to archive and share their SMS messages. Treasuremytext for Android provides a seamless solution to archiving SMS messages on the Web from a T-Mobile G1. The Treasuremytext app enables the archiving of all messages automatically to the Treasuremytext service for the first time. Once a G1 user has installed and configured the app it works in the background automatically creating a copy of each SMS in the service. Once there users can then search, print, organise and share these messages.

) November 17, 2008 -- Miyowa, a dynamic global company providing compelling instant messaging, email and presence enriched Mobile Web 2.0 technologies, has announced that 3 businesses in the UK and Ireland have launched Miyowa's MoveMessenger™ Mobile Instant Messenger (MIM) solution on its network.

Following the lead of 3 Scandinavia - which rolled out the solution earlier this year - the deployment means that 3's customer base across the UK and ROI will now be able to enjoy advanced, feature-rich MIM which mirrors the experience of PC instant messaging and includes functionality such as "multi-chat", and the ability to send photos and files via the mobile handset.

Adax and Kontron have announced they will be providing a demonstration of their ATCA solutions at the Kontron booth during Mobile World Congress.

) October 8, 2008 -- The live video from mobile devices market received a boost today as the industry's pioneer, Livecast® (http://www.livecast.com), announced that the WiMAX Forum - the exclusive worldwide body for the licensing and certification of WiMAX - selected the company to partner with the WiMAX Forum's Applications Lab Task Group (ALTG) and their two sanctioned testing facilities located at the Maxwell Lab (University of Maryland) and M-Taiwan Applications Lab (Taiwan).

UK based mobile service Treasuremytext brings SMS archiving to the T-Mobile G1 phone and is one of five winners in the Amsterdam Android DevCamp Challenge.

) February 16, 2009 -- LG Electronics (LG), a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, today announced LG-GM730, its newest handset in LG's smartphone line-up, which makes advanced smartphone features easy to use. This, the first smartphone to use new version of Windows Mobile OS integrated with LG's advanced 3D S-Class User Interface, will be on display at the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona from February 16-19.

New Smartphone LG-GM730

At GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona mobieTV, the leader in mobile interactive entertainment and TV broadcasting, presented an exciting new social network community TV.

) October 16, 2008 -- GO MOBILE '08 presents three (3) international events as follows:

) October 16, 2008 -- GO MOBILE '08 presents three (3) international events as follows:

) October 1, 2008 -- TechnoCom Corporation™ (www.technocom-wireless.com) announced today that its location service assurance platform, LocationAssurance Manager®, now protects wireless networks serving more than 140 million subscribers. TechnoCom is a leading provider of solutions to enable wireless location services that support Enhanced 9-1-1 (E9-1-1) and location-based services including navigation, real-time traffic, local search and other applications.

) February 16, 2009 -- LG Electronics, a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, will demonstrate the world's first market-ready Touch Watch Phone (LG-GD910) with 3G Video Telephony (VT) service and GSM Network capabilities at Mobile World Congress 2009. The phone was a sensation when it debuted at Consumer Electronics Show in January.

) February 16, 2009 -- O3SIS AG, a leading provider of mobile email and synchronization solutions, today announced the launch of its new Device Client Suite. Based on OMA DS (SyncML), Java and IP-Push industry standards the brand new Clients enable users to synchronize all types of multimedia contents from and to mobile devices. The Clients also fully support Push Mail capabilities of today's primary Smartphone platforms in the market, such as iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian Smartphones. O3SIS customers now can fully leverage existing infrastructure investments to empower a wide range of mobile phones, while unifying all the various Smartphone platforms and previously isolated applications.

) December 5, 2008 -- Xtify (www.xtify.com) becomes the first of its kind solution to offer developers a free webservice for locating people in real-time. Developers can program into Xtify's API and incorporate location into their existing website without having to build their own downloadable applications. Because of Xtify, websites are no longer reliant on wireless carriers to get the location of their users.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, and Amobee Media Systems, the world leader in advertising solutions for mobile operators, today announced a partnership to enable operators and service providers to generate significant revenue from mobile email for the mass market.
The ad-based mobile email solution will shift content subsidization from mobile users to advertisers. It reflects the growing influence of mobile users, which is an increasing trend in 2008. It will help operators and services providers realize a significant portion of the $5 billion to $11 billion that analysts predict will be spent annually on mobile advertising within five years.

) February 10, 2009 -- LogMeIn, Inc. will show how smartphone manufacturers and mobile services providers can use LogMeIn Rescue+Mobile to provide on-demand, remote customer support for Android-based smartphones and mobile devices at Mobile World Congress (MWC), February 16-19 in Barcelona, Spain.

) October 27, 2008 -- The Weather Channel Mobile today announced the launch of its advanced mobile weather application for the Android platform. Available through the Android Market on the T-Mobile G1 phone, the new application gives users the ability to view fully customized weather maps, detailed conditions and forecasts, local video and severe weather alerts. Weather information can be viewed for neighborhood landmarks such as schools, parks, lakes and more to assist with daily activity planning. In addition, location-enabled severe weather alerts let users know when dangerous weather threatens their area.

Peter M. Collins, President of A2B Tracking Solutions, Inc., has been named to the Technical Committee of the ID World International Congress. Scheduled for early November in Milan, Italy, ID World Congress International Congress is the most comprehensive automatic identification technology (AIT) forum for an international audience. (PRWeb Jul 13, 2009)

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) October 7, 2009 -- meetMoi, the leading mobile dating company in the United States and one of the first to utilize location-based technology, has released virtual gifting as a new opportunity for user-to-user interaction as well as revenue generation. As companies in the mobile dating sector face the challenge of an increasingly savvy userbase hungry for new and exciting features, meetMoi is rising to the task. In addition to traditional messaging, users are able to send virtual gifts without the common cumbersome step of purchasing virtual currency first.

) December 18, 2008 --
Today, Worldmax, the wireless telecom provider, announced that it has
upgraded the capabilities of its commercial service to 5 Mbps downlink
data rates. This speed upgrade is available to all subscribers wishing
to benefit from the faster download speeds through a simple software
download plus an adjustment of their subscription service. Please visit http://www.aerea.nl
for further details.

) May 21, 2009 -- Abaqus, Inc. today announced the availability of a new myGeoDiary Recorder for Android-powered devices, enabling individuals with Android-platform, GPS-enabled phones to record their geo-social tracks and directly upload them to the free myGeoDiary service on the web. The on-device myGeoDiary Recorder application has been specifically designed for use and branding by mobile operators to quickly and affordably provide location-based social networking services to their mobile phone customers. Towards this, Abaqus, Inc. today also announced that myGeoDiary will integrate with the GeoMob application by Orange R&D Labs and will be available on the Android Market under 'myGeoDiary for GeoMob'.