Friday, November 6, 2009

The 2010 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge® “Best of” recognition awards drive competition for entrepreneurs and developers

Nine diverse recognition awards create opportunities for map applications worldwide

Yesterday it was announced that NAVTEQ is offering “Best of” recognition awards in a variety of categories, challenging entrepreneurs and developers to submit their best LBS applications in the annual NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge competition.

In addition to the record global prize pool valued at over $10 million USD to be shared by the overall winners, “Best of” recognition awards will be awarded in nine categories to recognize achievements in particular areas. Criteria vary for each recognition award, and several embrace this year’s acceptance of pre-commercialized applications on any device.

A complete list of the 2010 Global LBS Challenge “Best of” recognition awards includes:
  • Best Use of Location-Based Advertising, incenting developers to introduce new business models in their applications and using LocationPoint Advertising (LPA) that provides relevant offers to consumers and revenue streams for application developers, wireless carriers and device manufacturers. This award will be judged on the best creative ad delivery using NAVTEQ’s LocationPoint™ Advertising service within an LBS application.
  • Most Innovative Use of Graphics awarded in each region by Global Award Sponsor Imagination Technologies, a NAVTEQ co-marketing partner and a leading multimedia chip technology company.
  • Best Home Screen Widget Design, awarded by Global Sponsor HTC Corporation in each region for the most compelling solution that brings location-based content to the home screen of the Android™-based HTC Hero™ phone.
  • Best Use of Tanla License Manager, selected by Global Sponsor Tanla in each region for the most inventive use of Tanla’s advanced solutions for 24/7 license management and on-device payment.
  • Best Touch User Interface (UI) Application, recognizing the most inventive LBS application to utilize the increasingly popular touch-screen devices.
  • Best Use of Pedestrian Content, an opportunity for developers to capitalize on data from more than 100 global cities in NAVTEQ Discover Cities™, exploring pedestrian navigation and multi-modal routing.
  • Best API Creation, open to contestants creating a unique Application Programming Interface (API) that can be accessed or integrated by others.
  • Best Use of User Generated Content (UGC), open to applications that include audience input – such as travel reviews, bicycle routes and location blogs – to differentiate their solution.
  • Best Productivity Solution, open to innovative enterprise solutions improving the mobile workplace.

“Demand is growing globally for high-quality, location-based mobile applications. These ‘Best of’ awards and the Global LBS Challenge itself are our way of encouraging ground-breaking, functional LBS applications that take advantage of the latest in technology, tools and location content. By offering these additional awards, we look forward to welcoming more pioneering applications onto the world stage,” says Marc Naddell, vice president, Partner & Developer Programs, NAVTEQ.

For more information and to register for the 2010 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge, please visit http://www.lbschallenge.com/. Registration for the EMEA region closes today, November 6, 2009 and for North America region on November 20. A completed solution is not required at the time of registration.

BlogTalkRadio interview 4: The keys to unlocking the money vault

Listen to this interview with Pia Vuohelainen, Partner Manager EMEA, NAVTEQ Network for Developers™ (NN4D), about NAVTEQ LocationPoint™ Advertising and how developers can make money on their applications and let consumers substitute paying for traffic or other location-based services by accepting location-based ads.

The interview was recorded last week at the Symbian Exchange & Exposition (SEE) 2009 in London, UK. Pia was interviewed by Matt Bader from BlogTalkRadio.com.



More information is available at:
www.NN4D.com/LPA

BlogTalkRadio interview 3: NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge – Recipe for Success

Listen to an interview with Mimmis Olsson, Marketing Manager EMEA & APAC, NAVTEQ Network for Developers™ (NN4D), recorded at the Symbian Exchange & Exposition (SEE) 2009 in London, UK last week. Matt Bader from BlogTalkRadio.com and Mimmis discuss the leading LBS developer competition, why developers should care and tips for how to make a winning application.

Listen to the radio show below.

BlogTalkRadio interview 2: Location content meeting consumer needs

Technical interview with Mike Moore, Technical Consultant, NAVTEQ Network for Developers™ (NN4D) about how developers can use NAVTEQ dynamic Point of Interest (POI) content, NAVTEQ Traffic™ and NAVTEQ Discover Cities™ content to build compelling LBS applications.

This BlogTalkRadio interview was aired live during Symbian Exchange & Exposition (SEE) 2009 in London last week and recorded. Listen to the radio interview below.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

BlogTalkRadio interview 1: Advances in the field of mobile navigation

Interview with Pia Vuohelainen, Partner Manager, NN4D & Tony King-Smith, VP Marketing, Imagination Technologies about the implications of increased deployment of hardware accelerated graphics technology on mobile phones and mobile internet devices, developer adoption of more advanced graphics in navigation and LBS, and advanced map rendering in 3D, using NAVTEQ 3D content.



Listen to the BlogTalkRadio interview from SEE 2009 below.


Tuesday, November 3, 2009

SEE 2009: Interview with Imagination Technologies about 3D graphics in navigation

Mimmis Olsson from NAVTEQ Network for Developers™ (NN4D) interviews Tony King-Smith, VP of Marketing for Imagination Technologies, at SEE 2009 in London last week.

Tony talks about ImaginationTechnologies, NAVTEQ and the opportunities available for developers. Tony also has a special announcement regarding the 2010 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge®.



More information:

SEE 2009: Interview with Laszlo Kishonti about NaviGenie

Mimmis Olsson from NAVTEQ Network for Developers™ (NN4D) interviews Laszlo Kishonti in Imagination Technologies' booth at SEE 2009 about the NaviGenie 3D Mobile Navigation Framework using NAVTEQ map and 3D data. NaviGenie was the 3rd Runner-Up in the 2009 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge® for EMEA.

Watch the video from SEE produced by NN4D below.



Also check out NN4D's YouTube developers' channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Navteqdeveloper