Tele Atlas and Industry Leading Partners Showcase Location-Based Applications
With Tele Atlas Maps and Content, LBS Applications Offer Rich Location Experience for Mobile Phone Users
Singapore, 27 October 2009 – Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location-based solutions, is teaming with wireless industry partners to power a range of innovative location-based services (LBS) and navigation applications that help tech savvy mobile users negotiate the world with dynamic location content at their fingertips. Tele Atlas and industry partners including deCarta, Garmin, HTC, KRS/ Cydle, NDrive, Sygic, will demonstrate LBS applications and solutions today at the Red Dot Museum for media and industry analysts.
“As consumers demand more sophisticated GPS-enabled services and the mobile phone market expands in the region, carriers and software providers are looking to offer innovative features that differentiate their service offerings and drive new revenues,” said Rajive Chandra, Tele Atlas Director,Sales & Marketing, APAC Consumer Market. “We are proud to work with companies across the mobile ecosystem, from global mobile operators and local telecommunications companies to hardware manufacturers, platform providers and application developers, to enrich the mobile experiences of end users with powerful maps and location content.”
Tele Atlas works with its industry partners to deliver real-time traffic to voice-enabled navigation and LBS applications such as “friend finders.” Tele Atlas partners can leverage highly accurate maps and a range of enhancement products, including precise address points and millions of points of interest (POIs), to direct consumers to nearby products and services. They can also use high definition 2D and 3D features that are revolutionizing the appearance of digital maps,
enabling a virtually endless range of location application possibilities.
Chandra continued, “Singapore is widely recognized in the Asia Pacific region as a tech-savvy country. Combined with its high mobile phone penetration rate, it provides an ideal platform for showcasing Tele Atlas’ and our partners’ innovative location technology and LBS offerings.”
About Tele Atlas
Tele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic content that power many of the world’s most essential navigation and location-based services (LBS). Through a combination of its own products and partnerships, Tele Atlas offers map coverage of more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The company was founded in 1984 and has offices in 27 countries around the world. Today, Tele Atlas products are developed with the insight of a community of millions of digital map users worldwide, who are adding to the company’s unmatched network of sources to track and validate changes in real time, and deliver the best digital maps and dynamic content. For more information, visit www.teleatlas.com or http://investors.tomtom.com/index.cfm. Tele Atlas is a subsidiary of TomTom N.V. (AEX: TOM2).
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