Americas

Grand Prize Winner: ComVu Media
Business Category Winner: ComVu Media
Navigation/POI Look-up/Traffic Category: ParkWhiz
Entertainment & Leisure Category: TikGames
Social Networking Category Winner: Jentro Technologies

Business Applications
Astroleap Inc. www.astroleap.com
Application: MRewards MRewards is a patent-pending, location-based system that rewards consumers for their use of directional data. By being present at prime locations such as malls, retail stores, and other "reward" areas, users accumulate points redeemable for a variety of products and services. Users earn additional points by choosing to receive special coupons and offers based on location, shopping, and purchase preferences. With MRewards, they may, in turn, choose to receive guidance to the locations providing the coupons or special offers.
ComVu Media Inc. www.comvu.com
Application: PocketCaster™ GPS Designed to maximize usage of camera phones with integrated GPS receivers, PocketCaster GPS enables one-button mobile Web casting. It automatically embeds date, time, and GPS data in a live video stream, frame-by-frame, and archives it on a server. The user's location can be viewed dynamically on the NAVTEQ® map while the video is streaming.
LBSNow www.lbsnow.com
Application: LBSNow LBSNow enables development of location-based services that show mobile users their proximity to a business, venue, or service, so they can find or access that business, venue, or service via their mobile devices.
Smarter Agent www.smarteragent.com
Application: Mobile GPS Home and Apartment Search Smarter Agent introduces the first mobile real estate GPS portal. Cell phone users can search apartment rentals and homes for sale, sale price histories, and neighborhood information. Plus they can watch videos, send information to friends, and get realtime feedback. Smarter Agent even connects consumers to agents, managers, and owners, creating a new channel for sales leads.
Entertainment & Leisure Applications
Tik Games Inc. www.tikgames.com
Application: GeoChief GeoChief is a multi-faceted instrument for anyone on the go. Create blogs, track your routes, and navigate anywhere with multiple tools such as compass, altimeter, and much more. The world is in the palm of your hand, with GeoChief mobile.
w-PlanIT Communications www.w-planit.com
Application: Location-aware M-commerce Platform The Location-aware M-commerce Platform enables consumers to automatically find, reserve, and/or purchase personalized travel and entertainment services anytime, virtually anywhere. This on-demand service becomes a personal assistant that knows where you are, gets what you want, and takes action on your behalf.
Wuh-sup? LLC www.wuh-sup.com
Application: Wuh-sup? A mobile concierge service, Wuh-sup? combines personal preferences with location information to help travelers find something to do, anytime, anywhere. Users can search future dates, reference other locations, and build agendas with point-and-click simplicity that eliminates typing. And user input to the database ensures available activities are as diverse as the users themselves.
YDreams Entertainment www.ydreams.com
Application: Wall Street Fighter™ This is an exciting and innovative location-based game in which the world of business is the backdrop for fun fighting action. Highly appealing graphics, location-based scenarios, and extremely engaging game play make this title an all-around pleaser. Players challenge other nearby players to the ultimate fight. May the best broker win.
Navigation Applications
IOTO International Inc. www.ioto.ca
Application: IOTO The IOTO LBS solution establishes a channel for selling transportation services between Points of Interest (POIs). By ranking transportation links and destinations according to user interest from particular points of origin, IOTO offers customers significant wayfinding, comparison, and convenience benefits. In addition, IOTO gathers critical data on movement patterns, which benefits transportation service providers and businesses.
ParkWhiz, Inc. www.parkwhiz.com
Application: Mobile Parking Information Search Mobile Parking Information Search tracks a driver's position and delivers detailed parking information about the surrounding area. While on the move, the user can get information on parking near a destination, including prices, distance away, hours of operation, number of handicapped-driver spaces, and more. This innovative application can even allow a driver to reserve a space.
Ten23 Software www.ten23software.com
Application: SpotKast SpotKast keeps your phone updated with the information you need and want. Skip download times and read your favorite Web content, find a place to eat, avoid traffic jams, and find your friends quickly through one easy-to-use interface. SpotKast, making the world revolve around you.
Zeetoo www.zeetoo.net
Application: CarFinder This ensures you'll never lose your car in a parking area again. Press the "lock" button as you are leaving the car; the service saves the vehicle's location on your GPS mobile phone. Press the "unlock button" on your return, and the services launches a map that guides you back to your car.
duzine.com LLC www.duzine.com
Application: Beacon With Beacon, travelers track and share their locations anywhere in the U.S. and, potentially, the world, using any J2ME GPS-enabled cell phone. Once activated, the application automatically records and maps the user's location. A companion Web site allows users to provide additional details about themselves, publish their locations to a MySpace.com® widget, interact with others nearby, blog, upload photos, monitor speed/distance, and perform a host of other actions associated with their locations.
Elloqor Solutions Inc. www.elloqor.com
Application: Milogo Milogo \'mE lO gO\ noun: This friend-finder service works across wireless carriers— just as social networks do. Using NAVTEQ® maps displayed on mobile phones, it shows the location of friends and colleagues. With integrated text messaging, users can coordinate social gatherings, and copy those text messages to the recipient's e-mail for future reference. You'll never need to ask "where are you?" again.
Jentro Technologies GmbH www.jentro.com
Application: activepilot activepilot is the leading, location-based, end-to-end solution, offering local search, community tools, e911, and offboard navigation. This innovative application addresses mass-market needs by supporting most current Java phones. Plus, activepilot now acts as a sensor for generating traffic flow information through its users, via its innovative Floating Car Data technology.
loopt, inc. www.loopt.com
Application: loopt Users can track their friends' locations via maps on their mobile handsets and a Web site. The application automatically monitors and updates each user's position. It also enables users to exchange messages and can send automatic alerts when friends are near each other. The application's journal feature allows users to geo-tag their digital photos and share them with friends on the go.