Real-time navigation over the aerial photos on Standard Phones

DigitalGlobe Satellite Imagery on Mobile Phones via amAze LONDON, May 25, 2007 - Satnews Daily - LocatioNet Systems, Ltd., a provider of mobile mapping and location applications, and DigitalGlobe, a provider of imagery and geospatial information products, have entered into a partnership that adds DigitalGlobe's global satellite imagery to the amAze mobile service.

DigitalGlobe has joined the amAze collaborative initiative, led by LocatioNet. LocatioNet's GIS technology enables fast enough streaming of aerial photos from the huge backend databases to client mobile phones over wireless networks, to allow real-time navigation over the aerial photo.

This collaboration means that for the first time, worldwide voice-guided GPS navigation is enabled over high-resolution satellite imagery and aerial photos with regular mass-market phones.

amAze is a navigation, mapping and local search service supported by several industry leading vendors. It offers services free to mobile users and generates revenue from the emerging mobile advertisement model. The application provides any regular, Java-enabled mobile phone with navigation and local search information over maps and DigitalGlobe satellite imagery in Europe and North America. A full voice-guided navigation feature is available for users with any Bluetooth GPS device.

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Mobil Phone Applications for Core Business Activities

Competition is pushing businesses towards greater mobility, and companies plan to adopt mobile applications for core business activities - these were two key findings in a recent global survey on business mobility conducted by Nokia and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and in cooperation with the CIO Forum.

As business mobility continues making headway into organizations and more advanced applications and processes are mobilized, the reasons behind companies' mobility adoption can vary from hard core ROI benefits to softer values such as employee retention.

Companies are increasingly implementing mobility to offer greater collaboration, responsiveness to customers, and better work-life balance to staff, fundamentally changing the ways people are working.

Nokia and EIU polled more than 500 global executives across a range of industries to find out how their organizations were using business mobility. In the survey, three quarters of the respondents pointed to human factors such as attracting the best talent - including new entrants to the workforce--improving customer support, and building brand reputations as reasons for deploying business mobility.

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