Telmap5 recognized for Location Based Service

16 November 2009, 9:10pm

London 16 November 2009 - Telmap, pioneers in mobile mapping, search and navigation solutions, today announced that it has won the award for Best Location-Based Service at this year’s annual 118 tracker.com Awards.

Telmap5, Telmap’s innovative end-to-end solution, was selected in recognition of Telmap’s commitment to deliver a superior solution that has revolutionized the landscape of mobile location services. Launched in 2009, Telmap5 is the world’s first personalized location companion turning your mobile phone into a tour guide, shopping escort, restaurant reviewer, navigator, and more. Telmap5 introduces Telmap Active Search, an all-in-one lookup technology that provides comprehensive results from a simple free-form text entry field, where the user simply types in what they are looking for. Telmap Active Search utilizes flexible search and content delivery mechanisms that can deliver highly targeted, varied and rich content that allows service providers to give each user what they need now and in the future as new and exciting content becomes available.

Telmap5 also enables users to personalize the way they access content and functionality through Telmap Active Widgets. Telmap Active Widgets allow users to customize application screens with any variety of widgets and thereby pick and choose which content and functionality to include in their mobile experience. “We are very proud that Telmap has been recognized for driving innovation within the LBS industry.

Telmap has always been committed to location related innovation and will continue to lead the way in shaping the next generation in mobile location services and enabling users to seamlessly interact with their surroundings in a personalized, localized and contextualized way,” said Oren Nissim, CEO, Telmap. The 118 Awards are organized by independent industry monitor 118tracker.com. Now in its sixth year, the 118 Awards are recognized by the information services industry to be one of the major international awards in this space. Judged by a range of experts within the information services industry, the aim of these awards is to celebrate companies that innovate and deliver leading consumer information services around the world, pushing for the development of unique uses of information across all mediums of communication.

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Geo: International