Selected Partners to Present Business Plans to Venture Capitalists and Industry Experts at Dow Jones Wireless Innovations Conference
San Francisco, Wireless Innovations – April 22 – Tele Atlas (FSE: TA6, EUNV: TA), a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location-based solutions, today announced the finalists of the Tele Atlas LBS Innovators Series event held in conjunction with the Wireless Innovations Conference produced by Dow Jones VentureWire at Hotel Sofitel. The 2008 finalists offer LBS applications that range from real estate, local information and shopping, and enhancement technologies including 3D visualization, application enablement and speech technology.

Based on the business potential of their LBS applications, seven companies were nominated by Tele Atlas and selected by Dow Jones to present their new location-based solutions to venture capitalists and industry experts at the 2008 conference. This exclusive opportunity is a key component of Tele Atlas LBS Innovators Series, an ongoing program held in conjunction with Tele Atlas DeveloperLinkSM to help foster innovation and enable application developers to expand their visibility, credibility and success with key participants in the industry including investors, carriers and technology providers. The featured finalists are:

• Intelligent Spatial Technologies, developers of patented Location-based Services and technologies that allow users to “point” their cell phones and receive information about selected buildings, landmarks, and points of interest (POIs);
  
  Knowtate, Inc., the creator of a patented solution that hyperlinks anything in the physical world to bring the power of the online world to the real world and enables wireless users to interact with the hyperlinked objects;
  
  Planet 9 Studios, the developer of RayGun™, the first 3D navigation, friend finding and social networking application, enabling users to share their mobile position, see their friends as 3D avatars and communicate with them via SMS or VOIP;
  
  Pongr, a technology company delivering an enhanced shopping and info-tainment experience by combining mobile phones, the Web and the physical world, offering mobile location-based ads and empowering mobile consumers to quickly and easily check prices via text messaging, mobile cameras and mobile email;
  
  Smarter Agent, a service that combines mobile location technology, such as GPS, with information about real estate, neighborhoods and interesting places around a given location;
  
  Speak With Me, Inc., a voice-activated technology company that provides a natural language search platform for mobile and embedded devices enabling users to speak to their devices in natural tones; and
  
  Spime, a leading provider of end-to-end location-enabling technologies and solutions such as turn-by-turn navigation, location widget platform and secure user plane for location (SUPL) to mobile handset OEMs and ODMs, mobile network operators, LBS platform providers, mobile handheld application developers and semiconductor manufacturers.

BOSTON, Dec. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Tele Atlas (FSE: TA6, EUNV: TA), a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location-based solutions, today named the finalists for the Tele Atlas LBS Innovators Series "Attendee Choice Awards at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2008." Based on the usability, innovative use of location information and market potential of their LBS applications, three finalists were selected to demonstrate their new location-based solutions in the Tele Atlas booth (#9841, Central Hall) at CES.

TOKYO - The final day of the 2007 gubernatorial trade mission to South Korea and Japan meant another round of business meetings and travel around Tokyo for some, while others ventured off on a cultural mission to Maine’s Japanese sister state, Aomori.

The Maine-Aomori Sister State Advisory Council arrived in Aomori on Tuesday, and on Friday Gov. John Baldacci and his wife, Karen, joined the group and were to present the Aomori governor with a state gift — two works by Maine photographer Scott Peterman — during a visit to the Aomori Art Museum.

State Office of Tourism Director Carolann Ouellette, Department of Community and Economic Development Director John Richardson, University of Maine Business School associate professor Richard Borgman, York County Community College coordinator of grants and development Rhyan Romaine and Maine International Trade Center staff joined the Baldaccis for the trip. The entire group will return to Maine on Sunday.

Back in Tokyo, Maine businesspeople and school representatives wrapped up meetings arranged by the Maine International Trade Center, U.S. Commercial Services and the U.S. Embassy. They hailed the meetings both in Japan and South Korea as immensely helpful.

SEOUL, South Korea — The 30 Maine business and government representatives on the 2007 Gubernatorial Trade Mission scattered throughout Seoul on Monday for more than 40 meetings with potential commerce partners.

It was the first day of the weeklong mission, which consists of two days in Seoul and two days in Tokyo, Japan. The trip was organized by the Maine International Trade Center and includes Gov. John Baldacci, Maine Economic and Community Development Commissioner John Richardson and Maine Agriculture Commissioner Ned Porter, who came along to speak to government officials on behalf of the businesses.

"We’re going to help Maine businesses and create more job opportunities for the people of Maine," Baldacci said on the airplane trip to Asia.

After 29 hours of travel, the group arrived at the Westin Chosun hotel in the neon-lit city of Seoul late Sunday night. White-gloved bellhops greeted the participants and handed out small gifts of incense.

The Women's Walking Tour is a personal project of Sandra L Caron, Ph.D., Professor of Family Relations/Human Sexuality. "The goal is to highlight some of the amazing UMaine women and the contributions and accomplishments they have made and continue to make in shaping the state's largest public university." Caron said.

Washington, DC – July 19, 2007 –  United States Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) submits a statement in the Congressional Record of the 110th United States Congress honoring Intelligent Spatial Technologies. The Congressional Record is the official register of the proceedings of both the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. All floor speeches, debates, statements, and messages are printed in this document to detail the Congress' work.

by Keith Shortall; Aired on Maine Public Broadcasting Network, 07/24/06

Listen to Chris Frank on Maine Things Considered 

Location-based Services Create an Interactive Recruitment Experience

by Chris Frank, Anna Nakova and Markus Wuersch

Prospective students on a campus visit start at your admissions office or visitors’ center, but instead of picking up a campus map and folder of information and joining a group lead by a volunteer, they check out a PDA-sized device. Welcome to the new world of location-based services (LBS).

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ESRI Technology Powers Winner and Finalists in NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge - North America

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Bangor Daily News - Saturday, April 01, 2006

Imagine pointing your cell phone at a house for sale, reading some information about the property on your phone display screen, and later having more information about the house automatically e-mailed to you at home. Or say you're a police officer working after dark and looking for a particular house. You could use your cell phone to identify the address of a property, who lives there and whether or not any of its residents are licensed to carry firearms. Or maybe you're a traveler on the road and are looking for a motel with a swimming pool. Just point your cell phone at the building and find out if it has one.

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SiRF Slimming GPS for Mobiles

GPS World, March 1, 2006

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Augusta, ME  -  Chris Frank has been named Maine's 2006 Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). A leader in the Bangor community, Frank is the president and founder of Orono-based Intelligent Spatial Technologies (iST). He is a recent graduate of the Bangor Region Leadership Institute and is a founding member of FUSION Bangor, an organization formed to engage young people in community leadership.

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