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TATA DoCoMo launches Smart Pilot: a real-time voice based navigation application with LocationGuru.

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TATA DoCoMo launches Route Finder: a SMS/USSD based direction service powered by LocationGuru.

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LocationGuru Success Story featured at Navteq Developer Day

NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, held NAVTEQ Developer Day events in Bengaluru (Bangalore), April 26, and Delhi, April 29. The event saw enthusiastic participation by Developers, Operators and Enterprises from the LBS domain. The event had insightful presentations from Navteq about LBS potential and trends & their exciting data products. Shaheer Ahmed, Founder & CEO, LocationGuru was invited to share the company's success story with the audience and inspire developers to join the LBS bandwagon. Shaheer spoke about LocationGuru's focus and pioneering endeavor in the LBS domain providing high grade, localized Products and Solutions to a wide ensemble of players varying from operators, device OEMs to enterprises and developers. The attendees were particularly excited about SmartGeo LBS platform offering a comprehensive one stop solution ranging from maps and GIS services to billing, reporting and analytics. Shaheer was also a part of an engaging panel discussion with leading VC's and representatives from operators, VAS providers, etc. regarding LBS opportunities & challenges. Going by the highly interactive panel discussion, it looks like the developer community is truly warming up to the idea of LBS.

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Pocket Finder on Aircel Network. Our next-gen LBS app now launched.

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GrameenPhone launches Buddy Tracker in Bangladesh using LocationGuru's LBS platform - http://www.djuice.com.bd/index.php?id=165

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GrameenPhone announces TeamTracker for workforce tracking powered by LocationGuru - http://www.grameenphone.com/index.php?id=570

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LocationGuru announces hosted APIs for maps & geospatial services for web & mobile LBS developers in India.

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LocationGuru deploys end-to-end LBS for Bangladesh's largest mobile operator GrameenPhone.

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Times of India features LocationGuru in Sunday Edition

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MyWorld Awarded the Best Application by Sony Ericsson Developer World India

LocationGuru won the “Best Application” Award for its “MyWorld” application in “I Love Being Famous” Campaign organized by Sony Ericsson Developer World India. Mr. Jens Greve, Global Head of Sony Ericsson Develop World presented the award to Mr. Shaheer Ahmed, CEO of LocationGuru, at an impressive award ceremony at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru on Saturday. The award includes a shield, qualification for a 100-day Business and Technical mentor program and recognition as Sony Ericsson Certified Developer. 

MyWorld is a GPS enabled lifestyle application for mobile phones that capitalizes on the “Right Here, Right Now” instinct of the younger generation to provide services that are both Time and Location relevant to the user. MyWorld was chosen as the best application amongst participants from all over India which included some of the best recognized companies in the mobile technology industry. Sony Ericsson launched the Sony Ericsson Developer World in India with a commitment to engage third-party mobile developers to create user experiences and innovative applications. Indian developers were offered an exclusive recognition program with submissions open from November 2008 to January 2009. Speaking on the award recognition, Shaheer Ahmed, CEO, LocationGuru Solutions, said, “We are extremely happy to have been recognized with this award. The whole LocationGuru team feels privileged to have achieved this recognition and would like to thank Sony Ericsson for their valuable assistance in making this possible. This award further fires our motivation to bring some of the best services for the mobile users worldwide.”

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Vehicle Tracker is Now Shipping

Now never let your vehicles go out of sight. The Vehicle Tracking Solution lets you see exactly where your cargo is whenever you need to. With the following features and benefits Vehicle Tracking Solution is an efficient system for tracking and monitoring of commercial and passenger vehicles.

24 hour Vehicle location information with real time vehicle tracking on MAP

Define the trip route (Geo-Fence) and get alerts for progress of trip including exceptions such as vehicle going off the defined track.

Trip Analysis & Exceptions (speeding, stops, route change, etc.)

2-Way communication with vehicle driver using CALL or SMS features

Full national coverage of maps

All features accessible via mobile & at online www.locationguru.com

Easy Installation & setup

Benefits for logistics industry.

Optimises fuel costs with better route planning, cuts down on overtime and increases operational efficiency.

Schedule service calls or deliveries based on the vehicle closest to the destination.

Allows you to handle larger job loads with ease.

Improves flexibility and lets you make on-the-spot decisions on fleet management.

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Private Beta of SmartGeo Platform for development of location based applications is Live!

LocationGuru solutions, the provider of LBS solutions for mobile and web announced today a private beta release of SmartGeo Platform (LLP). The private beta will be available to a limited number of evaluators on invitation and/or by request. SmartGeo Platform (LLP) is comprehensive application development platform for LBS an application developer which enables developing solutions over multiple GIS platforms available in industry with LocationGuru’s own GIS Engine. The platform provides highly customizable single point access to complete spectrum of LBS ecosystem services effectively shielding the application developers from complexities of the LBS ecosystem behind the scene. The platform readily integrates with Mobile operator networks to provide positioning of mobile phones. The platform can work with GIS data in various formats from providers like NAVTEQ, Tele Atlas, Leaddog, and DigitalGlobe. The platform can use the built in LocationGuru GIS engine or can transparently use services from other existing GIS Platforms like Autodesk, ESRI, deCarta, Telenity, Map My India. The LLP can also consume WMS/OpenLS compliant service without any change of interface for the application developers. LLP is comprehensive deployment platform for VASP and mobile operators who want to become leading enabler of Location Based Services(LBS). The scalable and cost efficetive platform helps operators and VASP in significantly reducing time to market for location based applications. Key features of the SmartGeo LBS platform are

Geospatial Services: Exposes various geospatial services like geocdoing, reverse geocoding, POI, spatial queries, maps in standard formats like JSON, Geo-JSON, Web Service/SOAP, XML, HTML, WMS/WFS

Data Formats: Support for industry standard GIS data formats like standard ESRI shape files, GDF, MapInfo etc. With support for these formats the platform can use data from wide range of GIS data providers to consume and deliver the services and using any of these formats.

Interactive maps: The platform uses Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) technology which enables continuous panning of maps for interactive web / mobile applications. Companies can create location-based services for their customers using standards-based maps that are combined with rich content. Rather than viewing a static map, users can continuously scroll to view a desired area on the map.

GIS Engine: The platform has built in GIS engine for providing LBS services. LBS application developers can use the built in GIS engine for various services like Interactive Maps, Reverse-Geocoding, Geocoding, POI, Routes and Driving Directions. All the services are provided in multiple popular data formats. The platform also can transparently provide services of other LBS engines such as Autodesk, ESRI, deCarta, Telenity giving application developers complete flexibility of choosing the service provider at the same time effectively shielding all the complexity of GIS Ecosystem.

Privacy management: Highly flexible and configurable privacy management capabilities of the platforms enable application developers to effectively handle privacy concerns of the subscribers and making the LBS application easy to adapt and use.

Communication and Content Delivery: SmartGeo LBS platform has support for all communication needs of LBS application. The platform supports communication and content delivery using popular communication channels like SMS, MMS, WAP-PUSH, Picture-SMS, E-Mails, 2-Way Communications(over SMS). All these services are provided using a solid internal flexibility to consume standard communication technologies like SMPP, MM7, ParelayX, 3rd party SMS service providers and applications and GSM Modem Based SMS

Advertising: The LLP has a powerful Location Based Advertising Engine to enable the developers, VASP and operators to easily integrate location and context based advertisements.

Fuzzy Search: This enhanced search capability enables the application to provide a rich location-based location search capability. This enables applications to search by partial business names or misspelled names, and to provide ranked search results based on proximity from a point or along a route.

Service Usage Tracking, Reports and Billing module. The comprehensive service usage tracking reporting and billing module enables application VASP, Operators to adopt different monetization models (subscription, transaction based etc) and track activities of consumer as transactions with various third party service providers giving complete picture of transactions happening through the system.

In summary SmartGeo Platform is highly capable out of the box solution for 3rd Party Application Developers, VASP, Mobile operators, or Customers looking at rapidly establishing an Enterprise LBS Solution.