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NAVTEQ announces the winners of the Global LBS Challenge 2009 in the Americas
03/04/2009
April 3, 2009
Navteq, the global specialist in digital maps for navigation in vehicle and location solutions, announced at an awards ceremony that T+1 Solutions has gained the Grand Prix of the edition of the Navteq Global LBS Challenge 2009 corresponding to the American continent. T+1 Solutions has won in the category of company, one of the five categories of the contest: content, business, leisure & entertainment, navigation and social networking.
The winning application, called 'taxi4me', is a mobile on-demand service of taxis that helps users from anywhere in the world to contact with reliable taxi companies. Requested time and destination are sent from the user's mobile phone to a messaging server, from which local taxi companies respond by sending their targeted offers and the routes proposed for the potential client.
